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11 August
Formal opening of the West Highland Railway
14 February
Dolly the cloned sheep dies
05 October
Ardnamurchan lighthouse lit for the first time
23 October
Tyre inventor John Boyd Dunlop dies
28 April
Scotland’s last Protestant martyr is burned
