Ireland

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Robert Adamson, who collaborated with D O Hill to produce early portrait photography, born.

ireland

Henry Smith, mathematician, born in Dublin

ireland

African explorer William Blake born.

ireland

The Catholic Association, dissolved

ireland

Annie French Hector, novelist who wrote under the pseudonym Mrs. Alexander, is born in Dublin. Highly successful novelist with 40 books including the Wooing of O’t (1873), and Blind Fate (1891); A Choice of Evils (1895), and Kitty Costello, semi-autobiogr

ireland

The House of Lords rejects the Catholic Emancipation Bill which would disenfranchise Irish forty-shilling free-holders and put clergy on state salaries

ireland

Robert Byron (later Lord Byron) died at Missolinghi, Greece.

ireland

Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Young Irelander, journalist and promoter of Canadian Federation, is born

ireland