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Muiris Ó'Suilleabhain, writer, born

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Muriel Spark, author, born

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Nearly 30,000 English soldiers annihilated after Invasion of Scotland in the 1303 Battle of Roslin

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Nicola Hamilton, widow of Tristram Beresford MP, dies on her 47th birthday

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Orkney and Shetland annexed from Norway to the crown of Scotland

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Padraic Ó'Conaire, writer and poet, born in Galway

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Paul Cullen is consecrated Catholic archbishop of Armagh and primate of Ireland

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Peadar O'Donnell, revolutionary and writer, is born in Co. Donegal

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Philip van der Straten, sets up a factory in Kelso, thus starting the Border woolen industry

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Pianist and composer John Field gives his first public performance at the Rotunda in Dublin

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Pope Gregory XIII announces the new Gregorian calendar, replacing the Julian calendar

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Prime Minister William Pitt resigns over royal veto on Catholic emancipation