1807_in_Ireland Knowpia

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1780s; 1790s; 1800s; 1810s; 1820s;
See also:	1807 in the United Kingdom; Other events of 1807 ; List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1807 in Ireland.

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March – Sir Arthur Wellesley is appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland.^[1]
18 May – exiled Irish rebel Michael Dwyer is acquitted of a charge of conspiring to mount an Irish insurrection against British rule in New South Wales (Australia), but subsequently stripped of his free settler status.
20 November – sinking of the Rochdale and the Prince of Wales: The British troopships Rochdale (brig) and Prince of Wales (packet ship) sink in a storm in Dublin Bay with the loss of around 400 lives.^[2]

Actor Edmund Kean plays leading parts in the Belfast theatre with Sarah Siddons.

28 January – Robert McClure, Arctic explorer (died 1873).
7 March – John McCaul, educator, theologian, and the second president of the University of Toronto (died 1887).
10 March – James Fintan Lalor, revolutionary, journalist and writer (died 1849).
9 September – Richard Chenevix Trench, né Richard Trench, Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland) (died 1886).
27 September – John T. Mullock, Roman Catholic Bishop of St. John's, Newfoundland (died 1869).
23 October – Baroness Tautphoeus, née Jemima Montgomery, novelist (died 1893).
14 December – Francis Hincks, politician in Canada (died 1885).
Full date unknown
- Robert Cane, doctor, member of the Repeal Association and the Irish Confederation, Mayor of Kilkenny (died 1858).
- Thomas Henry, police magistrate in London (died 1876).

^ Gash, Norman (2004). "Wellesley, Arthur, first duke of Wellington (1769–1852)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29001. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
^ "Historical Coastal Walking Tour" (PDF). Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 February 2012. Retrieved 31 July 2012.