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29 May
Cardinal David Beaton is assassinated at St Andrews
21 December
Pan Am flight 103 bombed over Lockerbie
22 October
Nuclear submarine runs aground off Skye
11 August
Formal opening of the West Highland Railway
25 March
Robert the Bruce is crowned King of the Scots