Ireland

Irish Patriot, Thomas Kent, is executed at Cork Detention Barracks

Irish patriots, Michael Mallin, Eamonn Ceannt, Cornelius Con Colbert and Sean Heuston are executed in Kilmainham gaol

The U-20, a German U-boat commanded by Captain Schweiger, sinks the Centurion off the south-east Irish coast

Irish patriot and a leader of the 1916 Easter Uprising, John MacBride, is executed by firing squad in Kilmainham Gaol

Edward Daly, Michael OHanrahan, William Pearse & Joseph Mary Plunkett are executed by firing squad in Kilmainham jail

Patrick Pearse, Thomas Clarke and Thomas MacDonagh executed by firing squad in Kilmainham jail

Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, writer, suffragist, pacifist and patriot, is arrested

Francis Sheehy-Skeffington — writer, suffragist, pacifist, and Irish patriot — is arrested by British forces while trying to prevent looting during the Easter Rising in Dublin. Despite having no involvement in the rebellion, he is executed without trial on the orders of a British officer.

Irish Volunteers and Citizen Army seize the General Post Office (GPO) in Dublin

The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Cásca) was a rebellion staged in Ireland against British rule on Easter Monday in April 1916. Despite its military failure, it can be judged as being a significant stepping-stone in the eventual creation of the Irish Republic.

The merchant ship Aud leaves Germany for Ireland with arms for the Irish Republican Brotherhood

Patrick Pearse denies rumors of a possible rising to Irish Volunteer Chief of Staff Eoin MacNeill

The Irish Volunteers, also known as the Irish Volunteer Force or the Irish Volunteer Army, was a paramilitary organisation established in 1913 by nationalists and republicans in Ireland.