Ireland

First public meeting of the Society of United Irishmen in Belfast

Legislative independence had been won in 1782 but the Irish Parliament only had Protestant members and even those were effectively nominated by leading men of property. Attempts to reform the Parliament were entirely unsuccessful. The outbreak of the F

Wolfe Tone visits Belfast for the first time

First convicts from Ireland arrive in New South Wales, Australia

Between 1788 and 1868, about 162,000 convicts were transported from Great Britain and Ireland to various penal colonies in Australia.

Theobald Wolfe Tone publishes An argument on behalf of the Catholics of Ireland

Birth of the word quiz (allegedly and disputed). Richard Daly, a theatre proprietor in Dublin

The story goes that a Dublin theatre proprietor by the name of Richard Daly made a bet that he could, within forty-eight hours, make a nonsense word known throughout the city, and that the public would give a meaning to it. After the performance one evening, he gave his staff cards with the word quiz written on them, and told them to write the word on walls around the city. The next day the strange word was the talk of the town, and within a short time it had become part of the language.

Birth of Richard Lalor Sheil, dramatist and politician; first Catholic privy councillor, in Drumdowney, Co. Kilkenny

Demonstrations Commemorate the fall of the Bastille in 1789

Bastille Day is the common name given in English-speaking countries to the national day of France, which is celebrated on 14 July each year.

Robert Napier, regarded as the father of Clyde shipbuilding was born. He died on, 23 June, 1876.

John McHale, Archbishop of Tuam, is born in Trawler, Co. Mayo

John MacHale (6 March 1791) – 7 November 1881) was the Irish Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, and Irish nationalist.

Edmund Burkes Reflections on the Revolution in France is published