Ireland

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Dr Henry Faulds, a Scots medical missionary working in Japan, published a letter in Nature which gave the first evidence that fingerprints could be used as proof of guilt or innocence in legal cases.

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Fanny Parnell launches the Ladies Land League in New York

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Dr Marie Stopes, founder of first modern birth control clinic, born Edinburgh.

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Nationalist and Gaelic League activist, Mary Ellen Spring-Rice is born

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Viscount Mountmorres is killed near Clonbur, Co. Galway

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Mayo agent, Captain Charles Boycott, was sent to a moral Coventry. He described his plight in a letter to The Times ...people collect in crowds upon my farm and order off all my workmen. The shopkeepers have been warned to stop all supplies to my hous

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Parnell delivers his famous speech at Ennis in which he introduces the term for non-violent protest - boycotting. Parnell asked his audience, What are you to do with a tenant who bids for a farm from which another has been evicted? Several voices replie

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Death of Ellen Kean, one of the greatest actresses of her time

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