October 04

October 04, 1929

Most of United Free Church merged with Church of Scotland.

October 04, 1886

Lennox Robinson, playwright and one-time Abbey Theatre manager, is born in Douglas, Co. Cork

October 04, 1883

Boys Brigade founded in Glasgow.

Birth of heavyweight bare-knuckle boxer Jim Dunne in Co. Kildare

October 04, 1821

Death of John Rennie, engineer who constructed the Crinan Canal.

October 04, 1780

African explorer Alexander Laing, born.

October 04, 1754

William Bligh, Cornish man, Mutiny on the Bounty fame was born.

October 04, 1741

Edmund Malone, editor and Shakespearian scholar, is born in Dublin

October 04, 1733

Henry Boyle, the future Earl of Shannon, is unanimously elected Speaker of the Irish parliament

October 04, 1693

Irish Brigade of France fights in the battle of Marsaglia