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Events

15 July - The Royal Hibernian Military School, founded in Dublin to educate orphaned children of members of the British armed forces in Ireland, is granted its Royal charter.
November - River Shannon made navigable from Killaloe (Lough Derg) to Roosky above Lough Ree.^[1]

1 May - The Hon. Arthur Wesley, later Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, soldier and statesman (died 1852).
May - Nicholas Tuite MacCarthy, Jesuit preacher (died 1833).
18 June - Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, politician, represented the United Kingdom at the Congress of Vienna (died 1822).
28 July - Hudson Lowe, British military leader (died 1844).
23 December - Martin Archer Shee, painter (died 1850).
Approximate date - Gorges Lowther, politician (died 1854).

23 January - Thomas Fortescue, politician (born 1683).
19 September - Robert MacCarty, Viscount Muskerry, Royal Navy officer (born 1698).
20 November - Charles Gardiner, landowner and politician (born 1720).
James Daly, politician (born c.1716).

↑ Delany, Ruth (1988). A celebration of 250 years of Ireland's Inland Waterways. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 49. ISBN 0-86281-200-3.

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