Ireland

countries: Ireland

Total results: 2747

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An expedition led by Robert OHara Burke, an Irish policeman, leaves Melbourne with the intention of making the first European crossing of Australia. They will make the crossing, but Burke and fellow-explorer, William Wills, will die on the return journey

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The Church of St Andrew in Suffolk Street, Dublin, is destroyed by fire

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John Henry Bernard, born

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Johanna Butler, born

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Chauncey Olcott, born

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Sir James Matthew Barrie, Scottish playwright and novelist and author of Peter Pan born

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Douglas Hyde, Irish playwright, born

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Eleanor Hull, Irish Celtic Scholar is born

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Birth of Hugh Thomson, illustrator, in Coleraine, Co. Derry-Londonderry

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