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Thomas Lloyd, son of John Lloyd, former MP for Kings County and Innistiogue, is killed at the head of his regiment at the passage of Nivelle in south-west France

Theobald Wolfe Tone tried and convicted of treason in the aftermath of the Irish Rebellion of 1798

National Volunteer convention on parliamentary reform begins at the Rotunda in Dublin

Oliver Goldsmith, playwright, novelist and poet, born