Ireland

Birth in Co. Tipperary of Fr. Theobald Matthew, “The Apostle of Temperance” and campaigner against alcohol

MP for Cork, James Bernard, died

James Bernard (8 December 1729 – 7 July 1790) was an Irish politician and ancestor of the Earls of Bandon.

The Irish mail coach 1st Run

John Foster defeats William Brabazon Ponsonby

In an election for Speaker of the Irish parliament, John Foster defeats William Brabazon Ponsonby by 145 votes to 105

Birth in Knockfin, Co. Laois of Arthur Jacob - noted oculist and Professor of Anatomy in the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin

Edmund Butler, 11th Viscount Mountgarret, fights a duel with a Counsellor Busheh

Edmund Butler, 11th Viscount Mountgarret and former Member of Parliament for County Kilkenny, fights a duel with Counsellor Bushe, a prominent barrister of the time. During the encounter, Bushe is seriously wounded in the stomach, though he survives the injury.

Flora MacDonald, who helped to save Prince Charles Edward Stewart, died

Flora MacDonald 1722 to 5 March 1790, is best known for helping Charles Edward Stuart evade government troops after the Battle of Culloden in April 1746. Her family had generally backed the government during the 1745 Rising, and MacDonald later claimed to have assisted Charles out of sympathy for his situation.

The Northern Whig Club is founded in Belfast

The Northern Whig is a bar housed in a historical building in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

James Wills, clergyman and writer, is born in Castlerea, Co. Roscommon

James Wills (1 January 1790 – November 1868) was an Irish writer and poet.

Work begins on the construction of the Royal Canal