Ireland

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John Ponsonby is unanimously elected Speaker of the Irish parliament

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Molesworth Phillips, sailor and companion of Captain James Cook, is born in Swords, Co. Dublin

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George Barrington, writer, adventurer and pickpocket is born in Maynooth, Co. Kildare

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William Marsden, orientalist, scholar and numismatist, born in Wicklow

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Birth of William Murdoch who pioneered the use of coal-gas lighting in, 1792 in partnership with James Watt and Mathew Boulton.

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Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings, soldier and colonial administrator, is born in Dublin

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Death of Robin Downes. Thomas Waite writes - ‘Yesterday morning Robin Downes, member for Kildare, was found in his parlour in his house in Dawson Street with a sword run through his body. There are hopes of his recovery. He himself says ... that he receive

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Birth of Dr. William Drennan in Belfast; physician, poet, educationalist political radical and one of the chief architects of the Society of United Irishmen. Drennans poetic output included some powerful and moving pieces. He is chiefly remembered today

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