Ireland

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Cavan-born Thomas Baron von Brady, general in the Austrian army, dies in Vienna

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Michael Corcoran, Union General, is born in Co. Donegal

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Mary King Ward, Irish naturalist and astronomer is born

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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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