October

A Spanish army under Don Juan del Aguila, which had landed at Kinsale on 21 September, is besieged by Lord Mountjoy on this date

October 26, 1601

George III crowned, beginning a 60 year reign, one of the longest in British history.

October 26, 1760

King of the United Kingdom George III (George William Frederick) (4 June 1738–29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain, and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until 1 January 1801, and thereafter …

John (Juan) MacKenna, who would rise to fame in South America, was born in Clogher, Co. Tyrone

October 26, 1771

Founding of the United Irishmen movement

October 26, 1791

Birth of painter Nathaniel Hone in Dublin

October 26, 1831

James Lawlor Kiernan, Union general in Americas Civil War, was born in Mount Bellew, County Galway

October 26, 1837

Lady Caroline Nairne, songwriter and poet, died at Gask.

October 26, 1845

Poet Sorley MacLean born on the island of Raasay.

October 26, 1911

Margaret The Unsinkable Molly Brown, daughter of Irish immigrants, dies in New York

October 26, 1932

Surrender of Limerick

October 27, 1651

A proclamation declares the banishment of Catholic bishops and priest and the closure of religious houses and schools under Charles IIs reign

October 27, 1673

James Cook, circum-navigator of the globe, born to Scottish parents in Yorkshire.

October 27, 1728