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26 May
Scotland’s first commercial railway signed off
28 April
Scotland’s last Protestant martyr is burned
23 October
Tyre inventor John Boyd Dunlop dies
17 November
Birth of James Matheson, owner of Lewis
09 March
Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of Nations