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Charles Gavan Duffy
1816Apr, 12

Charles Gavan Duffy

Charles Gavan Duffy, Irish-Australian politician, 8th Premier of Victoria (d. 1903)
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, KCMG, PC (12 April 1816 – 9 February 1903), was an Irish poet and journalist (editor of The Nation), Young Irelander and tenant-rights activist. After emigrating to Australia in 1856 he entered the politics of Victoria on a platform of land reform, and in 1871-72 served as the colony's 8th Premier.

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Events on 1816

  • 20Feb

    The Barber of Seville

    Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville premieres at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.
  • 10Apr

    Second Bank of the United States

    The Federal government of the United States approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States.
  • 22May

    Ely and Littleport riots of 1816

    A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs, which spreads to Ely the next day.
  • 5Aug

    Electrical telegraph

    The British Admiralty dismisses Francis Ronalds's new invention of the first working electric telegraph as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore.
  • 14Aug

    Cape Colony

    The United Kingdom formally annexes the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, administering the islands from the Cape Colony in South Africa.