Death of st giles, patron saint of edinburgh (and elgin).

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Sole remaining gas street lamp in Glasgow was lit for the last time, bringing to an end the age of the leeries, the lamplighters which started in, 1718 with oil lamps.

September 01, 1971

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Isaac Butt founds the Home Government Association; Home Rule is now the objective of constitutional nationalists

September 01, 1870

calendar 1864

Roger Casement, British consular official and Irish nationalist, is born in Sandycove, Co. Dublin

September 01, 1864

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Birth of Irish Nationalist Party leader John Redmond in Ballytrent, Co. Wexford

September 01, 1856

calendar 1830

Dublin Zoo opens

September 01, 1830

calendar 1830

The Wild Colonial Boy is shot dead in a gun battle with police at Cambelltown, Sydney. Contrary to the popular song, The Wild Colonial Boy was John Donohue, transported from Ireland in 1824

September 01, 1830

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Birth of James OFlanagan, author, in Fermoy, Co. Cork

September 01, 1814

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Marguerite Gardiner, nee Power; Countess of Blessington; author, is born near Clonmel, Co. Tipperary

September 01, 1789

calendar 1737

Launch of the Belfast Newsletter, now the oldest surviving newspaper in Ireland or Britain, and one of the oldest in the world

September 01, 1737

calendar 1729

Death of dramatist, essayist and publisher Sir Richard Steele, the Dubliner who founded The Tatler and The Spectator

September 01, 1729

calendar 1719

Marriage ceremony of Prince James Francis Edward Stewart (the Old Pretender) and Princess Maria Clementina Sobieska. The Polish Princess had been kidnapped on her way to the original wedding, escaped and had married James by proxy earlier in, 1719.

September 01, 1719

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Battle of Tippermuir, in which Marquis of Montrose defeated Covenanters .

September 01, 1644

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Handsel Monday, traditionally the day on which gifts were exchanged in Scotland

January 4th

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The Princess Royal formally opened the Loch Lomond

July 24, 2002

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Jack McConnell elected First Minister of Scotland, succeeding Henry McLeish who had resigned

November 22, 2001

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Henry McLeish resigned as Scotlands First Minister

November 08, 2001

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Hunt the Gowk, Scottish equivalent of April Fools Day (gowk is a cuckoo)

April 1st

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Naomi Mitchison, prolific Scottish writer, died

January 11, 1999

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Election for the new Scottish Parliament

May 06, 1999

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Scottish Parliament on The Mound, Edinburgh

July 01, 1999

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