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30 September
Rod Stewart opens the SSE Hydro
27 July
Parliament authorises construction of the Caledonian Canal
19 May
Lord Leverhulme buys the Isle of Lewis
25 January
Poet Robert Burns is born in Ayrshire
28 December
The Tay Bridge disaster
