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28 August
University of St Andrews is established by a Papal Bull
19 May
Lord Leverhulme buys the Isle of Lewis
22 October
Nuclear submarine runs aground off Skye
04 December
First and last editions of comic The Dandy are published
28 April
Scotland’s last Protestant martyr is burned