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08 September
John Porteous isn’t executed as he’s already dead
04 May
Greyfriars Bobby is born
01 May
Jenners opens on Princes Street
23 October
Tyre inventor John Boyd Dunlop dies
28 April
Scotland’s last Protestant martyr is burned