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1828 In Ireland
Events from the year 1828 in Ireland. Events *In the election in County Clare, Daniel O'Connell wins the seat, with the Catholic Association. *Belfast Botanic Gardens opens as the private Royal Belfast Botanical Gardens. * Kings Bridge opens across the River Liffey in Dublin. Births *1 January – Richard Phelan, fourth Roman Catholic Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (died 1904 in the United States). *17 January – Eyre Massey Shaw, first Chief Officer of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (London) (died 1908 in England). *28 January – William Gorman Wills, dramatist and painter (died 1891). *21 March – William Davis Ardagh, lawyer, judge and politician in Canada (died 1893 in the United States). *March – Patrick Cleburne, major general in Confederate States Army in the American Civil War (killed at the Battle of Franklin, 1864 in the United States). *23 April – Fenton John Anthony Hort, theologian and writer (died 1892). *28 April – Wingfield W. Watson, leader of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Clare
County Clare ( ga, Contae an Chláir) is a county in Ireland, in the Southern Region and the province of Munster, bordered on the west by the Atlantic Ocean. Clare County Council is the local authority. The county had a population of 118,817 at the 2016 census. The county town and largest settlement is Ennis. Geography and subdivisions Clare is north-west of the River Shannon covering a total area of . Clare is the seventh largest of Ireland's 32 traditional counties in area and the 19th largest in terms of population. It is bordered by two counties in Munster and one county in Connacht: County Limerick to the south, County Tipperary to the east and County Galway to the north. Clare's nickname is ''the Banner County''. Baronies, parishes and townlands The county is divided into the baronies of Bunratty Lower, Bunratty Upper, Burren, Clonderalaw, Corcomroe, Ibrickan, Inchiquin, Islands, Moyarta, Tulla Lower and Tulla Upper. These in turn are divided into civil parishes, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1893 In The United States
Events from the year 1893 in the United States. Incumbents Federal Government * President: Benjamin Harrison ( R-Indiana) (until March 4), Grover Cleveland ( D-New York) (starting March 4) * Vice President: Levi P. Morton ( R-New York) (until March 4), Adlai E. Stevenson I ( D-Illinois) (starting March 4) * Chief Justice: Melville Fuller (Illinois) * Speaker of the House of Representatives: Charles Frederick Crisp ( D-Georgia) * Congress: 52nd (until March 4), 53rd (starting March 4) Events January–March * January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America. * January 17 – The U.S. Marines intervene in Hawaii, resulting in overthrow of the government of Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii. * January 21 – The Cherry Sisters first perform in Marion, Iowa. * February 1 – Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio in West Orange, New Jersey. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1882 In Ireland
Events from the year 1882 in Ireland. Events *2 May – "Kilmainham Treaty", an agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom under William Ewart Gladstone and the gaoled Irish nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell extending the terms of the Land Law (Ireland) Act 1881 to abate tenant rent arrears, is announced in Parliament. *6 May – Phoenix Park Murders: Lord Frederick Cavendish, the newly appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland, and Thomas Henry Burke, his Permanent Undersecretary (the primary target), are fatally stabbed in Phoenix Park, Dublin, by members of the "Irish National Invincibles" (militant Irish republicans). *July – James Connolly arrives in Ireland for the first time when his British Army regiment is posted to Cork. Arts and literature *February 2 – James Joyce, Irish novelist and poet (died 1941) Sport Football *;International *:18 February Ireland 0–13 England (in Belfast). First Irish international match. *:25 February Wales 7–1 Irela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Kickham
Charles Joseph Kickham (9 May 1828 – 22 August 1882) was an Irish revolutionary, novelist, poet, journalist and one of the most prominent members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. Early life Charles Kickham was born at Mullinahone, County Tipperary, on 9 May 1828. His father John Kickham was proprietor of the principal drapery in the locality, and was held in high esteem for his patriotic spirit.Ua Cellaigh, p.222 His mother, Anne O'Mahony, was related to the Fenian leader John O'Mahony. Charles Kickham grew up largely deaf and almost blind, the result of an explosion with a powder flask when he was 13. He was educated locally, where it was intended he study for the medical profession.O’Sullivan, p.347-9 During his boyhood the Repeal agitation was at its height, and he soon became versed in its arguments, and was inspired by its principles. He often heard the issues discussed in his father's shop and at home amongst all his friends and acquaintances. ''The Nation'' From a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1922 In The United States
Events from the year 1922 in the United States. Incumbents Federal Government * President: Warren G. Harding ( R-Ohio) * Vice President: Calvin Coolidge ( R-Massachusetts) * Chief Justice: William Howard Taft (Ohio) * Speaker of the House of Representatives: Frederick H. Gillett ( R-Massachusetts) * Senate Majority Leader: Henry Cabot Lodge ( R-Massachusetts) * Congress: 67th Events January–March * January 24 – Christian K. Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie ice cream bar. * January 28 – Snowfall from the Knickerbocker storm, the biggest-ever recorded snowstorm in Washington, D.C., causes the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre to collapse, killing 98. * February – '' The Ring'' boxing magazine is first published. * February 1 – Irish American film director William Desmond Taylor is found murdered at his home in Los Angeles; the case is never solved. * February 5 – DeWitt and Lila Wallace publish the first issue of ''Reader's Digest''. * Febr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints (Strangite)
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints—usually distinguished with a parenthetical (Strangite)—is one of the several organizations that claim to be the legitimate continuation of the church founded by Joseph Smith on April 6, 1830. It is a separate organization from the considerably larger and better known Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Both churches claim to be the original organization established by Smith. The Strangite church is headquartered in Voree, Wisconsin, just outside Burlington, and accepts the claims of James Strang as successor to Smith. It had approximately 300 members in 1998. Currently, there are around 130 active members throughout the United States. After Smith was murdered in 1844 with no clear successor, several claimants sought to take leadership of the church which Smith founded. Among them was Strang, who competed with other prominent members, notably Brigham Young and Sidney Rigdon. At its peak, the Stra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wingfield W
Wingfield may refer to: People * Anthony Wingfield (other), multiple people * Brenda Wingfield, South African geneticist * Lady Bridget Wingfield (died 1534), neighbour, close friend and lady-in-waiting to Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England * Cecil Wingfield (1893–1955), Australian politician * Cecil Wingfield-Stratford (1853–1939), British Army officer, and footballer * Sir Charles John Wingfield (1820–1892), British civil servant in Bengal, later an MP * Sir Charles Wingfield (1877–1960), British diplomat * Charlotte Wingfield (born 1994), Maltese Olympic sprinter * Dick Wingfield-Digby (''Richard Shuttleworth Wingfield-Digby''; 1911–2007), Dean of Peterborough (1966–1980) * Dontonio Wingfield (born 1974), former American professional basketball player * Edward Wingfield (other), multiple people * Eileen Wani Wingfield, Aboriginal elder from Australia * Esmé Cecil Wingfield-Stratford (1882–1971), British historian * Folliott Wingf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1892 In Ireland
Events from the year 1892 in Ireland. Events *June ** Ulster Unionists hold a huge convention in Belfast at which they solemnly swear that "We will not have Home Rule". ** The Knights of the Plough, a farm labourers' body, predecessor of the Irish Land and Labour Association, is founded by Benjamin Pellin in Narraghmore, County Kildare. *1 July – Edward Carson sworn in as Solicitor-General for Ireland. *9 July – in the General Election, Edward Carson, standing as a Liberal Unionist, is elected to one of two Trinity College Dublin seats. *21 August – the Roman Catholic St. Macartan's Cathedral, Monaghan, is dedicated. *25 November – Douglas Hyde lectures to the National Literary Society on ''The Necessity for de-anglicising the Irish People'', a precursor to the founding of the Gaelic League. * The Belfast Labour Party, the first Socialist Party in Ireland, is established in Belfast. * Free primary schooling and compulsory education up to the age of 14 is introduced through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fenton John Anthony Hort
Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828–1892), known as F. J. A. Hort, was an Irish-born theologian and editor, with Brooke Foss Westcott of a critical edition of ''The New Testament in the Original Greek''. Life He was born on 23 April 1828 in Dublin, the great-grandson of Josiah Hort, Archbishop of Tuam in the eighteenth century. In 1846 he passed from Rugby School to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was the contemporary of E. W. Benson, B. F. Westcott and J. B. Lightfoot. The four men became lifelong friends and fellow-workers. In 1850 Hort took his degree, being third in the classical ''tripos''. In 1851 he also took the recently established triposes in moral science and natural science, and in 1852 he became fellow of his college. In 1854, in conjunction with John E. B. Mayor and Lightfoot, he established the ''Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology'', and plunged eagerly into theological and patristic study. He had been brought up in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1864 In The United States
Events from the year 1864 in the United States. Incumbents Federal Government * President: Abraham Lincoln ( R-Illinois) * Vice President: Hannibal Hamlin ( R-Maine) * Chief Justice: Roger B. Taney (Maryland) (until October 12), Salmon P. Chase (Ohio) (starting December 15) * Speaker of the House of Representatives: Schuyler Colfax ( R-Indiana) * Congress: 38th Events January * January – Long Walk of the Navajo: Bands of Navajo led by the U.S. Army are relocated from their traditional lands in eastern Arizona Territory and western New Mexico Territory to Fort Sumner in the Pecos River valley. At least 200 died along the trek that took over 18 days to travel on foot. * January 13 – Songwriter Stephen Foster ("Oh! Susanna", "Old Folks at Home") dies aged 37 in New York City leaving a scrap of paper reading "Dear friends and gentle hearts". His parlor song " Beautiful Dreamer" is published in March. February * February – Lewiston–Queenston Suspension Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Franklin (1864)
The Second Battle of Franklin was fought on November 30, 1864, in Franklin, Tennessee, as part of the Franklin–Nashville Campaign of the American Civil War. It was one of the worst disasters of the war for the Confederate States Army. Confederate Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood's Army of Tennessee conducted numerous frontal assaults against fortified positions occupied by the Union forces under Maj. Gen. John Schofield and was unable to prevent Schofield from executing a planned, orderly withdrawal to Nashville. The Confederate assault of six infantry divisions containing eighteen brigades with 100 regiments numbering almost 20,000 men, sometimes called the "Pickett's Charge of the West", resulted in devastating losses to the men and the leadership of the Army of Tennessee—fourteen Confederate generals (six killed, seven wounded, and one captured) and 55 regimental commanders were casualties. After its defeat against Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas in the subsequent Battle of Nashville, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states that had seceded. The central cause of the war was the dispute over whether slavery would be permitted to expand into the western territories, leading to more slave states, or be prevented from doing so, which was widely believed would place slavery on a course of ultimate extinction. Decades of political controversy over slavery were brought to a head by the victory in the 1860 U.S. presidential election of Abraham Lincoln, who opposed slavery's expansion into the west. An initial seven southern slave states responded to Lincoln's victory by seceding from the United States and, in 1861, forming the Confederacy. The Confederacy seized U.S. forts and other federal assets within their borders. Led by Confederate President Jefferson Davis, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
