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11 December
Royal Yacht Britannia is retired to Edinburgh
11 September
The Battle of Stirling Bridge
25 January
Poet Robert Burns is born in Ayrshire
06 March
Scott Monument architect drowns in the Union Canal
27 July
Parliament authorises construction of the Caledonian Canal