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Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon married the Duke of York at Westminster Abbey

Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, writer, suffragist, pacifist and patriot, is arrested while trying to stop Easter Rising looting, he is later executed by the British without a trial

Edward VII begins a visit to Ireland on this date

The trial of Oscar Wilde for homosexuality, then a crime, begins at the Old Bailey

Robert Williams Buchanan, a poet, novelist and dramatist, diet

Robert Adamson, who collaborated with D O Hill to produce early portrait photography, born.

Benjamin Burton, fractures his skull in a fall from his horse while hunting but, having apparently recovered, goes out again with the hounds and dies from brain fever

Nano Nagle, Gods Beggar, founder of the Order of the Presentation Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary, dies