September 29, 1678Count Peter Lacy, soldier, governor of Livonia (Latvia) and field-marshal in the Russian army, is born in Killeedy, Co. Limerick
September 23, 1678The Earl of Mar was commissioned to raise a regiment nicknamed Earl of Mars Gray Breeks which later became the Royal Scots Fusiliers.
December 6, 1679St. Oliver Plunkett, Archbishop of Armagh, is accused of instigating the Irish Popish Plot and arrested
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