Ireland

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Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand, Breton linguist, born

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Melasina Trench, writer, is born in Dublin

ireland

Thomas Russell, the United Irishman, is born in Kilshanick, Co. Cork

ireland

George Townshend, 4th Viscount Townshend, becomes Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

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Birth in Belfast of Henry Joy McCracken, United Irishman and leader of Ulster insurgents in 1798 rebellion

ireland

Maria Edgeworth, Irish author, is born

ireland

John Bligh, former MP for Athboy, who suffers from the delusion that he is a teapot, marries suddenly and unexpectedly at nearly 50 years of age. Between now and his death in 1781 he will father at least seven children, in spite of his initial alarm that

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Birth of John Claudius Beresford, banker, MP, and controversial figure in 1798 rebellion, during which he was alleged to have flogged suspects at his riding house in Marlborough Street, Dublin; the slogan Mangling done here gratis by Beresford and Co. w

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