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    	Can anyone buy one of the calendars ?  Could you post the ordering
    information here ?
    
    Thanks,
    
    Tom
    

    
    	Yes, anyone can buy them.  They run from November to October,
    (not January to December).
    
    	Celtic League Calendar
    	2973 Valentine Avenue
    	Bronx, New York  10458
    
    $6.00 per copy
    
    The 1986 calendar will be available June 1, 1986.

    I come from Brest, Brittany. I'd be very interested in having this
    calendar. Could you tell me the way I could get it from France?
    Kenavo,
    Bernard

    
    Re: .4  I'm sorry but I don't have much more information about the
    calendar.   I received it as a gift myself, and I'm not a member
    of the Celtic League.  I assume that if you add a "USA" to the address
    I gave in reply 2, it will get to the right people.   I don't see
    any reason they wouldn't mail it to France, providing they were
    given the appropriate postage (?).
    
    	There is some additional information about the Celtic League
    on the calendar.  It appears to be an international organization,
    with an American Branch.

       	From the back of the calender:
    
    	"The principal aim of the Celtic League, which was founded in
    Wales in 1961, is to bring the Celtic peoples together, and to better
    inform the world about the Celts; who they are and what they have
    done.  We, in the Celtic League American Branch, hope that this
    Celtic Calendar, which begins on the Celtic New Year, will do just
    that."
    
    	Celtic League American Branch
    	P.O. Box 20153
    	Dag Hammarskjold Postal Center
    	New York, New York  10017
    
    	Memberships are $15 individual, $20 for a couple, $25 for a
    family, $35 for a contributing membership.
    

 P.S.  Note that this address is different from that for obtaining the
    calendar.

    
    May 7
    
    	1952	Dermot O'Sullivan, famous noter, enters the fray.  :-)

Re: .23
    
    	oops!  ...I missed that one!  Happy Birthday...

May 9
    
    1650	  Battle of Clonmel - massive defeat of Cromwell's forces
    		by Irish army under Black Hugh O'Neill.

    
    MAY 10
    
    	1971	#14023 is assgined to me ..... ;-)
    
    
    

May 10
    
    1559	  John Knox's sermon launches Scottish religious
	    revolution.

    1765	  Act of Revestment - English crown took title of "Lord
	    of Mann" from the Duke of Atholl - payment to be decided
	    later.
    
May 12
    
    1981	  Francis Hughes, Irish political prisoner, dies on
	    hunger strike in Maze prison, N. Ireland.
    
May 13
    
    1982	  European Parliament votes to ban use of plastic bullets
	    in the EEC, though England indicates that it will continue
	    to use them in N. Ireland.

May 14
    
    1853	  Hall Caine, Manx novelist, born
    
    1974	  Ulster Workers Council Strike - to bring down Council
    		of Ireland - English army fails to enforce Sunningdale
    		Agreement.

May 15
    
    1765	  Mischief Bill receives royal assent - crown lands
    		English customs officers on Mann to prevent "smuggling"
    		between Ireland and the British Isles through Mann.
    
    1867	  Eoin MacNeill, Irish nationalist, born.

May 21
    
    1650	  James Graham, (Montrose), Scottish royalist commander,
    		executed by Cromwellian government.
    
    1981	  Ray McCreesh, Irish political prisoner, dies on hunger
    		strike in Maze prison, N. Ireland.

    Leaprechauns joined the information age.
    
    May 21            13 years ago.
    
    
                     Badge no. (100)576 assigned.
    
    The corporation has divided its shares placings twice in the interim.
    
    Snake hasn't been caught yet.
    

June 12
    
    1865	   William Butler Yeats, Irish author, born.

    another great Irishman, my grandfather, was born on June 12, 1881
    in Cork City.

July 1
    
    1867	  Thomas Francis Meagher, Young Ireland leader, died.
    
    1969	  Bombs go off in Caernarfon against investiture of
    		England's pretender to Welsh throne.

July 2
    
    1745	  Prince Charles Edward Stuart sails from Scotland from
    		Nantes, Brittany with seven companions.

	Michael A. Foley returns to his homeland for tea, beer, and
	escape on the 8:20pm NorthWest Orient flight to Shannon.

	Watch out Ireland, I'm coming home!

						mike

July 3
    
    1746	  Henry Grattan, Irish statesman, born.

July 4
    
    1921	  Awaiting truce with the English, Eamon DeValera orders
    		the American flag flown in Dublin, "to emphasize the
    		principle for which we are fighting".

July 5
    
    		  Tynwald Day - Promulgation of the Laws - laws passed
    		each year by Mann's Parliament are publicly read in
    		Manx and English.
    
    1643	  Bevill Grenville, Cornish royalist commander, dies
    		following decisive victory over Cromwellian army.

July 6
                                                                   
                                                       ^
    1403	  Carmarthen surrenders to Owain Glyn Dwr.

July 7
    
    1815	  Th�odore Hersart de la Villemarqu� (Kervarker), compiler
   		of Barzhas Breizh (the Breton folk epic), and founder
    		of modern Breton literature, born.
    
    1930	  Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish author, died.

July 8
    
    1981	  Joe McDonnell, Irish political prisoner, dies on hunger
    		strike in Maze prison, N. Ireland.

July 9
    
    1787	  Taliesin Williams, Welsh poet and editor, born.
    
    1797	  Edmund Burke, Irish statesman, political philosopher,
    		orator, and author, died.

    
    
    	Mike: Even though it seems very quiet in here, we/I do look
    	      forward to the "Calendar Events" ....  Thanks   :-)
    
    
    
    	keVin_who_is_on_vacation_but_still_reads_notes_from_home

Re: .55  Thanks for the thanks...
    
1274	  Robert the Bruce of Scotland, born.

1690	  Battle of the Boyne, Ireland - Williamite victory.

1981	  Martin Hurson, Irish political prisoner, dies on hunger strike
    	in Maze prison, N. Ireland.

                                     ^
1404	  Treaty between Owain Glyn Dwr and France pledging alliance
    	against England.
    
1927	  Countess Constance de Markevicz, Irish patriot, died.

1579	  James Fitzmaurice lands forces in Dingle to effect uprising
    	against the English in Ireland.
    
1874	  Cathal Brugha, Irish Republican commander, born.

1372	  Treaty concluded between Yann of Brittany and Edward III of
    	England pledging support against Charles V of France.

1616	  Hugh O'Neill, Irish chieftain and military genius, died.

1796	  Robert Burns, Scottish poet, died.
    
1888	  Yann-Ber Kalloc'h, Breton poet, born.

1643	  Cornish army invades Devon and besieges Cromwellian forces
    	in Bristol.

1826	  Rene T.H. La�nnec, Breton inventor of the stethoscope, died.
    
1884	  Llewelyn Powys, Welsh writer, born.

1040	  Duncan I of Scotland killed by Macbeth at Pitgavney, near
	Elgin.
    
1598	  Hugh O'Neill of Ireland defeats English at Battle of the Yellow
    	Ford.
    
1927	  Parti Autonomiste Breton founded.

1753	  George Berkeley, Irish philosopher and Anglican bishop,
    	died
    
1970	  Dafydd Iwan, Welsh patriot, jailed for painting Welsh place
    	names on English language signs in Wales.

1939	  Irish Republican Army Council and Republican survivors
    	of the 2nd Dail �ireann declare war on England.

1822	  Thomas Clarke Luby, co-founder of the Fenian Brotherhood,
    	born.

1916	  Secret negotiations result in alliance of the Irish Citizens
    	Army with the Irish Republican Brotherhood.

1919	  Irish War of Independence begins with raid at Soloheadbeg,
    	Tipperary.
    
1919	  First D�il �ireann meets at Mansion House, Dublin.

1643	  Battle of Saltash, Cornwall.  Cornish Army defeats English
    	invasion.
    
1788	  George Gordon (Byron), Scottish author of "Don Juan", born.

1893	  Dr. William Price, self-styled Welsh Druid and Chartist who
    	introduced cremation to the British Isles, died.

1973	  Willie Clancy, Irish folklorist and traditional piper, died.

1759	  Robert Burns, Scottish poet, born.

1316	  Edward Bruce and Irish allies engage English forces at the
    	Battle of Ardscull, Ireland.
    
1316	  Beginning of revolt by Llywelyn Bren in South Wales.

1550	  Humphrey Arundell, leader of the Cornish Prayer Book Rebellion,
    	executed by the English.
    
1784	  Their enlistments expired, the men of the 77th Highland Infantry
    	mutiny against their English officers rather than be shipped
    	to India.

1716	  Scottish Jacobite army begins retreat, resorting to
    	scorched-earth tactics to delay advancing Anglo-Dutch forces.

1947	  Jim Larkin, Irish labor leader, died.
    
1972	  "Bloody Sunday", Derry City, N. Ireland.

1903	  F. Debauvais, Breton patriot, born.

1882	  James Joyce, Irish author, born.
    
1971	  Burning of English Embassy in Dublin, Ireland.

1790	  Revocation of the Breton Assembly by the French.

1716	  James VIII of Scotland escapes to France, concluding the Jacobite
    	rising of 1715.
    
1775	  Robert Emmet, Irish patriot, born.

1840	  John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor of the pneumatic rubber
    	tire, born.
    
1881	  Thomas Carlyle, Scottish historian and essayist, died.

1977	  French president announces support of a Breton Cultural Charter,
    	which has not been implemented.

1292	  First Scottish Parliament assembles at Scone.
    
1923	  Brendan Behan, Irish author, born.

1792	  John Jones (Tegid), Welsh poet and scholar, transcriber of
    	the Mabinogion, born.

1847	  Macvey Napier, a Scottish editor of  Encyclopedia Brittanica,
    	died.

1602	  Duke of Mercoeur, who planned a return to Breton Independence,
    	died.

    Re .102: I've to take exception to this one being in a Celtic calendar.
    The duke of Mercoeur was a French lord with ancestry from Lorraine
    who happened to be governor of Brittany in a time of civil (and
    religious) war. He never had any interest in anything Celtic, but
    simply wanted an independent kingdom for himself, no matter in what
    country it was or who were his subjects. Anyway, he failed.
    			Denis.

    	...Re: .103
    
    		...well, his death in itself may not be of much interest,
    	but it did have an effect on events which were of interest.
     
    

1948	  John Robert Gregg, Irish inventor of Gregg Shorthand, died.

1303	  English invasion of Scotland annihilated at the Battle of
    	Roslin.

1841	  John Phillip Holland, Irish inventor and developer of the
    	modern submarine, born.
    
1852	  Thomas Moore, Irish poet and songwriter, died.

1551	  Thomas Arundell, Cornish rebel, beheaded by the English

1883	  Caradar (A.S.D. Smith), Cornish pioneer in language revival,
    	author of Cornish Simplified and Welsh Made Easy, born.
    
1939	  A Gwenn ha Du bomb explodes in the French prefect's office
    	in Quimper.

1865	  Arthur Symons, Cornish poet, born in Wales.
    
1912	  Scottish Home Rule Bill, patterned on Irish Bill, introduced
    	in English parliament.

1172	  Cadwaladr ap Gruffydd, Prince of North Wales, died.
    
1288	  Scottish Parliament makes it legal for women to propose marriage
    	to men.  Origin of "Sadie Hawkins Day."

	St. David's Day - patron saint of Wales
    
1976	  "Special Category Status" was removed from Irish political
    	prisoners in N. Ireland by England.

1316	  Birth of Robert II of Scotland ensures royal succession of
    	Robert the Bruce.

1879	  F. Jaffrennou (Taldir), Breton writer, born.
    
1885	  June Williams, Welsh historian and folklorist, died.

1316	  End of revolt by Lyywelyn Bren against the Normans in South
    	Wales.
    
1864	  Richard Roberts, Welsh inventor and developer of textile
    	machinery, died.

    	  St Patrick's Day - Of course!  - patron Saint of Ireland and
    	Mann.
    
1328	  Treaty of Edinburgh - Scottish independence recognized by
    	England.
    
1337	  Edward III of England usurps Duchy of Cornwall and makes his
    	eldest son pretender to Cornish throne, in addition to Welsh.

1802	  Augusta Waddington, (Lady Llanover), Welsh language activist,
    	born.

1888	  Yann Ber Kalloc'h, Breton poet, born.

1899	  Yn Cheshaght Ghailckagh, The Manx Gaelic Society, formed.

1402	  Yann V becomes Duke of Brittany and his forty-three year reign
    	provides a period of economic prosperity and artistic creativity.
    
1596	  Bevil Grenville, Cornish military commander who fought
    	Cromwellian forces, born.

1939	  Erith Gwyn Nicholls, Welsh star rugby player and author of
    	The Modern Rugby Game and How to Play It, died.

1306	  Robert the Bruce crowned at Scone.
    
1738	  Turlough O'Carolan, greatest Irish harper, dies.
    
1846	  Michael Davitt, founder of Irish and land league, born.
    

1351	  Battle of the Thirty - between partisans of the Blois and
    	Montfort houses, Brittany.
    
1720	  Pontkallek, Montlouis, Talhouet, and LeCouedic, unsuccessful
    	plotters for Breton independence, beheaded in Nantes, by the
    	French.

1625	  James VI of Scotland died.
    
1848	  William Ellis Jones, Welsh bard known as Gwilym Cawrdaf, died.

1901	  James Stephens, Fenian leader, died.

1880	  Sean � Cathasaigh (O'Casey), Irish author, born.
    
1980	  Mass arrests and invasion of Welsh nationalists homes by Special
    	Branch; 50 arrested.

1844	  Andrew Lang, Scottish historian, born.
    
1897	  Liam O'Flaherty, Irish author, born.

1401	  Conway Castle taken by Welsh rebels under William and Rhys
    	ap Tudor.
    
1980	  Establishment of Manx Customs Service thus freeing Mann from
    	English Customs control.

1914	  Comann na nBan, Irish women's republican movement, founded.

Easter 1966	Contigents from Welsh, Breton, Manx, Cornish, and Scottish
    	liberation movements march behind IRA - 50th Easter Week
    	Anniversary Parade.

1603	  Banning of the Clan MacGregor by act of James VI of Scotland.

1774	  Oliver Goldsmith, Irish author of "Deserted Village", died.

1894	  Arthur Lewis Horner, leader and organizer of South Wales'
    	miners, born.

1282	  Welsh parliament declares war on England.
    
1320	  Declaration of Arbroath (Aberbrothock), Scotland.

1381	  Second treaty of Gu�rande between Yann IV of Brittany and
    	Charles VI of France recognizes Breton independence.

1835	  Jonah Barrington, the Irish Parliament's leading opponent
    	of the union with Britain and author of The Rise and Decline
    	of the Irish Nation, died.

1139	  Second Treaty of Durham.  David I of Scotland recognized as
    	independent ruler by the Normans.

1917	  Yann-Ber Kalloc'h, a great Breton poet, dies in the First
    	World War.

1240	  Llywelyn the Great died.
    
1722	  Christopher Smart, cat loving Welsh poet, born.
    
1912	  Government of Ireland Bill introduced in English parliament.

1700	  Abandonment of Scotland's only New World Colony, Caledonia,
    	at Darien, Isthus of Panama.

1203	  Arthur I of Brittany assassinated by his uncle John.
    
1827	  Hugh Clapperton, Scottish explorer of Africa, died.
    
1829	  Passage of Catholic Emancipation Act for Ireland.

1582	  University of Edinburgh founded.
    
1608	  Illiam Dhone, Manx patriot, born.
    
1770	  John Evans, Welsh explorer who looked for the Welsh Indians,
    	born.

1710	  William Cullen, Scottish physicist, born.
    
1941	  Belfast, Ireland bombed by Germans - Dublin and D�n Laoghaire
    	fire brigades sent to aid.

1746	  Battle of Culloden, Scotland.
    
1871	  John M. Synge, Irish writer, born.
    
1969	  Trials of the Free Wales Army (FWA) begin.

1341	  Edinburgh Castle taken from English, reversing English
    	encroachments against independent Scotland.
    
1841	  John Williams, Cornish developer of Cornish manganese mining
    	industry, died.

1817	  Michael Roberts, Irish mathematician, author of theory of
    	invarients and covarients and of hyperelliptic functions, born.
    
1949	  Ireland declared a full republic and withdrawn from British
    	Commonwealth.

1689	  Beginning of Siege of Derry, Ireland.

1829	  Margaret Anna Cusack, Irish Revolutionary Feminist nun and
    	scholar, born.
    
1934	  Scottish National party founded.
    
1970	  John Jenkins, Welsh patriot, leader of Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru,
    	jailed for 10 years for sabotage and bombings.

1937	  Kenneth Vennor Morris, Welsh writer of mythological fantasy,
    	died.

1789	  Richard Roberts, Welsh inventor and developer of textile
    	machinery, born.
    
1967	  Walter Macken, Irish playwright and historical novelist, died.

1014	  Brian Boru, High King of Ireland, defeats Vikings at Clontarf,
    	Ireland.
    
1643	  English invasion of Cornwall repulsed by Cornish army.
    
1918	  One day general strike in Ireland against conscription.

1912	  Justin M'Carthy, Irish politician, historian, novelist, died.
    
1916	  Easter Rising begins - Easter Monday - Proclamation of the
    	Irish Republic.

1283	  Castell-y-Bere, last independent Welsh stronghold, falls to
    	England.
    
1284	  At Caernarfon, Edward I of England declares his day old son
    	as the "Prince of Wales" and thus the first pretender to the
    	Welsh throne.

1711	  David Hume, Scottish philosopher, born.
    
1881	  Robert Williams, Celtic scholar from Wales, died.

1748	  Pierre Louis Ginquen�, Breton poet, literary historian,
    	journalist and critic, born.
    
1852	  Robert Lochore, Scots poet, died.
    
1953	  Maud Gonne, Irish patriot, died.

1197	  Rhys ap Gruffydd, King of South Wales, died.
    
1373	  Yann IV of Brittany flees to England following French-instigated
    	revolt.

1916	  Encircled by larger English forces, Pearse and Connolly agree
    	to ceasefire after being forced out of the Dublin General Post
    	Office by artillery fire.

 418	  Pelagius, champion of Celtic view of Christianity, banned
    	by Roman political enemies in the Church.

1748	  Battle of Loch-nan-uamh - English ships prevent French ships
    	from rescuing fugitive Scottish clan chiefs.

    	  Beltaine - (C�tshamain) feast of Celtic god Belenos.
    
1169	  First Normans land in Ireland.
    
1899	  Jakez Riou, an important Breton writer, born.

1852	  John Jones (Tegid), Welsh poet, died.
    
1858	  Edith Oenone Somerville, Irish novelist, in collaboration
    	with "Martin Ross", born.

1758	  James Taylor, Scottish inventor of the steamboat, born.

1645	  Battle of Auldcarn, Scotland - Montrose victory.

1830	  Thomas Edward Brown, Manx poet, born.
    
1981	  Bobby Sands, Irish political prisoner (elected to English
    	parliament), dies on hunger strike in Maze prison, N. Ireland

1249	  Reginald II assumes Manx throne.
    
1643	  Battle of Stratton, Cornwall.  Cornish royalists rout Cromwellian
    	army and expell it from Cornwall.
    
1830	  William Archer, Irish naturalist, born.

1906	  Henry Grey Grahm, Scottish historian, author of Social Life
    	of Scotland in the 18th Century, died.
    
1928	  Walter Bezant Lowe, historian of North Wales, died.

1952	  Dermot O'Sullivan, famous noter, enters the fray.  :-)

1648	  Battle of St. Fagens, Wales.  Cromwellian army forces withdrawal
    	of Stuart army from South Wales.

 578	  Brendan the Navigator, early Irish transatlantic voyager,
    	died.

1810	  Robert Tannahill, Scottish song writer, died.
    
1974	  1st Annual Pan-Celtic Conference, a three day event, held
    	at Hunter College, CUNY, originated by the Hunter Keltic Club,
    	first event of its kind in the USA.

1313	  Robert the Bruce lands on Isle of Mann to wrest it from English
    	rule.

1689	  Dundee gathers forces in Lochaber, Scotland.

	  St. Yves Day - patron saint of Brittany.
    
1795	  James Boswell, Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson, died.

 685	  Battle of Nechtansmere.  Northumbrian invasion of Scotland
    	defeated by Pictish King Bruid�
    
1981	  Ray MacCreesh, Irish political prisoner, dies on hunger strike
    	in Maze prison, N. Ireland.

1967	  Merched Y Wawr (Daughters of the Dawn), Welsh language women's
    	organization, formed.

1798	  Start of '98 Rising in Ireland.

Flitting Day 	- day on which leases were up in Scotland.  Tenants
    	decided if they would sign another leaseor move - to sit or
    	flit.
    	
1315	  Irish ally, Edward Bruce of Scotland, arrives in Ireland.

1063	  England invades Wales.
    
1924	  Victor Herbert, Irish composer, died.

1887	  Anti-tithe riot, Llangwm, Wales.

1779	  Thomas Moore, Irish poet and composer, born.
    
1975	  Cornish Nationalist Party founded.

1830	  Humphrey Davy, Cornish pioneer chemist, died.

1249	  Reginald II, King of the Isle of Mann, assassinated.

1257	  Welsh forces under Meredudd ap Rhys and Meredudd ab Owain
    	ambush a force of English and Welsh collaborators killing 3,000
    	in battle lasting three days at Pontargottn.

1866	  American Fenians led by General John O'Neill invade Canada
    	and capture Fort Erie.

1257	  Battle of Cymerau.  Welsh forces under Maredudd ap Rhys defeat
    	invading English army.

1866	  American Fenians under O'Neill defeat English crown forces
    	at Ridgeway, Ontario.  "British Square" broken.
    
1949	  Fr. Vall�e, Breton grammarian and lexocologist, died.
    
1974	  Michel Gaughan, Irish political prisoner dies on hunger strike
    	in an English prison.

1862	  Bob Fitzsimmons, Cornish boxer, world's middleweight champion
    	1891, world's heavyweight champion 1897, born.
    
1980	  John Turnley, Protestant Irish nationalist, assassinated.

1723	  Adam Smith, Scottish author of "The Wealth of Nations", born.
    
1819	  John Conch Adams, Cornish astronomer and discoverer of the
    	planet Neptune, born.
    
1868	  James Connolly, Irish revolutionary hero, born in Edinburgh,
    	Scotland.

       
       
       	(Ok, so I'm late)
       
       John James Doughty is born on 27-May-1988 @11:03am..  My sister
       Colleen is doing great and J.J. is holdin' his own. (He's too
       young to have anyone else hold it for him other than his mother
       from time to time.. :-))
       
       The Foley Uncles (The Next Generation) were said to have exclaimed:
       
       	me_haul: "Jesus, he's a Foley. Look at the dimple in the chin!"
       
       	Liam:	"Yea, he's cute.. Wonder if he'll smoke a butt with me?"
       
       	Dennis: "Shit! He's hung like a bear! He's a Foley!"
       
       	Phyllis "Nana" Foley is heard to have hit Dennis off the head
       and gone back to shopping with a vengence for her 1st grandson.
       
       
       	All is well and Mother and boy are doing fabulous..
       
       						Uncle me_haul

1821	  F. an Uhel, Breton writer and ethnologist, born.

1329	  Robert the Bruce of Scotland Died.

1549	  Prayer Book Rebellion breaks out in Cornwall against the
    	religious edicts of Henry VIII of England, led by Henry Arundel.

1798	  Battle of Ballynahinch, Ireland.

1884	  John McCormack, Irish tenor, born.
    
1946	  John Logie Baird, Scottish inventor of television, died.

1887	  Anti-Tithe riot, Mochdie, Wales.  50 civilians and 34 police
    	injured as crowd tried to prevent seizure of cattle for tithe
    	payments.

1282	  Invading English army defeated at Llandeilo, Wales by Llywelyn
    	II.
    
1886	  Meeting of North Wales tenant farmers to form land league
	based on the Irish Land League.

	  ALBAN HEFIN - Welsh Bardic name for the summer solstice 4:37
    	AM G.M.T.
    
1764	  Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish patriot, born.

1798	  Battle of Vinegar Hill, Ireland.
    
1840	  John Rhys, Welsh historian and Celtic scholar, born.

                      ^
1402	  Owain Glyn Dwr routs English forces at the Battle of Bryn-glas.
    
1497	  Battle of Blackheath - Cornish rebellion in favor of Perkin
    	Warbeck supressed.

	Mid Summer's Eve - ancient solar feast celebrated with bonfires
    	throughout the Celtic lands.

1725	  Malt Riots, Glasgow - against higher taxes imposed on Scottish
    	malt.

1314	  Victory of Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn, Scotland.
    
1497	  Thomas Flamank, prominent Cornish patriot, hanged, drawn,
    	and quartered by the English at Tyburn.

1804	  Kadoudal, Breton patriot, beheaded in Paris.

1695	  Scottish East India Company organized to break English monopoly
    	on East Asian trade.
    
1859	  John Bickerton Morgan, Welsh geologist, paleontologist, and
    	conchologist, born.

 992	  Conan I of Brittany died.
    
1497	  Myghal an Gof, prominent Cornish patriot, hanged, drawn, and
    	quartered by the English at Tyburn.
    
1846	  Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish statesman, born.

1746	  Charles Edward Stuart and Flora MacDonald escape over the
    	sea to Skye.

1861	  Robert O'Hara Burke, Irish explorer of Australia, died.
    
1920	  Mutiny of the Connaught Rangers against English army campaign
    	in  Ireland.

1810	  Robert Williams, Celtic scholar from Wales, author of A
    	Dictionary of the Ancient Celtic Language of Cornwall, born.

1922	  Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts,
    	Dublin, by Free State forces.

1856	  George Bernard Shaw, Irish author, born.
    
1881	  George Borrow, Cornish writer, traveler and linguist, author
    	of Wild Wales, died.

1805	  Brian Merriman, Irish Gaelic poet, died.
    
1919	  First meeting of Breiz Atao, important Breton political movement.
    
1967	  Welsh Language Statute passed by English parliament giving
        limited recognition to Welsh language.

1865	  Welsh colony of Patagonia established.

1488	  Breton army of Fransez II is defeated at Sant Albin an Hiliber
    	by superior French forces.  This defeat eventually brings about
    	the end of Breton independence.

1746	  David Thomas Morgan, Welsh Jacobite leader, executed by the
    	English.
    
1901	  Troops sent from England to deal with striking quarrymen in
    	North Wales.

1893	  Founding of Gaelic League in Ireland.
    
1981	  Kevin Lynch, Irish political prisoner, dies on hunger strike
    	in Maze prison, N. Ireland

       
       
       1961	Me_Haul was brought into the world..
       
       						me_haul

    L�ghnasadh - Feast of the god L�gh (Lleu or Lugus), a thirty-day
    agrarian feast with this day at the center.

 939	  King Alan Barvek of Brittany defeats Normans.
    
1918	  2nd Celtic Congress held at Neath, Wales.
    
1981	  Kieran Doherty (elected to Dail Eireann), dies on hunger strike
    	in Maze prison, N. Ireland.

1379	  Duke Yann IV lands  in Dinard, back from exile in England and
	reasserts Breton independence.

1857	  George F. FitzGerald, Irish physicist who postulated the
	Fitzgerald-Lorenz contraction, born.

1916	  Roger Casement, Irish patriot, hanged by English

1789	  French National Assembly votes to abolish remnants of Breton
	autonomy.

1962	  Cymdeithas Yr laith Gymraeg - Welsh Language Society formed.

    Re .214: Here again, I must contest the first item: On August 4th
    in 1789, the French "Assembl�e Constituante" voted to abolish the
    privileges of the Nobility and Clergy. It is quite possible that someone
    in Brittany (among those who lost their privileges) saw that as
    a loss of some parts of Breton autonomy (I'd like to know what autonomy
    Brittany had left at that time, the French monarchy never really
    paid any respect to the treaty it had signed in 1535. -Did I hear someone
    say Limerick?- ), but most of the Bretons as well as most of the people
    in the other parts of France, were overjoyed at the news that from
    now on, nobles and priests would be juridically and otherwise considered
    on the same foot as the "Tiers Etat" (ie, the rest of the population).
    I sure would like to know where Brittany was mentionned in the acts
    which were voted in the night of August 4th. Incidentally, this date
    is considered by many as one of the most important in the history
    of France and of the French revolution.
    			Denis.

      Hey, you know more about it than I do...  That one was straight
    from the 1988 Celtic Calendar.  I don't happen to agree with some
    of what they've put in there either.  They have a tendency to 
    "interpret"  history to fit in with their agenda.  My own knowledge
    of French and Breton history is very limited.
    
    	I've been resisting an inclination to edit out some of their "Irish
    political prisoner" and "Irish patriot" labels.  
    
      	I'm glad you pointed this out...  Please continue to make
    corrections, etc...   ...filling in the details is great too
    and makes the events more interesting ...  I, for one, have greatly
    enjoyed some of the historical notes which have been entered in
    this conference.
  

1549	  Battle of Clyst Heath - Cornish Prayer Book Rebellion suppressed 
	with the aid of Italian and German mercenaries.

1745	  Charles Edward Stuart lands at Borradale, Scotland.

1925	  Plaid Cymru - National Party of Wales formed.

    	(?)

1775	  Daniel O'Connell, Irish patriot, born.

1881	  Alexander Fleming, Scottish discoverer of penicillin, born.

1932	  Secret Society "Gwen ha Du" bombs the monument representing the
	union of Brittany with France at Rennes, Brittany.

1848	  Henry Jenner, Cornish pioneer in the language revival, author
	of Handbook of the Cornish Language, born.

1981	  Thomas McElwee dies on hunger strike in Maze prison, N. Ireland.

1971	  Indefinite Internment Without Trial or Charge instituted by 
	England in six counties of Northern Ireland.

1316	  Battle of Athenry, Irish rising in support of Edward Bruce.

1865	  Hugh Pugh, captain of the "Fflat Huw Puw" of J. Glyn Davie's
	ballad, died.

1874	  David Davies, Welsh Rebecca riot leader, died.

1746	  Wearing of kilts and tartans and the playing of bagpipes banned
	in Scotland by England.

1892	  Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve), poet and Scottish
	Nationalist, born.

1689	  Relief of Derry, Ireland, a major Williamite victory.
    
1922	  Arthur Griffith, Irish statesman, died.

1057	  Macbeth killed by Malcolm, son of Duncan I, at Lumphanan, Mar,
	Scotland.

1388	  Battle of Otterburn, Scotland - many English knights captured.

1771	  Walter Scott, Scottish author, born.

1532	  Treaty of Union between Brittany and France, guaranteeing
	autonomy for Brittany.

1898	  Creation of Kevredigezh Broadel Breizh (Breton Regionalist
	Association) lays the corner stone of the First Emsav.

    Re .226: I'll have to check, but on the spot I seem to remember
    that the union treaty between Brittany and France was in 1535, not
    1532.
    		Denis.

1714	  George MacKenzie, Scottish patron of books, died.

1921	  Second D�il �ireann meets

1927	  Declaration of Breton Autonomist Party demands political and
	administrative autonomy.

1746	  William Boyd of Kilmarnock, Scottish Jacobite leader, executed
	by the English.

1773	  James Boswell drags Samuel Johnson on famous "Tour of the
	Hebrides."

1789	  English troops called in to suppress striking tin miners in
	Cornwall.

1745	  Jacobite standard raised at Glenfinnan, marking the start of
	the '45 rising.

1887	  Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet with pan-Celtic appeal, born.

    
    1986	The CELT Notesfile is 2.5 years old today ...
    
    
    

1488	  Treaty of Sable - Charles VIII of France makes peace with
	Fransez II of Brittany.

1981	  Michael Devine dies on hunger	strike in Maze prison, N. Ireland.

1847	  Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, Scottish composer, conductor,
	violinist, born.

1922	  Michael Collins, Irish general, ambushed and killed by
	anti-Treaty men between Macroom and Brandon in Co. Cork.

1305	  William Wallace, Scottish patriot, hanged, disemboweled,
	beheaded, and quartered in London.

1565	  Earl of Murray's rebellion against Mary Queen of Scots failed.

1803	  Robert Emmett, Irish patriot, captured.

1651	  Manx invasion of England turned back at the Battle of Wigan.

1913	  Dublin transport strike, led by Jim Larkin and James Connolly,
	begins.

1825	  William Baikie, Scottish explorer of Africa, born.

1862	  John Williams, Welsh poet and editor of magazine Taliesin, died.

1969	  Welsh Office approves limited use of bilingual road signs in Wales.

1975	  Eamon DeValera, Irish statesman, died.

1820	  James Wilson, Scottish patriot, died.

1715	  Battle of Sheriffmuir, Scotland.
    
1855	  "Fiona MacLeod" (William Sharp), Scottish poet and prose writer,
    	born.

1873	  John Joseph Kneen, Manx language scholar, author of A Grammar of
	the Manx Language, born.

1912	  In a speech at Dundee, Winston Churchill announces his
    	support of a policy of devolution for Ireland, Scotland, and
    	Wales.

1607	  Flight of the Earls from Ireland.

1718	  The Breton gentry gather in Rennes to defend the liberties
	of Brittany.  (Denis, do you have any details on this one?)

1945	  John McCormack, Irish tenor, died.

    Re .247: Not much, Michael, but the date is as far as I remember,
    not very far (probably less than 5 years) from the one of the so-called
    Ponkalleg conspiracy, where the marquess of Ponkalleg, a Breton
    squire, tried to establish an aristocratic Breton republic with
    the help of Spain. The conspiracy was more farsical than dangerous
    and never had a chance to succeed, but the French prime minister
    of the time, l'abb� Dubois, who wanted the help of English influence
    to get a Cardinal hat for himself, had Ponkalleg and his associates
    executed just to please the English ambassador in France who wanted
    to spite the Spaniards.
    		Denis.

                      ^
1400	  Owain Glyn Dwr raises standard of revolt against England,
	declaring Welsh independence.

1845	  Thomas Davis, leader of Young Ireland movement, died.

1980	  English government capitulates to Welsh demands for TV
	channel and Broadcasting Authority to broadcast in the Welsh
	language

1988	  The famous S�oirs� Darcy appears in a photograph in the Irish
	Echo.

                                ^
1400	  First action of Glyn Dwr's revolt as Welsh rebels capture town
	of Ruthin.

1905	  George MacDonald, Scottish novelist, poet, creator of children's
	fairy stories, died.

1885	  David Christopher Davies, leading Welsh geologist, died.

1803	  Robert Emmett, Irish patriot, executed by England.

ALBAN ELFED - Welsh Bardic name for the autumn equinox

1928	  Revival of Cornish Gorseth at Boscawen 'n Un, traditional site
	of Cornish Gorseth.

1485	  Duke Fransez II sets up a Breton national assembly.

1753	  John Williams, Cornish developer of Cornish manganese mining
	industry, born.

1400	  Henry IV of England invades Wales in an unsuccessful attempt
    	to suppress Glyn Dwr's revolt.
    
1880	  Beginning of famous "boycott" against Irish landlord Captain
    	Boycott.

1267	  England recognizes Llywelyn and his heirs as Kings of Wales
    	and recognizes the borders of their territory.
    
1917	  Thomas Ashe, Irish patriot, dies on hunger strike in Dublin.

1678	  Thomas Tonkin, Cornish historian, born.

1940	  W.H. Davies, Welsh poet, author of The Soul's Destroyer and
	Autobiography of a Super-Tramp, died.

1891	  Last public speech of Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish statesman,
	at Creggs, Co. Galway, Ireland.

1837	  John Jones, Welsh historian, author of The Worthies of Wales, died.

1912	  Sir Edward Carson stages "Solemn League and Covenant" against Irish
	Home Rule.  Loyalist crowds gathered in Belfast to sign.

1364	  Charles of Blois dies in the Battle of Auray.  This checked
	French ambitions on Brittany.

1294	  Revolt of Madog ap Llywelyn Caernarfon Castle taken by Welsh
	rebels.

1283	  Prince Dafydd III, last native prince of Wales, executed by the
	English.

1842	  Henry Grey Grahm, Scottish historian, born.

1903	  Manx Constitutional Reform Movement initiated.

1754	  William Bligh, Cornishman of Mutiny on the Bounty fame, born.

1780	  Alexander Laing, Scottish explorer of Africa, born.

1263	  Norwegians abandon invasion of Scotland.

1891	  Charles Stewart Parnell died.  He was one of of the leaders
	of the Land League, a Protestant landowner, and a Member of
	Parliament for Co. Meath.

1980	  Mella Carroll, first Irish woman judge, appointed.

1872	  John Cowper Powys, Welsh novelist, born.

1949	  Edith Oenone Somerville, Irish novelist in collaboration with
	"Martin Ross", died.

1796	  William Ellis Jones, Welsh bard known as Gwilym Cawrdaf, born.

1935	  Archibald Thorburn, Scottish ornithologist and painter, died.

1974	  Padraic Fallon, Irish poet and playwright, died.

1798	  French fleet intercepted off Donegal.  Wolfe Tone captured
	when The Hoche strikes its colors.

1858	  Joseph Carne, Cornish geologist and historian of the Cornish
	copper mining industry, died.

1881	  Government crackdown on Irish Land League jails Parnell and
	other leaders.

1322	  Victory of Robert the Bruce of Scotland in Yorkshire.

1882	  Eamon de Valera, first president of Ireland (elected by the
	first D�il �ireann), born.

1791	  First meeting of United Irishmen.

    Re .272: As far as I remember, the first president of Ireland was
    Douglas Hyde in 37 or 38, the second Sean T. O'Kelly and De Valera
    only the third in 59.
    When the first Dail Eireann met in early 19 they elected a president
    of the Dail (i.e. prime minister), not a president of Ireland. What's
    more, as De Valera was still in jail then, it was Cathal Brugha
    who was elected on a provisional basis until De Valera could come
    back and take the office later in the year.
    		Denis.

    Leaprechauns acknowledge.
    
    Re .274
    
    Denis is correct as usual.
    
    The Irish republic was declared on Easter Monday 1916 from the steps
    of the G.P.O. by Padraigh Pearse.
    
    The 1st D�il (parliament of the Irish people), sat in January of
    1919 and was composed of those Sinn F�in members elected in the
    British general election of late 1918. (Ireland was part of the
    U.K. until 1922).
    
    Eamonn de Valera was elected as the president of the D�il.
    
    In 1922 the Irish Free State was set up which gave independence
    from Britain to a large portion of Ireland but this new state was
    still part of commonwealth and the titular head of state was the
    British monarch. There was no British ambassador to Ireland but
    a high commissioner.
    The monarch was removed from his position as head of the Irish state
    by the D�il in 1936 on his abdication from the throne. John A Costello
    the leader of the opposition was very vocal against that.
    
    11 years later in 1947 the same John A. Costello while on a visit
    to Canada announced that the Irish constitution which was in existence
    since 1937 would be implemented and thus declared the Irish Free
    State to be a republic. This move paved the way for the election
    of the 1st president of Ireland. In fact the person was not elected
    but selected by the D�il as an agreed canditate (something that
    the D�il can do as the title is a figurehead role). 
    Here is the list of presidents in their order, I'm not totally correct
    on the dates I'd say.
    
        1. Douglas Hyde           1947 - 1952 (died in office)
        2. Sean T. O'Kelly        1952 - 1959 (served one term)
        3. Eamonn De Valera       1959 - 1973 (  "     "    "  )
        4. Erskine Childers       1973 - 1975 (died in office)                  
        5. Cearbhaill O'Dhal�igh  1975 - 1977 (resigned in a dispute
                                               with the gvmt.)
        6. Dr. Patrick Hillary    1977 -      (serving a second term).
    
     
    Snake remembers them all but the first one.
    

    Re:  ..the last few... I stand corrected.  I'll give my standard
    excuse  - that one was straight from the Celtic Calendar.
    
    ...by the way, it doesn't say "first President of Ireland", it says
    "first president of Ireland", so in a sense they're not necessarily
    wrong...  

1342	  Edward III lands at Brest with English forces to seize part of
	Brittany.

1651	  The Rebellion of Illiam Dhone, Manx patriot.

1745	  Jonathan Swift, Irish author of A Modest Proposal, died.

    Leaprechauns raised an impertinent eyebrow.
    
    re .277
    
    Your entry on Jonathan Swift is a bit down-beat is it not.???
    
    While it is doubtless accurate and the book referred to "A modest
    proposal", is one of the most pungent pieces of political satire
    put to pen, it ignores that great body of genius that this man 
    penned and which every living person on this planet has heard
    about or read --- namely: Gulliver's Travels.
    
    Snake wonders if the compilers of the Celtic calendar are from
    Brobdinag. :-)
    Keep it up, I enjoy this note.
    

    ...if you thought the last few were strange, you should have seen
    some of the ones I left out...  Some I don't know any better, some
    I just don't have the time to edit/check...
    
    	At least none of my own have raised any questions so far (although
    I'm not sure if that's good or bad.)
    
   P.S.  Please continue with the constructive criticism - I'll make
         corrections for the next time around...

1836	  Daniel Owen, considered by some to be the greatest Welsh
        language novelist, author of Y Dreflan, Rhys Lewis, Enoc Huws,
        and Gwen Tomas, born.

1879	  Irish Land League founded in Dublin. [CC]

1903	  Manx National Reform League Movement initiated. [CC]

1965	  Village of Treweryn, Wales drowned by English to provide
	water to Liverpool. [CC]

1895	  Daniel Owen, considered the greatest Welsh language
	novelist, died.  [CC]

1921	  John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor of the pneumatic rubber
	tire, died. [CC]

1651	  Invasion of the Isle of Mann by Cromwellian forces. [CC]

1960	  Harry George Ferguson, Irish inventor, aircraft designer
	and aviation pioneer, died. [CC]

1911	  Somhairle MacGhilEathain (Sorley MacLean), Scottish Gaelic
	poet, born.  [CC]

    Re 26.281 - Ouch,
    
    Even to a Welshman, this sounds like the most blatant of
    anti-English propaganda.  I believe that the reservoir was
    built by the Welsh Water Authority, also serves the surrounding
    area and takes a healthy profit for the water that it sells
    to the Midlands.
    
    Diolch,
    
    Colin
    
    

	...I suspected as much - I'll leave it out next time...
    
1736	  James Macpherson, Scottish "Translator" of Ossianic poems,
	born. [CC]

1914	  Dylan Marlais Thomas, Welsh poet, born. [CC]

1974	  David Jones, Welsh poet and artist, died.

1300	  Edward of England signs truce and abandons invasion of
	Scotland.  [CC]

1740	  Scottish biographer James Boswell born.  

1863	  G. Dottin, Celtic scholar, born.  [CC]

1897	  Thomas Edward Brown, Manx poet, died.  [CC]

1911	  F�d�ration R�gionaliste de Bratagne founded at Rennes,
	Brittany.  [CC]

1957	  Ren� Aungier, known in some circles as El Gringo born in Dublin

	Samhain - the beginning of the Celtic year

1982	  Sianel Pedwar Cymru, first Welsh language TV station, begins
	broadcasting.  [CC]

1903	  Samhain Festival, Dublin, Ireland.  [CC]

1904	  Issac Foulkes, Welsh author, Bard, editor and founder of
	Y Cymro, died.  [CC]

1825	  Potato riots on Mann.  [CC]

1981	  Anjela Duval, Breton poet and nationalist, died.  [CC]

1745	  Charles Stewart invades England at the head of Jacobite army.  [CC]

1791	  Dublin Society of United Irishmen formed.  [CC]

1953	  Dylan Marlais Thomas, Welsh poet, died.  [CC]

1730	  Oliver Goldsmith, Irish author, born. (might be 1728, sources
	differ)...

1871	  Missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone found by Henry
	Stanley.  "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"

1925	  Richard Jenkins, (Richard Burton), Welsh actor, born.  [CC]

1276	  Edward I of England rejects peace offers and launches war
	on Llywelyn ap Gruffydd.  [CC]

1921	  Edward Windsor Richards, Welsh metalurgist and steelmaster,
	refiner of the Bessimer process, died.

1907	  Francis Leopold M'Clintock, Irish Artic explorer, died. [CC]

1897	  Aneurin Bevan, Welsh Labor Party leader, author of National
	Health Services Act and National Assistance Act, born.  [CC]

1985	  Anglo-Irish Agreement signed.

 578	  Brendan the Navigator, early Irish transatlantic voyager,
	died.  [CC]

1745	  James VIII of Scotland proclaimed King for first time on English
	soil, as James III.  [CC]

1858	  Robert Owen, Welsh-Scottish industrialist and utopian socialist,
	founder of New Lanark community, died.  [CC]

1920	  First Bloody Sunday - IRA gunmen kill 14 British undercover
	counter-intelligence officers.  The Black and Tans retaliated by
	opening fire during a Gaelic football match between Dublin and
	Tipperary at Croke Park, killing 12 players and spectators,
	followed by the murder by the RIC of two IRA men and a Sinn Fein
	supporter (arrested the previous night) in Dublin Castle.

 845	  Victory of Nomenoe at Ballon, Brittany over the Franks,
	secures Breton independence.  [CC]

1830	  Justin M'Carthy, Irish politician, historian, novelist, born. [CC]

1963	  C.S. Lewis, Irish author, died.

1666	  Battle of Rullion Green, uprising of Galloway peasants supporting
	the Covenant supressed by English army of Charles II.  [CC]

1920	  A flying column led by Tom Barry ambushes a band of Black and
	Tans outside Macroom, Ireland.

	St. Andrew's Day - patron Saint of Scotland.

1667	  Irish satirist Jonathan Swift, author of "Gulliver's
	Travels" and "A Modest Proposal", born.

1983	  Richard Llewellyn, Welsh author of "How Green Was My Valley",
	died.  [CC]

1939	  Undeb Cymru Fydd - the New Wales Union founded.  [CC]

1939	  Llewelyn Powys, Welsh writer, died.  [CC]

1894	  Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author, died.  [CC]

1795	  Thomas Carlyle, Scottish historian, born.  [CC]

1918	  Richard Bagwell, Irish historian, died.  [CC]

1846	  Francis Vyvyan Jago Arundell, Cornish historian and antiquary,
	died.  [CC]

1876	  David Forbes, Manx geologist, died.  [CC]

1921	  Signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty creating the Free State.  [CC]

1491	  Duchess Anne of Brittany marries Charles VII of France to
	secure Breton independence.  [CC]

1676	  William Gwavas, Cornish writer and collector of Cornish language
	material, born.  [CC]

1890	  Dion Fortune (Violet Mary Firth), Welsh occultist, born.  [CC]

1922	  Irish Free State officially proclaimed.

    re .314: 1491: It was not Charles VII, but his grandson Charles VIII
    that Anne married. And it wasn't really to secure Breton independence,
    but because she hadn't any other choice after the death of her father
    Francez II of Brittany: she was too young, civil war was devastating
    Brittany, and the French army was occupying most of it (maybe besieging
    her, but I might be wrong there, my memory doesn't help very much).
    She became one of the best queen of France, had to marry her husband's
    successor and second uncle Louis XII after the untimely death of Charles
    in an accident (not to remain queen, but because France didn't want
    to let Brittany become independent again). To further secure Brittany
    into France, her daughter by Louis, Claude, heiress to the province,
    was later made to marry Louis successor and second nephew, Francis I.
    This led to the famous 1535 (or was it 1532?) treaty between Brittany
    and France, where Breton autonomy was guaranted. Francis I's son
    by Claude and successor, Henri II, was the first king of France
    to be duke of Brittany in his own right, and nobody ever heard of
    Breton autonomy afterward...
    			Denis.

1766	  Charles Macintosh, Scottish inventor of rubberized raincoat
	(the macintosh), born.  [CC]

1830	  Battle of Gutter Hill, Rhos, Wales - striking coal miners
	attacked by English cavalry.  [CC]

1691	  Robert Boyle, Irish pioneer chemist and physicist, died.  [CC]

1875	  Thomas Stephens, Welsh historian, author of The Literature of
	the Kymru, died.  [CC]

1964	  Creation of Unvaniezh Demokratel Breizh (UDB) party striving for
	an autonomous socialist Brittany.  [CC]

1760	  Richard Polwhele, Cornish historian, born.  [CC]

1951	  Mebyon Kernow (Sons of Cornwall) formed.  [CC]

1514	  Duchess Anne, last Breton sovereign, died.  [CC]

1741	  William Gwavas, collector of Cornish language material, died.  [CC]

1655	  Breton Assembly moved to Rennes.  Since then it has been the
	capitol of Brittany.  [CC ed]

1818	  Daniel Silvan Evans, Welsh scholar, lexicographer and poet,
	born.  [CC]

1964	  MecVannin (Sons of Mann) - Manx Nationalist Party - founded.  [CC]

1729	  Edmond Burke, Irish statesman and writer, born.  [CC]

1885	  Thomas Ashe born.  [CC ed]

1823	  James Gill, collector of Manx historical archives, born. [CC]

1941	  Irish novelist James Joyce died.

1856	  Joseph Hayden, Irish journalist and dictionary compiler,
    	author of A Dictionary of Dates, died.  [CC]
    
1860	  Douglas Hyde, Irish statesman, born.  [CC]

1414	  John Stanley, first Lord of Mann, died.  [CC]
    
1788	  The first English settlers arrived in Botany Bay to establish
	a penal colony.

1934	  Joseph Devlin, Irish nationalist, died.  [CC]

1643	  Battle of Braddock Downs - Cromwellian army defeated by
    	Cornish royalists.  [CC]

1817	  Food riots, Amlwch, Wales.  Authorities request military help
    	from England.  [CC]
    
1881	  James Miln, Scottish excavator of Carnac, Brittany, died.  [CC]

1759?     Robert Burns, the world's greatest poet, born in Scotland

1853	  Arthur William Moore, Manx historian, died.  [CC]

1313	  Robert the Bruce captures Dumfries, Scotland.  [CC]
    
1873	  Joseph Sheridan LeFanu, Irish writer of ghost stories, died.  [CC]

1986	  CELT notes conference started. 
    
    ...Thanks to KeVin for the reminder...

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They also various other Scottish/Highland/Gaelic products - they have
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Craig