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The Scottish National Party gained their first electoral victory
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Madeleine Smith, found not proven for murder in 1857, died peacefully in New York.
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Flyweight boxing champion Benny Lynch born.
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Patrick McGilligan, pro-Treaty nationalist and politician, is born in Coleraine, Co. Derry-Londonderry
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The American Civil War begins; 150,000 Irishmen will serve with the Union forces, and 40,000 with the Confederacy
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The American relief ship, Jamestown, lands supplies in Cork for famine victims
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Patrick Ford, journalist in the USA, fund-raiser for Irish causes, born in Galway
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An Act establishes free trade in manufactured articles between Britain and Ireland
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Sir Charles Gavan Duffy is born in Co. Monaghan
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Abandonment of Scotlands only New World Colony, Caledonia, at Darien, Isthmus of Panama
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The Ordinance of Union comes into effect, uniting Ireland and Scotland with England
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Union flag adopted as the flag of England, Wales and Scotland.
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