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27 July
Parliament authorises construction of the Caledonian Canal
28 April
Scotland’s last Protestant martyr is burned
16 April
Jacobites fight in the Battle of Culloden
09 March
Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of Nations
14 February
Dolly the cloned sheep dies