Today on Celtic History on

December 5th

Mon 05 Dec 1853

Assemblys College, Belfast, opens for the training of Presbyterian clergy

Sun 05 Dec 1700

Anthony Malone, politician, born

Wed 05 Dec 1640

John Atherton, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, is executed on a charge of immorality

Mon 05 Dec 1560

King Francis II of France, husband of Mary Queen of Scots, died.

Tue 05 Dec 1189

Quitclaim of Canterbury, nullified the Treaty of Falaise