Ireland

countries: Ireland

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Last session of the Irish Parliament begins

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Daniel O'Connell makes his first public speech, opposing Union with England

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The Act of Union dissolves the Irish parliament and transfers legislative powers to Westminster

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Nicholas Callan, priest, physicist, writer, and inventor of the induction coil, is born in Dromiskin, Co. Louth

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David Douglas, explorer and botanist, born at Scone, Perthshire. In addition to the Douglas Fir, he brought back to Europe lupins, phlox, penstemmon, sunflowers, clarkia, Californian poppy, mimulus, flowering currant, rose of sharon and mahonia.

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William Dargan, railway engineer and philanthropist, is born in Carlow

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Thomas Charles Wright, officer in Bolivars army, is born in Drogheda, Co. Louth

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James Henry, physician and classical scholar, is born in Dublin

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Hours before his execution, Irish Rebel, Wolf Tone suffers a deep wound in his neck

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