Ireland

Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, Fenian, contests and wins a Tipperary by-election in abstentia

Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, (baptised 4 September 1831, died 29 June 1915) a prominent Irish Fenian, indeed contested and won a by-election in County Tipperary in abstentia (absence), but due to his status as a convicted felon, he was declared ineligible to take his seat in the British House of Commons.

Irish Church Act 1869

The Irish Church Act 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 42) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which separated the Church of Ireland from the Church of England and disestablished the former, a body that commanded the adherence of a small minority of the population of Ireland.

Joshua Prine Born

Birth of one of Ireland’s greatest ever tennis players, Joshua Prine, who won the Wimbledon singles in 1893 and 1894

Birth of Henry Dixon, botanist

Birth in Dublin of Margaret Tennant, née Abraham; trade unionist and campaigner for improved working conditions

Margaret Edith (May) Tennant, (1869 — 11 July 1946), née Abraham, born in Rathgar, County Dublin, Ireland, was a civil servant, trade unionist, factory inspector, and campaigner, who worked to improve conditions for industrial workers and was also involved in women’s health and education. She was one of the first people to be appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1917

James MacNeill, Governor-General of the Irish Free State, is born in Glenarm, Co. Antrim

James McNeill (27 March 1869 – 12 December 1938) was an Irish colonial administrator, politician, and diplomat, who served as first High Commissioner to London and second Governor-General of the Irish Free State.

Samuel Lover, died

Samuel Lover (24 February 1797 – 6 July 1868), also known as “Ben Trovato” (“well invented”), was an Irish songwriter, composer and novelist and a portrait painter, chiefly in miniatures. He was the grandfather of Victor Herbert.

David Brewster, scientist, inventor (including the kaleidoscope) died

David Brewster, the Scottish scientist and inventor known for his contributions to optics and his invention of the kaleidoscope, died on February 10, 1868, in Allerby, Melrose, Scotland.

Countess Constance Markievicz, Irish patriot and revolutionary, born

Constance Georgine Markievicz (Polish: Markiewicz [marˈkʲɛvitʂ]; née Gore-Booth; 4 February 1868 – 15 July 1927), also known as Countess Markievicz and Madame Markievicz, was an Irish politician, revolutionary, nationalist, suffragist, socialist, and the first woman elected to the Westminster Parliament, and was elected Minister for Labour in the First Dáil, becoming the first female cabinet minister in Europe. She served as a Teachta Dála for the Dublin South constituency from 1921 to 1922 and 1923 to 1927. She was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Dublin St Patrick’s from 1918 to 1922.

Manchester Martyrs, 3 Fenians are executed - Michael Larkin, William Philip Allen, and Michael O'Brien

The Manchester Martyrs (Irish: Mairtirígh Mhanchain) were three Irish nationalists – William Philip Allen, Michael Larkin, and Michael O’Brien – who were hanged in 1867 following their conviction of murder after an attack on a police van in Manchester, England, in which a police officer was accidentally shot dead, an incident that was known at the time as the Manchester Outrages.