1816 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1816 in Ireland.

Events

• The Year Without a Summer - Famine and typhoid kills 65,000 people
• January - Belfast Savings Bank opens for business.
• 17 March - Richmond Bridge, designed by James Savage, is opened over Dublin's River Liffey.
• May - The Ha'penny Bridge is opened over Dublin's River Liffey.
• 18 May - The National Institution for the Education of Deaf and Dumb Children of the Poor in Ireland is founded.
• June - St. George's Church, Belfast, is opened, the oldest in the city built for the United Church of England and Ireland.
• 29–30 October - Wildgoose Lodge Murders: eight people are burned to death by a gang in County Louth.
• Templemore Market House is built in County Tipperary.

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).

Full date unknown

• 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).

Full date unknown

• Robert Fagan, painter, diplomat and archaeologist (b. c1761).