1796 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 1796 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch

George III

Events

• 1 February – Wolfe Tone arrives in France.^[1]
• 12 July – first Orange Institution parades on The Twelfth held to commemorate the Battle of the Boyne (1690)^[2] in Portadown, Lurgan and Waringstown.^[3]
• 9 August – the convict ship Marquis Cornwallis leaves Cork for Australia.^[4]
• September – 'Gold rush' in the Wicklow Hills near Avoca.^[5]
• 10 December – the convict ship Britannia leaves Cork for Australia.^[4]
• 15 December – Expédition d'Irlande: French expedition (43 ships and 14,000 men) sails from Brest.
• 22 December – French fleet, with Wolfe Tone on board, arrives in Bantry Bay, but is unable to land due to contrary winds.^[1]
• Insurrection Act^[1] and Treason by Women Act passed.
• Yeomanry Corps formed.^[1]
• Building of the Four Courts in Dublin is substantially completed under the supervision of James Gandon.

Arts and literature

• Edward Bunting's A General Collection of the Ancient Irish Music is published.

Births

• 27 March – Robert James Graves, surgeon (died 1853).
• April – Abraham Brewster, judge and Lord Chancellor of Ireland (died 1874).
• 20 July – Maziere Brady, judge and Lord Chancellor of Ireland (died 1871).
• 16 August – Francis Crozier, British Royal Navy officer and polar explorer (lost after 1848).
• 4 October – Robert King, 4th Earl of Kingston, soldier and politician (died 1867).
• 27 November
  • John MacEnery, priest and pioneer archaeologist (died 1841).
  • Richard Mayne, barrister and joint first Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, head of the London Metropolitan Police (1829 - 1868) (died 1868).
• 3 December – Francis Kenrick, headed the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia, then was Archbishop of Baltimore (died 1863).

Full date unknown

• Michael Banim, writer (died 1874).

• James Curley, astronomer (died 1889 in the United States).

• George Crawford Hyndman, auctioneer and marine biologist (died 1867).

• Eliza Hamilton Dunlop, poet (died 1880 in Australia).

• Charles Cromwell Ingham, painter and founder of the New York National Academy of Design (died 1863 in the United States).

• John Pitt Kennedy, British military engineer, agricultural reformer and civil servant (died 1879).

• James McLevy, detective in Edinburgh (died 1875 in Scotland).

• George Maguire, Mayor of St. Louis, Missouri (died 1882 in the United States).

• Jones Quain, anatomist (died 1865).

• Michael Joseph Quin, author, journalist and editor (died 1843).

Deaths

• 23 May – John Roberts, architect. (born 1712/14)
• William Henn, judge (born c.1720).
• Bowen Southwell, landowner and politician (born 1713).

Notes and References

1. Book: Moody, T. W. . Martin, F. X. . 1967. The Course of Irish History. Mercier Press. Cork. 374.
2. Web site: Parades and Marches – Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events. Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). 28 January 2010.
3. Book: McCormack, W. J.. The Blackwell Companion to Modern Irish Culture. Wiley-Blackwell. 2001. 317.
4. Book: Bateson, Charles. The Convict Ships, 1787–1868. 1974. Sydney. 0-85174-195-9.
5. Web site: Is there gold in the Wicklow Hills?. Irish Identity. 2006-08-11. 2012-07-23.