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11 November
Scottish spy James Bond is born
01 May
Jenners opens on Princes Street
05 May
Construction begins at Sutherland Spaceport
11 December
Royal Yacht Britannia is retired to Edinburgh
26 May
Scotland’s first commercial railway signed off