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14 October
Hundreds drowned in the Eyemouth disaster
28 April
Scotland’s last Protestant martyr is burned
17 October
Ben Nevis observatory is established
23 October
Tyre inventor John Boyd Dunlop dies
11 August
Formal opening of the West Highland Railway