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1775 In Ireland
Events from the year 1775 in Ireland. Incumbent *Monarch: George III Events *Henry Flood accepts a seat on the Privy Council of Ireland and becomes vice-treasurer. *Henry Grattan enters the Parliament of Ireland and becomes leader of the "patriot party". *Approximate date – Dark Hedges planted. Arts and literature *17 January – Richard Brinsley Sheridan's first play, the comedy of manners ''The Rivals'', is premiered at the Covent Garden Theatre, London. *Robert Jephson's tragedy ''Braganza'' is first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London. Births *3 March – Henry Prittie, 2nd Baron Dunalley, politician (died 1854). *25 April – William Warren Baldwin, doctor, businessman, lawyer, judge, architect and political figure in Upper Canada (died 1844). *6 August – Daniel O'Connell, politician, campaigner for Catholic Emancipation and Repeal of the Union (died 1847). *30 September – Robert Adrain, scientist and mathematician in America (died 1843). *;Full date unk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Monarch
Irish may refer to: Common meanings * Someone or something of, from, or related to: ** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe ***Éire, Irish language name for the isle ** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ** Republic of Ireland, a sovereign state * Irish language, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family spoken in Ireland * Irish people, people of Irish ethnicity, people born in Ireland and people who hold Irish citizenship Places * Irish Creek (Kansas), a stream in Kansas * Irish Creek (South Dakota), a stream in South Dakota * Irish Lake, Watonwan County, Minnesota * Irish Sea, the body of water which separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain People * Irish (surname), a list of people * William Irish, pseudonym of American writer Cornell Woolrich (1903–1968) * Irish Bob Murphy, Irish-American boxer Edwin Lee Conarty (1922–1961) * Irish McCal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upper Canada
The Province of Upper Canada (french: link=no, province du Haut-Canada) was a part of British Canada established in 1791 by the Kingdom of Great Britain, to govern the central third of the lands in British North America, formerly part of the Province of Quebec since 1763. Upper Canada included all of modern-day Southern Ontario and all those areas of Northern Ontario in the which had formed part of New France, essentially the watersheds of the Ottawa River or Lakes Huron and Superior, excluding any lands within the watershed of Hudson Bay. The "upper" prefix in the name reflects its geographic position along the Great Lakes, mostly above the headwaters of the Saint Lawrence River, contrasted with Lower Canada (present-day Quebec) to the northeast. Upper Canada was the primary destination of Loyalist refugees and settlers from the United States after the American Revolution, who often were granted land to settle in Upper Canada. Already populated by Indigenous peoples, land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Rutty
John Rutty (1697–1775) was a Dublin Quaker physician and naturalist born in Melksham, Wiltshire, England. He was the author of many texts including ''A methodical synopsis of the Mineral Waters of Ireland'' (1757) and ''An Essay towards the Natural History of the County of Dublin'' (1772). After his death his spiritual diary was published, and the botanist William Henry Harvey named the genus Acanthaceae '' Ruttya'' after him. Life He was born of Quaker parents on 25 December 1698. After a medical education at the University of Leyden, where he graduated M.D. in 1723 and read a thesis ''De Diarrhœa'', he settled in Dublin as a physician in 1724. There he practised throughout his life. He lived simply and often gave his services to the poor. On 6 April 1775, John Wesley records that he 'visited that venerable man Dr. Rutty.' Rutty then lived in rented rooms at the eastern corner of Boot Lane and Mary's Lane in Dublin. He died on 27 April 1775, and was buried in a Quaker buri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1833 In Ireland
Events from the year 1833 in Ireland. Events * August – Mount Melleray Abbey in the Knockmealdown Mountains is founded, the first Cistercian foundation in Ireland in modern times. * 10 August – major fire in stores of The Custom House, Dublin, sets River Liffey aflame. * 14 August – Church Temporalities Act 1833 suppresses ten bishoprics in the Church of Ireland, with dioceses to be merged as sees fall vacant, and provides for abolition of Vestry Assessment. * 28 August – the school which will evolve into Castleknock College is opened in Dublin by the Vincentian community. * Katherine Sophia Kane's ''The Irish Flora'' is published anonymously. Arts and literature * Early – Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, aged 14, makes his stage debut, at the Dublin Theatre, playing William Tell. Births *21 January – Joseph Prosser, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sevastopol, Crimea (died 1869). *8 February – Launt Thompson, sculptor (died 1894). *4 May – Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Thompson (philosopher)
William Thompson (1775 – 28 March 1833) was an Irish political and philosophical writer and social reformer, developing from utilitarianism into an early critic of capitalist exploitation whose ideas influenced the cooperative, trade union and Chartist movements as well as Karl Marx. Born into the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy of wealthy landowners and merchants of Cork society, his attempt to will his estate to the cooperative movement after his death sparked a long court case as his family fought successfully to have the will annulled. According to E. T. Craig, this decision to will his estate to the cooperative movement was taken after a visit to the pioneering Ralahine Commune. Marxist James Connolly described him as the "first Irish socialist" and a forerunner to Marx, who cited Thompson in his works as well as being an influence upon Marx's thought. Life Born in Cork, William was the son and heir of one of the most prosperous merchants of that city, Alderman John Thompson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1816 In The United States
Events from the year 1816 in the United States. Incumbents Federal Government * President: James Madison ( DR-Virginia) * Vice President: ''vacant'' * Chief Justice: John Marshall (Virginia) * Speaker of the House of Representatives: Henry Clay ( DR-Kentucky) * Congress: 14th Events * April 11 – In Philadelphia, the African Methodist Episcopal Church is established by Richard Allen and other African-American Methodists, the first such denomination completely independent of White churches. * April 27 – The Dallas tariff is passed in Congress seeking to protect American manufacturing against an influx of cheaper British goods following the War of 1812. * May 11 – The American Bible Society is founded in New York City, New York. * June – Fort Dearborn is reestablished in the place that will become Chicago, IL. * August 24 – The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri. * November – James Monroe defeats Rufus King in the U. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard McMahon
Bernard McMahon or M'Mahon (Ireland ca 1775 — Philadelphia, 18 September 1816) was an Irish-American horticulturist settled in Philadelphia, who served as one of the stewards of the plant collections from the Lewis and Clark Expedition and was the author of ''The American Gardener's Calendar: Adapted to the Climates and Seasons of the United States'' (1806 and following years). He circulated the first extensive gardener's seed list in the United States, which he attached as an appendix to his ''Calendar''. McMahon's most enduring contribution was his ''Calendar'', the most comprehensive gardening book published in the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century. It finished in its eleventh edition in 1857. It was modeled on a traditional English formula, of month-by-month instructions on planting, pruning, and soil preparation for the "Kitchen Garden, Fruit Garden, Orchard, Vineyard, Nursery, Pleasure Ground, Flower Garden, Green House, Hot house and Forcing Frames" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union club Other uses * Angle of list, the leaning to either port or starboard of a ship * List (information), an ordered collection of pieces of information ** List (abstract data type), a method to organize data in computer science * List on Sylt, previously called List, the northernmost village in Germany, on the island of Sylt * ''List'', an alternative term for ''roll'' in flight dynamics * To ''list'' a building, etc., in the UK it means to designate it a listed building that may not be altered without permission * Lists (jousting), the barriers used to designate the tournament area where medieval knights jousted * ''The Book of Lists'', an American series of books with unusual lists See also * The List (other) * Listing (di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1843 In The United States
Events from the year 1843 in the United States. Incumbents Federal Government * President: John Tyler ( I-Virginia) * Vice President: ''vacant'' * Chief Justice: Roger B. Taney (Maryland) * Speaker of the House of Representatives: John White ( W-Kentucky) (until March 4), John Winston Jones ( D-Virginia) (starting December 4) * Congress: 27th (until March 4), 28th (starting March 4) Events January–March * January – Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" is first published. * February 6 – The Virginia Minstrels perform the first minstrel show (Bowery Amphitheatre, New York City). * March 21 – The world does not end, contrary to the first prediction by American preacher William Miller. April–June * April 30–May 16 – Naval Battle of Campeche: Naval Battle between the Mexican Navy versus the Texas Navy and the Yucatán Navy. The battle features the most advanced warships of its day. * May 7 – Nakahama Manjirō lands in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Adrain
Robert Adrain (30 September 1775 – 10 August 1843) was an Irish political exile who won renown as a mathematician in the United States. He left Ireland after leading republican insurgents in the Rebellion of 1798, and settled in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. With Nathaniel Bowditch, he shares the distinction of being the first scholar to publish original mathematical research in America. This included his formulation of the method of least squares while working on a surveying problem (in two proofs of the exponential law of error published independently of Carl Friedrich Gauss) for which he is chiefly remembered. His fields of applied mathematical interest included physics, astronomy and geodesy. Many of his mathematical investigations focussed on the shape of the Earth. Biography Adrian was born in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Ireland. His father, of French Huguenot descent, was a school teacher and maker of mathematical instruments, and he apparently received a good educatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1847 In Ireland
Events from the year 1847 in Ireland. Events *Ongoing – Great Famine. This summer's potato crop is free from blight, but inadequate due to small area sown. The British Relief Association is founded and raises money throughout England, the United States and Australia, with the help of the "Queen's Letters", two letters from Queen Victoria appealing for money to relieve the distress in Ireland. A group of Native American Choctaw is among those contributing to the relief effort. The Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends (Quakers) also assists, but there are claims of "Souperism" (the provision of food in combination with proselytization) by other Protestant sectarian groups. *13 January – Irish Confederation established. *February–September – soup kitchens system established under the Temporary Relief Act ("Soup Kitchen" or "Burgoyne's" Act); famine at its height. *12 April – the Massachusetts Donation of 1847 arrives at Cork on USS ''Jamestown''. *28 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Repeal (Ireland)
The Repeal Association was an Irish mass membership political movement set up by Daniel O'Connell in 1830 to campaign for a repeal of the Acts of Union of 1800 between Great Britain and Ireland. The Association's aim was to revert Ireland to the constitutional position briefly achieved by Henry Grattan and his patriots in the 1780s—that is, legislative independence under the British Crown—but this time with a full Catholic involvement that was now possible following the Act of Emancipation in 1829, supported by the electorate approved under the Reform Act of 1832. On its failure by the late 1840s the Young Ireland movement developed. Repealer candidates contested the 1832 United Kingdom general election in Ireland. Between 1835 and 1841, they formed a pact with the Whigs. Repealer candidates, unaffiliated with the Whig Party, contested the 1841 and 1847 general elections. Electoral statistics The seats figure in brackets is the position after election petitions and by-el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
