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25 January
Launch of The Scotsman newspaper
01 May
Jenners opens on Princes Street
28 December
The Tay Bridge disaster
27 July
Parliament authorises construction of the Caledonian Canal
21 December
Pan Am flight 103 bombed over Lockerbie