12th

Total results: 10

Billy Fox, Prostestant Irish Nationalist senator from Monaghan, assassinated

MP for Tipperary, John Mitchel is re-elected on this date, dies eight days later

Gladstones Irish University Bill is defeated

Capt. Charles Boycott, despised English estate manager in Ireland, born

Leinster Directory of United Irishmen leaders is arrested

French Jacobite invasion of Scotland aborts landing at Firth of Forth

James II lands at Kinsale and proceeds to Dublin

George Berkeley, Irish philosopher and Anglican bishop, born