Events for July 31
July 31, 1689
Enniskillen Protestants defeat Jacobite forces
The Jacobite war broke out in 1689, when the Catholic King James II of England, was removed from the throne, by a revolution that brought his son in law, the Protestant William of Orange to power. James fled to France and with the backing of King Louis, arrived in Ireland on 12th of March with a French army. Ireland with the exception of a large part of Ulster had remained loyal to James, and he hoped to use it as base from which to recover the English throne.
Read MoreJuly 31, 1737
Robert Adair, dies
Robert Adair, MP for Philipstown, dies on this date, having had one of his legs cut off above the knee for a mortification and died soon after
Read MoreJuly 31, 1786
Poems of Robert Burns, published
Kilmarnock Edition of the poems of Robert Burns Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect first published.
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