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Official founding date of the Provisional Committee of the Irish Volunteers

Saidie Paterson, trade unionist and peace activist, born in Belfast

John Gibson Lockhart, biographer and critic, editor Blackwoods magazine, died

Andrew Carnegie, Steel magnate and philanthropist, born in Dunfermline Scotland

James Napper Tandy leading radicals asks for Parliamentary reform for Ireland

Birth of Henry Sirr, Dublin town head of police

The second Irish parliament of Queen Anne sits from this date to 24 December

General Tam Dalyell raises a regiment to suppress Covenanters which later became the Royal Scots Greys