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Highlighted Events from December

December 10, 1479

Garret More Fitzgerald of Kildare, the Great Earl, holds a parliament in Dublin

Garret More Fitzgerald of Kildare, the Great Earl, holds a parliament in Dublin from 10 December; it will run, with adjournments, into 1481

December 26, 1381

Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, sudden death in Cork leaves the power vacuum

Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March and Earl of Ulster (1 February 1352 – 27 December 1381) was an English magnate who was appointed Lieutenant of Ireland but died after only two years in the post.

December 6, 1820

Spanish General Diego O'Reilly is defeated by Peruvian revolutionaries

Diego O’Reilly, (b. Ireland, c. 1775 – d. high seas, 1821), an Irishman born in Spain, and was a general in the Spanish Army who served in South America during the period of Spanish American War of Independence of Peru.

December 21, 1988

A bomb explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270

Pan Am Flight 103 (PA103/PAA103) was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit via a stopover in London and another in New York City. The transatlantic leg of the route was operated by Clipper Maid of the Seas, a Boeing 747 registered N739PA.