Monday 13 January 1840
Catherine McAuley left Bermondsey to return to Baggot Street.
SUBMIT A MERCY FACTGreat fire at St Xavier's, Pittsburgh
Foundation to Stanthorpe from Brisbane - M Agnes White
Foundation to Howden, Yorkshire from Endsleigh, Hull.
Foundation of Convent of Mercy Ardee from Convent of Mercy Dundalk
Auckland Mercy Sisters open Paul VI College in Leulumoega, Samoa. Sister Judith Leydon is the first Principal.
Foundation to Pumakos, Papua New Guinea from North Sydney
Foundation to Buttervant from Charleville, Co Cork
Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight closed and house opened at Newport instead.
Foundation to Negrie, Papua New Guinea from Townsville
Bishop Thomas Walsh writes to John Hardman sharing his plans to ask for Sisters for Birmingham.
Northeast wing of St Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan opened increasing capacity to 200 beds. Corporate name changed from St Joseph Sanitarium to St Joseph Mercy Hospital.
Goulburn Sisters began Motor Mission - M Regina Thompson, M Eymard Cusack
M Magdalen Kirwin died, Golden Bridge (Superior at Baggot St 1864-70)
Foundation to Little Rock, Arkansas from Naas - M de Sales O'Keefe.
Foundation to Nottingham from St Mary's, Handsworth - Sr Angela Borini.
500th issue of Mercy E-News is published
Branch house opened at Parnell
Foundation to Yarrawonga, Victoria from Wexford - M Ignatius Walsh
Foundation to Doon, Co Limerick from Kinsale - M Augustine Hickey
Mission to King Island from Melbourne - M Camillus O'Kane
Foundation to Shepparton from Bendigo - M Berchmans Flannery
M Veronica Corrigan died of typhus, Baggot St
M Aloysius (Anne) O'Grady died, Baggot St
Official opening of Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Royal Terrace, Dunedin - M Bertrand Carroll, Matron