Births

• 13 October - John Cole, 1st Baron Mountflorence
  John Cole, 1st Baron Mountflorence
  John Cole, 1st Baron Mountflorence was an Irish peer and politician.Born in Dublin, he was the son of John Cole, Member of Parliament for Enniskillen...
  
  , politician (d.1767
  1767 in Ireland
  -Births:*1 January - Maria Edgeworth, novelist .*14 March - Charles Arbuthnot, Tory politician and member of the Privy Council .*19 May - Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty, diplomat, Irish, and later British, MP ....
  
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• Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby
  Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby
  Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby was an Irish ecclesiastic.Robinson came to Ireland as chaplain to the Duke of Dorset in 1751. He was translated from the See of Kildare to the Archbishopric of Armagh in 1765....
  
  , Archbishop of Armagh and founder of the Armagh Observatory
  Armagh Observatory
  Armagh Observatory is a modern astronomical research institute with a rich heritage, based in Armagh, Northern Ireland. Around 25 astronomers are actively studying stellar astrophysics, the Sun, Solar System astronomy, and the Earth's climate....
  
   (d.1794
  1794 in Ireland
  -Events:*4 May - Dublin Society of United Irishmen suppressed.*Establishment of Ballincollig Gunpowder Mills.-Births:*9 January - Mother Frances Mary Teresa Ball, founder of Irish Branch of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Loreto schools ....
  
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Deaths

• February - Sir Thomas Prendergast, 1st Baronet, soldier, killed at the Battle of Malplaquet
  Battle of Malplaquet
  The Battle of Malplaquet, fought on 11 September 1709, was one of the main battles of the War of the Spanish Succession, which opposed the Bourbons of France and Spain against an alliance whose major members were the Habsburg Monarchy, Great Britain, the United Provinces and the Kingdom of...
  
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