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17 July
The Bank of Scotland is founded
28 April
Scotland’s last Protestant martyr is burned
25 January
Poet Robert Burns is born in Ayrshire
19 May
Lord Leverhulme buys the Isle of Lewis
22 October
Nuclear submarine runs aground off Skye