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Robert Adair, Dies

July 31, 1737

Allan Ramsay's First regular public theatre in Scotland opened in Carrubbers Close, Edinburgh

Launch of the Belfast Newsletter, now the oldest surviving newspaper in Ireland or Britain, and one of the oldest in the world

Robert Adair, dies

Robert Adair, Dies

July 31, 1737

Robert Adair, MP for Philipstown, dies on this date, having had one of his legs cut off above the knee for a mortification and died soon after