Ireland

Lord John Allen (3rd Viscount Allen), former MP for Carysfort, dies of a fever caused from cuts to his fingers inflicted by the sword of a dragoon

Count Daniel O'Connell, a soldier in French and British services, is born in Derrynane, Co. Kerry

Battle of Fontenoy, the Irish Brigade of the French army under Lieutenant Charles O'Brien repulses the British and wins the day

John Allen (3rd Viscount Allen), former MP for Carysfort, kills a dragoon in a street brawl

Birth of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, inventor, educationist and politician

Lord Netterville, indicted for the murder of Michael Walsh, is acquitted by his Parlimentary Peers

Nicholas Netterville, 5th Viscount Netterville (1708–1750) was an Irish peer, who is mainly remembered for having been tried and acquitted by his peers on a charge of murder.

Birth of Walter Hussey (Burgh), lawyer, politician and orator

Henry Dundas, powerful politician, known as Uncrowned King of Scotland, born.

William Crotty, outlaw of the Comeragh mountains, is tried in Waterford

William Crotty (“Crotty the Robber”) (1712–42) was a highwayman who was hanged in Waterford in 1742. Several of his hideouts in the Comeragh Mountains are named after him.

Clotworthy Skeffington, 2nd Earl of Massereene, is born in Co. Antrim

Clotworthy Skeffington, 2nd Earl of Massereene, (28 January 1742 – 28 February 1805) was an Irish peer born in the 18th century and he was a member of a prominent family in County Antrim, Ireland. He was an Anglo-Irish peer who was imprisoned in France for almost twenty years.