April 02, 1902
Cathleen ni Houlihan is a one-act play written by William Butler Yeats and Lady Gregory in 1902.
April 02, 1593
Marischal College is a large granite building on Broad Street in the centre of Aberdeen in north-east Scotland, and since 2011 has acted as the headquarters of Aberdeen City Council.
April 03, 1900
Victoria visited mainland Europe regularly for holidays. In 1889, during a stay in Biarritz, she became the first reigning monarch from Britain to set foot in Spain when she crossed the border for a …
April 03, 1846
Michael J. Moran (c. 1794 – 3 April 1846), popularly known as Zozimus /ˈzɒzɪməs/, was an Irish street rhymer.
April 03, 1807
Sir Maurice FitzGerald, 18th Knight of Kerry (29 December 1774 – 7 March 1849) was an hereditary knight and an Irish Whig politician.
April 03, 1798
John Banim (3 April 1798 – 30 August 1842), was an Irish novelist, short story writer, dramatist, poet and essayist, sometimes called the “Scott of Ireland.
April 03, 1793
Dionysius Lardner FRS FRSE (3 April 1793 – 29 April 1859) was an Irish scientific writer who popularised science and technology, and edited the 133-volume Cabinet Cyclopædia.
April 03, 1603
The Clan Gregor is a Highland Scottish clan. Of all the clans of Rannoch, the MacGregors were the fiercest and the most feared.
April 04, 1818
Thomas Mayne Reid (4 April 1818 – 22 October 1883) was an British novelist who fought in the Mexican–American War (1846–1848).
April 04, 1774
Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was a well-known Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, dramatist and poet, noted for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The …
April 04, 1689
The 1689 Convention of Estates sat between 16 March 1689 and 5 June 1689 to determine the settlement of the Scottish throne, following the deposition of James VII in the 1688 Glorious Revolution.
April 04, 1617
john Napier of Merchiston (1 February 1550 – 4 April 1617), nicknamed Marvellous Merchiston, was a Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer.
