1805 in Ireland

1805 in Ireland

Events

Births

*2 January - John Hogan, businessman and United States Representative from Missouri (d.1892).
*4 August - William Rowan Hamilton, mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (d.1865).

Full date unknown

*James Bronterre O'Brien, Chartist leader, reformer and journalist (d.1864).
*Jon Riley, deserter from United States Army, a founder of the San Patricios (d.1850).
*Anthony Coningham Sterling, British Army officer and historian (d.1871).
*William Thompson, naturalist (d.1852).

Deaths

*7 May - William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, British Whig statesman, Home Secretary in 1782 and Prime Minister 1782-1783 (b.1737).
*18 June - Arthur Murphy, editor and writer (b.1727).
*27 July - Brian Merriman, Irish language poet and teacher (b. c1749).
*August - John Talbot Dillon, traveller and historical writer (b. c1740).
*8 December - Rose ffrench, 1st Baroness ffrench.


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