1785 in Ireland
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Events from the year1785 in Ireland.
Incumbent[edit]
Events[edit]
- 19 January –Richard Crosbiesuccessfully flies in ahot air balloonfromRanelaghGardens toClontarf.He goes on to makes several unsuccessful attempts to cross theIrish Seain ahydrogen-filled balloon.
- 10 May – a hot air balloon collides with a chimney inTullamore,setting light to around 100 houses in the town centre.[1]
- TheDuke of Rutland,Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,with the support ofWilliam Pitt,successfully steers a liberal trade measure through theParliament of Ireland,initially against the opposition ofHenry GrattanandHenry Flood.However theFoxiteopposition in theHouse of Commons of Great Britainso emasculates the measure with amendments that it is rejected in its new form in Ireland.
- Irish Academyestablished inDublin.TheBook of Ballymoteis given to it.
- Belfast Academyestablished as agrammar schoolby Rev. Dr.James Crombie;by the 21st century it will be the oldest school inBelfast.[2]
- Stratford-on-SlaneyinCounty Wicklowis founded by the Earl of Aldeborough as a cotton manufacturing centre.
- Dunsink Observatoryestablished.[3]
- William DrennanpublishesLetters of Orellana, an Irish Helot, to the seven northern counties not represented in the National Assembly of Delegates, held at Dublin, in October, 1784, for obtaining a more equal representation of the people in the Parliament of Irelandin Dublin (originally in theBelfast News-letter).
Arts and literature[edit]
Births[edit]
- March –Donat Henchy O'Brien,admiral in the BritishRoyal Navy(died1857).
- 17 March –Ellen Hutchins,botanist (died1815).
- 24 June –Alexander Porter,United States SenatorforLouisiana(died1844).
- 7 December –William Francis Patrick Napier,soldier and military historian (died1860).
- Approximate date –Edward Bransfield,master in the British Royal Navy (died1852).
Deaths[edit]
- 7 March –John Ruxton,landowner and politician (born1721).
- 19 August –Michael Skerrett,Roman CatholicArchbishop of Tuam.
- Thomas Leland,historian (born1722).
- Alexander Montgomery,soldier and politician (born c.1721).
References[edit]
- ^Byrne, Michael (2007-01-09)."The Tullamore Balloon Fire - First Air Disaster in History".Tullamore History.Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society. Archived fromthe originalon 2012-03-26.Retrieved2012-08-21.
- ^Stewart, A. T. Q.Belfast Royal Academy: The First Century 1785-1885.
- ^Alexander Thom(1850).Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory(7th ed.). p. 258.Retrieved2011-02-22.