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1775 in Ireland
Summary
Events from the year
1775 in Ireland
.
←
1774
1773
1772
1771
1770
1775
in
Ireland
→
1776
1777
1778
1779
1780
Centuries:
16th
17th
18th
19th
20th
Decades:
1750s
1760s
1770s
1780s
1790s
See also:
Other events of 1775
List of years in Ireland
Incumbent
edit
Monarch
:
George III
Events
edit
Henry Flood
accepts a seat on the
Privy Council of Ireland
and becomes vice-treasurer.
[1]
Henry Grattan
enters the
Parliament of Ireland
and becomes leader of the "patriot party".
[1]
Approximate date –
Dark Hedges
planted.
Arts and literature
edit
17 January –
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
's first play, the
comedy of manners
The Rivals
, is premiered at the
Covent Garden Theatre
,
London
.
Robert Jephson
's tragedy
Braganza
is first performed at the
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
, London.
Births
edit
3 March –
Henry Prittie, 2nd Baron Dunalley
, politician (died
1854
).
25 April –
William Warren Baldwin
, doctor, businessman, lawyer, judge, architect and political figure in
Upper Canada
(died
1844
).
6 August –
Daniel O'Connell
, politician, campaigner for
Catholic Emancipation
and
Repeal of the Union
(died
1847
).
30 September –
Robert Adrain
, scientist and mathematician in America (died
1843
).
Full date unknown
Bernard McMahon
, horticulturalist in the United States (died
1816
).
William Thompson
, political and philosophical writer and social reformer (died
1833
).
Deaths
edit
27 April –
John Rutty
, Quaker physician and naturalist (born c. 1697 in England).
31 December –
Richard Montgomery
, soldier,
major general
in the
Continental Army
during the
Revolutionary War
(born
1738
).
Probable date –
Elizabeth Aldworth
, freemason (born 1693/5).
References
edit
^
a
b
Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967).
The Course of Irish History
. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 373.