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People: Pope Pius II
Topic: Flight of the Earls
Location: Tyras Odes'ka Oblast Ukraine

Flight of the Earls

Years: 1607 - 1607

The Flight of the Earls takes place on September 4, 1607, when Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone and Rory O'Donnell, 1st earl of Tyrconnell, and about ninety followers leave Ulster in Ireland for mainland Europe.

"History never repeats itself, but the Kaleidoscopic combinations of the pictured present often seem to be constructed out of the broken fragments of antique legends."

― Mark Twain, The Gilded Age (1874)