24 October – Royal Canal Company incorporated to construct a waterway from Dublin to the River Shannon.
The addition of the Royal Canal and river navigation (particularly on the River Shannon) meant that freight could be transported more easily.
In 1843, while walking with his wife along the Royal Canal, Sir William Rowan Hamilton realised the formula for quaternions and carved his initial thoughts into a stone on the Brougham Bridge over the canal.
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