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19 May
Lord Leverhulme buys the Isle of Lewis
09 December
Cumbernauld is designated a New Town
01 March
Scotland votes for an independent parliament
27 July
Parliament authorises construction of the Caledonian Canal
28 August
Timex calls time on its Dundee factory