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1853 in Ireland
Summary
Events from the year
1853 in Ireland
.
←
1852
1851
1850
1849
1848
1853
in
Ireland
→
1854
1855
1856
1857
1858
Centuries:
17th
18th
19th
20th
21st
Decades:
1830s
1840s
1850s
1860s
1870s
See also:
1853 in the United Kingdom
Other events of 1853
List of years in Ireland
Events
edit
15 February –
City of Dublin Steam Packet Company
PS
Queen Victoria
(1838)
, inward bound from Liverpool, sinks in a snowstorm at night below
Baily Lighthouse
on
Howth Head
with the loss of more than 80 lives.
12 May–31 October –
Great Industrial Exhibition
held in
Dublin
,
[1]
promoted by
William Dargan
.
Queen Victoria
, accompanied by the
Prince Consort
and the
Prince of Wales
, pays an official visit on 29 August. John Hutton & Son of Dublin exhibit the
Irish State Coach
.
Births
edit
30 January –
Leland Hone
, cricketer (died
1896
).
6 February –
Robert John McConnell
, businessman,
baronet
and
Lord Mayor of Belfast
(died
1927
).
7 February –
Egerton Bushe Coghill
, painter (died
1921
).
30 March –
Frank O'Meara
, artist (died
1888
).
March –
John Doogan
, soldier, recipient of the
Victoria Cross
for gallantry in 1881 at
Laing's Nek
, South Africa (died
1940
).
10 April –
Owen Hall
, theatre writer and critic (died
1907
).
3 July –
Aloysius O'Kelly
, painter (d. c1941).
July –
Thomas Brennan
, a founder and joint first secretary of the
Irish National Land League
(died
1912
).
Deaths
edit
20 March –
Robert James Graves
,
physician
(born
1796
).
14 April –
Robert Baldwin Sullivan
, lawyer, judge, and politician in Canada, second
Mayor of Toronto
(born
1802
).
21 September –
Timothy Burns
,
Lieutenant Governor
of
Wisconsin
from 1851 to 1853 (born
1820
).
28 October –
Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry
, politician (born
1773
).
[2]
See also
edit
1853 in Scotland
1853 in Wales
References
edit
^
"Dublin 1853". lib.umd.edu. Archived from the original on 2008-08-27.
^
Valentine Lawless – Oxford Biography Index entry