Ireland

countries: Ireland

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The House of Commons proposes that all unregistered priests in Ireland should be branded on the cheek. The plan is ultimately abandoned.

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Battle of Glenshiel, Jacobites with Spanish assistance, and government forces clashed.

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Viscount Edmond Pery, speaker of the House of Commons, born

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The Toleration Act for Protestant Dissenters is passed

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Birth of Thomas Waite, MP and Under Secretary for the Civil Department

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Birth in Dublin of actress, Peg Woffington

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The Breton gentry gather in Rennes to defend the liberties of Brittany.

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Thomas St Lawrence, 13th Baron of Howth, receives £215 14s 1 1-2d for the expense he incurs in building a quay at Howth for landing coals for the lighthouse

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Nathaniel Hone, portrait painter, is born in Dublin

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