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Events

• 3 November - Foundation stone for Saint Malachy's Church, Belfast is laid (completed in 1844).
• First thorough census is completed and population is calculated to be just under 8.25 million^[1].

Births

• 12 February - Windham Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer (d.1926).
• 31 August - Patrick Egan, treasurer of the Irish Land League, fled to the United States, United States Minister to Chile (d.1919).
• 10 September - Max Arthur Macauliffe, British administrator, scholar and author (d.1913).
• 31 October - Abraham Dowdney, United States Representative from New York and officer in the Union army in the American Civil War (d.1886).
• 5 December - Marcus Daly, businessman in America (d.1900).
• 22 December - Thomas McCarthy Fennell, Fenian political prisoner transported to Western Australia (d.1914).

Full date unknown

• Patrick Alphonsus Buckley, soldier, lawyer, statesman, and judge in New Zealand (d.1896).

Deaths

• 7 January - James Arthur O'Connor, painter (b.1792).
• 17 March - Tyrone Power, actor, comedian, author and theatrical manager (b.1795).
• 18 April - Somerset Lowry-Corry, 2nd Earl Belmore, politician and statesman (b.1774).
• 21 July - Price Blackwood, 4th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye, Royal Navy captain (b.1794).

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