Ireland

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Birth of Sir George Gabriel Stokes, mathematician and physicist, in Skreen, Co. Sligo

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The Strathnaver Clearances began on the Sutherland estates, families were given, 30 minutes to remove their belongings before their cottages were set on fire

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The future Queen Victoria was born.

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Vere Foster, philanthropist and educationist, is born in Copenhagen; he is the inventor of copy books used in schools throughout Ireland until the 1950s

ireland

Edward Vaughan Kenealy Born

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Birth of opera singer Catherine Hayes in Limerick

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Theatre Royal, Glasgow, became the first theatre in Britain to be lit by gas.

ireland

Birth in Dublin of scientist and Alpine traveller, John Ball

ireland