Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell is arrested by the British on charges of criminal conspiracy.

Daniel O'Connell

Irish political leader (1775–1847)

Daniel(I) O’Connell, hailed in his time as The Liberator, was the acknowledged political leader of Ireland's Roman Catholic majority in the first half of the 19th century. His mobilisation of Catholic Ireland, down to the poorest class of tenant farmers, secured the final…