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Giovanni Battista Rinuccini returns to Rome

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Gladstone resigns, a Conservative administration under Disraeli takes over

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Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer, born

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Harry Boland and Michael Collins engineer Eamon de Valeras escape from Lincoln Jail in England

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Henry Pyne, MP for Dungarvan, aged about 24 and the father of three children, is killed in a duel

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Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales (later Henry VIII)

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Highland Railway formed from the Inverness-Perth Junction & Inverness-Aberdeen-Junction Railways

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Honours of Scotland put on display in Edinburgh Castle after being rediscovered by Sir Walter Scott

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Horace Plunkett and W.E.H. Lecky, support John Redmonds plea for clemency for Irish political prisoners

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Hugh Stevenson Robertson, Scottish composer of Songs of the Isles, born

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Ian Banks, writer is born in Dunfermline, Fife

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Identity cards, introduced at a wartime security measure, were abolished in Britain