April

Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon married the Duke of York at Westminster Abbey

April 26 1923

The first Royal wedding to take place there since 1383.

Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, writer, suffragist, pacifist and patriot, is arrested while trying to stop Easter Rising looting, he is later executed by the British without a trial

April 26, 1916

Edward VII begins a visit to Ireland on this date

April 26, 1904

The trial of Oscar Wilde for homosexuality, then a crime, begins at the Old Bailey

April 26, 1895

Robert Williams Buchanan, a poet, novelist and dramatist, diet

April 26, 1881

Robert Williams Buchanan (August 18, 1841 - June 10, 1901) was a British poet, novelist and dramatist.

Robert Adamson, who collaborated with D O Hill to produce early portrait photography, born.

April 26, 1826

Benjamin Burton, fractures his skull in a fall from his horse while hunting but, having apparently recovered, goes out again with the hounds and dies from brain fever

April 26, 1808

Nano Nagle, Gods Beggar, founder of the Order of the Presentation Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary, dies

April 26, 1784

John Ponsonby is unanimously elected Speaker of the Irish parliament

April 26, 1756

John Allen (3rd Viscount Allen), former MP for Carysfort, kills a dragoon in a street brawl

April 26, 1745

Thomas St Lawrence, 13th Baron of Howth, receives £215 14s 1 1-2d for the expense he incurs in building a quay at Howth for landing coals for the lighthouse

April 26, 1718

Philosopher David Hume born.

April 26, 1711