Ireland

Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum; soldier and statesman, is born in Ballylongford, Co. Kerry

Sir Thomas Lipton, founder of the Liptons grocery chain, was born in Glasgow

Samuel Butcher, scholar, is born in Dublin

Samuel Henry Butcher DCL LLD FRSE FBA (16 April 1850 – 29 December 1910) was an Anglo-Irish classical scholar and politician.

The SS Royal Adelaide sinks in a storm with the loss of 200 lives

RMS Royal Adelaide was a paddle steamship owned and operated by the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company. Its principal route ran between London and Cork.

Paul Cullen is consecrated Catholic archbishop of Armagh and primate of Ireland

Sophie Bryant, Irish patriot and womens rights advocate, is born

First tenant protection society established at Callan, Co. Kilkenny.

James Clarence Mangan, poet, dies

Novelist, Maria Edgeworth, dies in Mostrim, Co. Longford

Novelist Maria Edgeworth dies in Mostrim, Co. Longford. She is laid to rest in a vault at Edgeworthstown Church. The Great Famine, which decimates the people she loves, mars her final years. Even in her late seventies, she works strenuously for their relief.

The paddle steamer The Londonderry, with immigrants fleeing the famine, takes shelter in Derry harbour

The paddle steamer The Londonderry, with immigrants fleeing the Great Hunger, takes shelter in Derry harbour.