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25 January
Poet Robert Burns is born in Ayrshire
03 February
Inventor of self-adhesive postage stamps is born
18 September
Independence referendum delivers ‘No’ vote
11 August
Formal opening of the West Highland Railway
26 May
Scotland’s first commercial railway signed off
