Ireland

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Lawrence Sterne, clergyman, humorist, and author, is born in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary

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Birth of Allan Ramsay, painter and son of Allan Ramsay the poet.

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Charles Lucas, physician, MP and political radical, is born in Ballingaddy, Ennis, Co. Clare

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Jonathan Swift becomes Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin

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William Molyneux, the fourteen-year old son of Sir Thomas Molyneux, is killed when a leaden image falls on him in a garden near Dublin

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John Stuart, Earl of Bute, Britains first Scottish Prime Minister, born.

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Henry Pyne, MP for Dungarvan, aged about 24 and the father of three children, is killed in a duel

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The Linen Board meets for the first time

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