October

Dr Henry Faulds, a Scots medical missionary working in Japan, published a letter in Nature which gave the first evidence that fingerprints could be used as proof of guilt or innocence in legal cases.

October 28, 1880

John Harold Hewitt, poet who wrote the Glens of Antrim, is born

October 28, 1907

Birth in Dublin of Sir Francis Bacon, painter

October 28, 1909

Journalist and novelist Cliff Hanley (Dancing in the Streets etc) born in Glasgow.

October 28, 1922

House of Commons passed the Bill abolishing the death penalty for murder.

October 28, 1965

Treaty of Inverness with Norway

October 29, 1312

(First War of Independence) Treaty of Inverness, Robert I gave an undertaking to Haakon V of Norway to observe the terms of Treaty of Perth (1266).

James Boswell, biographer of Dr Johnston, born at Blairs Land, Parliament Square, Edinburgh.

October 29, 1740

Michael William Balfes opera Siege of Rochelle is first performed at the Drury Lane Theatre in London

October 29, 1835

Confederate Civil War Gen. Joseph Finegan, from Co. Monaghan, dies in Rutledge, Florida

October 29, 1885

Death of Clonakilty artist, William Hartnett

October 29, 1892

Birth of Neil Blaney, politician, in Rosnakill, Co. Donegal

October 29, 1922

Birth in Dublin of dramatist and orator, Richard Brinsley Sheridan

October 30, 1751