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18 September
Independence referendum delivers ‘No’ vote
08 March
Oor Wullie makes his first appearance in print
28 April
Scotland’s last Protestant martyr is burned
30 October
Tay Bridge designer dies of anxiety
25 January
Poet Robert Burns is born in Ayrshire