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1315 - Battle of Connor. Major victory for Edward Bruce in his invasion of Ulster

1602 - “Red” Hugh O'Donnell dies in Simancas, Spain; evidence suggests he was poisoned by an English spy

1641 - Oliver Cromwell seizes Drogheda

1763 - The Freeman’s Journal is founded in Dublin by Charles Lucas

1831 - Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, Fenian, is born in Rosscarbery, Co. Cork

1850 - In Thurles, it is the final day of the first canonical synod of the Irish church, summoned by Paul Cullen

1916 - While serving in the Dublin Fusiliers during World War I, Irish poet Tom Kettle dies in attack on Ginchy

1919 - Dáil Éirean outlawed by the English as a “dangerous association.”

1923 - The Irish Free State is admitted into the League of Nations

1985 - The first heart transplant takes place in Ireland

1987 - The third leg of the U2 Joshua Tree tour opens in New York’s Nassau Coliseum

1998 - Students queue for food at an emergency soup kitchen and advice centre, set up in a bid to ease the impact of the stress and strain caused by one of the greatest accommodation shortages ever experienced in Dublin

1998 - Gerry Adams and David Trimble finally come face-to-face in an historic move aimed to bring to an end decades of mistrust between the two sides

Ernst Haeckel - Leptomedusae - 1904

Ernst Haeckel - Discomedusae - 1904