April 12

Learn about The History of the Celtic People

The Scottish National Party gained their first electoral victory -

Madeleine Smith, found not proven for murder in 1857, died peacefully in New York. -

Flyweight boxing champion Benny Lynch born. -

Patrick McGilligan, pro-Treaty nationalist and politician, is born in Coleraine, Co. Derry-Londonderry -

The American Civil War begins; 150,000 Irishmen will serve with the Union forces, and 40,000 with the Confederacy -

The American relief ship, Jamestown, lands supplies in Cork for famine victims -

Patrick Ford, journalist in the USA, fund-raiser for Irish causes, born in Galway -

An Act establishes free trade in manufactured articles between Britain and Ireland -

Sir Charles Gavan Duffy is born in Co. Monaghan -

Abandonment of Scotlands only New World Colony, Caledonia, at Darien, Isthmus of Panama -

The Ordinance of Union comes into effect, uniting Ireland and Scotland with England -

Union flag adopted as the flag of England, Wales and Scotland. -