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Events
Arts and literature
- Oliver Goldsmith play She Stoops to Conquer is first performed.
Births
- 23 July - Abraham Colles, professor of Anatomy, Surgery and Physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (d.1843).
- 19 August - Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry, politician (d.1853).
- 19 November - Robert Arbuthnot, British military officer (d.1863).
- 22 November - John George de la Poer Beresford, Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland) (d.1862).
Full date unknown
- William Beatty, Ship's Surgeon on HMS Victory during the Battle of Trafalgar (d.1842).
- John Shaw, Captain in the United States Navy (d.1823).[1]
Deaths
- 17 April - Arthur Gore, 1st Earl of Arran, politician (b.1703).
- 19 November - Charles Clinton, French and Indian War Colonel (b.1690.
- 19 November - James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, politician (b.1722).
References
- ^ Dodge, Ross. "John Shaw". find a grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=41323568. Retrieved 2009-09-18.
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