1816 in Ireland
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[edit] Events
- The Year Without a Summer - Famine and typhoid kills 65,000 people [1]
- Belfast Savings Bank founded (see First Trust Bank).
- Templemore Market House is built, County Tipperary
[edit] Births
- 6 February - John Joseph Lynch, Bishop of Toronto (d.1888).
- 1 March - Charles Magill, member of the 1st Canadian Parliament and mayor of Hamilton (d.1898).
- 14 March - Anthony O'Grady Lefroy, government official in Western Australia (d.1897).
- 8 April - Frederick William Burton, painter (d.1900).
- 12 April - Charles Gavan Duffy, nationalist and Australian colonial politician (d.1903).
- 31 July - Trevor Chute, British Army officer (d.1886).
- 17 September - John Hawkins Hagarty, lawyer, teacher and judge in Canada (d.1900).
- 30 October - Richard Quain, physician (d.1898).
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- John Drummond, early settler and explorer in Western Australia, first Inspector of Native Police there (d.1906).
- John O'Mahony, a founding member of the Fenian Brotherhood (d.1877).
[edit] Deaths
- 24 April - James Orr, rhyming weaver poet (b.1770).
- 3 May - James McHenry, signer of the United States Constitution from Maryland, third United States Secretary of War (b.1753).
- 7 July - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright and statesman (b.1751).
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- Robert Fagan, painter, diplomat and archaeologist (b. c1761).
[edit] References
- ^ Bill Bryson; A Short History...;p 372; ISBN 0385 408188

