Ireland

countries: Ireland

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William Wood is Granted Patent

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Minister, historian, playwright and tutor to the Prince of Wales, John Home born. After the first performance of his play Douglas, people asked Whaurs yer Wully Shakespeare noo?

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Birth of James Fitzgerald, 20th Earl of Kildare; Duke of Leinster; politician and Lord Justice

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Birth of William Fortescuem, politician and sportsman, who tried unsuccessfully in the 1760s to introduce a bill to preserve partridges and hares and to take away the lives of above half the dogs in the nation

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Charles Leslie, Irish controversialist, dies

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During a trial in the court of Kings Bench, Dublin, a neighbouring chimney took fire, blew the smoke into the court and gave a panick to all the people who crowded to get out

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Tobias Smollett, novelist, born

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The Declatory Act defines the right of the British Parliament to legislate for Ireland

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Spranger Barry, actor, is born in Dublin

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