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Thomas McElwee, Irish polictical prisoner, dies on hunger strike in Maze prison, Northern Ireland.
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The Civic Guard is renamed the Garda Siochana
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James Gandon moves from London to Dublin; the first stone of his Customs House is laid on this date
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Birth of Francis Hutcheson, Presbyterian philosopher, in Co. Down
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The Spanish Armada is defeated by the English
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King James IV married Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England.
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King Edward I removed to England the Stone of Destiny on which generations of Scottish kings had been crowned.
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