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Frank Duff founds the Association of Our Lady of Mercy, later to be known as the Legion of Mary

• September 7, 1921

John L. Sullivan loses his world heavyweight boxing title to another Irish American, James Corbett

• September 7, 1892

Queen Victorias first visit to Edinburgh.

• September 7, 1842

Kevin Izod ODoherty, transportee, physician and politician, is born in Dublin

• September 7, 1823

Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquis of Downshire, former MP for Co. Down and one of the wealthiest landowners in Ireland, commits suicide

• September 7, 1801

Humbert crosses Shannon at Ballintra and camps at Cloone. Cornwallis crosses Shannon. Rebels at Wilsons Hospital are routed; this ends the rebellion in the midlands

• September 7, 1798

A mob broke into the Tolbooth jail and removed Captain Porteous, reprieved for the killing of Edinburgh citizens during a riot on April, 14. He was then hanged from a dyers pole.

• September 7, 1736

Penal Laws are passed which restrict the rights of Catholics to have an education, to bear arms, or to possess a horse worth more than five pounds

• September 7, 1695

Perkin Warbeck, pretender to English Throne, lands at Sennen, Cornwall and raises a Cornish Army.

• September 7, 1497

Perkin Warbeck (c. 1474 - November 23, 1499) was a pretender to the English throne during the reign of King Henry VII of England. He was an impostor, a Fleming born in Tournai in about 1474. He pretended to be Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, the younger son of King Edward IV of England. The real Richard was almost certainly dead by this time, murdered in the Tower of London. Warbeck was first heard of in the court of Burgundy in 1490, pretending to the English throne.