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Home Rule

Great Britain · Government / Liberal Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

13Records
1870–1914Date range
5Named people
2Places

Chronological records

1870

Isaac Butt1870

Limerick · Government / Liberal Party Government

Founds the Home Rule Association, to repeal the Act of Union with Ireland

1886

William Ewart Gladstone8 April 1886

London · Government / Liberal Party Government

Home Rule Bill, first, Introduced to the House of Commons

William Ewart Gladstone18 June 1886

London · Government / Liberal Party Government

The Home Rule Bill, defeated in the Commons by 30 votes

Victoria1886

London · Government / Liberal Party Government

Opposes Gladstones Home Rule Bill which would give Ireland its own Parliament

1893

William Ewart Gladstone2 September 1893

London · Government / Liberal Party Government

Irish Home Rule Bill, approved by the House of Commons

William Ewart Gladstone9 September 1893

London · Government / Liberal Party Government

Irish Home Rule Bill, rejected by the House of Lords

Victoria1893

London · Government / Liberal Party Government

Gladstones Home Rule Bill is defeated in the Lords

1911

Henry Herbert Asquith Oxford, 1st1911

Government / Liberal Party Government

Sets up a Home Rule Comm of Lloyd George, Birrell, Churchill, Grey, Haldane & Samuel. Sets up a Committee on Home Rule for Ireland under the chairmanship of Lord Loreburn

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill1911

London · Government / Liberal Party Government

Appointed Member of Irish Home Rule Committee

1912

Henry Herbert Asquith Oxford, 1st11 April 1912

London · Government / Liberal Party Government

Home Rule Bill, The Irish Home Rule Bill is introduced in the House of Commons

1913

Henry Herbert Asquith Oxford, 1st7 July 1913

London · Government / Liberal Party Government

The House of Commons passes the Irish Home Rule Bill, rejected by the Lords

1914

Henry Herbert Asquith Oxford, 1st25 May 1914

London · Government / Liberal Party Government

The House of Commons passes the Irish Home Rule Bill

Henry Herbert Asquith Oxford, 1st21 July 1914

London · Government / Liberal Party Government

1st day of the Irish Home Rule Conference in Buckingham Palace

Names involved

Henry Herbert Asquith Oxford, 1stIsaac ButtVictoriaWilliam Ewart GladstoneWinston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Provenance

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