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25 January
Launch of The Scotsman newspaper
18 August
The Tay Road Bridge opens to traffic
Poet Robert Burns is born in Ayrshire
31 March
Edinburgh architect Robert Morham is born
27 July
Parliament authorises construction of the Caledonian Canal