Ireland

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Birth in Dublin of Robert Tressell, born Noonan, author of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

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Birth of the entertainer Sir Harry Lauder.

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Isaac Butt founds the Home Government Association; Home Rule is now the objective of constitutional nationalists

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James Albert Edward Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn and first Governor of Northern Ireland

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Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, Fenian, contests and wins a Tipperary by-election in abstentia, but is declared ineligible as a convicted felon

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Irish Church Act 1869

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Birth of Henry Dixon, botanist

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Birth in Dublin of Margaret Tennant, née Abraham; trade unionist and campaigner for improved working conditions

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