January 3, 1881 — Anna McNeill Whistler dies
Known to history as “Whistler’s Mother”, after the painting she was the subject of, Anna Matilda (née McNeill) Whistler was...
July 24, 2020
The Past
October 28, 1880 — Ned Kelly is sentenced to death
Despite his long list of charges, Ned Kelly was convicted of only one capital crime: the murder of Constable Lonigan...
August 4, 2020
June 28, 1880 — Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan
By the time Ned Kelly was finally brought down by the police, not long after dawn on the 28th of...
August 9, 2020
August 16, 1879 — The Land League of Mayo is formed
Michael Davitt and Charles Parnell were the two leading lights of the Land League of Mayo. Formed in response to...
August 14, 2020
January 11, 1879 — The Anglo-Zulu wars begin
A series of border disputes between British settlers and the Zulu people escalated to the point where, in late 1878,...
August 19, 2020
December 19, 1877 — Michael Davitt is released from prison
Michael Davitt was a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), a revolutionary movement that espoused armed uprising as the...
August 24, 2020
September 5, 1877 — Crazy Horse dies
A great war leader of the Ogala Lakota people, Crazy Horse fought the US Cavalry for more than a decade,...
August 29, 2020
March 24, 1874 — Harry Houdini born
Born Ehrich Weisz in Budapest, Hungary, his family emigrated to America when he was four, and lived in Appleton, Wisconsin,...
September 6, 2020
October 10, 1871 — The Great Chicago Fire is extinguished
The Great Chicago Fire was not, despite early reports, started by Catherine O’Leary’s cow kicking over a lantern – the...
September 9, 2020
May 14, 1870 — Michael Davitt is arrested for treason
Michael Davitt was born in County Mayo, Ireland, in the year 1846, during the worst of the Great Famine (known...
September 14, 2020
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