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Most of United Free Church merged with Church of Scotland.

Lennox Robinson, playwright and one-time Abbey Theatre manager, is born in Douglas, Co. Cork

Boys Brigade founded in Glasgow.

Birth of heavyweight bare-knuckle boxer Jim Dunne in Co. Kildare. Dunne won the American heavyweight title from fellow Irishman Jim Elliot - the pair were jailed after the illegal event

Death of John Rennie, engineer who constructed the Crinan Canal.

African explorer Alexander Laing, born.

William Bligh, Cornish man, Mutiny on the Bounty fame was born.

Edmund Malone, editor and Shakespearian scholar, is born in Dublin