1796 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1796 in Ireland.

Incumbent[]

  • Monarch: George III

Events[]

  • 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[]

  • Edward Bunting's A General Collection of the Ancient Irish Music is published.

Births[]

  • 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[]

  • 23 May – John Roberts, architect. (born 1712/14)
  • William Henn, judge (born c.1720).
  • Bowen Southwell, landowner and politician (born 1713).

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 374.
  2. ^ "Parades and Marches – Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events". Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Retrieved 28 January 2010.
  3. ^ McCormack, W. J., ed. (2001). The Blackwell Companion to Modern Irish Culture. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 317.
  4. ^ a b Bateson, Charles (1974). The Convict Ships, 1787–1868. Sydney. ISBN 0-85174-195-9.
  5. ^ "Is there gold in the Wicklow Hills?". Irish Identity. 2006-08-11. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
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