1816 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1816 in Ireland.
Events
- The Year Without a Summer – famine and typhoid kill 65,000 people by 1819.[1]
- January – Belfast Savings Bank opens for business.[2]
- 30 January – wrecking of the Sea Horse, Boadicea and Lord Melville (military transport ships) off Tramore in a gale with the loss of over 500 persons.[3]
- 17 March – Richmond Bridge, designed by James Savage, is opened over Dublin's River Liffey.[4]
- May – the Ha'penny Bridge is opened over Dublin's River Liffey.[5]
- 18 May – the National Institution for the Education of Deaf and Dumb Children of the Poor in Ireland is founded.[6]
- June – St. George's Church, Belfast, is opened, the oldest in the city built for the United Church of England and Ireland.[7]
- 29–30 October – Wildgoose Lodge Murders: eight people are burned to death by a gang in County Louth.[8]
- Templemore Town Hall is built in County Tipperary.[9]
Births
- 6 February – John Joseph Lynch, Bishop of Toronto (died 1888).
- 1 March – Charles Magill, member of the 1st Canadian Parliament and mayor of Hamilton (died 1898).
- 14 March – Anthony O'Grady Lefroy, government official in Western Australia (died 1897).
- 8 April – Frederick William Burton, painter (died 1900).
- 12 April – Charles Gavan Duffy, nationalist and Australian colonial politician (died 1903).
- 31 July – Trevor Chute, British Army officer (died 1886).
- 17 September – John Hawkins Hagarty, lawyer, teacher and judge in Canada (died 1900).
- 30 October – Richard Quain, physician (died 1898).
- Full date unknown
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- John Drummond, early settler and explorer in Western Australia, first Inspector of Native Police there (died 1906).
- John O'Mahony, a founding member of the Fenian Brotherhood (died 1877).
Deaths
- 24 April – James Orr, rhyming weaver poet (born 1770).
- 3 May – James McHenry, signer of the United States Constitution from Maryland, third United States Secretary of War (born 1753).
- 7 July – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright and statesman (born 1751).
- Full date unknown
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- Robert Fagan, painter, diplomat and archaeologist (b. c1761).
See also
References
- ^ Hugh, Fenning (1999). Typhus Epidemic in Ireland, 1817–1819: Priests, Ministers, Doctors. Collectanea Hibernica. pp. 117–152. ISBN 0-385-40818-8.
- ^ Pilson, James Adair (1846). History of the Rise and Progress of Belfast: And Annals of the County Antrim. Belfast: John Mullen.
- ^ Farrell, Daniel (30 January 2020). "Remembering the Sea Horse lost off Tramore | 30th January 1816". Coast Monkey. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
- ^ O'Donovan Rossa Bridge at Structurae
- ^ Carty, Ed (19 May 2016). "Dublin's Ha'penny Bridge celebrates 200th birthday". The Irish News. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
- ^ O'Day, Alan; Fleming, Neil (2005). Longman Handbook of Modern Irish History Since 1800. NY: USA: Routledge. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-582-08102-4.
- ^ "History". The Parish Church of St George, Belfast. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
- ^ Dooley, Terence (2007). The Murders at Wildgoose Lodge. Four Courts Press. ISBN 978-1-84682-085-4.
- ^ "Templemore Town Hall, Main Street, Main Street, KILTILLANE, Templemore, Tipperary North". Buildings of Ireland. Retrieved 6 July 2020.