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Charles Lynch, pianist, is born in Parkgariff, Co. Cork

Daniel Owen considered the greatest Welsh language novelist died.

A firedamp explosion at Blantyre Colliery killed, 207 miners.

Foundation stones of main Post Office and National Museum of Scotland laid by Prince Albert in his last public engagement before his death.

John Ponsonby is unanimously re-elected Speaker of the Irish parliament

Birth in Dublin of Sir Philip Francis, civil servant, duellist, and gambler; he may have been the author of the Junius Letters

Rory O'More, Lord Maguire and Sir Pheilim O'Neill initiate a major revolt in Armagh

Thomas Mortimer who was appointed justiciar on 5 March is replaced by John de Stanley who lands at Howth on this date