Ireland

The Dublin-Belfast railway line is completed

The Belfast–Dublin Main Line is a main and busiest railway route on the island of Ireland that connects Dublin Connolly station in the Republic of Ireland and Belfast Lanyon Place station in Northern Ireland. It is the only railway line that crosses the Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border.

Charlotte Bronte, author of Jane Eyre, dies during pregnancy

Charlotte Brontë (21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. She is best known for her novel Jane Eyre, which she published under the gender neutral pen name Currer Bell.

The Catholic University of Ireland is opened with J. H. Newman as its first rector

William Smith, founder of the Boys Brigade, born.

Birth of Sir Horace Plunkett, agricultural reformer and politician

Oscar Wilde, playwright, novelist and essayist is born in Dublin

Patrick Geddes - Scottish Botanist born.

Sir Patrick Geddes (1854 - 1932) was Scottish biologist and botanist, known also as an innovative thinker in the fields of urban planning and education He was responsible for introducing the concept of region to architecture and planning. Sir Patrick Geddes became a prime example of the free exploring minds which flourished in Victorian Britain.

Birth in Kinvara, Co. Galway of Francis Arthur Fahy who wrote the song, Galway Bay

The Great North of Scotland Railway opened, running from Aberdeen to Huntly.

David Dunbar Buick was born at, 26 Green Street, Arbroath. He emigrated to the USA with his parents at the age of two.

David Dunbar Buick is born at 26 Green Street, Arbroath, Scotland, on September 17, 1854. He emigrates to the United States with his parents at the age of two, settling in Detroit, Michigan.