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28 August
University of St Andrews is established by a Papal Bull
04 September
Queen Elizabeth II opens the Forth Road Bridge
01 May
Jenners opens on Princes Street
25 January
Poet Robert Burns is born in Ayrshire
26 May
Scotland’s first commercial railway signed off