November

Poet and song writer Robert Allan was born in Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire.

November 04, 1774

Birth of novelist Lady Rosina Lytton, née Wheeler, in Co. Limerick

November 04, 1802

Birth in Hillsborough, Co. Down of Harry Ferguson, engineer, inventor, and pioneer of the modern tractor

November 04, 1884

Six women meet at the home of womens activists Hanna and Francis Sheehy-Skeffington to establish the Irish Womens Franchise League

November 04, 1908

Birth in Waterford of comedian, Hal Roach

November 04, 1927

William of Orange arrives in England with 15,000 men

November 05, 1688

Chartist march on Newport Wales ends as militia fires on Chartists killing nine

November 05, 1839

The Peoples Charter, drafted in 1838 by William Lovett, was at the heart of a radical campaign for parliamentary reform of the inequities remaining after the Reform Act of 1832.

Opening of the original Mitchell Library, Glasgow, now the largest public reference library in Europe.

November 05, 1877

Death of Edinburgh-born mathematician and physicist James Clerk Maxwell.

November 05, 1879

Bagpiper John Wilson dies, Willowdale, Ontario

November 06, 1979

bagpiper memorial

John Wilson, Scottish born who emigrated to Toronto, Canada in the late 1940s at the prompting of George R.

Invading English army destroyed by Llywelen II at Battle of Moel-y-don

November 06, 1282

Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (c. 1223 – 11 December 1282), sometimes written as Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, also known as Llywelyn the Last was the native Prince of Wales from 1258 until his death at Cilmeri on …

Founding of the Irish College in Rome.

November 06, 1628

Among its former students was St Oliver Plunkett, who attended in the late 17th century