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11 August
Formal opening of the West Highland Railway
30 October
Tay Bridge designer dies of anxiety
07 January
Glasgow University is founded
23 October
Tyre inventor John Boyd Dunlop dies
30 April
Ochil Hills are struck by an earthquake
