Ireland

Kelly and Timothy Deasy are rescued in a Fenian attack on a police van in Manchester during which a police sergeant is shot dead

Thomas Francis Meagher Dies

Thomas Francis Meagher aka: O’Meagher, or Meagher of the Sword (August 03, 1823 ? July 01, 1867) was an Irish revolutionary, who also served in the United States Army as a Brigadier General during the U.S. Civil War.

Clan Na Gael, Irish revolutionary organization and the counterpart of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, is formed

Clan na Gael, an influential Irish-American revolutionary organization, is formed in the United States in the late 1860s, emerging as the counterpart to the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB). Among its key founders and leaders were John Devoy, Daniel Cohalan, and Joseph McGarrity.

Birth of John Gregg, publisher and inventor of the Gregg shorthand system, in Rockcorry, Co. Monaghan

Michael Barrett from Kesh, Co. Fermanagh is executed for his part in the explosion at Clerkenwell Gaol

Mary is crowned queen of Great Britain & Northern Ireland

Archibald Alison, historian, died.

Eoin MacNeill, Irish nationalist, born

George William Russell (pseudonym A. E. Russell); poet, painter, writer, economist and mystic, is born in Lurgan, Co. Armagh

A. E. (George Russell), pivotal Irish Renaissance poet, painter, journalist and mystic, is born