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Events
- Henry Flood accepts a seat on the Privy Council of Ireland and becomes vice-treasurer.[1]
- Henry Grattan enters the Irish Parliament and becomes leader of the "patriot party".[1]
Births
- 3 March - Henry Prittie, 2nd Baron Dunalley, politician (d.1854).
- 25 April - William Warren Baldwin, doctor, businessman, lawyer, judge, architect and political figure in Upper Canada (d.1844).
- 6 August - Daniel O'Connell, politician, campaigner for Catholic Emancipation and Repeal of the Union (d.1847).
- 30 September - Robert Adrain, scientist and mathematician in America (d.1843).
Full date unknown
- William Thompson, political and philosophical writer and social reformer (d.1833).
Deaths
- 31 December - Richard Montgomery, soldier, major general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War (b.1738).
References
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