Ireland

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In the tithe war, yeomen kill up to 14 people at Newtownbarry, Co. Wexford

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James Clerk Maxwell, first Professor of Experimental Physics at Cambridge University, born

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Birth in Rosscarbery, Co. Cork of Jeremiah ODonovan Rossa, one of the founders of the Fenian Brotherhood

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Philip Sheridan, US Union General in the American Civil War, is born

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Arthur Kavanagh, politician and progressive landlord, is born in Borris, Co. Carlow

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James Graham Fair, banker, mining tycoon and US Senator, born in Co Tyrone

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120 police move in to Graiguenamanagh to seize cattle in payment of the tithe

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Edmund Hogan, Jesuit and scholar, is born in Cork

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