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Events on Monday 22 August 1881 1
1881Second Irish Land Act passedGladstone government grants Irish tenants the "three Fs"The British Parliament passed the Land Law (Ireland) Act, granting Irish tenant farmers fair rent, fixity of tenure, and free sale of their interest in a holding. It was a major concession by William Gladstone's government amid escalating agrarian unrest known as the Land War. A Land Commission was established to arbitrate rents.