Deaths
- 4 June - Lord Edward FitzGerald, aristocrat and revolutionary (born 1763).
- 17 July - Henry Joy McCracken, cotton manufacturer and industrialist, Presbyterian and a founding member of the Society of the United Irishmen (born 1767).
- 6 September - Walter Patterson, first British colonial Governor of Prince Edward Island (b. c1735).
- 30 September - Molyneux Shuldham, 1st Baron Shuldham, naval officer and colonial governor of Newfoundland (b. c1717).
- 19 November - Theobald Wolfe Tone, leading figure in the United Irishmen, died from self-inflicted wound after being sentenced to death for his part in the Irish Rebellion of 1798 (born 1763).
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