Ireland

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The Dublin Society becomes the Royal Dublin Society

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Robert Jocelyn, 2nd Earl Roden, former MP for Dundalk and a leader of the Orange Order, is alleged to have led an attack on Catholic homes in Dundalk. He is struck off the Commission of the Peace and ordered to be brought to trial, but flees to Edinburgh,

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The Dublin Society for Improving Husbandry, which was originally founded on June 25 in 1731, becomes the Royal Dublin Society on this date

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Spanish General Diego O'Reilly is defeated by Peruvian revolutionaries

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Donald Alexander Smithlater Lord Strathcona born in Forres.

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Robert O’Hara Burke, explorer, born in St. Cleran’s, Co. Galway

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William Drennan, physician, poet, educator and political radical, dies

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Henry Grattan, the moving force behind the Irish Parliament at College Green before it was dissolved by the Act of Union, dies and is buried - against his wishes - in Westminster Abbey

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Sir William Howard Russell, war correspondent, is born in Tallaght, Co. Dublin

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