Ireland

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Richard Nugent, Lord Delvin, MP for Fore, and still a teenager, dies of wounds he received after fighting a duel with a Mr Reilly on July 30

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Robert Simms, a founder of the United Irishmen and proprietor of the Northern Star, is born

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Henry Welbore Agar-Ellis, 2nd Viscount Clifden, born

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In the climate of sectarian tension created partly by the Mathew-Maude controversy, the Whiteboys, a violent agrarian protest movement, begins in Tipperary and spreads through Munster and West Leinster

ireland

George III crowned, beginning a 60 year reign, one of the longest in British history.

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François Thurot holds the castle and the town of Carrickfergus until this date

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Henry Flood enters parliament and becomes leader of the opposition

ireland

Sir Eyre Coote, the younger; soldier, MP, and governor of Jamaica, born

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