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Death of Edinburgh-born mathematician and physicist James Clerk Maxwell.
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1877
Opening of the original Mitchell Library, Glasgow, now the largest public reference library in Europe.
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1839
Chartist march on Newport Wales ends as militia fires on Chartists killing nine
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