Events for August 19

August 19, 1887

Birth of poet Francis Ledwidge in Slane, Co. Meath

August 19, 1876

The ship Catalpa arrives in U.S. with Irish Fenian prisoners rescued from Australia

August 19, 1745

Jacobite - standard raised at Glenfinna - marking the start of the 45 Rising.

Each Jacobite Rising formed part of a series of military campaigns by Jacobites attempting to restore the Stuart kings to the thrones of England and Scotland (and after 1707, Great Britain) after James VII of Scotland and II of England was deposed in 1688 and the thrones usurped by his daughter Mary II jointly with her husband William of Orange.

August 19, 1561

Mary Queen of Scots lands at Leith on her return from France, after the death of her husband, King Francis II