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Events
Births
- 1 January - Maria Edgeworth, novelist (d.1849).
- 14 March - Charles Arbuthnot, Tory politician and member of the Privy Council (d.1850).
- 19 May - Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty, diplomat, Irish, and later British, MP (d.1837).
- 31 August - Henry Joy McCracken, cotton manufacturer and industrialist, Presbyterian and a founding member of the Society of the United Irishmen (d.1798).
- 21 November - Thomas Russell, co-founder and leader of the United Irishmen, executed for his part in Robert Emmet's rebellion (d.1803).
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Deaths
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