Ireland

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One O'Clock gun fired for the first time from Edinburgh Castle

ireland

Katherine Tynan, poet, novelist and journalist, is born

ireland

John Keats writes his poem, On a Lock of Miltons Hair

ireland

Lola Montez, Irish dancer and courtesan dies in New York

ireland

Terence MacManus, the Young Irelander, dies in San Francisco

ireland

First Open Golf Championship held at Prestwick. There were eight entrants and the championship was won by Willie Park of Musselburgh.

ireland

Napiers and Deasys Land Acts are passed

ireland

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

ireland