1853 in Ireland

none 1853 Events from the year 1853 in Ireland. Events 15 February – City of Dublin Steam Packet Company Queen Victoria 1838, inward bound from Liverpool, sinks in a snowstorm at night below Baily Lighthouse on Howth Head with the loss of more than 80 lives. 12 May–31 October – Great Industrial Exhibition held in Dublin,http://www.lib.umd.edu/ARCH/honr219f/1853dubl.html/ Dublin 1853 lib.umd.edu https://web.archive.org/web/20080827221350/http://www.lib.umd.edu/ARCH/honr219f/1853dubl.html 2008-08-27 promoted by William Dargan. Queen Victoria, accompanied by the Prince Consort and the Prince of Wales, pays an official visit on 29 August. John Hutton & Son of Dublin exhibit the Irish State Coach. Full date unknown Glasnevin Model Farm, aka the Glasnevin Institute, a model farm in Glasnevin, was renamed as Albert College following a visit by the Prince Consort to the establishmentCousins Charlotte Prince Albert statue on Leinster Lawn https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/libraryResearch/2023/2023-11-14_l-rs-note-prince-albert-statue-on-leinster-lawn_en.pdf data.oireachtas.ie Houses of the Oireachtas (Library & Research Service) 2026-10-02 2023-11-13 1 Births 30 January – Leland Hone, cricketer (died 1896). 6 February – Robert John McConnell, businessman, baronet and Lord Mayor of Belfast (died 1927). 7 February – Egerton Bushe Coghill, painter (died 1921). 30 March – Frank O'Meara, artist (died 1888). March – John Doogan, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1881 at Laing's Nek, South Africa (died 1940). 10 April – Owen Hall, theatre writer and critic (died 1907). 3 July – Aloysius O'Kelly, painter (d. c1941). July – Thomas Brennan, a founder and joint first secretary of the Irish National Land League (died 1912). Deaths 20 March – Robert James Graves, physician (born 1796). 14 April – Robert Baldwin Sullivan, lawyer, judge, and politician in Canada, second Mayor of Toronto (born 1802). 21 September – Timothy Burns, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin from 1851 to 1853 (born 1820). 28 October – Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry, politician (born 1773).Valentine Lawless – Oxford Biography Index entry See also 1853 in Scotland 1853 in Wales References Category:1850s in Ireland Ireland Category:Years of the 19th century in Ireland