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22 October
Nuclear submarine runs aground off Skye
14 November
Dounreay fast breeder reactor goes online
27 July
Parliament authorises construction of the Caledonian Canal
19 May
Lord Leverhulme buys the Isle of Lewis
08 February
Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed
