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05 May
Construction begins at Sutherland Spaceport
16 April
Jacobites fight in the Battle of Culloden
23 October
Tyre inventor John Boyd Dunlop dies
08 September
John Porteous isn’t executed as he’s already dead
24 January
Wall-building emperor Hadrian is born
