1630 In Ireland

	1630 In Ireland Events from the year 1630 in Ireland. Incumbent * Monarch: Charles I Events * Lismore Cathedral is destroyed. * Mícheál Ó Cléirigh's ''Félire na naomh nÉrennach'' ("Calendar of Irish Saints" or "Martyrology of Donegal") is completed. Births Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, soldier (d. 1691) Nicholas Ward, politician (d. after 1666) Approximate date Alexander Fitton, lawyer and politician (d. 1698) * John Keating, judge (d. 1691, committed suicide) *Hugh Reily, lawyer and politician (d. 1695) Deaths February 20 – James "Spanish" Blake, spy (b. after 1560) June 3 – Thomas Fitzmaurice, 18th Baron Kerry, soldier (b. 1574) Approximate date – Lughaidh Ó Cléirigh, poet and historian (b. before 1603) References {{Year in Europe, 1630 1630s in Ireland Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Irish Monarch Irish may refer to: Common meanings * Someone or something of, from, or related to: Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe Éire, Irish language name for the isle * Northern Ireland, a constituent unit of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ** Republic of Ireland, a sovereign state * Irish language, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family spoken in Ireland * Irish people, people of Irish ethnicity, people born in Ireland and people who hold Irish citizenship Places * Irish Creek (Kansas), a stream in Kansas * Irish Creek (South Dakota), a stream in South Dakota * Irish Lake, Watonwan County, Minnesota * Irish Sea, the body of water which separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain People * Irish (surname), a list of people * William Irish, pseudonym of American writer Cornell Woolrich (1903–1968) * Irish Bob Murphy, Irish-American boxer Edwin Lee Conarty (1922–1961) * Irish McCal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Hugh Reily Hugh Reily, also known as Hugh Reilly or Hugh O'Reilly (c.1630 – 1695) was M.P. for Cavan Borough in the Patriot Parliament of 1689 and a famous political author. His Irish name was Aodh O'Raghallaigh and his ancestors were the Lords of East Breifne and Chiefs of the O'Reilly clan. Reilly was a close relative of John O'Reilly of Caulfield, Laragh Parish, Co. Cavan who was an ancestor of John Charles McQuaid, Archbishop of Dublin. Hugh Reilly was born in County Cavan, Ireland about 1630 and studied at the Irish Bar where he qualified as a barrister about 1650. Hugh Reilly was legal advisor to Saint Oliver Plunkett, Archbishop of Armagh during his trial in 1681, after Plunkett's previous advisor Sir Nicholas Plunkett died. Plunkett said about Reilly "he took many risks for me". On 22 May 1686 Reilly was appointed Master in Chancery. He lived in the parish of Laragh, County Cavan and in 1689 was elected from there, along with Philip Og O'Reilly, as an M.P. to represent the Borou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1630s In Ireland Year 163 ( CLXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar The Julian calendar, proposed by Roman consul Julius Caesar in 46 BC, was a reform of the Roman calendar. It took effect on , by edict. It was designed with the aid of Greek mathematicians and astronomers such as Sosigenes of Alexandr .... At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Laelianus and Pastor (or, less frequently, year 916 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 163 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Marcus Statius Priscus re-conquers Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity), Armenia; the capital city of Artaxata is ruined. Births * Cui Yan (or Jigui), Chinese official and politician (d. 216) * Sun Shao (Changxu), Sun Shao (or Changxu), Chinese chancellor (d. 225) * Tiberius Cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1603 In Ireland Events from the year 1603 in Ireland. Incumbent Irish monarch, Monarch: Elizabeth I (until 24 March), then James VI and I, James I Events March 24 – James I of England, James VI of Scotland becomes King James I of England and Ireland upon the death of Elizabeth I of England, Elizabeth I in England (but the news is withheld from the Irish leaders in treaty negotiations). * March 31 – the Nine Years War (Ireland), Nine Years War (1595 in Ireland, 1595–1603) is ended by the submission of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, to the English Crown and the signing of the Treaty of Mellifont. * November – Geoffrey Keating is one of forty students who sail for Bordeaux under the charge of the Rev. Diarmaid MacCarthy to begin their studies at the Irish College which has just been founded in that city by Cardinal François de Sourdis, Archbishop of Bordeaux. * Ballintubber Abbey is suppressed. * Sir Edmund Pelham, List of Chief Barons of the Irish Exchequer, Chief Baron of the Irish Excheq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Lughaidh Ó Cléirigh Lughaidh Ó Cléirigh ( fl. 1603 – 1616), sometimes anglicised as Lewey O'Clery, was an Irish Gaelic poet and historian. He is best known today as the author of ''Beatha Aodha Ruaidh Uí Dhomhnaill'', a biography of Red Hugh O'Donnell. Life Born in Tír Conaill (modern-day County Donegal), Lughaidh was the cousin of renowned Gaelic historian Mícheál Ó Cléirigh and one of five sons of Maccon Ó Cléirigh, a court poet to the O'Donnells. The Ó Cléirighs had a long tradition as one of Gaelic Ireland's foremost learned families, and the Tír Conaill branch had served the O'Donnells for over two hundred years. Lughaidh and his brothers are the last generation of their sept to be included in the Ó Cléirigh genealogies of the 17th-century. In the lead up to the Ulster Plantation, he was involved as a juror and commissioner in the land surveys in Donegal. Lughaidh participated in the Contention of the bards, an event which probably took place between 1616 and 1624. Of the thir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1574 In Ireland Events from the year 1574 in Ireland. Incumbent Monarch: Elizabeth I Events May 8 – Brian O'Neill of Clandeboye, having submitted to the Earl of Essex, begs Elizabeth I of England for mercy. July 18 – the Geraldine chiefs sign the Combination, promising to support Gerald FitzGerald, 15th Earl of Desmond, unconditionally. September 2 – Desmond submits to William FitzWilliam (Lord Deputy) at Cork following a month's campaign in Munster during which his castle at Derinlaur has been taken. September – Essex campaigns against Turlough Luineach O'Neill. November Essex meets Brian O'Neill of Clandeboye at his castle of Edendubhcarrig (County Antrim) where at least 200 of the clan O'Neill are treacherously massacred at a feast while O'Neill himself, his wife and brother are captured, taken to Dublin, executed and quartered. The Lordship of Clandeboye is partitioned in three by the English. The rebel Rory O'More is briefly imprisoned. November 5 – Edmund Tanner (d. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Thomas Fitzmaurice, 18th Baron Kerry Thomas Fitzmaurice, 18th Baron Kerry (1574–1630), also called Baron Lixnaw, fought in the Nine Years' War (Ireland), Nine Years' War. Birth and origins Thomas was born in 1574, probably at Lixnaw, the eldest son of Patrick Fitzmaurice, Patrick Fitzmaurice, 17th Baron Kerry and his wife Joan (Jane) Roche. His father was the 17th Baron of Kerry. His father's like his mother's family were Normans in Ireland, Old English. Thomas's mother was a daughter of David Roche, 5th Viscount Fermoy. Desmond rebellion Fitzmaurice followed his father into rebellion in 1598. After the death of his father in August 1600 and the capture of Listowel Castle by Sir Charles Wilmot in November, he found himself excluded by name from all pardons offered to the rebels. He went north, and negotiated for aid with Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone and Hugh Roe Ó Donnell. Finding that he was elusive, Queen Elizabeth expressed her willingness that he should be dealt with by pardon of his life only. But ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	June 3 Events Pre-1600 * 350 – The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators. * 713 – The Byzantine Empire, Byzantine emperor Philippikos Bardanes, Philippicus is Political mutilation in Byzantine culture, blinded, deposed and sent into exile by conspirators of the Opsikion army in Thrace. He is succeeded by Anastasios II, who begins the reorganization of the Byzantine army. 1098 – After a five-month siege during the First Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch (today's Turkey). 1140 – The French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of Heresy in Christianity, heresy. 1326 – The Treaty of Novgorod (1326), Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark. 1539 – Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain. 1601–1900 1602 – An English naval force defeats a fleet of Spanish galleys, and captures a large Portuguese carrac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1560 In Ireland Events from the year 1560 in Ireland. Incumbent Monarch: Elizabeth I Events January – Act of Supremacy (Ireland) Act passed. Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland orders the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the Earl of Sussex, to appoint John Challoner of Dublin as the first Chief Secretary for Ireland "because at this present there is none appointed to be Clerk of our Council there, and considering how more meet it were, that in our realm there were for our honour one to be our Secretary there for the affairs of our Realm". Births Sir Valentine Blake, merchant (d. 1635) Florence MacCarthy, The MacCarthy Mór, Prince of Carbery (d. 1640) Fláithrí Ó Maol Chonaire, Franciscan (d. 1629) Possible date – Constantine Ó Nialláin, soldier and Capuchin friar (d. after 1621) Deaths Luke Netterville, judge (b. c.1510) References 1560s in Ireland Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	James "Spanish" Blake James "Spanish" Blake, Anglo-Irish merchant, soldier, and spy, born after 1560, died 20 February 1630. A member of one of The Tribes of Galway, Blake was the second son of Walter Blake (died 1575) and Juliana Browne. His grandfather and brothers served as Mayors of Galway; his elder brother, Valentine Blake (1560–1634) was created a baronet in 1622. In 1587, Blake was trading in sack and acquavite from Spain. The following year, he worked salvaging material from ships of the Armada wrecked on the Irish coast. He moved through the world of international intrigue as an agent for, variously, the Irish, English, French and Spanish during the Nine Years War in the 1590s. He has been named as the assassin of Red Hugh O'Donnell in Spain in 1602. He was in the company of O'Donnell at the time of his death, and offered his services to Sir George Carew for the plot. References * ''Old Galway'', Maureen Donovan O'Sullivan, 1942. * ''Spanish Blake'', in ''Irish Leaders and Learnin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	February 20 Events Pre-1600 1339 – The Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clash in the Battle of Parabiago; Visconti is defeated. 1472 – Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland in lieu of a dowry for Margaret of Denmark. 1521 – Juan Ponce de León sets out from Spain for Florida with about 200 prospective colonists. 1547 – Edward VI of England is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey. 1601–1900 1685 – René-Robert Cavelier establishes Fort St. Louis at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas. 1792 – The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by United States President George Washington. 1798 – Louis-Alexandre Berthier removes Pope Pius VI from power. 1813 – Manuel Belgrano defeats the royalist army of Pío de Tristán during the Battle of Salta. 1816 – Rossini's opera ''The Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1695 In Ireland Events from the year 1695 in Ireland. Incumbent Monarch: William III Events May 4 – Charles Boyle, Viscount Dungarvan, is appointed Lord High Treasurer of Ireland, in succession to Lord Burlington, his grandfather, Lord Treasurer of Ireland since 1660. May 9 – the Whig Henry Capell, Lord Capell, is appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland. May 10 – Alan Brodrick is appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland; he is a supporter of Penal Laws against Roman Catholics. June – Robert Rochfort is appointed Attorney-General for Ireland. June 5 – the title of Viscount Lisburne and Baron Fethard, of Feathered in the County of Tipperary is created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of Welsh politician John Vaughan. August 27 – Parliament of Ireland opens. Robert Rochfort is elected Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. September 30–October 25 – an attempt is made in the Irish House of Commons (largely at the instigation of Rochfort) to impeach Charles Porter (Lord Chanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]

	1630 In Ireland Events from the year 1630 in Ireland. Incumbent * Monarch: Charles I Events * Lismore Cathedral is destroyed. * Mícheál Ó Cléirigh's ''Félire na naomh nÉrennach'' ("Calendar of Irish Saints" or "Martyrology of Donegal") is completed. Births Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, soldier (d. 1691) Nicholas Ward, politician (d. after 1666) Approximate date Alexander Fitton, lawyer and politician (d. 1698) * John Keating, judge (d. 1691, committed suicide) *Hugh Reily, lawyer and politician (d. 1695) Deaths February 20 – James "Spanish" Blake, spy (b. after 1560) June 3 – Thomas Fitzmaurice, 18th Baron Kerry, soldier (b. 1574) Approximate date – Lughaidh Ó Cléirigh, poet and historian (b. before 1603) References {{Year in Europe, 1630 1630s in Ireland Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Irish Monarch Irish may refer to: Common meanings * Someone or something of, from, or related to: Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe Éire, Irish language name for the isle * Northern Ireland, a constituent unit of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ** Republic of Ireland, a sovereign state * Irish language, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family spoken in Ireland * Irish people, people of Irish ethnicity, people born in Ireland and people who hold Irish citizenship Places * Irish Creek (Kansas), a stream in Kansas * Irish Creek (South Dakota), a stream in South Dakota * Irish Lake, Watonwan County, Minnesota * Irish Sea, the body of water which separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain People * Irish (surname), a list of people * William Irish, pseudonym of American writer Cornell Woolrich (1903–1968) * Irish Bob Murphy, Irish-American boxer Edwin Lee Conarty (1922–1961) * Irish McCal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Hugh Reily Hugh Reily, also known as Hugh Reilly or Hugh O'Reilly (c.1630 – 1695) was M.P. for Cavan Borough in the Patriot Parliament of 1689 and a famous political author. His Irish name was Aodh O'Raghallaigh and his ancestors were the Lords of East Breifne and Chiefs of the O'Reilly clan. Reilly was a close relative of John O'Reilly of Caulfield, Laragh Parish, Co. Cavan who was an ancestor of John Charles McQuaid, Archbishop of Dublin. Hugh Reilly was born in County Cavan, Ireland about 1630 and studied at the Irish Bar where he qualified as a barrister about 1650. Hugh Reilly was legal advisor to Saint Oliver Plunkett, Archbishop of Armagh during his trial in 1681, after Plunkett's previous advisor Sir Nicholas Plunkett died. Plunkett said about Reilly "he took many risks for me". On 22 May 1686 Reilly was appointed Master in Chancery. He lived in the parish of Laragh, County Cavan and in 1689 was elected from there, along with Philip Og O'Reilly, as an M.P. to represent the Borou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1630s In Ireland Year 163 ( CLXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar The Julian calendar, proposed by Roman consul Julius Caesar in 46 BC, was a reform of the Roman calendar. It took effect on , by edict. It was designed with the aid of Greek mathematicians and astronomers such as Sosigenes of Alexandr .... At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Laelianus and Pastor (or, less frequently, year 916 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 163 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Marcus Statius Priscus re-conquers Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity), Armenia; the capital city of Artaxata is ruined. Births * Cui Yan (or Jigui), Chinese official and politician (d. 216) * Sun Shao (Changxu), Sun Shao (or Changxu), Chinese chancellor (d. 225) * Tiberius Cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1603 In Ireland Events from the year 1603 in Ireland. Incumbent Irish monarch, Monarch: Elizabeth I (until 24 March), then James VI and I, James I Events March 24 – James I of England, James VI of Scotland becomes King James I of England and Ireland upon the death of Elizabeth I of England, Elizabeth I in England (but the news is withheld from the Irish leaders in treaty negotiations). * March 31 – the Nine Years War (Ireland), Nine Years War (1595 in Ireland, 1595–1603) is ended by the submission of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, to the English Crown and the signing of the Treaty of Mellifont. * November – Geoffrey Keating is one of forty students who sail for Bordeaux under the charge of the Rev. Diarmaid MacCarthy to begin their studies at the Irish College which has just been founded in that city by Cardinal François de Sourdis, Archbishop of Bordeaux. * Ballintubber Abbey is suppressed. * Sir Edmund Pelham, List of Chief Barons of the Irish Exchequer, Chief Baron of the Irish Excheq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Lughaidh Ó Cléirigh Lughaidh Ó Cléirigh ( fl. 1603 – 1616), sometimes anglicised as Lewey O'Clery, was an Irish Gaelic poet and historian. He is best known today as the author of ''Beatha Aodha Ruaidh Uí Dhomhnaill'', a biography of Red Hugh O'Donnell. Life Born in Tír Conaill (modern-day County Donegal), Lughaidh was the cousin of renowned Gaelic historian Mícheál Ó Cléirigh and one of five sons of Maccon Ó Cléirigh, a court poet to the O'Donnells. The Ó Cléirighs had a long tradition as one of Gaelic Ireland's foremost learned families, and the Tír Conaill branch had served the O'Donnells for over two hundred years. Lughaidh and his brothers are the last generation of their sept to be included in the Ó Cléirigh genealogies of the 17th-century. In the lead up to the Ulster Plantation, he was involved as a juror and commissioner in the land surveys in Donegal. Lughaidh participated in the Contention of the bards, an event which probably took place between 1616 and 1624. Of the thir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1574 In Ireland Events from the year 1574 in Ireland. Incumbent Monarch: Elizabeth I Events May 8 – Brian O'Neill of Clandeboye, having submitted to the Earl of Essex, begs Elizabeth I of England for mercy. July 18 – the Geraldine chiefs sign the Combination, promising to support Gerald FitzGerald, 15th Earl of Desmond, unconditionally. September 2 – Desmond submits to William FitzWilliam (Lord Deputy) at Cork following a month's campaign in Munster during which his castle at Derinlaur has been taken. September – Essex campaigns against Turlough Luineach O'Neill. November Essex meets Brian O'Neill of Clandeboye at his castle of Edendubhcarrig (County Antrim) where at least 200 of the clan O'Neill are treacherously massacred at a feast while O'Neill himself, his wife and brother are captured, taken to Dublin, executed and quartered. The Lordship of Clandeboye is partitioned in three by the English. The rebel Rory O'More is briefly imprisoned. November 5 – Edmund Tanner (d. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Thomas Fitzmaurice, 18th Baron Kerry Thomas Fitzmaurice, 18th Baron Kerry (1574–1630), also called Baron Lixnaw, fought in the Nine Years' War (Ireland), Nine Years' War. Birth and origins Thomas was born in 1574, probably at Lixnaw, the eldest son of Patrick Fitzmaurice, Patrick Fitzmaurice, 17th Baron Kerry and his wife Joan (Jane) Roche. His father was the 17th Baron of Kerry. His father's like his mother's family were Normans in Ireland, Old English. Thomas's mother was a daughter of David Roche, 5th Viscount Fermoy. Desmond rebellion Fitzmaurice followed his father into rebellion in 1598. After the death of his father in August 1600 and the capture of Listowel Castle by Sir Charles Wilmot in November, he found himself excluded by name from all pardons offered to the rebels. He went north, and negotiated for aid with Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone and Hugh Roe Ó Donnell. Finding that he was elusive, Queen Elizabeth expressed her willingness that he should be dealt with by pardon of his life only. But ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	June 3 Events Pre-1600 * 350 – The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators. * 713 – The Byzantine Empire, Byzantine emperor Philippikos Bardanes, Philippicus is Political mutilation in Byzantine culture, blinded, deposed and sent into exile by conspirators of the Opsikion army in Thrace. He is succeeded by Anastasios II, who begins the reorganization of the Byzantine army. 1098 – After a five-month siege during the First Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch (today's Turkey). 1140 – The French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of Heresy in Christianity, heresy. 1326 – The Treaty of Novgorod (1326), Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark. 1539 – Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain. 1601–1900 1602 – An English naval force defeats a fleet of Spanish galleys, and captures a large Portuguese carrac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1560 In Ireland Events from the year 1560 in Ireland. Incumbent Monarch: Elizabeth I Events January – Act of Supremacy (Ireland) Act passed. Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland orders the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the Earl of Sussex, to appoint John Challoner of Dublin as the first Chief Secretary for Ireland "because at this present there is none appointed to be Clerk of our Council there, and considering how more meet it were, that in our realm there were for our honour one to be our Secretary there for the affairs of our Realm". Births Sir Valentine Blake, merchant (d. 1635) Florence MacCarthy, The MacCarthy Mór, Prince of Carbery (d. 1640) Fláithrí Ó Maol Chonaire, Franciscan (d. 1629) Possible date – Constantine Ó Nialláin, soldier and Capuchin friar (d. after 1621) Deaths Luke Netterville, judge (b. c.1510) References 1560s in Ireland Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	James "Spanish" Blake James "Spanish" Blake, Anglo-Irish merchant, soldier, and spy, born after 1560, died 20 February 1630. A member of one of The Tribes of Galway, Blake was the second son of Walter Blake (died 1575) and Juliana Browne. His grandfather and brothers served as Mayors of Galway; his elder brother, Valentine Blake (1560–1634) was created a baronet in 1622. In 1587, Blake was trading in sack and acquavite from Spain. The following year, he worked salvaging material from ships of the Armada wrecked on the Irish coast. He moved through the world of international intrigue as an agent for, variously, the Irish, English, French and Spanish during the Nine Years War in the 1590s. He has been named as the assassin of Red Hugh O'Donnell in Spain in 1602. He was in the company of O'Donnell at the time of his death, and offered his services to Sir George Carew for the plot. References * ''Old Galway'', Maureen Donovan O'Sullivan, 1942. * ''Spanish Blake'', in ''Irish Leaders and Learnin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	February 20 Events Pre-1600 1339 – The Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clash in the Battle of Parabiago; Visconti is defeated. 1472 – Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland in lieu of a dowry for Margaret of Denmark. 1521 – Juan Ponce de León sets out from Spain for Florida with about 200 prospective colonists. 1547 – Edward VI of England is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey. 1601–1900 1685 – René-Robert Cavelier establishes Fort St. Louis at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas. 1792 – The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by United States President George Washington. 1798 – Louis-Alexandre Berthier removes Pope Pius VI from power. 1813 – Manuel Belgrano defeats the royalist army of Pío de Tristán during the Battle of Salta. 1816 – Rossini's opera ''The Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1695 In Ireland Events from the year 1695 in Ireland. Incumbent Monarch: William III Events May 4 – Charles Boyle, Viscount Dungarvan, is appointed Lord High Treasurer of Ireland, in succession to Lord Burlington, his grandfather, Lord Treasurer of Ireland since 1660. May 9 – the Whig Henry Capell, Lord Capell, is appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland. May 10 – Alan Brodrick is appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland; he is a supporter of Penal Laws against Roman Catholics. June – Robert Rochfort is appointed Attorney-General for Ireland. June 5 – the title of Viscount Lisburne and Baron Fethard, of Feathered in the County of Tipperary is created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of Welsh politician John Vaughan. August 27 – Parliament of Ireland opens. Robert Rochfort is elected Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. September 30–October 25 – an attempt is made in the Irish House of Commons (largely at the instigation of Rochfort) to impeach Charles Porter (Lord Chanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]