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Oscar Wilde is sentenced to two years imprisonment for offences “against public decency”

Gerald Boland, nationalist politician, is born in Manchester

Irish Fenians raid Eccles Hill, Québec

Birth on Valentia Island, Co. Kerry, of Helen Blackburn, early leader of the movement for the emancipation of women

Henry Montgomery, the leading Unitarian protagonist, leads a secession of Non-subscribers from the General Synod which establishes the Remonstrant Synod of Ulster

Lord John Allen (3rd Viscount Allen), former MP for Carysfort, dies of a fever caused from cuts to his fingers inflicted by the sword of a dragoon

First circulating library opened in Edinburgh.

John Stuart, Earl of Bute, Britains first Scottish Prime Minister, born.