1816 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1816 in Ireland.
Events
- The Year Without a Summer – famine and typhoid kill 65,000 people by 1819.{{cite book|last=Hugh|first=Fenning|title=Typhus Epidemic in Ireland, 1817–1819: Priests, Ministers, Doctors.|publisher=Collectanea Hibernica|year=1999|isbn=0-385-40818-8|pages=117–152}}
- January – Belfast Savings Bank opens for business.{{Cite book|last=Pilson|first=James Adair|title=History of the Rise and Progress of Belfast: And Annals of the County Antrim|publisher=John Mullen|year=1846|location=Belfast}}
- 30 January – wrecking of the Sea Horse, Boadicea and Lord Melville (military transport ships) off Tramore in a gale with the loss of over 500 persons.{{Cite web|last=Farrell|first=Daniel|date=2020-01-30|title=Remembering the Sea Horse lost off Tramore {{!}} 30th January 1816|url=https://coastmonkey.ie/remembering-the-sea-horse/|access-date=2020-07-06|website=Coast Monkey|language=en-GB}}
- 17 March – Richmond Bridge, designed by James Savage, is opened over Dublin's River Liffey.{{Structurae|id=20005737|title=O'Donovan Rossa Bridge}}
- May – the Ha'penny Bridge is opened over Dublin's River Liffey.{{Cite web|last=Carty|first=Ed|date=2016-05-19|title=Dublin's Ha'penny Bridge celebrates 200th birthday|url=http://www.irishnews.com/news/republicofirelandnews/2016/05/19/news/dublin-s-ha-penny-bridge-celebrates-200th-birthday-524927/|access-date=2020-07-06|website=The Irish News|language=en}}
- 18 May – the National Institution for the Education of Deaf and Dumb Children of the Poor in Ireland is founded.{{Cite book|last=O'Day|first=Alan|title=Longman Handbook of Modern Irish History Since 1800|last2=Fleming|first2=Neil|publisher=Routledge|year=2005|isbn=978-0-582-08102-4|location=NY: USA|pages=7}}
- June – St. George's Church, Belfast, is opened, the oldest in the city built for the United Church of England and Ireland.{{cite web|title=History|url=http://stgeorges.connor.anglican.org/history/|publisher=The Parish Church of St George, Belfast|access-date=2012-08-01}}
- 29–30 October – Wildgoose Lodge Murders: eight people are burned to death by a gang in County Louth.{{cite book|last=Dooley|first=Terence|title=The Murders at Wildgoose Lodge|publisher=Four Courts Press|year=2007|isbn=978-1-84682-085-4}}
- Templemore Town Hall is built in County Tipperary.{{Cite web|title=Templemore Town Hall, Main Street, Main Street, KILTILLANE, Templemore, Tipperary North|url=https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/22308037/templemore-town-hall-main-street-main-street-kiltillane-templemore-tipperary-north|access-date=2020-07-06|website=Buildings of Ireland|language=en-GB}}
Births
- 6 February – John Joseph Lynch, Bishop of Toronto (died 1888).
- 1 March – Charles Magill, member of the 1st Canadian Parliament and mayor of Hamilton (died 1898).
- 14 March – Anthony O'Grady Lefroy, government official in Western Australia (died 1897).
- 8 April – Frederick William Burton, painter (died 1900).
- 12 April – Charles Gavan Duffy, nationalist and Australian colonial politician (died 1903).
- 31 July – Trevor Chute, British Army officer (died 1886).
- 17 September – John Hawkins Hagarty, lawyer, teacher and judge in Canada (died 1900).
- 30 October – Richard Quain, physician (died 1898).
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- :*John Drummond, early settler and explorer in Western Australia, first Inspector of Native Police there (died 1906).
- :*John O'Mahony, a founding member of the Fenian Brotherhood (died 1877).
Deaths
- 24 April – James Orr, rhyming weaver poet (born 1770).
- 3 May – James McHenry, signer of the United States Constitution from Maryland, third United States Secretary of War (born 1753).
- 7 July – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright and statesman (born 1751).
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- :*Robert Fagan, painter, diplomat and archaeologist (b. c1761).