1816 in Ireland

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Contents 1 Events 2 Births 2.1 Full date unknown 3 Deaths 3.1 Full date unknown 4 References

[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
• The Ha'penny Bridge is built over Dublin's River Liffey

[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

1. ^ Bill Bryson; A Short History...;p 372; ISBN 0385 408188