Today on Celtic History on

March 12th

Tue 12 Mar 1974

Billy Fox, Prostestant Irish Nationalist senator from Monaghan, assassinated

Fri 12 Mar 1875

MP for Tipperary, John Mitchel is re-elected on this date, dies eight days later

Wed 12 Mar 1873

Gladstones Irish University Bill is defeated

Mon 12 Mar 1832

Capt. Charles Boycott, despised English estate manager in Ireland, born

Mon 12 Mar 1798

Leinster Directory of United Irishmen leaders is arrested

Mon 12 Mar 1708

French Jacobite invasion of Scotland aborts landing at Firth of Forth

Sat 12 Mar 1689

James II lands at Kinsale and proceeds to Dublin

Mon 12 Mar 1685

George Berkeley, Irish philosopher and Anglican bishop, born

Sat 12 Mar 1295

Richard de Burgh is released by the council in parliament at Kilkenny

Tue 12 Mar 1286

Queen Margaret, Maid of Norway (daughter of King Erik II) crowned