A firedamp explosion at blantyre colliery killed, 207 miners.

October 22nd , 1877

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Charles Lynch, pianist, is born in Parkgariff, Co. Cork

October 22, 1906

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Daniel Owen considered the greatest Welsh language novelist died.

October 22, 1895

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Foundation stones of main Post Office and National Museum of Scotland laid by Prince Albert in his last public engagement before his death.

October 22, 1861

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John Ponsonby is unanimously re-elected Speaker of the Irish parliament

October 22, 1761

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Birth in Dublin of Sir Philip Francis, civil servant, duellist, and gambler; he may have been the author of the Junius Letters

October 22, 1740

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Rory O'More, Lord Maguire and Sir Pheilim O'Neill initiate a major revolt in Armagh

October 22, 1641

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Thomas Mortimer who was appointed justiciar on 5 March is replaced by John de Stanley who lands at Howth on this date

October 22, 1389

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