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1805 in Ireland

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1805 in Ireland

Centuries:
  
17th 18th 19th 20th 21st

Decades:
  
1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s

Events from the year 1805 in Ireland.

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Events

  • August - Rebel leader Michael Dwyer, held without sentence in Kilmainham Gaol, is transported to Sydney (Australia), where he lands as a free settler in February 1806.
  • 21 October - Battle of Trafalgar: A British Royal Navy fleet led by Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain. Almost 4,000 of the 18,000 men on the British ships were born in Ireland.

    • Publications

  • Mary Tighe's poem Psyche, or the Legend of Love

    • Births

  • 2 January - John Hogan, businessman and United States Representative from Missouri (died 1892).
  • 5 April - Samuel Forde, painter from Cork (died 1828).
  • 4 August - William Rowan Hamilton, mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (died 1865).

    • Full date unknown

  • Jon Riley, deserter from United States Army, a founder of the San Patricios (died 1850).
  • Anthony Coningham Sterling, British Army officer and historian (died 1871).
  • William Thompson, naturalist (died 1852).

    • Deaths

  • 27 April - William Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty, politician and statesman (born 1741).
  • 7 May - William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, British Whig statesman, Home Secretary in 1782 and Prime Minister 1782-1783 (born 1737).
  • 18 June - Arthur Murphy, editor and writer (born 1727).
  • 27 July - Brian Merriman, Irish language poet and teacher (b. c. 1749).
  • August - John Talbot Dillon, traveller and historical writer (b. c. 1740).
  • 8 December - Rose ffrench, 1st Baroness ffrench.

    • References

    1805 in Ireland Wikipedia
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