Ireland

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Henry Grattan, the moving force behind the Irish Parliament at College Green before it was dissolved by the Act of Union, dies and is buried - against his wishes - in Westminster Abbey

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Sir William Howard Russell, war correspondent, is born in Tallaght, Co. Dublin

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Patrick Edward Connor, Union General, is born in Co. Kerry

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John Tyndall, born

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Birth in Templemore, Co. Tipperary of Charles Stanley Monck, the first Governor General of Canada

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George Salmon, mathematician and professor of divinity, is born in Cork

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James Watt, developer of steam power, died.

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Birth in Glasgow of Alan Pinkerton, founder of the Chicago-based detective agency which bears his name.

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