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The new paddle steamer Waverley was launched from A. & J. Ingliss yard on the Clyde. After providing services on the Firth of Clyde she has been preserved and still takes passengers doon the watter as the oldest sea-going paddle steamer in the world.

Death of Sir Thomas Lipton, grocer, tea merchant and contestant for the Americas Cup.

Hubert Butler, writer and local historian, is born near Bennettsbridge, Co. Kilkenny

Kate Coll arrives in New York from Ireland on board the SS Nevada. She later marries Juan Vivion de Valera, and gives birth to Éamon on October 14, 1882 in New York

Arthur Conway, mathematician and president of University College Dublin, is born in Wexford

Patrick Geddes - Scottish Botanist born.

Birth of Sir William Ramsay, Scottish chemist who discovered helium, xenon, neon, argon, radon and krypton.

William O'Brien, writer and nationalist, is born in Mallow, Co. Cork