The Battle of the Bogside began in Derry, Northern Ireland, marking one of the first major conflicts of The Troubles.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
Irish soldiers serving in the British Army led the first recorded Saint Patrick’s Day parade which, due to the high number of Irish immigrants in New York, quickly became an annual tradition.
The early introduction of three of the six new coins, together with an extensive publicity campaign, contributed greatly to the smoothness of Decimal Day when it finally came about in 1971.
The couple were declared King and Queen after agreeing to the Declaration of Right. Their coronation took place on 11 April.
Historians have since questioned the convictions, which saw ten men hanged for murder – six in the prison at Pottsville, and four at Mauch Chunk in Carbon County.
On June 11th 1837, the Broad Street Riot broke out in Boston, Massachusetts, between Irish immigrants and existing American citizens known as Yankees.
Colonel Thomas Blood attempted to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
The British ship RMS Lusitania sank after being attacked by the German U-boat U-20 off the coast of Ireland.
Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary, was confined to permanent quarantine on North Brother Island in New York.
Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000 year lease for the derelict St. James’s Gate Brewery in Dublin.
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3rd August 1492: Christopher Columbus sets sail from Spain
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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