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Events
- Sacramental Test abolished.[1]
- Henry Grattan demands parliamentary independence.[1]
Births
- January - William Henry Fitton, geologist (d.1861).
- 13 April - Alexander Mitchell, engineer and inventor of the screw-pile lighthouse (d.1868).
- 17 August - George Croly, poet, novelist, historian and divine (d.1860).
- 20 December - John Wilson Croker, statesman and author (d.1857).
Full date unknown
- Michael John Brenan, priest and ecclesiastical historian (d.1847).
- Anne Devlin, Irish republican and housekeeper to Robert Emmet (d.1851).
- Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin, author, teacher, draper and politician (d.1838).
Deaths
References
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