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List of events
Events from the year 1800 in Ireland .
Incumbent
Events
28 February –
United Irishman
Roddy McCorley is executed in
Toomebridge for his part in the
Irish Rebellion of 1798 .
April –
United Irish Uprising of Irish soldiers stationed at
St. John's, Newfoundland , with the
British Army is dispersed.
2 July & 1 August –
Acts of Union 1800 : the linked Union with Ireland Act 1800, an
Act of the
Parliament of Great Britain , and Act of Union (Ireland) 1800, an Act of the
Parliament of Ireland , are passed by the respective legislatures, to unite the
Kingdom of Ireland and
Kingdom of Great Britain into the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland , with effect from 1 January
1801 .
[1]
[2] The latter Act, drafted at
Derrymore House ,
[3] achieves its majority of 43 in the
Irish House of Commons (which will be abolished under the measures) partly through the
bribing of former opponents by the award of
peerages and
honours .
[4]
Catholic emancipation has been promised as part of the legislation by
William Pitt (the British Prime Minister),
Lord Cornwallis (Lord Lieutenant of Ireland) and
Lord Castlereagh (Chief Secretary of Ireland) but they are forced to drop it by the King leading to their resignations.
[5]
1 August – foundation stone of the new
King's Inns in
Dublin laid,
James Gandon being commissioned as the architect.
12 August – start of construction of the
Military Road across the
Wicklow Mountains .
[6]
Dr.
John Milner Barry introduces
vaccination in
Cork .
[7]
Arts and literature
Births
Deaths
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