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17 July
The Bank of Scotland is founded
09 March
Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of Nations
25 January
Poet Robert Burns is born in Ayrshire
28 December
The Tay Bridge disaster
08 September
John Porteous isn’t executed as he’s already dead
