Ireland

The Relief Act grants Catholics parliamentary franchise and certain civil and military rights

Dionysius Lardner, scientific writer and lecturer, is born in Dublin

Dionysius Lardner FRS FRSE (3 April 1793 – 29 April 1859) was an Irish scientific writer who popularised science and technology, and edited the 133-volume Cabinet Cyclopædia.

Charlotte Brooke, author of Reliques of Ancient Irish Poetry, dies

Charlotte Brooke (c. 1740 – 1793), born in Rantavan, beside Mullagh in County Cavan, Ireland, was the author of Reliques of Irish Poetry, a pioneering volume of poems collected by her in the Irish language, with facing translations. She was one of twenty-two children fathered by the writer Henry Brooke, author of Gustavus Vasa; only she (and perhaps one other sibling) survived childhood.

A third convention of Dungannon a gathering of Volunteers from Ulster is held

Louis XVI is executed in Paris, attended by an Irish priest, Fr. Edgeworth

The execution of Louis XVI, the King of France, during the French Revolution took place on January 21, 1793. As part of the events surrounding his execution, Louis XVI was attended by an Irish priest named Father (or Fr.) Edgeworth, who was with the king in his final moments. Louis XVI was executed by guillotine in the Place de la Révolution in Paris.

Catholic Committee petition is presented to the king

The Catholic Committee’s petition presented to the king in 1793 refers to a significant event in the history of Catholic emancipation in the United Kingdom. The Catholic Committee was a group advocating for the rights of Catholics in Ireland. In 1793, a petition was presented to King George III on their behalf, seeking greater civil rights and political participation for Catholics.

A Catholic Convention is held in Tailors Hall to end penal laws

The Catholic Committee was a county association in late 18th-century Ireland that campaigned to relieve Catholics of their civil and political disabilities under the kingdom’s Protestant Ascendancy. After their organisation of a national Catholic Convention helped secure repeal of most of the remaining Penal Laws in 1793, the Committee dissolved.

Edward Hincks, orientalist, is born in Cork

The Belfast Harp Festival

The Belfast Harp Festival, called by contemporary writers The Belfast Harpers Assembly, 11–14 July 1792, was a three-day musical and patriotic event organized in Belfast, Ireland, by leading members of the local Society for Promoting Knowledge (the Linen Hall Library)

Thomas Romney Robinson, astronomer and physicist, is born in Dublin

John Thomas Romney Robinson FRAS FRS FRSE (23 April 1792 – 28 February 1882), usually referred to as Thomas Romney Robinson, was a 19th-century Irish astronomer and physicist. He was the longtime director of the Armagh Astronomical Observatory, one of the chief astronomical observatories in the UK of its time.