Ireland

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An expedition led by Robert OHara Burke, an Irish policeman, leaves Melbourne with the intention of making the first European crossing of Australia. They will make the crossing, but Burke and fellow-explorer, William Wills, will die on the return journey

ireland

The Church of St Andrew in Suffolk Street, Dublin, is destroyed by fire

ireland

John Henry Bernard, born

ireland

Johanna Butler, born

ireland

Chauncey Olcott, born

ireland

Sir James Matthew Barrie, Scottish playwright and novelist and author of Peter Pan born

ireland

Douglas Hyde, Irish playwright, born

ireland

Eleanor Hull, Irish Celtic Scholar is born

ireland