Alfred Russel Wallace born in Usk, Monmouth-shire, Eng.

Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction

Penny Postage introduced

First satisfactory submarine telegraph line laid

American Civil War Commences

Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone

Pasteur's famous immunisation experiment to show inoculated animals can survive anthrax

Charles Stewart Parnell dies

1st controlled flight in a heavier-than-air machine by Orville and Wilbur Wright

Stockton to Darlington railway opened

Electric telegraph invented by Morse

The Liberator, Daniel O'Connell dies in Italy

Commodore Perry lands in Japan

Abraham Lincoln is assassinated

Lister introduces antiseptic surgery in Glasgow

Charles Stewart Parnell elected M.P. for County Meath

Parsons invents turbine

G.A.A. is founded in Thurles, Co. Tipperary

The Gaelic League is founded to revive the Irish language

Vitamins discovered by F.G. Hopkins

Dutch ship. Curacao, crosses Atlantic under steam.

Niepce takes 1st photograph

Babbage designs an analytical engine, the forerunner of modern computers

The Great Famine begins in Ireland as potato crops succumb to blight

Wallace sets sail for Indonesia

Fenian Rising in Ireland fails

Edison and Swan produce first successful incandescent electric light

Gladstone's Home Rule Bill for Ireland is defeated.

Daimler produces his first car

Rontgen discovers X-Rays.

The Lumiere Brothers introduce moving pictures

1st cross-Channel flight by Bleriot.

Ford begins mass-producing Model T.

Beethoven dies

Queen Victoria succeeds to the throne

"Black '47" - the worst year of the Famine

Livingstone completes his journey across Africa

Irish Church Disestablished

The Malay Archipelago published

The Curies discover radium

Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole

Catholic Emancipation

Great Eastern launched

Titanic sinks in North Atlantic

Darwin's The Origin of the Species

Alfred Russel Wallace dies