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07 January
Glasgow University is founded
29 July
Refurbished National Museum of Scotland opens its doors
21 December
Pan Am flight 103 bombed over Lockerbie
19 May
Lord Leverhulme buys the Isle of Lewis
23 August
William Wallace is brutally executed