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1840 in Ireland
Summary
Events from the year
1840 in Ireland
.
←
1839
1838
1837
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1835
1840
in
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1841
1842
1843
1844
1845
Centuries:
17th
18th
19th
20th
21st
Decades:
1820s
1830s
1840s
1850s
1860s
See also:
1840 in the United Kingdom
Other events of 1840
List of years in Ireland
Events
edit
10 January –
Uniform Penny Post
introduced.
1 April –
Theatre Royal, Cork
burns down.
19 May – foundation stone of the
Roman Catholic
St Mel's cathedral, Longford
, is laid.
10 July –
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland
established.
28 July – first permanent presence of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Ireland
when Mormon missionaries
John Taylor
, William Black and James McGuffie arrive to work in the
Newry
,
Lisburn
and
Belfast
areas. On 31 July Thomas Tait becomes the first convert baptised in Ireland, at
Loughbrickland
.
[1]
The Palm House in
Belfast Botanic Gardens
is completed, constructed by
Richard Turner
of
Dublin
. It is one of the earliest examples of a curvilinear
cast iron
glasshouse
in the world.
Bewley's
established as tea and coffee importers.
Arts and literature
edit
Edward Bunting
's
The Ancient Music of Ireland
is published, incorporating "A Dissertation on the Irish Harp and Harpers, Including an Account of the Old Melodies of Ireland".
Births
edit
1 January –
Patrick Walsh
, journalist, politician and mayor of
Augusta, Georgia
(died
1899
).
4 January –
Bishop Richard Owens
,
Bishop of Clogher
1894–1909 (died
1909
).
8 January –
Henry Arthur Blake
,
British
colonial administrator and Governor of
Hong Kong
(died
1918
).
17 January –
William Pery, 3rd Earl of Limerick
, peer (died
1896
).
27 February –
Thomas Kelly-Kenny
,
British Army
general who served in the
Second Boer War
(died
1914
).
29 February –
John Philip Holland
, engineer, developed the first
Royal Navy
submarine
(died
1914
).
[2]
25 March –
Myles Keogh
, officer in
American Civil War
, later in
U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment
, killed at the
Battle of the Little Bighorn
(died
1876
).
26 April
(bapt.)
–
Paddy Hannan
,
gold
prospector whose discovery in 1893 near
Kalgoorlie
,
Western Australia
set off a
gold rush
(died
1925
).
27 April –
Tom Gallaher
,
tobacco
manufacturer (died
1927
).
23 May –
George Throssell
, second
Premier of Western Australia
(died
1910
).
20 September –
Ellen Mary Clerke
, author, journalist, poet and science writer (died
1906
).
1 November –
Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun
, businessman, politician, and philanthropist (died
1915
).
17 November –
Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse
, eighteenth
Chancellor of the University of Dublin
(d.(
1908
).
28 December –
Thomas Hovenden
, artist and teacher (died
1895
).
Full date unknown
William Abraham
,
Irish Nationalist
MP
(died
1915
).
Timothy J. Campbell
,
Democrat
U.S. Representative
from
New York
(died
1904
).
Timothy H. O'Sullivan
, photographer in the United States (died
1882
)
Deaths
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15 April –
Thomas Drummond
, military surveyor and
Under-Secretary for Ireland
(born
1797 in Scotland
).
21 April –
Standish O'Grady, 1st Viscount Guillamore
, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland (born
1766
).
12 June –
Gerald Griffin
, novelist, poet and playwright (born
1803
).
20 August –
George Canning, 1st Baron Garvagh
, politician (born
1778
).
See also
edit
1840 in Scotland
1840 in Wales
References
edit
^
"Facts and Statistics: Statistics by Country – Ireland",
Newsroom
, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2011-12-31
, retrieved
2013-02-22
^
"John P. Holland".
The Phoenix
. August 9, 1996. Archived from the original on December 5, 2009
. Retrieved
2009-09-19
.