June

Act for Convicting, Discovering and Repressing of Popish Recusants is passed

June 26, 1657

Scottish East India Company organized.

June 26, 1695

Scottish East India Company organized to break English monopoly on East Asian trade.

Darien Company formed to set up a Scottish colony in Panama.

June 26, 1695

The Relief Act gives Catholics rights concerning their education

June 26, 1782

Southern column is surprised by Government forces on Kilcumney Hill. They are defeated and decide to disperse. Many men return home but some decide to try and rejoin northern column at Croghan. Northern column remains in camp at Croghan.

June 26, 1798

Physicist and mathematician, Sir William Thomson, first Baron Kelvin of Largs, is born in College Square East, Belfast

June 26, 1824

King George IV died, aged, 67 (and William IV ascended the throne). George IV is reckoned to be Britains fattest king. His favourite breakfast was two roast pigeons, three beefsteaks, a bottle of white wine, a glass of champagne, two of port and one bran

June 26, 1830

England repeals the Corn Laws. The Corn Law Act had been passed in 1815 as a measure to protect the interests of landowners who looked as if they were about to lose out when highly inflated prices for corn ceased with the ending of the Napoleonic Wars. Th

June 26, 1846

Wedding of Charles Stewart Parnell to Kitty O’Shea

June 26, 1891

Sir Richard Edgecombe is sent to Ireland with power to grant pardons; he lands at Kinsale on this date

June 27, 1488

James VI (aged, 8) escaped from Castle Ruthven.

June 27, 1583

The Relief Act gives Catholics rights concerning their education

June 27, 1782