Events

• March - Great Britain's Irish militia arrest the leadership of the Society of United Irishmen marking the beginning of the 1798 Rebellion. ^[1]
• 19 May - Rebel leader Lord Edward FitzGerald is arrested in Dublin. ^[1]
• 23 May - First clashes of the rebellion against British rule. ^[1]
• 21 June - Battle of Vinegar Hill fought. ^[1]
• 22 August - a force of French troops led by Jean Joseph Amable Humbert lands in County Mayo. ^[1]
• 8 September - the French force is defeated by British general Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis. ^[1]

Births

• 15 January - Thomas Crofton Croker, antiquary (d.1854)
• 3 April - John Banim, dramatist and playwright (d.1842).
• 28 May - Alexander Workman, politician in Canada and Mayor of Ottawa (d.1891).
• 11 August - Dominick Daly, Governor of Prince Edward Island, later Governor of South Australia (d.1868).
• 26 August - John McClintock, 1st Baron Rathdonnell, politician and Lord Lieutenant of County Louth (d.1879).
• 1 November - Benjamin Guinness, brewer and philanthropist (d.1868).
• 10 December - George Fletcher Moore, explorer and writer (d.1886).
• 13 December - James Henry, physician, classical scholar and poet (d.1876).

Full date unknown

• Alexander McDonnell, chess master (d.1835).
• Richard Turner, iron-founder (d.1881).

Deaths

• 4 June - Lord Edward FitzGerald, aristocrat and revolutionary (b. 1763).
• 17 July - Henry Joy McCracken, cotton manufacturer and industrialist, Presbyterian and a founding member of the Society of the United Irishmen (b.1767).
• 6 September - Walter Patterson, first British colonial Governor of Prince Edward Island (b. c1735).
• 30 September - Molyneux Shuldham, 1st Baron Shuldham, naval officer and colonial governor of Newfoundland (b. c1717).
• 19 November - Theobald Wolfe Tone, leading figure in the United Irishmen, died from self-inflicted wound after being sentenced to death for his part in the Irish Rebellion of 1798 (b.1763).

Full date unknown

• Boetius Egan, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam (b.1734).
• Christopher Hewetson, sculptor (b. c.1737).
• Bartholomew Teeling, a leader of the Irish forces during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 (b.1774).

References

See also

• Battles of Irish rebellion 1798