Historical place archive

County Sligo in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at County Sligo in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

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Historical events in County Sligo

1802

17 April 1802
Peerage
Henry John Temple · Tory Party

Created Viscount Palmerston. The young 3rd Lord Palmerston also inherited a vast country estate in the north of County Sligo in the west of Ireland

Provenance

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These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match Great Britain and County Sligo. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.

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