1828 in Ireland

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See also: 1827 in Ireland, other events of 1828, 1829 in Ireland

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[edit] Events

• Belfast Botanic Gardens opens as the private Royal Belfast Botanical Gardens.

[edit] Births

• 28 January - William Gorman Wills, dramatist and painter (d.1891).
• 23 April - Fenton John Anthony Hort, theologian and writer (d.1892).
• 26 August - William Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin (d.1897).
• 27 November - Samuel Mullen, bookseller (d.1890).
• Joshua Spencer Thompson, Liberal-Conservative politician in Canada (d.1880).

[edit] Deaths

• 23 August - John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel, politician and Irish Chancellor of the Exchequer (b.1740).