February 15

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Decimal currency introduced, abandoning 12 pennies to a shilling and 20 shillings to a pound

Viscount Brendan Bracken, politician, born in Templemore, Co. Tipperary

Sir Ernest Shackleton, Antarctic explorer, born in Kilkea, Co. Kildare

Sophie Bryant, Irish patriot and womens rights advocate, is born

The Caledonian Railway company opened

William Henry Preece, Welsh wireless inventor, born

The United Irishmen publish a plan for parliamentary reform

A third convention of Dungannon a gathering of Volunteers from Ulster is held

The first Dungannon Convention of the Ulster Volunteers calls for an independent Irish parliament

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