Ireland

Alasdair Mac Cába, pro-Treaty nationalist, is born in Ballymote, Co. Sligo

Alasdair Mac Cába, pro-Treaty nationalist, politician, and founder of the Educational Building Society (EBS), is born in Ballymote, Co. Sligo.

Months of serious rioting begin in Belfast on this date

Richard Mulcahy, pro-Treaty nationalist and Fine Gael politician, is born in Waterford

Jack Beattie, socialist politician and trade unionist, is born in Belfast

Home Rule Bill introduced in English Parliament by Gladstone

Lord Randolph Churchill gives his destructive speech - Ulster will Fight and Ulster will be Right

The Irish Catholic Hierarchy formally endorses Home Rule

Thomas Andrews, chemist and physicist, died

Thomas Andrews, FRS FRSE, was an Irish chemist and physicist, was born on December 19, 1813, in Belfast, Ireland.

Confederate Civil War Gen. Joseph Finegan, from Co. Monaghan, dies in Rutledge, Florida

David Christopher Davies, leading Welsh geologist died.