Aprils 
415.17
 

A Companion Calendar
to
Finnegans Wake
(a continuing project)
 
 
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1435
Ordinance prohibiting Irish poets and musicians from Anglo-Irish areas.
   
1919
De Valera elected President of Dail Fircann (Parliament).
 
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1921

Albert Einstein arrived in NYC from Europe.
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1919
Troops withdrawn from Transcaucasus.
 
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1720
 
Act declaring right of British Parliament to legislate for Ireland.
   
1929
(or 1928) Television demonstrated in NYC. President of AT&T speaks with Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover in Washington.
 
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1861
American Civil War begins.
 
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1922
Men of the Dublin Brigade occupy the Four Courts.
 
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1922
 
Albert B. Fall called on to explain why "Teapot Dome" oil lands were leased to Mammoth Oil Co.
 
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1907         
Sinn Fein League inaugurated.
 
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1926
 
Queen Elizabeth II born.
 
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1922     
 
Fatty Arbuckle acquitted in the third trial for the ravaging and killing of Birginia Rappee with a bottle.
 
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1014
Battle of Clontarf (Good Friday).
 
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1599
Birth of Oliver Cromwell (d. September 3, 1658).
   
1915
Treaty of London (Italy).
 
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1865           
 
Final capitulation of American Confederate Army.
 
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1320           
 
Approval for foundation of University at Dublin.
   
1894
Irish Agricultural Organization formed by Horace Plunkett.
 
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