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Events

15 February - City of Dublin Steam Packet Company PS Queen Victoria (1838), inward bound from Liverpool, sinks in a snowstorm at night below Baily Lighthouse on Howth Head with the loss of more than 80 lives.
12 May–31 October - Great Industrial Exhibition held in Dublin,^[1] promoted by William Dargan. Queen Victoria, accompanied by the Prince Consort and the Prince of Wales, pays an official visit on 29 August.

30 January - Leland Hone, cricketer (died 1896).
6 February - Robert John McConnell, businessman, baronet and Lord Mayor of Belfast (died 1927).
7 February - Egerton Bushe Coghill, painter (died 1921).
30 March - Frank O'Meara, artist (died 1888).
March - John Doogan, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1881 at Laing's Nek, South Africa (died 1940).
10 April - Owen Hall, theatre writer and critic (died 1907).
3 July - Aloysius O'Kelly, painter (d. c1941).
July - Thomas Brennan, a founder and joint first secretary of the Irish National Land League (died 1912).

20 March - Robert James Graves, physician (born 1796).
14 April - Robert Baldwin Sullivan, lawyer, judge, and politician in Canada, second Mayor of Toronto (born 1802).
21 September - Timothy Burns, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin from 1851 to 1853 (born 1820).
28 October - Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry, politician (born 1773).^[2]

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