1805 in Ireland

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Contents 1 Events 2 Births 2.1 Full date unknown 3 Deaths

[edit] Events

[edit] Births

• 2 January - John Hogan, businessman and United States Representative from Missouri (d.1892).
• 4 August - William Rowan Hamilton, mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (d.1865).

[edit] Full date unknown

• James Bronterre O'Brien, Chartist leader, reformer and journalist (d.1864).
• Jon Riley, deserter from United States Army, a founder of the San Patricios (d.1850).
• Anthony Coningham Sterling, British Army officer and historian (d.1871).
• William Thompson, naturalist (d.1852).

[edit] Deaths

• 7 May - William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, British Whig statesman, Home Secretary in 1782 and Prime Minister 1782-1783 (b.1737).
• 18 June - Arthur Murphy, editor and writer (b.1727).
• 27 July - Brian Merriman, Irish language poet and teacher (b. c1749).
• August - John Talbot Dillon, traveller and historical writer (b. c1740).
• 8 December - Rose ffrench, 1st Baroness ffrench.