Ireland

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Launch of the Belfast Newsletter, now the oldest surviving newspaper in Ireland or Britain, and one of the oldest in the world

ireland

James Macpherson Scottish translator of Ossianic poems born.

ireland

A mob broke into the Tolbooth jail and removed Captain Porteous, reprieved for the killing of Edinburgh citizens during a riot on April, 14. He was then hanged from a dyers pole.

ireland

The Irish House of Commons condemns tithe of agistment on pasturage for dry and barren cattle

ireland

Garrett Colley Wellesley, born

ireland

Birth of James Agar, 1st Viscount Clifden and politician

ireland

Henry Boyle, the future Earl of Shannon, is unanimously elected Speaker of the Irish parliament. He will serve till 1756 - the longest-serving Speaker of the 1692-1800 parliaments

ireland

Sir Henry Cavendish, politician and master of shorthand, who recorded parliamentary debates, born

ireland