Ireland

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French fleet abandons attempted Jacobite invasion of Scotland

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First meeting of the Parliament of Great Britain.

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Thomas Erle, MP for Cork city, commands the centre at the Battle of Alamanza and loses his right hand on this date; David Dunbar, later MP for Blessington, is wounded and captured in the same battle, and John Upton, later MP for Co. Antrim, distinguishes

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Sir Henry Cavendish, MP and incompetent Teller of the Exchequer, born

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Last Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh before the Union with Westminster.

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Francis Flood, grandfather of Henry Flood, is expelled from the House of Commons for abuses against Agmondisham Cuffe MP, Cuffes tenants and others in Co. Kilkenny

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On this date, May Eustace Sherlock, gentleman, petitions the Commons for relief from the great oppressions he lies under, by the undue practices and power of Maurice Annesley, a Justice of the Peace. Annesley is an MP. The ensuing complicated legal case

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An English act permits direct export of Irish linen to American colonies

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The town of Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh is virtually destroyed by an accidental fire. One hundred and fourteen families and their servants suffer severe losses, and the barracks of her Majesty (Queen Anne) sustains great damage, the total loss being comput

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