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Novelist, Maria Edgeworth, dies in Mostrim, Co. Longford. She is laid to rest in a vault at Edgeworthstown Church. The Great Famine which decimates the people she loves mars her last years. Even though in her late seventies, she worked strenuously for the

Michael Doheny, poet and Young Irelander, is born near Fethard, Co. Tipperary

King James VI introduced the title baronet for the first time. This is the lowest hereditary titled order.