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14 July
The Scottish National War Memorial is opened
07 January
Glasgow University is founded
23 October
Tyre inventor John Boyd Dunlop dies
25 January
Poet Robert Burns is born in Ayrshire
12 November
Edinburgh Waverley Station granted Grade A listing