1807 in Ireland

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1807
in
Ireland

Centuries:
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
  • 21st
Decades:
  • 1780s
  • 1790s
  • 1800s
  • 1810s
  • 1820s
See also:1807 in the United Kingdom
Other events of 1807
List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1807 in Ireland.

Events[]

  • March – Sir Arthur Wellesley is appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland.[1]
  • 18 May – exiled Irish rebel Michael Dwyer is acquitted of a charge of conspiring to mount an Irish insurrection against British rule in New South Wales (Australia), but subsequently stripped of his free settler status.
  • 20 November – sinking of the Rochdale and the Prince of Wales: The British troopships Rochdale (brig) and Prince of Wales (packet ship) sink in a storm in Dublin Bay with the loss of around 400 lives.[2]

Arts and literature[]

  • Actor Edmund Kean plays leading parts in the Belfast theatre with Sarah Siddons.

Births[]

  • 28 January – Robert McClure, Arctic explorer (died 1873).
  • 7 March – John McCaul, educator, theologian, and the second president of the University of Toronto (died 1887).
  • 10 March – James Fintan Lalor, revolutionary, journalist and writer (died 1849).
  • 9 September – Richard Chenevix Trench, né Richard Trench, Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland) (died 1886).
  • 27 September – John T. Mullock, Roman Catholic Bishop of St. John's, Newfoundland (died 1869).
  • 23 October – Baroness Tautphoeus, née Jemima Montgomery, novelist (died 1893).
  • 14 December – Francis Hincks, politician in Canada (died 1885).
    Full date unknown
    • Robert Cane, doctor, member of the Repeal Association and the Irish Confederation, Mayor of Kilkenny (died 1858).
    • Thomas Henry, police magistrate in London (died 1876).

Deaths[]

  • 8 February – Dorcas Blackwood, 1st Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (born 1726).
  • 5 June – Boyle Roche, politician (born 1736).
  • Nathaniel Grogan, painter (born 1740).
  • Elizabeth Sugrue, hangwoman (born 1740s)

References[]

  1. ^ Gash, Norman (2004). "Wellesley, Arthur, first duke of Wellington (1769–1852)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29001. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  2. ^ "Historical Coastal Walking Tour" (PDF). Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 February 2012. Retrieved 31 July 2012.
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