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Charles Davis Lucas from Drumagole, Co Armagh, age 20 and a mate in the Royal Navy, hurls a Russian shell (its fuse still burning) from the deck of his ship during the Crimean War. For this action, he will become the first recipient of the Victoria Cross

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Charles Edward Stuart and Flora MacDonald escape over the sea to Skye

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Charles II sailed into the estuary of the river Spey and signed the Covenant before going ashore.

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Charles Joly, astronomer, is born in Tullamore, Co. Offaly