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Sir William Francis Patrick Napier, general and historian, is born in Celbridge, Co. Kildare

ireland

Balloon flight by Italian aeronaut Vincenzo Lunardi from Heriots School, Edinburgh to Ceres in Fife.

ireland

Edmond Sexton Pery resigns as Speaker of the Irish parliament on grounds of ill health. John Foster is unanimously elected to replace him

ireland

The Irish Academy, later to become the Royal Irish Academy, meets for the first time

ireland

James Napper Tandy leading radicals asks for Parliamentary reform for Ireland

ireland

A radical reform congress commences in William Street, Dublin

ireland

Sir Richard Griffith, geologist and civil engineer, is born in Dublin

ireland

First balloon ascent in Britain by James Tytler, Edinburgh.

ireland