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03 February
Inventor of self-adhesive postage stamps is born
16 April
Jacobites fight in the Battle of Culloden
30 April
Ochil Hills are struck by an earthquake
14 November
Dounreay fast breeder reactor goes online
05 October
Ardnamurchan lighthouse lit for the first time
