Ireland

countries: Ireland

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Birth of Mungo Park at Foulshiels, near Selkirk. He became an explorer and doctor who charted the course of the River Niger.

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Thomas Reynolds, United Irishman, born

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Novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott born.

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Birth of Edward Newell, United Irishman and informer, in Downpatrick, Co. Down

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Robert Owen, Industrialist and social reformer, born

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Benjamin Franklins visit to Ireland begins

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John Ponsonby resigns as Speaker of the Irish parliament for political reasons

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Mary Anne Mc Cracken, radical and philanthropist, is born in Belfast

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James Smyth, MP for Dundalk, is killed in a riding accident

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