Events from the year 1245 in Ireland.
Incumbent
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Lord
Lord is an appellation for a person or deity who has authority, control, or power over others, acting as a master, chief, or ruler. The appellation can also denote certain persons who hold a title of the peerage in the United Kingdom, or ar ...
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Henry III
Events
* An earthquake destroys the Cathedral of Down which was established by
John de Courcy
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with generous endowments to the Benedictines from Chester in England in
1183
Year 1183 ( MCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By area
Byzantine Empire
* Andronicus I Comnenus becomes Byzantine Emperor.
* October – Alexios II Komn ...
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* William Welwood becomes
Lord Chancellor of Ireland
The Lord High Chancellor of Ireland (commonly known as Lord Chancellor of Ireland) was the highest judicial office in Ireland until the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922. From 1721 to 1801, it was also the highest political office of ...
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Maurice Fitzgerald, the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, is generally credited with the establishment of the medieval European-style town and port of Sligo, building
Sligo Castle in 1245.
References
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