Events for April 09

April 9, 1346

Death of Ralph de Ufford, justiciar

April 9, 1747

Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat was beheaded for High Treason

Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat who in 1715 had origninally been a supporter of the House of Hanover, and then in 1745 changed sides and joined Prince Charles Edward, the young Jacobite pretender, a step treacherous in the extreme.

April 9, 1793

The Relief Act grants Catholics parliamentary franchise and certain civil and military rights

April 9, 1916

The merchant ship Aud leaves Germany for Ireland with arms for the Irish Republican Brotherhood