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23 July
The Commonwealth Games open in Glasgow
28 August
University of St Andrews is established by a Papal Bull
23 October
Tyre inventor John Boyd Dunlop dies
27 July
Parliament authorises construction of the Caledonian Canal
13 February
The Massacre of Glencoe
