This is a list of events from the year 1805 in Ireland
Events
*August – rebel leader
Michael Dwyer
Michael Dwyer (1 January 1772– 23 August 1825) was an insurgent captain in the Irish Rebellion of 1798, leading the United Irish forces in battles in Wexford and Wicklow. Following the defeat and dispersal of the rebel hosts, in July 1798 ...
, held without sentence in
Kilmainham Gaol
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, is
transported
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It is considered a lost film.
Plot
In England, Jessie Grey is about to marry Leonard Lincoln but the evil Harold Hawk tries to force her to marry him and she ...
to
Sydney
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(Australia), where he lands as a free settler in February 1806.
*21 October –
Battle of Trafalgar
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: a British
Royal Navy
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fleet led by Admiral
Horatio Nelson
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defeats a combined
French
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* The French (band), ...
and
Spanish
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...
fleet off the coast of Spain. Almost 4,000 of the 18,000 men on the British ships were born in Ireland.
Publications
*
Mary Tighe
Mary Tighe (9 October 1772 – 24 March 1810) was an Irish poet.
Life and career
Mary Blachford (or Blanchford) (or Blackford) was born in Dublin, 9 October 1772. Her parents were Theodosia Tighe, a Methodist leader, and William Blachford ( ...
's poem ''Psyche, or the Legend of Love''
Births
*2 January –
John Hogan, businessman and
United States Representative
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from
Missouri
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(died
1892
In Samoa, this was the only leap year spanned to 367 days as July 4 repeated. This means that the International Date Line was drawn from the east of the country to go west.
Events
January
* January 1 – Ellis Island begins processing imm ...
).
*5 April –
Samuel Forde
Samuel Forde (1805–1828), was an Irish painter.
Early life
Forde, born at Cork on 5 April 1805, was the second son of Samuel Forde, a tradesman, who became involved in difficulties and went to America, deserting his family. The elder brother w ...
, painter from
Cork
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** Stopper (plug), or "cork", a cylindrical or conical object used to seal a container
*** Wine cork an item to seal or reseal wine
Places Ireland
* ...
(died
1828
Events
January–March
* January 4 – Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac succeeds the Jean-Baptiste de Villèle, Comte de Villèle, as Prime Minister of France.
* January 8 – The Democratic Party of the United States is organiz ...
).
*4 August –
William Rowan Hamilton
Sir William Rowan Hamilton (4 August 1805 – 2 September 1865) was an Irish astronomer, mathematician, and physicist who made numerous major contributions to abstract algebra, classical mechanics, and optics. His theoretical works and mathema ...
, mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (died
1865
Events
January
* January 4 – The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street, in New York City.
* January 13 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Fort Fisher – Unio ...
).
*2 December -
William Thompson, naturalist (died
1852
Events
January–March
* January 14 – President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte proclaims a new constitution for the French Second Republic.
* January 15 – Nine men representing various Jewish charitable organizations come to ...
).
*;Full date unknown
*:*
Jon Riley
John Patrick Riley (also known as John Patrick O'Riley; Irish: ''Seán Pádraig Ó Raghallaigh'') ( – 10 October 1850) was an Irish soldier in the British Army who emigrated to the United States and subsequently enlisted in the United Stat ...
, deserter from
United States Army
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, a founder of the
San Patricios (died
1850
Events
January–March
* January 29 – Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the United States Congress.
* January 31 – The University of Rochester is founded in Rochester, New York.
* January – Sacramento, Ca ...
).
*:*
Anthony Coningham Sterling,
British Army
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officer and
historian
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(died
1871
Events January–March
* January 3 – Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Bapaume – Prussians win a strategic victory.
* January 18 – Proclamation of the German Empire: The member states of the North German Confederation and the sout ...
).
Deaths
*27 April –
William Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty
William Power Keating Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty (23 June 1741 – 27 April 1805) was an Irish aristocrat and politician and later United Kingdom statesman at the time of the Act of Union. His family, through his son Richard, became prominen ...
, politician and statesman (born
1741
Events
January–March
* January 13
** Lanesborough, Massachusetts is created as a township.
** Conventicle Act of 1741 is introduced in Denmark-Norway.
*February 13 – Sir Robert Walpole, the Prime Minister of Great Britain ...
).
*7 May –
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne
William Petty Fitzmaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne (2 May 17377 May 1805), known as the Earl of Shelburne between 1761 and 1784, by which title he is generally known to history, was an Anglo-Irish Whig (British political party), Whig states ...
,
British
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* British national identity, the characteristics of British people and culture ...
Whig statesman
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Newspapers United States
...
,
Home Secretary
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in 1782 and
Prime Minister
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1782–1783 (born
1737
Events
January–March
* January 5 – Spain and the Holy Roman Empire sign instruments of cession at Pontremoli in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in Italy, with the Empire receiving control of Tuscany and the Grand Duchy of Parm ...
).
*18 June –
Arthur Murphy, editor and writer (born
1727
Events
January–March
* January 1 – (December 21, 1726 O.S.) Spain's ambassador to Great Britain demands that the British return Gibraltar after accusing Britain of violating the terms of the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht. Britain ...
).
*27 July –
Brian Merriman
Brian Merriman or in Irish Brian Mac Giolla Meidhre (c. 1747 – 27 July 1805) was an 18th-century Irish-language bard, farmer, hedge school teacher, and Irish traditional musician from rural County Clare.
Long after his death, Merriman's li ...
,
Irish language
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poet and teacher (b. c. 1749).
*August –
John Talbot Dillon
Sir John Talbot Dillon, 1st Baronet, Baron Dillon (1739 – 17 July 1805) was an Irish politician and baronet.
Career
Dillon was the son of Arthur Dillon and Elizabeth Lambert, daughter of Ralph Lambert; and grandson of Sir John Dillon of Lismu ...
, traveller and historical writer (b. c. 1740).
*8 December –
Rose ffrench, 1st Baroness ffrench
Rose ffrench, 1st Baroness ffrench (died 8 December 1805), was an Irish peeress.
The eldest daughter of Patrick Dillon of Roscommon, she married on 25 June 1761 Sir Charles ffrench, 1st Baronet (cr.1779), who was later Mayor of Galway. He died i ...
.
See also
*
1805 in Scotland
*
1805 in Wales
References
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Years of the 19th century in Ireland
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Ireland
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