Ireland

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Birth in Roscommon of Sir George Arthur French (a relation of Percy French, the songwriter) who organised the Royal Canadian Mounted Police

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Seven church ministers of the Presbytery of Strathbogie were removed from their posts by the General assembly of the Church of Scotland for obeying civil rather than ecclesiastical law

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The Irish Emigrant Society is founded in New York

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William Bruce, Sr., the last surviving member of the Ulster Volunteer convention of 1783, dies

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John Philip Holland - Irish inventor and developer of the modern submarine, born

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John Philip Holland, inventor and developer of the modern submarine, born in Co. Clare

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James Armour, Presbyterian minister and political activist, is born

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Poet and songwriter Robert Allan (born in Kilbarchan in, 1774) died in New York, six days after sailing there from Scotland to join his son. He had believed that his poetry would be better appreciated in North America.

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