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Today in History: April 24, the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin

Also on this date, the Ottoman Empire began rounding up Armenian political and cultural leaders in Constantinople in what is considered the start of the Armenian genocide.

A black and white image of men walking between a block wall and several buildings
Irish prisoners march along a Dublin quay under a British guard during the bloody Irish Insurrection that began on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, in Dublin, Ireland. Thousands were killed and injured in the revolt. Ten days later Patrick Pearse, Commandant General of 1,500 Irishmen who threw down an armed challenge, was dead and 14 of his comrades took their turn before the British firing squads. Many more thousands were made prisoners in the Easter Rising. (AP Photo)
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Irish republicans launched the Easter Rising, a rebellion against British rule in Ireland.

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