1792 in Ireland

1792 in Ireland

Events

*Belfast Reading Society, becomes the Belfast Society for Promoting Knowledge, later to become the Linen Hall Library.

Births

*30 January - John Henry Hopkins, first bishop of Episcopal Diocese of Vermont and eighth Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (d.1868).
*23 April - John Thomas Romney Robinson, astronomer and physicist (d.1882).

Full date unknown

*Thomas Deane, architect (d.1871).
*Thomas Colley Grattan, writer (d.1864).
*William Hamilton Maxwell, novelist (d.1850).
*James Arthur O'Connor, painter (d.1841).

Deaths

*18 February - George Browne, soldier of fortune, became field-marshal in the Russian army (b.1698).
*10 October - Denis Daly, landowner, MP and Mayor of Galway (b.1747).


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