1681 in Ireland
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  • June - Oliver Plunkett
    Oliver Plunkett
    Saint Oliver Plunkett was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland....

     found guilty of high treason.
  • 1 July - Oliver Plunkett
    Oliver Plunkett
    Saint Oliver Plunkett was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland....

    , hanged, drawn and quartered
    Hanged, drawn and quartered
    To be hanged, drawn and quartered was from 1351 a penalty in England for men convicted of high treason, although the ritual was first recorded during the reigns of King Henry III and his successor, Edward I...

     at Tyburn
    Tyburn, London
    Tyburn was a village in the county of Middlesex close to the current location of Marble Arch in present-day London. It took its name from the Tyburn or Teo Bourne 'boundary stream', a tributary of the River Thames which is now completely covered over between its source and its outfall into the...

    .

Deaths

  • 1 July - Oliver Plunkett
    Oliver Plunkett
    Saint Oliver Plunkett was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland....

    , Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, last Catholic martyr
    Martyr
    A martyr is somebody who suffers persecution and death for refusing to renounce, or accept, a belief or cause, usually religious.-Meaning:...

     to die in England, canonised (b.1629
    1629 in Ireland
    -Births:*1 November - Oliver Plunkett, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, last Catholic martyr to die in England, canonised .*Roderick O'Flaherty, historian...

    ).
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