1796 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1796 in Ireland.

Events

• 1 February - Wolfe Tone arrives in France.
• 12 July - First Orange Institution parades on The Twelfth held to commemorate the Battle of the Boyne (1690) in Portadown, Lurgan and Waringstown.
• 9 August - The convict ship Marquis Cornwallis leaves Cork for Australia.
• September - 'Gold rush' in the Wicklow Hills near Avoca.
• 10 December - The convict ship Britannia leaves Cork for Australia.
• 15 December - Expédition d'Irlande: French expedition (43 ships and 14,000 men) sails from Brest.
• 22 December - French fleet, with Wolfe Tone on board, arrives in Bantry Bay, but is unable to land due to contrary winds.
• Insurrection Act and Treason by Women Act passed.
• Yeomanry Corps formed.
• Building of the Four Courts in Dublin is substantially completed under the supervision of James Gandon.

Arts and literature

• Edward Bunting's A General Collection of the Ancient Irish Music is published.

Births

• 27 March - Robert James Graves, surgeon (died 1853).
• April - Abraham Brewster, judge and Lord Chancellor of Ireland (died 1874).
• 20 July - Maziere Brady, judge and Lord Chancellor of Ireland (died 1871).
• 16 August - Francis Crozier, British Royal Navy officer and polar explorer (lost after 1848).
• 4 October - Robert King, 4th Earl of Kingston, soldier and politician (died 1867).
• 27 November
  • John MacEnery, priest and pioneer archaeologist (died 1841).
  • Richard Mayne, barrister and joint first Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, head of the London Metropolitan Police (1829–1868) (died 1868).
• 3 December - Francis Kenrick, headed the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia, then was Archbishop of Baltimore (died 1863).

Full date unknown

• Michael Banim, writer (died 1874).
• James Curley, astronomer (died 1889 in the United States).
• George Crawford Hyndman, auctioneer and marine biologist (died 1867).
• John Pitt Kennedy, British military engineer, agricultural reformer and civil servant (died 1879).
• James McLevy, detective in Edinburgh (died 1875 in Scotland).
• George Maguire, Mayor of St. Louis, Missouri (died 1882 in the United States).
• Jones Quain, anatomist (died 1865).
• Michael Joseph Quin, author, journalist and editor (died 1843).

Deaths

• William Henn, judge (born c.1720).
• Bowen Southwell, landowner and politician (born 1713).