This Day In History..., Celtic events around the world

OOPS!!!
That would be 1306


March 25, 1306 - Robert the Bruce was crowned King of Scotland at Scone on this day in 1306. After the controversial death of one of his main rivals - who was murdered on a church altar - Bruce was made king but still had to contend with the power of English monarch Edward I ("Hammer of the Scots"). Bruce eventually defeated Edward's son at the battle of Bannockburn.

Scots Wha Hae

April 7, 1868 - Father of Canadian confederation, Thomas D'Arcy McGee became Canada's first and only politician to be assassinated. McGee was born in Carlingford, Ireland in 1825. He first arrived in North America where he settled in the U.S. While there, he founded and edited the Irish-American publications, the New York Nation and the American Celt. In 1857, he emigrated to Canada and began his political career in 1858.

The alleged assassin, Patrick Whelan was the last to be publicly hanged in Canada.

April 8, 1820 - Death of Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk (Lord Selkirk).

Selkirk became interested in the plight of the Scottish crofters and in 1803 established a colony in Prince Edward Island, and a second colony at Baldoon, near Lake St. Clair in Upper Canada. Selkirk became interested in creating a colony in the Red River Valley. He acquired a controlling interest in the Hudson's Bay Company and in 1811, received a grant of 116,000 square miles in that region for the purpose of colonization. Here, he created the Red River Colony, also known as the Selkirk Settlement.

April 10, 1512 King James V of Scotland was born on this day at Linlithgow Palace. He became king at the age of seventeen months after his father, James IV, was killed at the battle of Flodden.

May 1, 1707 - The union of Scotland and England under the name of Great Britain came into effect

Forgot April 30th, 2013. The day Marty McFly came from the past year of 1985 to help his kids. No working hoverboards yet though. Must have been a comic con prototype.

Have to add that to my list of important dates!!!

May 6, 1820 - British Government ruled that the Church of Scotland was to be entitled to the support of the Government of Upper Canada.

May 7, 1907 - The British steamship, the ‘Lusitania’ was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland, killing 1198 of the 1924 passengers

May 8, 1916 - Eamonn Ceannt, Michael Mallin, Con Colbert and Sean Heuston were executed for their parts in the “Easter Rising”

May 9, 1916 - Thomas Kent was executed by firing squad for his parts in the “Easter Rising"

March 24, 1832 - A small steamer became the first vessel to traverse the full length of the Rideau Canal, marking the official opening of the canal.

Read the history of the Rideau Canal here.

May 27, 1936 - The ocean liner RMS Queen Mary made her maiden voyage on 27 May 1936. She was built by the John Brown & Company Ltd shipyard in Clydebank and is now permanently berthed at Long Beach, California.

May 29, 1914 - The ship ‘Empress of Ireland’ was rammed in fog by a Norwegian ship near Rimouski, Quebec on the St. Lawrence River. 1,012 passengers died.

June 5, 1919 - Canadian Parliament passed an Act allowing for the deportation of British subjects not born in Canada. This was aimed at the leaders of the Winnipeg General strike which began on May 1, 1919