November 16

November 16, 1893

George Alexander Osborne, Irish composer, died

November 16, 1891

Buffalo Bills Wild West Show opened in the East End Exhibition Buildings, Duke Street, Glasgow.

November 16, 1816

Benjamin Woodward, architect, is born in Tullamore, Co. Offaly

November 16, 1814

US General Michael Kelly Lawler, Union army, is born in Co. Kildare

November 16, 1795

Edward King, Viscount Kingsborough, student and promoter of Mexican antiquities, is born in Cork

November 16, 1793

Francis Danby, landscape painter, is born near Killinick, Co. Wexford

November 16, 1754

William Marsden, orientalist, scholar and numismatist, born in Wicklow

November 16, 1745

Scottish Jacobite rising of 1745 begins invasion of England

November 16, 1272

Henry III, the King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine dies