1798 in Ireland

1798 in Ireland

Events

* March - Great Britain's Irish militia arrest the leadership of the Society of United Irishmen marking the beginning of the 1798 Rebellion. "1798." The People's Chronology. Ed. Jason M. Everett. Thomson Gale, 2006. eNotes.com. 2006. 5 Jun, 2007]
* 19 May - Rebel leader Lord Edward FitzGerald is arrested in Dublin.
* 23 May - First clashes of the rebellion against British rule.
* 21 June - Battle of Vinegar Hill fought.
* 22 August - a force of French troops led by Jean Joseph Amable Humbert lands in County Mayo.
* 8 September - the French force is defeated by British general Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis.

Births

*15 January - Thomas Crofton Croker, antiquary (d.1854)
*3 April - John Banim, dramatist and playwright (d.1842).
*28 May - Alexander Workman, politician in Canada and Mayor of Ottawa (d.1891).
*11 August - Dominick Daly, Governor of Prince Edward Island, later Governor of South Australia (d.1868).
*26 August - John McClintock, 1st Baron Rathdonnell, politician and Lord Lieutenant of County Louth (d.1879).
*1 November - Benjamin Guinness, brewer and philanthropist (d.1868).
*10 December - George Fletcher Moore, explorer and writer (d.1886).
*13 December - James Henry, physician, classical scholar and poet (d.1876).

Full date unknown

*Alexander McDonnell, chess master (d.1835).

Deaths

*4 June - Lord Edward FitzGerald, aristocrat and revolutionary (b. 1763).
*17 July - Henry Joy McCracken, cotton manufacturer and industrialist, Presbyterian and a founding member of the Society of the United Irishmen (b.1767).
*6 September - Walter Patterson, first British colonial Governor of Prince Edward Island (b. c1735).
*30 September - Molyneux Shuldham, 1st Baron Shuldham, naval officer and colonial governor of Newfoundland (b. c1717).
*19 November - Theobald Wolfe Tone, leading figure in the United Irishmen, died from self-inflicted wound after being sentenced to death for his part in the Irish Rebellion of 1798 (b.1763).

Full date unknown

*Boetius Egan, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam (b.1734).
*Bartholomew Teeling, a leader of the Irish forces during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 (b.1774).

References

ee also

* Battles of Irish rebellion 1798


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