13 March – Construction begins in Dublin on the Four Courts Building, with the first stone laid by the British Viceroy for Ireland, the Duke of Rutland.[1]
The Parliament of Ireland passes An Act for Promoting the Trade of Dublin, by rendering its Port and Harbour more commodious, creating the Corporation for Preserving and Improving the Port of Dublin (the "Ballast Board"), predecessor of the Commissioners of Irish Lights.[2]
^Carr, John (1806). The Stranger in Ireland, Or, A Tour in the Southern and Western Parts of that Country in the Year 1805. Lincoln & Gleason. p. 274.
^"A Brief History of Irish Lights". Commissioners of Irish Lights. Retrieved 2012-08-16.
^Hickey, Kieran R. (2000). "A geographical perspective on the decline and extermination of the Irish wolf canis lupus" (PDF). Irish Geography. 33: 185–98. Retrieved 2011-02-25.