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EventDate
Walter Scott’s publisher Robert Cadell is born 16th December
First part of Encyclopaedia Britannica is published 10th December
First and last editions of comic The Dandy are published 4th December
Birth of nationalist Lewis Spence 25th November
First edition of The National is published 24th November
Death of publisher William Blackwood 16th September
New York Herald founder is born 1st September
Cartoonist Dudley D Watkins dies in Broughty Ferry 20th August
Publisher DC Thomson is born 6th August
DC Thomson publishes first issue of The Beano 30th July
Encyclopaedia Britannica’s first editor dies 24th June
Dictionary publisher William Chambers dies 20th May
Scottish novelist John Buchan dies in Canada 11th February
Launch of The Scotsman newspaper 25th January
Death of Robert Burns’ publisher William Creech 14th January
The People’s Friend is published for the first time 13th January
Britain’s biggest teen magazine launches in Dundee 11th January