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1796 in Ireland
Summary
Events from the year
1796 in Ireland
.
←
1795
1794
1793
1792
1791
1796
in
Ireland
→
1797
1798
1799
1800
1801
Centuries:
16th
17th
18th
19th
20th
Decades:
1770s
1780s
1790s
1800s
1810s
See also:
Other events of 1796
List of years in Ireland
Incumbent
edit
Monarch
:
George III
Events
edit
1 February –
Wolfe Tone
arrives in
France
.
[1]
12 July – first
Orange Institution
parades on
The Twelfth
held to commemorate the
Battle of the Boyne
(
1690
)
[2]
in
Portadown
,
Lurgan
and
Waringstown
.
[3]
9 August – the
convict ship
Marquis Cornwallis
leaves
Cork
for
Australia
.
[4]
September – '
Gold rush
' in the
Wicklow
Hills near
Avoca
.
[5]
10 December – the convict ship
Britannia
leaves
Cork
for Australia.
[4]
15 December –
Expédition d'Irlande
: French expedition (43 ships and 14,000 men) sails from
Brest
.
22 December – French fleet, with
Wolfe Tone
on board, arrives in
Bantry Bay
, but is unable to land due to contrary winds.
[1]
Insurrection Act
[1]
and
Treason by Women Act
passed.
Yeomanry
Corps formed.
[1]
Building of the
Four Courts
in
Dublin
is substantially completed under the supervision of
James Gandon
.
Arts and literature
edit
Edward Bunting
's
A General Collection of the Ancient Irish Music
is published.
Births
edit
27 March –
Robert James Graves
,
surgeon
(died
1853
).
April –
Abraham Brewster
, judge and
Lord Chancellor of Ireland
(died
1874
).
20 July –
Maziere Brady
, judge and Lord Chancellor of Ireland (died
1871
).
16 August –
Francis Crozier
, British
Royal Navy
officer and polar explorer (lost after 1848).
4 October –
Robert King, 4th Earl of Kingston
, soldier and politician (died 1867).
27 November
John MacEnery
, priest and pioneer archaeologist (died
1841
).
Richard Mayne
, barrister and joint first
Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
, head of the London
Metropolitan Police
(1829–1868) (died
1868
).
3 December –
Francis Kenrick
, headed the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia
, then was
Archbishop of Baltimore
(died
1863
).
Full date unknown
Michael Banim
, writer (died
1874
).
James Curley
,
astronomer
(died
1889 in the United States
).
George Crawford Hyndman
, auctioneer and marine biologist (died
1867
).
Eliza Hamilton Dunlop
, poet (died
1880 in Australia
).
Charles Cromwell Ingham
, painter and founder of the New York
National Academy of Design
(died
1863 in the United States
).
John Pitt Kennedy
, British military engineer, agricultural reformer and civil servant (died
1879
).
James McLevy
, detective in Edinburgh (died
1875 in Scotland
).
George Maguire
, Mayor of
St. Louis, Missouri
(died
1882 in the United States
).
Jones Quain
, anatomist (died
1865
).
Michael Joseph Quin
, author, journalist and editor (died
1843
).
Deaths
edit
23 May –
John Roberts
, architect. (born 1712/14)
William Henn
, judge (born c.1720).
Bowen Southwell
, landowner and politician (born
1713
).
References
edit
^
a
b
c
d
Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967).
The Course of Irish History
. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 374.
^
"Parades and Marches – Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events".
Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN)
. Retrieved
28 January
2010
.
^
McCormack, W. J., ed. (2001).
The Blackwell Companion to Modern Irish Culture
. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 317.
^
a
b
Bateson, Charles (1974).
The Convict Ships, 1787–1868
. Sydney.
ISBN
0-85174-195-9
.
{{cite book}}
: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^
"Is there gold in the Wicklow Hills?".
Irish Identity
. 2006-08-11
. Retrieved
2012-07-23
.