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03 February
Inventor of self-adhesive postage stamps is born
09 March
Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of Nations
16 April
Jacobites fight in the Battle of Culloden
23 July
The Commonwealth Games open in Glasgow
06 March
Scott Monument architect drowns in the Union Canal
