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09 March
Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of Nations
21 December
Pan Am flight 103 bombed over Lockerbie
04 September
Queen Elizabeth II opens the Forth Road Bridge
11 August
Formal opening of the West Highland Railway
28 December
The Tay Bridge disaster