October 22

October 22, 1906

Charles Lynch, pianist, is born in Parkgariff, Co. Cork

October 22, 1895

Daniel Owen considered the greatest Welsh language novelist died.

October 22, 1877

A firedamp explosion at Blantyre Colliery killed, 207 miners.

October 22, 1861

Foundation stones of main Post Office and National Museum of Scotland laid by Prince Albert

October 22, 1761

John Ponsonby is unanimously re-elected Speaker of the Irish parliament

October 22, 1740

Birth in Dublin of Sir Philip Francis, civil servant, duellist, and gambler; he may have been the author of the Junius Letters

October 22, 1641

Rory O'More, Lord Maguire and Sir Pheilim O'Neill initiate a major revolt in Armagh