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Thursday 22 August 1872
Yorkshire Street Convent, Burnley founded from Commercial Rd, London - Sr Angela Gilsenan.
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12 Sisters from Brooklyn arrive in Panama to begin their work
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Mission to Americas from Brooklyn, New York - M Euphrasia Lafferty
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Foundation to Trangie, New South Wales from Bathurst - M Malachy Cahill
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Foundation to Shrewsbury from Carlow
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Foundation to Manchester, New Hampshire from Providence, Rhode Island - M Frances Warde
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Foundation to Derry from Tullamore - Mary Anne Doyle
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St Vincent's Convent, Hardy Street Liverpool founded - closed 1939.
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Founding of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas - first president, Doris Gottemoeller
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Foundation to Kyneton from Geelong - M Gabriel Sherlock
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Foundation to St Johnsbury, Vermont - M Stanislaus O'Malley
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Death of Catherine's father, James McAuley
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Convent opened at Highfields, Derby.
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Sculpture of Catherine erected at entrance to Mercy International Centre
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Opening of St Saviours, Toowoomba, Queensland - M Rose Flanagan
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Foundation to Cedar Rapids from Davenport, Iowa
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Foundation to Albury, New South Wales from Goulburn - M Ignatius Murphy
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Opening of Mercy International Centre, Baggot St, Dublin
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Foundation to Portland, Oregon from Morris, Minnesota - M Joseph Lynch
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Foundation to Wilcannia from Yass, New South Wales - M Paul Fielding
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Old Swan Convent opened as a branch house from Mount Vernon Convent, Liverpool.
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Classes begin in a new co-institutional college in Palmerston North. Sister M. Clement Long is appointed Principal of the Girls School
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Foundation to Edinburgh from Limerick - M Gertrude Hynes
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Sisters of Mercy, Tacloban, Phillipines become autonomous
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Foundation to St Mary's, Christchurch from Greymouth