Groat of Robert II - Scottish National Portrait Gallery

King Robert II (1316-1390), Stuart of Scotland crowned. He was called ROBERT THE STEWARD, OR (1357-71) ROBERT STEWART, EARL OF STRATHEARN king of Scots from 1371, first of the Stewart (Stuart) sovereigns in Scotland. The Stewarts were just one of many

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• January 22, 1570
  James Stewart, the Regent Moray on the abdication of Mary Queen of Scots, murdered in Linlithgow, triggering civil war.
• January 22, 1689
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• January 22, 1761
  Birth of Henry Welbore Agar (Ellis), 2nd Viscount Clifden, perhaps the only person to sit consecutively in four different Houses of Parliament - the two in Ireland and the two in England
• January 22, 1761
  Birth of Henry Welbore Agar (Ellis), 2nd Viscount Clifden, perhaps the only person to sit consecutively in four different Houses of Parliament the two in Ireland and the two in England
• January 22, 1788
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• January 22, 1856
  Alfred Godley, classical scholar and writer, is born in Ashfield, Co. Cavan
• January 22, 1901
  Queen Victoria dies; Edward VII accedes to the throne
• January 22, 1901
  Queen Victoria dies; Edward VII accedes to the throne
• January 22, 1913
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• January 22, 1925
  Raymond Crotty, radical economist, is born in Co. Kilkenny