Ireland

Poet and song writer Robert Allan was born in Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire.

Robert Fergusson Scottish poet, died.

When Robert Burns arrived in Edinburgh in 1786, he made a pilgramage to the Canongate kirkyard to pay his respects to the young man who had inspired his poetry and whose grave lay unmarked for 12 years since his death at the age of 24 in October 177

Rev Henry Duncan, founder of the first savings bank, born in the Manse at Lochrutton.

Poet Robert Tannahill born in Paisley.

Robert Tannahill (June 03, 1774 - May 17, 1810) was a Scottish poet known as the Paisley Poet. He was born in Paisley to a weaving family and was apprenticed in the same trade from the age of 12. After a short period of working in Bolton around 1800, Tannahill returned to Paisley to support the family in time of illness. In the years which followed, his interest in poetry and music blossomed and his writings began to appear in such publications as The Scots Magazine. In 1810, he died by his own hand, drowned in the Paisley Canal.

An act of the Irish parliament enables Catholics to testify their allegiance to the king

Oliver Goldsmith, Irish author of Deserted Village died.

Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was a well-known Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, dramatist and poet, noted for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur’d Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). He is thought by some to have written the classic children’s tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765)

Isaac Weld, author, is born in Dublin

Isaac Weld JP FGSD MRIA (1774–1856) was an Anglo-Irish topographical writer, explorer, and artist. He travelled extensively in North America was a member of the Royal Dublin Society.

Jacob Poolem antiquary, died in Growtown, Co. Wexford

Dudley Cosby (Baron Sydney), former MP for Carrick, commits suicide

Dudley Alexander Sydney Cosby, 1st Baron Sydney (c. 1730 – 22 January 1774), was an Irish politician and diplomat.

Lord John Beresford, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland, is born in Dublin

Lord John George de la Poer Beresford PC (Ire) (22 November 1773 – 18 July 1862) was an Anglican archbishop and Primate.