John ponsonby is unanimously elected speaker of the irish parliament

April 26th , 1756

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Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon married the Duke of York at Westminster Abbey

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Edward VII begins a visit to Ireland on this date

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The trial of Oscar Wilde for homosexuality, then a crime, begins at the Old Bailey

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Robert Williams Buchanan, a poet, novelist and dramatist, diet

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Nano Nagle, Gods Beggar, founder of the Order of the Presentation Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary, dies

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John Allen (3rd Viscount Allen), former MP for Carysfort, kills a dragoon in a street brawl

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