1796 in Ireland
# 1796 in Ireland

Events from the year 1796 in Ireland.

## Incumbent

* Monarch: George III

## 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).
*   * Eliza Hamilton Dunlop, poet (died 1880 in Australia).
*   * Charles Cromwell Ingham, painter and founder of the New York National Academy of Design (died 1863 in the United States).
*   * 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

* 23 May – John Roberts, architect. (born 1712/14)
* William Henn, judge (born c.1720).
* Bowen Southwell, landowner and politician (born 1713).
