Contents 1 Events 2 Births 2.1 Full date unknown 3 Deaths 4 References

[edit] Events

• Catholic Association formed by Daniel O'Connell, to further Catholic Emancipation^[1].
• Northern Whig newspaper is founded in Belfast.

[edit] Births

• 1 January - Edward Butler, lawyer and politician in Australia (d.1879).
• 12 January - James Donnelly, Bishop of the Diocese of Clogher (d.1893).
• 7 July - John Kells Ingram, poet, scholar, economist and historian of economic thought (d.1907).
• 7 September - Kevin Izod O'Doherty, transported to Australia in 1849, physician and politician (d.1905).
• 10 September - James O'Connor, first Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Diocese of Omaha (d.1891).
• 16 September - James O'Reilly, lawyer and politician in Canada (d.1875).

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• Ann Jellicoe, educationalist (d.1880).
• John Lyons, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea (d.1867).
• Thomas Devin Reilly, revolutionary, Young Irelander and journalist (d.1854).
• John Ryan, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India, killed in action (d.1858).

[edit] Deaths

• 21 February - Charles Wolfe, poet (b.1791).
• 17 September - John Shaw, Captain in the United States Navy (b.1773).

[edit] References