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October 14
Section: October 14
October 14, 1969
The, 50 pence decimal coin was first issued, replacing the ten shilling note.
October 14, 1939
German submarine sank HMS Royal Oak in Scapa Flow, Orkney, with the loss of, 810 lives.
October 14, 1932
Strikes, marches and protests are held in Belfast against low unemployment payments, temporarily uniting Catholic and Protestant unemployed
October 14, 1920
Tipperary IRA man, Sean Treacy, is killed in a gun battle in Talbot Street, Dublin
October 14, 1882
Eamon de Valera, Fianna Fáil leader, Taoiseach and president of Ireland, is born in Brooklyn, NY
October 14, 1881
Eyemouth Fishing Disaster, nearly, 20 boats and, 129 men (1 in, 3 of the towns male population) lost their lives in a storm.
October 14, 1880
Nationalist and Gaelic League activist, Mary Ellen Spring-Rice is born
October 14, 1842
First issue of The Nation published
October 14, 1814
Birth of author and patriot, Thomas Osborne Davis in Mallow, Co. Cork
October 14, 1791
Wolfe Tone visits Belfast for the first time
October 14, 1788
First steamboat tested on Dalswinton Loch by Patrick Miller and William Symington.
October 14, 1783
Edmond Sexton Pery is unanimously re-elected as Speaker of the Irish parliament
October 14, 1767
George Townshend, 4th Viscount Townshend, becomes Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
October 14, 1763
Birth of United Irish leader, Lord Edward Fitzgerald at Carton House in Co. Kildare
October 14, 1702
Irish Brigade of France fights in the battle of Friedlingen
October 14, 1693
The Earl of Tyrone dies
October 14, 1690
After taking Cork on 28 September, Marlbourough takes Kinsale for the Williamites, who now control Munster
October 14, 1633
Birth at St James Palace, London of King James VII, second son of King Charles I and brother of King Charles II.
October 14, 1322
Victory of Robert the Bruce of Scotland in Yorkshire.
October 14, 1318
Edward Bruce, brother of Robert the Bruce, killed in a battle near Dundalk, Ireland.
October 14, 1285
Second marriage of King Alexander III (to Yolanda de Dreux).