Georgian & Victorian · event 6 of 13

1798

The United Irishmen rebel. A rising inspired by the American and French revolutions, aiming at a non-sectarian republic, is put down with severity. Its failure produces the Act of Union.

The Georgian & Victorian era

  1. 1707
  2. 1745
  3. 1759
  4. 1782
  5. 1791
  6. 1798
  7. 1 January 1801
  8. 1803
  9. 1845
  10. 1854
  11. 1904
  12. 16 June 1904
  13. 1913

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