Today on Celtic History on

August 1st

Tue 01 Aug 1967

University of Dundee which was incorporated into the University of St Andrews in, 1890, constituted as a separate university.

Thu 01 Aug 1872

Gladstones first Land Act, decreeing that tenants who were evicted be compensated for improvements and that tenant who were evicted for any reason other than nonpayment of rent should also be compensated

Fri 01 Aug 1851

The Ecclesiastical Titles Act forbids Catholic bishops to assume ecclesiastical titles taken from any place in the United Kingdom

Thu 01 Aug 1822

Irish Constabulary Act sets up county police forces and salaried magistracy

Fri 01 Aug 1800

The Act of Union dissolves the Irish parliament and transfers legislative powers to Westminster

Tue 01 Aug 1747

Act of Proscription

Wed 01 Aug 1714

Following the death of Queen Anne, George I accedes to the throne. The second Irish parliament of Annes reign is thereby dissolved

Sun 01 Aug 1649

Jones defeats Ormond at Rathmines, ending royalist hopes of taking Dublin

Wed 01 Aug 1545

Birth of Andrew Melville, true father of Presbyterianism in Scotland.

Thu 01 Aug 1535

John Travers, Chancellor of St Patricks Cathedral, is executed for high treason at Oxmantown Green for conspiring with Lord Offaly

Mon 01 Aug 1166

Dermot MacMurrough, King of Leinster and ally of Muirchertach Mac Lochlainn, is defeated in battle by Rory O'Connor

Wed 01 Aug 0018

Druids of Gaul recognize Roman authority in exchange for religous toleration.