1816 in Ireland

1816 in Ireland

Events

* The Year Without a Summer - Famine and typhoid kills 65,000 people [ Bill Bryson; "A Short History...";p 372; ISBN 0385 408188]
* Belfast Savings Bank founded "(see First Trust Bank)".
*Templemore Market House is built, County Tipperary

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).

Full date unknown

*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).

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).

Full date unknown

*Robert Fagan, painter, diplomat and archaeologist (b. c1761).

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