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06 August
Publisher DC Thomson is born
16 April
Jacobites fight in the Battle of Culloden
14 October
Hundreds drowned in the Eyemouth disaster
11 December
Royal Yacht Britannia is retired to Edinburgh
17 November
Birth of James Matheson, owner of Lewis
