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Events

• January 5 The troopship Birkenhead boarded British Army recruits at Queenstown. It had insufficient lifeboats.
• February 26 The Birkenhead foundered. The soldiers stood to attention while women and children were placed in the lifeboats.
• The 18-arch Craigmore Viaduct near Newry, on the Dublin-Belfast railway line is opened (construction began in 1849).

Arts and literature

Sport

Births

January to June

• 25 January - Nevill Coghill, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry at the Battle of Isandhlwana, South Africa (d.1879).
• 28 January - Louis Brennan, inventor (d.1932).
• 2 February - Lawrence E. McGann, Democrat U.S. Representative from Illinois (d.1928).
• 24 February - George Moore, novelist, poet, art critic and dramatist (d.1933).
• 29 February - Frank Gavan Duffy, fourth Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia (d.1936).
• 15 March - Augusta, Lady Gregory, dramatist and folklorist (d.1932).
• 17 March - Patrick Augustine Sheehan, priest, author and political activist (d.1913).
• 27 March - Jim Connell, political activist, writer of The Red Flag (d.1929).

July to December

• 28 July - Barton McGuckin, tenor singer (d.1913).
• 30 September - Charles Villiers Stanford, composer (d.1924).
• 2 October - William O'Brien, nationalist, journalist, agrarian agitator, social revolutionary, politician, party leader, newspaper publisher and author (d.1928).

Deaths

• 25 February - Thomas Moore, poet, singer, songwriter and entertainer (b.1779).
• 25 April - Arthur O'Connor, United Irishman and later general in Napoleon's army (b.1763).
• 8 May - Charles Rowan, joint first Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, head of the London Metropolitan Police (b. c1782).
• 14 September - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, soldier and statesman (b.1769).

Full date unknown

• Edward Bransfield, master in the Royal Navy (b.1785).
• William Thompson, naturalist (b.1805).
• Elliot Warburton, travel writer and novelist (b.1810).