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A Companion Calendar
to
Finnegans Wake
(a continuing project)
 
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1681
Execution of Archbishop Oliver Plunkett in London.
   
1690
William III defeats james I at River Boyne.
   
1916
First day of the Battle of the Somme, in which the 36th Ulster Division reached the German second line.
 
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1921
War between US and Germany declared at an end.
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1863
Union victories at Vicksburg and Gettysburg.
 
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1928
First all-talking moving picture at Strand Theater, NYC.
 
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1839

John D. Rockefeller Sr. is born.

   
1887
Passage of Irish Crime Bill abolishing trial by jury in Ireland.
 
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1691
Battle of Aughrim.
   
1856
The Crimea wholly evacuated by the Allies.
 
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1808
Commander MacMahon, descendent of an Irish Jacobite family, born at Sally. In the Crimean War he turned his fire on Russians. Died October 17, 1893.
 
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1920
World's first commercial radio telephone service opened between Los Angeles and Santa Catalina Island, California, USA.
 
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1803
Insurrection by Robert Emmet in Dublin, last flare-up of United Irishmen.
 
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1663
English act restricts Irish trade with colonies.
 
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1926
Flivver monoplane exhibited by Henry Ford.
 
1928
First color motion pictures in US exhibited by George Eastman.
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1556
Saint Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, dies.
 
1893
Founding of Gaelic League.