April 09

The merchant ship Aud leaves Germany for Ireland with arms for the Irish Republican Brotherhood

Edward Hallaran Bennett, surgeon, is born in Cork

Maurice FitzGerald resigns as Commissioner of the Treasury (UK) over the issue of Catholic relief

Maurice FitzGerald, MP for County Kerry, resigns as Commissioner of the Treasury over the British government’s refusal to grant Catholic relief. On this date, he publicly declares that the war effort alone — referring to Irish Catholic support during the Napoleonic Wars — merits concessions to Ireland’s Catholic population. His stance highlights the growing political pressure in early 19th-century Britain and Ireland to address Catholic civil rights, a movement that would culminate in Catholic Emancipation in 1829.

The Relief Act grants Catholics parliamentary franchise and certain civil and military rights

Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat was beheaded for High Treason

Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat who in 1715 had origninally been a supporter of the House of Hanover, and then in 1745 changed sides and joined Prince Charles Edward, the young Jacobite pretender, a step treacherous in the extreme.

Death of Ralph de Ufford, justiciar

Second Treaty of Durham recogning an independent Scotland