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14 July
The Scottish National War Memorial is opened
25 January
Poet Robert Burns is born in Ayrshire
31 March
Edinburgh architect Robert Morham is born
29 January
Visitors are trapped in the Glasgow Tower
11 August
Formal opening of the West Highland Railway