Ireland

countries: Ireland

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Charles Cornwallis Chesney, professor of military history, is born in Kilkeel, Co. Down

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Rene T.H. Laennec, Breton inventor of the stethoscope, died

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Explorer Alexander Gordon Laing became the first Christian to reach Timbuctu, Africa.

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Frederick Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, diplomat and holder of estates at Clandeboye, Co. Down, is born in Florence

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Robert Adamson, who collaborated with D O Hill to produce early portrait photography, born.

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Henry Smith, mathematician, born in Dublin

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African explorer William Blake born.

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The Catholic Association, dissolved

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Annie French Hector, novelist who wrote under the pseudonym Mrs. Alexander, is born in Dublin. Highly successful novelist with 40 books including the Wooing of O’t (1873), and Blind Fate (1891); A Choice of Evils (1895), and Kitty Costello, semi-autobiogr

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