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Group: Prussians, Old, or Baltic (Western Balts)
People: Christian V
Topic: Flight of the Earls
Location: Storegga Slide Norway

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.

"Remember that the people you are following didn’t know the end of their own story. So they were going forward day by day, pushed and jostled by circumstances, doing the best they could, but walking in the dark, essentially."

—Hilary Mantel, AP interview (2009)