Births

• October - Boyle Roche
  Boyle Roche
  Sir Boyle Roche, 1st Baronet was an Irish politician. After a distinguished career in North America with the British Army, Roche became a member of the Irish House of Commons in 1775, generally acting in support of the viceregal government...
  
  , politician (d.1807
  1807 in Ireland
  -Births:*7 March - John McCaul, educator, theologian, and the second president of the University of Toronto .*10 March - James Fintan Lalor, revolutionary, journalist and writer .*27 September - John T. Mullock, Roman Catholic Bishop of St...
  
  ).
• John Alexander, minister and writer (d.1765
  1765 in Ireland
  -Deaths:*29 December - John Alexander, minister and writer .*31 December - Samuel Madden, clergyman and writer ....
  
  ).

Deaths

• 10 March - William Cosby, British royal governor of New York (b.1690
  1690 in Ireland
  -Events:*14 June - William lands at Carrickfergus in Ulster and marches south to take Dublin.*29 June - Williamites reach the Boyne.*12 July - Battle of the Boyne, Jacobite supporters are defeated by William III....
  
  ).