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Wars involving Ireland
- English Civil WarIn 1642, King Charles I entered the House of Commons with four hundred soldiers to arrest five members on a charge of treason.
- French Revolutionary WarsIn the spring of 1792, France declared war on Austria and Prussia. This decision followed a series of diplomatic tensions that had been building since the…
- Congo CrisisKing Leopold II of Belgium created the Congo Free State in 1885, establishing a personal colony that later became the Belgian Congo.
- The TroublesIn 1609, Scottish and English settlers known as planters received land taken from native Irish people during the Plantation of Ulster.
- World War IOn the 28th of June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria visited Sarajevo. Gavrilo Princip stood in the street where his car turned.