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19 May
Lord Leverhulme buys the Isle of Lewis
29 May
Cardinal David Beaton is assassinated at St Andrews
16 April
Jacobites fight in the Battle of Culloden
20 August
Cartoonist Dudley D Watkins dies in Broughty Ferry
11 December
Royal Yacht Britannia is retired to Edinburgh