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Beyond the Fringe, an influential satirical revue, opened in Edinburgh.
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The National Guard is banned
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Michael Collins - Irish general - killed
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Violent clashes in Belfast
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Dublin-born WWI ace Dennis Latimer shot down
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Birth of Irish American actor Gene Kelly
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Birth in Dublin of Mervyn Wall, writer who wrote under the pseudonym of Eugene Welply
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Birth in Belfast of Sean McEntee, Fianna Fail politician
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The Land Act gives courts the power to revise and fix rents
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Second Gladstone Land Act introduces the three Fs - fair rent, fixity of tenure, free sale - and sets up the Land Commission
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First Catholic Synod in Ireland since the Middle Ages in Thurles, Co. Tipperary
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Birth of Sir Alexander Campbell MacKenzie, musician and composer.
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John Keegan Casey , Fenian, poet and writer of Rising of the Moon is born near Mullingar, Co. Westmeath
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A French force of 1,019 men under General Humbert lands at Killala, Co. Mayo
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Frenchman General Humbert proclaims at Ballina, Co. Mayo, Union, liberty, the Irish Republic
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Theobald Wolfe Tone publishes An argument on behalf of the Catholics of Ireland
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Birth of Walter Hussey (Burgh), lawyer, politician and orator
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King Charles I raised his standard at Nottingham, initiating a Civil War in England
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James VI abducted and taken to the Castle of Ruthven by the Earls of Mar and Gowrie the so-called Ruthven Raid.
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James Stewart, Earl of Moray and a half-brother of Mary Queen of Scots, proclaimed Regent of Scotland.
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Devorgilla, Countess of Galloway founded Balliol College, Oxford
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Battle of the Standard at Northallerton in which King David I was defeated by the English.
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