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Porteous Riots in Edinburgh take place after the hanging of a smuggler by the City Guard

April 14, 1736

The Porteous Riots surrounded the activities of Captain John Porteous, Captain of the City Guard of Edinburgh (ca.

Sir Thomas Molyneux, scientist, archaeologist, physician and MP, is born

April 14, 1661

University of Edinburgh founded.

April 14, 1582

Rikki Fulton, Actor and comedian, born in Glasgow

April 15, 1924

Robert Kerr “Rikki” Fulton, OBE (15 April 1924 – 27 January 2004) was a Scottish comedian and actor best remembered for writing and performing in the long-running BBC Scotland sketch show, …

Dennis Devlin, poet, translator and diplomat, born in Greenock, Scotland

April 15, 1908

Denis Devlin (15 April 1908 – 21 August 1959) was, along with Samuel Beckett, Thomas MacGreevy and Brian Coffey, one of the generation of Irish modernist poets to emerge at the end of the 1920s.

The Repeal Association is founded by Daniel O'Connell

April 15, 1840

The Repeal Association was an Irish mass membership political movement set up by Daniel O’Connell in 1830 to campaign for a repeal of the Acts of Union of 1800 between Great Britain and Ireland.

Prof Joseph Black chemist, researcher, teacher, first to identify carbon dioxide, died.

April 15, 1799

Joseph Black (16 April 1728 – 6 December 1799) was a Scottish physicist and chemist, known for his discoveries of magnesium, latent heat, specific heat, and carbon dioxide.

First unmanned balloon in Ireland is launched by Richard Crosbie

April 15, 1784

Richard Crosbie (1755–1824) was the first Irishman to make a manned flight.

Physicist William Cullen born.

April 15, 1710

Sir Henry Cavendish, MP and incompetent Teller of the Exchequer, born

April 15, 1707

Ormond defeats insurgents at Kilrush, Co. Kildare

April 15, 1642

A Scottish army under Robert Munroe lands at Carrickfergus