1816 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1816 in Ireland.
Events
- The Year Without a Summer - Famine and typhoid kills 65,000 people [1]
- May - The Ha'penny Bridge is opened over Dublin's River Liffey.
- 18 May - The National Institution for the Education of Deaf and Dumb Children of the Poor in Ireland is founded.
- June - St. George's Church, Belfast, is opened, the oldest in the city built for the United Church of England and Ireland.[2]
- 29–30 October - Wildgoose Lodge Murders: eight people are burned to death by a gang in County Louth.[3]
- Richmond Bridge, designed by James Savage, is opened over Dublin's River Liffey.[4]
- Belfast Savings Bank founded.
- Templemore Market House is built in County Tipperary.
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
- 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
- Robert Fagan, painter, diplomat and archaeologist (b. c1761).
References
- ↑ Bryson, Bill. A Short History... p. 372. ISBN 0-385-40818-8.
- ↑ "History". The Parish Church of St George, Belfast. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
- ↑ Dooley, Terence (2007). The Murders at Wildgoose Lodge. Four Courts Press. ISBN 978-1-84682-085-4.
- ↑ O'Donovan Rossa Bridge at Structurae