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27 July
Parliament authorises construction of the Caledonian Canal
24 January
Wall-building emperor Hadrian is born
06 August
Publisher DC Thomson is born
04 December
First and last editions of comic The Dandy are published
20 August
Cartoonist Dudley D Watkins dies in Broughty Ferry