On June 11th 1837, the Broad Street Riot broke out in Boston, Massachusetts, between Irish immigrants and existing American citizens known as Yankees.
12th July 1561: The consecration of Saint Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow
12th July 2019
On the 7th June 1628, the Petition of Right was approved by King Charles I.
On the 26th May 1897, Bram Stoker’s Gothic horror novel Dracula was first published.
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.
On the 21st May 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first person to make a solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic when he flew 3,600 miles from New York to Paris.
The Easter Rising began in Dublin, with the aim of securing an independent Irish Republic.
On the 17th March 1766, the first recorded St Patrick’s Day parade took place…in New York.
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018