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Events from the year 1820 in Ireland. ==Events== *30 January - Irish-born Royal Navy captain Edward Bransfield in the ''Williams'' is the first person positively to identify Antarctica as a land mass. *12 February - The ''East Indian'' and ''Fanny'' set sail from Cork with settlers for the Cape Colony. *25 May - Failure of Roche's Bank and stoppage of Leslie's Bank in Cork.〔 *3 June - The Roman Catholic Cathedral of St Mary and St Anne in Cork is largely destroyed by arson. *8 July - Act for lighting the city and suburbs of Dublin with gas.〔 *20 July - Saint Cronan's Boys' National School opens in Bray, County Wicklow, as the Bray Male School. *December - Lough Allen Canal, giving through navigation between Carrick-on-Shannon and Lough Allen, opens. *The Royal Dublin Society adopts its "Royal" prefix when the new king George IV of the United Kingdom becomes its patron. *Suspension of construction of the Wellington Testimonial, Dublin, in Phoenix Park to the design of Robert Smirke.〔 *First steamship on the Irish Sea crossing from Dublin to Liverpool, the ''Waterloo'', introduced by George Langtry of Belfast. *Publication of James Hardiman's ''The History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway, from the earliest period to the present time'' in Dublin. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1820 in Ireland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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