Ireland

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Charles Davis Lucas from Drumagole, Co Armagh, age 20 and a mate in the Royal Navy, hurls a Russian shell (its fuse still burning) from the deck of his ship during the Crimean War. For this action, he will become the first recipient of the Victoria Cross

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Harry Furniss, caricaturist, is born in Wexford

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The Catholic University of Ireland is opened with J. H. Newman as its first rector

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Birth of Fanny Parnell, Land League agitator and sister of Charles Stewart Parnell

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William Smith O'Brien, leader of the 1848 rebellion, is pardoned

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Patrick Geddes - Scottish Botanist born.

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The introduction of income tax in Ireland is proposed for the first time

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Sir William Ridgeway, classical scholar, is born in Ballydermot, Co. Offaly

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