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1836 In Ireland
Events from the year 1836 in Ireland. Events *30 January – the ''Intrinsic'' sinks off Kilkee with the loss of all fourteen on board. *February – foundation of the Ulster Bank in Belfast. *4 April – Daniel O'Connell gives a speech on "Justice for Ireland". *4 May – the Ancient Order of Hibernians, an Irish Catholic fraternal organization, is founded in New York City. *23 May – Irish Constabulary Act provides central organisation for the police in Ireland; an Act of 4 July provides for formation of a Dublin Police Office. *4 June – ''The Sligo Champion'' newspaper is first published. *August – following one of the coldest summers in over fifty years there is widespread failure of the potato crop. *19 September – first burial at Mount Jerome Cemetery in Harold's Cross, Dublin, a commercial Protestant burial ground. *End of Tithe War. *Foundation of the Royal Bank of Ireland, a constituent of Allied Irish Banks. *Foundation of the Ulster Society for the Prevention of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilkee
Kilkee () is a small coastal town in County Clare, Ireland. It is in the parish of Kilkee, formerly Kilfearagh. Kilkee is midway between Kilrush and Doonbeg on the N67 road. The town is popular as a seaside resort. The horseshoe bay is protected from the Atlantic Ocean by the Duggerna Reef. History During the early part of the 19th century, Kilkee was just a small fishing village but in the 1820s when a paddle steamer service from Limerick to Kilrush was launched, it began to attract visitors. It has been a resort since then and was featured on the front page of ''The Illustrated London News'' as the premier bathing spot in what was then the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Gradually the town grew as the demand for holiday homes by the sea increased, resulting in a building boom in the 1830s. As demand for lodgings in Kilkee grew, several hotels were built. Along with these, three churches were built, a Roman Catholic church in 1831, a Protestant church in 184 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montevideo
Montevideo () is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 (about one-third of the country's total population) in an area of . Montevideo is situated on the southern coast of the country, on the northeastern bank of the Río de la Plata. The city was established in 1724 by a Spanish soldier, Bruno Mauricio de Zabala, as a strategic move amidst the Spanish people, Spanish-Portuguese people, Portuguese dispute over the La Plata Basin, platine region. It was also under brief British invasions of the Río de la Plata, British rule in 1807, but eventually the city was retaken by Spanish criollos who defeated the British invasions of the River Plate. Montevideo is the seat of the administrative headquarters of Mercosur and ALADI, Latin America's leading trade blocs, a position that entailed comparisons to the role of Brussels in Europe. The 2019 Mercer's report on qual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dalton McCarthy
Dalton McCarthy (October 10, 1836 – May 11, 1898), or D'Alton McCarthy, was a Canadian lawyer and parliamentarian. He was the leader of the "Orange" or Protestant Irish, and fiercely fought against Irish Catholics as well as the French Catholics. He especially crusaded for the abolition of the French language in Manitoba and Ontario schools. McCarthy was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1878 federal election as a Conservative. An Irish-born Protestant, McCarthy was stridently anti-Catholic and anti- French Canadian. He broke with the Conservatives in the 1890s, running and being re-elected as an Independent Member of Parliament (MP) in the 1891 election. He appears to have been associated with the Equal Rights Party which ran in that election but did not run as their candidate. It was his firm, Boulton & McCarthy in Barrie, that was the first incarnation of what is now Canada's largest law firm, McCarthy Tétrault. He appeared in the Supreme C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1908 In The United States
Events from the year 1908 in the United States. Incumbents Federal Government * President: Theodore Roosevelt ( R- New York) * Vice President: Charles W. Fairbanks ( R-Indiana) * Chief Justice: Melville Fuller (Illinois) * Speaker of the House of Representatives: Joseph Gurney Cannon ( R-Illinois) * Congress: 60th Events January * January 1 **A ball signifying New Year's Day drops in New York City's Times Square for the first time. ** Gustav Mahler makes his US conducting debut at the Metropolitan Opera. **Georgia introduces a law prohibiting alcohol. * January 13 – A fire at the Rhoads Opera House in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, kills 170 people. The tragedy is a catalyst for stricter fire safety laws nationwide. * January 15 – The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority (the first Greek-letter organization for black college women) is established. * January 21 – New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for people who control public place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Arthur McArdle
Henry Arthur McArdle (June 9, 1836 – February 16, 1908) was an American painter of French and Irish ancestry. He was born in Belfast, Ireland on June 9, 1836, and immigrated as a teenager to the U.S. state of Maryland, where he studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art. During the American Civil War he was a cartographer in the service of Robert E. Lee. After the war he took a job at Baylor University and Baylor Female College and moved to Independence, Texas, where he was also known as Harry McArdle, with his new wife Jennie Smith. After moving to Texas he interviewed members of Hood's Texas Brigade who fought with Robert E. Lee at the Battle of the Wilderness, as research for his painting titled ''Lee at the Wilderness''. In 1890, Texas governor Lawrence Sullivan Ross commissioned him for a painting of Jefferson Davis to hang in the capitol building. McArdle moved to San Antonio and continued to paint many scenes of Texas history. He is best known for his 1895 pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1889 In Ireland
Events from the year 1889 in Ireland. Events *June – Edward Carson becomes the youngest QC in Ireland (aged 35). *12 June – the Armagh rail disaster occurs near Armagh: runaway carriages from a Sunday school excursion collide with an oncoming train, killing 80, the worst railway accident in Ireland ever. *16 July – Ballymena and Larne Railway taken over by Belfast and Northern Counties Railway. *1 November – Portrush life-boat ''The Robert and Agnes Blair'', going to the aid of the schooner ''Dryad'', capsizes off the coast at Portballintrae with the loss of three of her thirteen crew. *24 December – Irish nationalist Charles Stewart Parnell is accused of adultery after Captain Willy O'Shea files for divorce on the grounds his wife Kitty O'Shea had an affair with Parnell. The scandal will later result in the dismissal of Parnell as leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party. * A religious group of the Order of Carmelites leave Dublin for the United States at the invitatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taku Forts
The Taku Forts or Dagu Forts, also called the Peiho Forts are forts located by the Hai River (Peiho River) estuary in the Binhai New Area, Tianjin, in northeastern China. They are located southeast of the Tianjin urban center. History The first fort was built during the reign of the Ming Jiajing Emperor between 1522 and 1527. Its purpose was to protect Tianjin from attack by wokou sea raiders. Later, in 1816, the Qing government built the first two forts on both sides of the Haihe estuary in response to increased concerns about seaborne threats from the West. By 1841, in response to the First Opium War, the defensive system in Dagukou was reinforced into a system of five big forts, 13 earthen batteries, and 13 earthworks. In 1851, Imperial Commissioner Sengge Rinchen carried out a comprehensive renovation of the forts, building 6 large forts: two on the south of the estuary, called "Wēi" (威-Might) and "Zhèn"(震-Thunder, Tremor, Quake), three to the north, "Hǎi"(海-sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Cross
The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest and most prestigious award of the British honours system. It is awarded for valour "in the presence of the enemy" to members of the British Armed Forces and may be awarded posthumously. It was previously awarded by countries of the Commonwealth of Nations, most of which have established their own honours systems and no longer recommend British honours. It may be awarded to a person of any military rank in any service and to civilians under military command. No civilian has received the award since 1879. Since the first awards were presented by Queen Victoria in 1857, two-thirds of all awards have been personally presented by the British monarch. The investitures are usually held at Buckingham Palace. The VC was introduced on 29 January 1856 by Queen Victoria to honour acts of valour during the Crimean War. Since then, the medal has been awarded 1,358 times to 1,355 individual recipients. Only 15 medals, of which 11 to members of the Britis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Lane (VC)
Thomas Lane VC (May 1836 – 12 April 1889) was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was born in Cork, Ireland, in May 1836, and served throughout the Crimean War in the 47th Regiment of Foot. Military service On 21 August 1860 at the Taku Forts, China, during the Second China War, Lane, then aged 24 and a private in the 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot (later The Royal Hampshire Regiment), British Army and a Lieutenant Nathaniel Burslem of his regiment were awarded the Victoria Cross: He fought in the Anglo-Zulu War as a sergeant with the 3rd Natal Native Contingent. This unit was disbanded at Rorke's Drift after the siege, and the officers and non-commissioned officers formed three troops of the Natal Horse. He also fought in Landrey's Light Horse in Basutoland in 1881–1882. His VC gratuity was paid from the consulate in Boston, United States, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1894 In Ireland
Events from the year 1894 in Ireland. Events * 3 March – William Ewart Gladstone resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. In his career, he introduced land reform to Ireland and also attempted to grant Home Rule. * 14 June – hooker ''Victory'' capsizes off Westport, County Mayo with the loss of at least 30 aboard. * 15 August – the Irish Land and Labour Association is formed at a labour convention at Limerick Junction, County Tipperary, with D. D. Sheehan as chairman and J. J. O'Shee as secretary. * 28–29 December – the SS ''Inishtrahull'' is lost off Kilkee with the loss of 26 aboard. * The first meeting of the Irish Trades Union Congress takes place. * The Irish Agricultural Organisation Society is established by Horace Plunkett. The new organisation encourages the co-operative movement. * Professor John Joly of Trinity College Dublin, devises a colour photographic process. * Bewley's open their first café in Dublin. Arts and literature * Thomas A. Finla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Halpin
Robert Charles Halpin , Master Mariner, born 16 February 1836 at the Bridge Tavern Wicklow, Ireland, died 20 January 1894 at ''Tinakilly'', Wicklow. He captained the Brunel-designed steamship SS ''Great Eastern'' which laid transoceanic telegraph cables. A successful pioneer of this work, he earned the nickname "Mr Cable". Early life He was the son of James and Anne Halpin (née Halbert), the youngest of 13 children. His father, James, was the proprietor of a small tavern and the family were reasonably well off. From an early age Robert showed a fondness for the sea. He received his early education at a nearby private school. Halpin appears to have shown little interest in formal education and with his imagination fueled by tales of faraway lands recounted by mariners in his father's tavern, he left home at age ten to become a seafarer. Nautical career He joined the brig ''Briton'' that was engaged in the Cumberland coal trade and was shipwrecked off Bude, Cornwall in 1851 w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1901 In Ireland
Events in the year 1901 in Ireland. Events * 1 January – The centenary of the Act of Union was celebrated by British forces in Ireland. * 3 January – Despite some opposition Drogheda Corporation voted to confer the freedom of the town on President Kruger of the Boers. * 22 January – Queen Victoria Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until Death and state funeral of Queen Victoria, her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 21 ... died in London. In Dublin theatres were closed and the blinds were drawn at the General Post Office, Dublin, General Post Office. * 24 January – Edward VII was proclaimed King of Ireland in a state ceremony at Dublin Castle. * 2 February – Banks, public offices, theatres and music halls were closed in Dublin for the funeral of Queen Victoria. * 19 February – Thomas O'Donnell (Irish nationalist politician), Thomas O'Donnell, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
