Ireland

Denny Lane, Young Irelander, author and poet, died

Denny Lane (4 December 1818 – 29 November 1895) was an Irish businessman and nationalist public figure in Cork city, and in his youth a Young Irelander

Daniel Owen considered the greatest Welsh language novelist died.

Daniel Owen was born in Mold, the youngest of six children. When he was a young baby his father and two of his brothers were drowned in an accident at the Argoed colliery, and Owen was brought up in great poverty. In 1851, when he was twelve years of a

John Charles McQuaid, born

John Charles McQuaid, C.S.Sp. (28 July 1895 – 7 April 1973), was the Catholic Primate of Ireland and Archbishop of Dublin between December 1940 and January 1972. He was known for the unusual amount of influence he had over successive governments.

Oscar Wilde is sentenced to two years imprisonment for offences “against public decency”

The trial of Oscar Wilde for homosexuality, then a crime, begins at the Old Bailey

Soprano Dame Isabella Baillie, opera star, born in Hawick

Dame Isobel Baillie, DBE (9 March 1895 – 24 September 1983), née Isabella Douglas Baillie, was a Scottish soprano. She made a local success in Manchester, where she was brought up, and in 1923 made a successful London debut. Her career, encouraged by the conductor Sir Hamilton Harty, quickly developed, with breaks in the first years for vocal study in Milan. Baillie’s career was almost wholly as a concert singer: she only once acted in an opera production on stage. She was associated above all with oratorio, becoming well known for her many performances in Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s The Creation, Mendelssohn’s Elijah and the choral works of Elgar.

Dan Breen, nationalist revolutionary and politician, is born near Soloheadbeg, Co. Tipperary

Dan Breen, a key figure in the Irish War of Independence and later a politician, was born on August 11, 1894, near Soloheadbeg, County Tipperary, Ireland. Breen became one of the most famous Irish revolutionaries, known for his role in the early stages of the struggle against British rule in Ireland.

Death duties introduced for the first time in Britain

Modern inheritance tax dates back to 1894 when the government introduced estate duty, a tax on the capital value of land, in a bid to raise money to pay off a £4m government deficit.

William Earle Moley Molesworth, WWI Ace, is born

William Molesworth was the son of Colonel Molesworth, C.I.E., C.B.E., of the Indian Army Medical Service. He attended Marlborough College in Wiltshire, England from 1908 to 1912 followed by four years at the Royal Military College at Sandhurst from 1912 to 1914.

Ireland collects its first ever Triple Crown, defeating Wales in Belfast

The first use cited in the Oxford English Dictionary is from Whitaker’s Almanack, 1900 (referring to the 1899 tournament):