Ireland

Edmond Sexton Pery is unanimously re-elected as Speaker of the Irish parliament

A second convention of Dungannon, prepares the way for a National Volunteer convention

A Second Convention of Dungannon is held by the Ulster Volunteers — part of the Irish Volunteer movement — to discuss parliamentary reform and national political issues. The gathering plays a key role in mobilizing support across Ireland, and lays the groundwork for a National Volunteer Convention focused on achieving greater representation and legislative reform in the Irish Parliament. This convention reflects the growing influence of the Volunteers in late 18th-century Irish political life.

The Bank of Ireland is established in Dublin, by Royal charter

The Bank of Ireland is officially established in Dublin by Royal Charter granted by King George III. It begins operations and issues its first banknotes on this date.

The British Renunciation Act

The Irish Appeals Act 1783 (23 Geo. 3. c. 28), commonly known as the Renunciation Act, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. By it the British Parliament renounced all right to legislate for Ireland, and declared that no appeal from the decision of any court in Ireland could be heard in any court in Great Britain.

Barry Yelverton introduces the bill that will become Yelverton's Act

Barry Yelverton, 1st Viscount Avonmore, PC (Ire) KC (28 May 1736 – 19 August 1805), was an Irish judge and politician, who gave his name to Yelverton’s Act 1782, which effectively repealed Poynings’ Law and thus restored the independence of the Parliament of Ireland.

Birth of Charles McLaren, one of the founders of the Scotsman newspaper.

Poynings' Law Amended

Statute of Drogheda Poynings’ Law or the Statute of Drogheda later titled “An Act that no Parliament be holden in this Land until the Acts be certified into England”) was a 1494 Act of the Parliament of Ireland which provided that the parliament could not meet until its proposed legislation had been approved both by Ireland’s Lord Deputy and Privy Council and by England’s monarch and Privy Council.

Second and third Catholic Relief Acts

The third Catholic Relief Act came into effect on July 27, 1782. This act follows the second which was issued on May 04, 1782.

John Field, born

John Field (26 July 1782 – 23 January 1837), was an Irish pianist, composer, and teacher.

The Relief Act gives Catholics rights concerning their education