Ireland

The Land Act gives courts the power to revise and fix rents

Birth of poet Francis Ledwidge in Slane, Co. Meath

Special committee appointed to investigate Parnells ties to Phoenix Park murders

In 1882, the assassination of two high-ranking British officials in Dublin’s Phoenix Park—Lord Frederick Cavendish, the newly appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland, and Thomas Henry Burke, the Permanent Under-Secretary—sent shockwaves through the United Kingdom and Ireland. These killings, carried out by a radical nationalist group known as the Invincibles, intensified tensions between the British government and Irish nationalists.

Thomas Bodkin, lawyer and professor, is born in Dublin

Professor Thomas Patrick Bodkin (21 July 1887 – 24 April 1961) was an Irish lawyer, art historian, art collector and curator.

92 degrees Fahrenheit (33 Celsius), the highest temperature in Ireland since records began, was recorded at Kilkenny Castle

Wallace statue unveiled at the Wallace National Monument, Stirling.

New Tay rail bridge opened, the longest in Britain.

Anti-Tithe riot, Mochdie, Wales.

50 civilians and 34 police injured as crowd tried to prevent seizure of cattle for tithe payments

73 miners were killed in a firedamp explosion at Udston Colliery, Lanarkshire.

Anti-Tithe Riot, Llangwm, Wales