- 1820 in Ireland
Events
Births
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31 May -Timothy Burns ,Lieutenant Governor ofWisconsin from 1851 to 1853 (d.1853).
*3 June -Thomas William Moffett , scholar, educationalist and President ofQueen's College Galway (d.1908).
*4 June - John Kean, businessman and politician inOntario (d.1892).
*6 October -James Travers , soldier, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 atIndore ,India (d.1884).
*22 November -Katherine Plunket , botanical artist and longest-lived Irish person ever (d. 1932).
*30 December -Mary Anne Sadlier , novelist (d. 1903).Full date unknown
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Thomas Arthur Bellew , landowner and politician (d.1863).
*Johnston Drummond , early settler ofWestern Australia , botanical and zoological collector (d.1845).
*Ambrose Madden , recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1854 in theCrimea , atLittle Inkerman (d.1863).
*Patrick Mylott , soldier, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 inIndia (d.1878).
*Henry Hamilton O'Hara "Mad O'hara" , "The Mad Squire of Craigbilly" (d.1875).
*Eliza Patterson , reputed to have introduced the noxiousweed known asPatterson's Curse toAustralia (d.1887).
*Joseph M. Scriven , poet and philanthropist (d.1886).
*Kivas Tully , architect (d.1905).Deaths
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29 January - George III of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (b.1738 ).
*13 February -Leonard Macnally , informant against members of theSociety of United Irishmen (b.1752).
*6 June -Henry Grattan , member of Irish House of Commons and campaigner for legislative freedom for the Irish Parliament (b.1746).Full date unknown
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Eaton Stannard Barrett , poet and author (b.1786).
*Anthony Daly , a leader of theWhiteboy movement, hanged for attemptedmurder .
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