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Events

The Year Without a Summer - Famine and typhoid kills 65,000 people ^[1]
January - Belfast Savings Bank opens for business.
17 March - Richmond Bridge, designed by James Savage, is opened over Dublin's River Liffey.^[2]
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.^[3]
29–30 October - Wildgoose Lodge Murders: eight people are burned to death by a gang in County Louth.^[4]
Templemore Market House is built in County Tipperary.

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).

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).

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).

↑ Bryson, Bill. A Short History... p. 372. ISBN 0-385-40818-8.
↑ O'Donovan Rossa Bridge at Structurae
↑ "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.

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