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Events

15 March – The Sick and Indigent Roomkeepers' Society is established in Dublin; by the 21st century this will be the city's oldest surviving charity.^[1]
Armagh Observatory, founded by Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby, Archbishop of Armagh, begins to function.

1 January – George Petrie, painter, musician, antiquary and archaeologist (died 1866).
15 April – Theobald Jones, British Royal Navy officer, lichenologist and Unionist politician (died 1868).
June – Arthur Jacob, ophthalmologist (died 1874).
10 October – Father Theobald Mathew, temperance reformer (died 1856).

↑ Lindsay, Deirdre (1990). Dublin's Oldest Charity. Dublin: Anniversary Press. ISBN 1-870940-06-7.

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