Ireland

During a trial in the court of Kings Bench, Dublin, panick to all the people who crowded to get out

Panic in the Court of King’s Bench, Dublin, as a neighbouring chimney catches fire, sending a thick cloud of smoke billowing into the courtroom. The incident caused widespread alarm among those present, as smoke quickly filled the chamber and spectators scrambled to escape, fearing a greater conflagration.

Tobias Smollett, novelist, born

Tobias George Smollett (baptised 19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was a Scottish novelist, surgeon, critic and playwright.[1] He was best known for picaresque novels such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748), The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771), which influenced later novelists, including Charles Dickens. His novels were liberally altered by contemporary printers; an authoritative edition of each was edited by Dr O. M. Brack Jr and others.

The Declatory Act defines the right of the British Parliament to legislate for Ireland

An Act for the better securing the dependency of the Kingdom of Ireland on the Crown of Great Britain (6 Geo. 1. c. 5) was a 1719 Act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain which declared that it had the right to pass laws for the Kingdom of Ireland, and that the British House of Lords had appellate jurisdiction for Irish court cases. It became known as the Declaratory Act, and opponents in the Irish Patriot Party referred to it as the Sixth of George I (from the regnal year it was passed).

Spranger Barry, actor, is born in Dublin

Spranger Barry, (23 November 1719 – 10 January 1777) the renowned Irish actor, was born on November 23, 1719, in Skinners Row (Christ Church Place), Dublin.

The Toleration Act for Protestant Dissenters is passed

The House of Commons proposes that all unregistered priests in Ireland should be branded on the cheek

In the early 18th century, during a period of intense anti-Catholic sentiment and repression in Ireland, the House of Commons in the British Parliament proposed a harsh measure: that all unregistered Catholic priests in Ireland should be branded on the cheek. This proposal, however, was ultimately abandoned and never implemented.

Battle of Glenshiel, Jacobites with Spanish assistance, and government forces clashed.

Viscount Edmond Pery, speaker of the House of Commons, born

Edmund Sexton Pery, 1st Viscount Pery (8 April 1719 – 24 February 1806; middle name also spelt Sexten) was an Anglo-Irish politician who served as Speaker of the Irish House of Commons between 1771 and 1785.

Birth of Thomas Waite, MP and Under Secretary for the Civil Department

Thomas Waite (11 November 1718 – 2 February 1780), was an English civil servant who worked in Ireland. He was born in Richmond in Yorkshire.

Birth in Dublin of actress, Peg Woffington