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Patrick Edward Connor, Union General, is born in Co. Kerry
Patrick Edward Connor, Union General, is born in Co. Kerry Patrick Edward Connor (March 17, 1820 – December 17, 1891) was an Irish American soldier who served as a Union general during the American Civil War. He is most notorious for his massacres against Native Americans during the Indian Wars in the American Old West. …

Charles James Patrick Mahon, is born in Ennis, Co. Clare
Charles James Patrick Mahon, is born in Ennis, Co. Clare Charles James Patrick Mahon (17 March 1800 – 15 June 1891), known as the O’Gorman Mahon or James Patrick Mahon, was an Irish nationalist journalist, barrister, parliamentarian and international mercenary. …

Sir Thomas Maclear, astronomer, is born in Newtownstewart, Co. Tyrone
Sir Thomas Maclear, astronomer, is born in Newtownstewart, Co. Tyrone Sir Thomas Maclear (17 March 1794 – 14 July 1879) was an Irish-born South African astronomer who became Her Majesty’s astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope. …

Patrick Brontë, clergyman, is born in Ballynaskeagh, Co. Down
Patrick Brontë, clergyman, is born in Ballynaskeagh, Co. Down Patrick Brontë (born Patrick Brunty; 17 March 1777 – 7 June 1861) was an Irish Anglican minister and author who spent most of his adult life in England. …

King James IV, King of Scots, born.
King James IV, King of Scots, born. James IV (17 March 1473 – 9 September 1513) was King of Scotland from 11 June 1488 until his death at the Battle of Flodden in 1513. He inherited the throne at the age of fifteen on the death of his father, James III, at the Battle of Sauchieburn, following a rebellion in which the younger James was the figurehead of the rebels. …

Treaty of Edinburgh between King Robert I and Edward III
Treaty of Edinburgh between King Robert I and Edward III The Treaty of Edinburgh–Northampton was a peace treaty signed in 1328 between the Kingdoms of England and Scotland. …