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A Companion Calendar
to
Finnegans Wake
(a continuing project)
 
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1924 Nerone, an opera by Arrigo Boito, first performed at La Scala.
 
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1906
First issue of Sinn Fein.
 
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1882
Assassination of Cavendish and Burke in Phoenix Park.
 
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1569  

Battle of Farsetmore.

 
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1887
Alexander Graham Bell demonstrates speaking phone in NYC.
 
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1916
James Connolly executed in Dublin.
 
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1847

Verdi's Macbeth first performed in Florence.

 

 
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1847
 
Death of Daniel O'Connell in Genoa en route to Rome and a Papal benediction.
 
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1935
Sykes-Picot Agreement (middle east).
 
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1870

Homerule Movement launched by Isaac Butt

 
1924
Pictures transmitted from Cleveland to NYC over AT&T wires.
 
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1927
First solo flight from NY to Paris -- Spirit of St. Louis.
 
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1848
John Mitchel, editor of United Irishmen, tried for "treason-felony."
 
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1894
Childers Commission re financial matters between Great Britain and Ireland.
 
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1917
Puccini's La Rondine (The Swallow) first performed.
 
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1870
Ku Klux Klan Acts to enforce the 14th and 15th Amendments to the US Constitution.


1902
Peace declared at Vereeniging (Boer War).