1802 in Ireland

Events

• First Christian Brothers' school founded by Edmund Rice in Waterford.^[1]
• Linen Hall Library moves into permanent premises in the White Linen Hall in Belfast.

Births

• 24 May - Robert Baldwin Sullivan, lawyer, judge, and politician in Canada, second Mayor of Toronto (d.1853).

Full date unknown

• Robert Patterson, businessman and naturalist (d.1872).
• Robert Templeton, naturalist, artist and entomologist (d.1892).

Deaths

• 28 January - Joseph Wall, army officer, colonial governor and murderer (b.1737)
• 2 February - Armar Lowry-Corry, 1st Earl Belmore, politician and High Sheriff (b.1740).
• 30 March - Aedanus Burke, soldier, judge, and United States Representative from South Carolina (b.1743).
• 20 July - Isaac Barré, soldier and politician (b.1726).
• 24 October - John Ramage, artist (b.1748).

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