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The future Queen Elizabeth II born

The Aud arrives at Banna Strand, Co. Kerry, from Germany with 20,000 rifles for use of the Volunteers in the Easter Uprising

The nationalist groups, Cumman na nGaedheal and Dungannon Clubs, combine to form the Sinn Féin (Ourselves) League

Birth of novelist Maurice Walsh in Listowel

Walter Wilson, mechanical engineer, designer of cars and tanks, is born in Blackrock, Co. Dublin

John Fitzpatrick, Labor leader and Irish nationalist is born in Athlone, Co. Westmeath

John Muir, pioneering conservationist and founder of Yosemite National Park, born in Dunbar.

Charlotte Bronte, author of Jane Eyre, is born