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John Browns Clydebank shipyard
John Browns Clydebank shipyard John Brown and Company of Clydebank was a Scottish marine engineering and shipbuilding firm. It built many notable and world-famous ships including RMS Lusitania, RMS Aquitania, HMS Hood, HMS Repulse, RMS Queen Mary, RMS Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Elizabeth 2. …

James Carey, member of the Invincibles, turns Queens evidence
James Carey, member of the Invincibles, turns Queens evidence The Irish National Invincibles, usually known as the Invincibles, were a splinter group of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. …

Young Ireland rising, Battle of the Widow MacCormacks cabbage garden
Young Ireland rising, Battle of the Widow MacCormacks cabbage garden Young Ireland was a political and cultural movement in the 1840s committed to an all-Ireland struggle for independence and democratic reform. …

Patrick Sarsfield is mortally wounded at the Battle of Landen
Patrick Sarsfield is mortally wounded at the Battle of Landen 1st Earl of Lucan Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan, Irish: Pádraig Sáirseál, circa 1655 to 21 August 1693, was an Irish soldier, and leading figure in the Jacobite army during the 1689 to 1691 Williamite War in Ireland. …

King James VI crowned at the Church of the Holy Rude
King James VI crowned at the Church of the Holy Rude James VI of Scots-James I of England and Ireland (Charles James Stuart) (June 19, 1566 ? March 27, 1625) was King of England, King of Scots, and King of Ireland and was the first to style himself King of Great Britain. He ruled in Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567. Then from the Union of the Crowns, in England and Ireland as James I, from 24 March 1603 until his death. He was the first monarch of England from the House of Stuart, succeeding the last Tudor monarch, Elizabeth I, who died without issue. …

Mary, Queen of Scots, married Lord Darnley
Mary, Queen of Scots, married Lord Darnley Mary, Queen of Scots (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587), also known as Mary Stuart or Mary I of Scotland, was Queen of Scotland from 14 December 1542 until her forced abdication in 1567. …

Breton army of Fransex II is defeated at Battle of Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier
Breton army of Fransex II is defeated at Battle of Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier The Battle of Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier took place on 28 July 1488, between the forces of King Charles VIII of France, and those of Francis II, Duke of Brittany, and his allies. The defeat of the latter signalled the end to the “guerre folle” (‘Mad war’), a feudal conflict in which French aristocrats revolted against royal power during the regency of Anne de Beaujeu. It also effectively precipitated the end of the independence of Brittany from France …