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1760 in Ireland
Summary
Events from the year
1760 in Ireland
.
←
1759
1758
1757
1756
1755
1760
in
Ireland
→
1761
1762
1763
1764
1765
Centuries:
16th
17th
18th
19th
20th
Decades:
1740s
1750s
1760s
1770s
1780s
See also:
Other events of 1760
List of years in Ireland
Incumbent
edit
Monarch
:
George II
(until 25 October), then
George III
Events
edit
21–26 February –
Battle of Carrickfergus
: A force of
French
troops under the command of
privateer
François Thurot
captures and holds the town and castle of
Carrickfergus
before retiring; the force is defeated (and Thurot killed) in a naval action in the
Irish Sea
on 28 February.
[1]
25 October –
George III
becomes King of Great Britain and Ireland upon the death of
George II
.
A Patriot Party under the leadership of Henry Flood, appears in the Irish House of Representatives.
[2]
Births
edit
28 January –
Mathew Carey
, publisher and economist in the
United States
(d.
1839
).
14 June –
George Forbes, 6th Earl of Granard
, general (d.
1837
).
20 September –
John Keating
, soldier and land developer (d.
1853
).
Jerome Alley
, clergyman and writer (d.
1826
).
Thomas Barnes Gough
, merchant and politician in
Upper Canada
(d.
1815
).
Francis Johnston
, architect (d.
1829
).
James Cavanah Murphy
, architect and antiquary (d.
1814
).
Edmond Stanley
, lawyer and politician (d.
1843
).
Approximate date –
Oliver Bond
, merchant and revolutionary (d.
1798
).
Deaths
edit
26 March –
Margaret Woffington
, actress (b. c1720).
23 September –
Sir Thomas Prendergast, 2nd Baronet
, politician.
25 October –
George II
,
King of Great Britain and Ireland
;
Elector of Hanover
;
Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
(born 1683)
Full date unknown
Patrick Cotter O'Brien
, known as the
Bristol Giant
and the
Irish Giant
(died
1806
).
References
edit
^
Rodger, N. A. M.
(2006).
The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649–1815
. London: Penguin Books;
National Maritime Museum
. p. 283.
ISBN
0-14-102690-1
.
^
"Ireland 1760–1789". Archived from the original on 2007-04-15
. Retrieved
2007-04-10
.