- 1865 in Ireland
Events
*Work begins on the building of the
Albert Memorial Clock, Belfast , as a memorial to Queen Victoria's latePrince Consort , Prince Albert.Births
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6 February -Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin , astronomer (d.1939).
*16 March -Patsy Donovan ,Major League Baseball player and manager (d.1953).
*17 March -Patrick Joseph Sullivan , mayor ofCasper, Wyoming and Republican member of theUnited States Senate fromWyoming (d.1935).
*20 April -James Macmahon , civil servant and businessman,Under-Secretary for Ireland from 1918 to 1922 (d.1954).
*4 May -Charles A. Callis , member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles ofThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d.1947).
*7 May -John MacBride , nationalist, rebel andEaster Rising leader, executed (d.1916).
*8 May -Charles FitzClarence , soldier, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1899 nearMafeking ,South Africa , killed in action (d.1914).
*13 June -William Butler Yeats , poet and dramatist (d.1939).
*18 June - Henry Allan, painter (d.1912).
*15 July -Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe , newspaper and publishing magnate (d.1922)
*16 October -Frederick Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan ,British Army commander inWorld War I , laterChief of the Imperial General Staff and Field Marshal (d.1946).
*12 November -Herbert Trench , poet (d.1923).Full date unknown
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Thomas Kent , nationalist and rebel, executed following a gunfight with the RIC (d.1916).
*Alice Milligan , nationalist and poet (d.1953).
*Dermod O'Brien , painter (d.1945).
*Grace Rhys , novelist (d.1929).
*Robert Henry Woods ,Irish Unionist MP (d.1938).Deaths
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1 April -John Cuffe, 3rd Earl of Desart , Conservativepolitician . (b.1818).
*23 May -Benjamin Holmes , businessman and politician inQuebec (b.1794).
*14 July -Nathaniel Burslem , soldier, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1860 at theTaku Forts ,China (b.1838).
*31 August - John Farrell,soldier and recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry at the 1854Charge of the Light Brigade (b.1826).
*2 September -William Rowan Hamilton , mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (b.1805).Full date unknown
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Jones Quain , anatomist (b.1796).
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