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09 March
Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of Nations
17 November
Birth of James Matheson, owner of Lewis
16 April
Jacobites fight in the Battle of Culloden
19 May
Lord Leverhulme buys the Isle of Lewis
31 March
Edinburgh architect Robert Morham is born