{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{More citations needed|date=April 2023}} {{YearInIrelandNav | 1796 }} Events from the year '''1796 in Ireland'''.

==Incumbent== *Monarch: George III

==Events== *1 February – Wolfe Tone arrives in France.<ref name="TM">{{cite book|editor1=Moody, T. W. |editor2=Martin, F. X. |year=1967|title=The Course of Irish History|publisher=Mercier Press|location=Cork|page=374}}</ref> *12 July – first Orange Institution parades on The Twelfth held to commemorate the Battle of the Boyne (1690)<ref>{{cite web|title=Parades and Marches – Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events|work=Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN)|url=http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/parade/chpa2.htm|access-date=28 January 2010}}</ref> in Portadown, Lurgan and Waringstown.<ref>{{cite book|editor=McCormack, W. J.|title=The Blackwell Companion to Modern Irish Culture|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|year=2001|page=317}}</ref> *9 August – the convict ship ''Marquis Cornwallis'' leaves Cork for Australia.<ref name=Bateson>{{cite book|title=The Convict Ships, 1787–1868|last=Bateson|first=Charles|year=1974|location=Sydney|isbn=0-85174-195-9}}</ref> *2 December – Two passenger boats, the ''Camden'' and the ''Phelan'' go into service on the Royal Canal with a fare of 1s-1d (first class cabin) or 6d (second class cabin) from Dublin to Leixlip, a journey of approximately 20km.{{sfn|Clarke|1993|page=49}} This contrasts with the stagecoach price at the time, which cost 8s-8d for the same journey.{{sfn|Clarke|1993|page=49}} *10 December – the convict ship ''Britannia'' leaves Cork for Australia.<ref name=Bateson/> *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.<ref name="TM"/> *Insurrection Act<ref name="TM"/> and Treason by Women Act passed. *Yeomanry Corps formed.<ref name="TM"/> *Building of the Four Courts in Dublin is substantially completed under the supervision of James Gandon. * The still under-construction Royal Canal reaches the town of Kilcock and trade commences between it and Dublin.{{sfn|Clarke|1993|page=49}}

==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&ndash;1868) (died 1868). *3 December – Francis Kenrick, headed the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia, then was Archbishop of Baltimore (died 1863). *;Full date unknown<!--This is a description list; please see Help:List before changing--> *:*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).

==References== {{reflist}}

=== Sources === {{refbegin}} * {{cite journal |last = Clarke| first = Peter|title =The Royal Canal 1789-1993 | journal = Dublin Historical Record| volume = 46| issue = 1| pages = 46-52| publisher = Old Dublin Society| location = Dublin| date = 1993-02-17| jstor = 30101021| url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30101021}} {{refend}}

{{Years in Ireland}} {{Year in Europe|1796}}

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