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July 26, 1575

Rathlin Island massacre

August 18, 1579

Death of James Fitzgerald, rebel leader

July 18, 1579

James fitz Maurice FitzGerald lands forces in Dingle

September 28, 1581

George Buchan, humanist, poet, historian and tutor of King James VI, died.

June 2, 1581

James Douglas, Scottish inventor of the guillotine (the Maiden), guillotined.

January 4, 1581

James Ussher, scholar and Archbishop of Armagh and Dublin is born

October 15, 1582

Pope Gregory reforms the calendar introduced by Julius Caesar in 45BCE

August 22, 1582

James VI abducted and taken to the Castle of Ruthven by the Earls of Mar and Gowrie the so-called Ruthven Raid.

July 3, 1582

James Crichton of Eliock, Died

February 24, 1582

Pope Gregory XIII announces the new Gregorian calendar, replacing the Julian calendar

June 27, 1583

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

December 14, 1585

Nicholas Walsh, Bishop of Ossory,is murdered by James Dullard

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