George and robert stephenson open their locomotive foundry in newcastle upon tyne.

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Salvador Dalis painting Christ of St John of the Cross went on display in Glasgows Kelvingrove Art Gallery. There was a public outcry when Dr Tom Honeyman, the then director of Glasgows museums and art galleries, spent the citys entire annual purcha

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Dáil Éireann introduces internment

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Singer Kenneth McKellar born.

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Annie French Hector, novelist who wrote under the pseudonym Mrs. Alexander, is born in Dublin. Highly successful novelist with 40 books including the Wooing of O’t (1873), and Blind Fate (1891); A Choice of Evils (1895), and Kitty Costello, semi-autobiogr

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Daniel OConnell secretly marries his cousin, Mary OConnell

June 23, 1802

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Rebel southern column captures Goresbridge, Co. Kilkenny and camps at Bunreagh; Rebel northern column moves into Wicklow Mountains and camps at Ballymanus

June 23, 1798

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William Brown, founder of the Argentine navy, is born in Foxford, Co. Mayo

June 23, 1777

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Malt Riots, Glasgow

June 23, 1725

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The Registration Act comes into force requiring all Catholic priests in Ireland to register in court, to furnish two £50 bonds for good behaviour, and not to leave the county in which they are registered

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Charles II sailed into the estuary of the river Spey and signed the Covenant before going ashore.

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