Ireland

An Act establishes free trade in manufactured articles between Britain and Ireland

Thomas Devin Reilly, journalist and editor, is born in Co. Monaghan

Thomas Devin Reilly (30 March 1824 – 5 March 1854) was an Irish revolutionary, Young Irelander and journalist.

William Allingham, poet and diarist, is born in Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal

William Allingham (19 March 1824 – 18 November 1889) was an Irish poet, diarist and editor. He wrote several volumes of lyric verse, and his poem “The Faeries” was much anthologised.

Sara Atkinson, a writer on religious and historical subjects is born

Kevin Izod ODoherty, transportee, physician and politician, is born in Dublin

Thomas Francis Meagher, born

Thomas Francis Meagher (3 August 1823 – 1 July 1867) was an Irish nationalist and leader of the Young Irelanders in the Rebellion of 1848. After being convicted of sedition, he was first sentenced to death, but received transportation for life to Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania) in Australia.

Francis Fowke, born

Francis Fowke (7 July 1823 – 4 December 1865) was an Irish engineer and architect, and a captain in the Corps of Royal Engineers. Most of his architectural work was executed in the Renaissance style, although he made use of relatively new technologies to create iron framed buildings, with large open galleries and spaces.

John Kells Ingram, born

John Kells Ingram (7 July 1823 – 1 May 1907) was an Irish economist and poet who started his career as a mathematician.

George and Robert Stephenson open their locomotive foundry in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Charles Macintosh patented the waterproof cloth he was using to make raincoats.