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1799 in Ireland
Summary
Events from the year
1799 in Ireland
.
←
1798
1797
1796
1795
1794
1799
in
Ireland
→
1800
1801
1802
1803
1804
Centuries:
16th
17th
18th
19th
20th
Decades:
1770s
1780s
1790s
1800s
1810s
See also:
Other events of 1799
List of years in Ireland
Fenton Bridge over the
Grand Canal
in
Robertstown, County Kildare
bears the date 1799.
Incumbent
edit
Monarch
:
George III
Events
edit
24 January – A motion to debate an Act of Union is defeated in the Irish House of Commons, though it is later approved in the House of Lords
9 February – around 91 die when a barge capsizes at the bridge at
Carrick-on-Suir
.
[1]
15 February – the rebel guerilla leader
Michael Dwyer
escapes from a gun battle with British troops at Miley Connell's cottage, Dernamuck, in the
Glen of Imaal
,
Wicklow
. (today called the
Dwyer–McAllister Cottage
)
[2]
River Shannon
made navigable from
Limerick
to
Killaloe
.
[3]
Births
edit
28 February –
William Dargan
, engineer and railway builder (died
1867
).
9 August –
Henry Maxwell, 7th Baron Farnham
, politician and peer (died
1868
).
12 August –
Patrick MacDowell
, sculptor (died
1870
).
22 December –
Nicholas Callan
, priest and scientist (died
1864
).
26 December –
William Kennedy
, Scottish poet, journalist and diplomat (died
1871 in France
).
Full date unknown
Henry Archer
, barrister and entrepreneur in north Wales (died
1863 in France
).
Joseph M. Hawkins
, Alamo defender (died
1836 in the United States
).
Deaths
edit
11 January –
Thomas Bermingham, 1st Earl of Louth
(born
1717
)
27 February –
Sir John Blackwood, 2nd Baronet
, politician (born
1722
).
29 March –
Charles Bingham, 1st Earl of Lucan
,
High Sheriff of Mayo
in
1756
(born
1735
)
4 June –
Philip Woodroffe
, surgeon
4 August –
James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont
, politician, first President of the
Royal Irish Academy
, president of the volunteer convention in
Dublin
, 1783 (born
1728
).
6 December –
John Moore
, participant in
Irish Rebellion of 1798
, proclaimed President of the
Government of the Province of Connaught
(born
1767
).
11 December – "Brave"
Charles Edward Jennings de Kilmaine
, soldier in
France
(born
1751
; died in France).
References
edit
^
Coady, Michael
(1999). "The cries at the bridge".
Full Tide: a miscellany
. Nenagh: Relay Books. pp. 54-60.
ISBN
9780946327270
.
^
"Dwyer McAllister Cottage".
Heritage Ireland
. Archived from the original on 2008-08-24
. Retrieved
2012-07-31
.
^
Delany, Ruth (1988).
A celebration of 250 years of Ireland's Inland Waterways
. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 51.
ISBN
0-86281-200-3
.