1769_in_Ireland Knowpia

Centuries:	16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th;
Decades:	1740s; 1750s; 1760s; 1770s; 1780s;
See also:	Other events of 1769 ; List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1769 in Ireland.

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15 July – the Royal Hibernian Military School, founded in Dublin to educate orphaned children of members of the British armed forces in Ireland, is granted its Royal charter.
November – River Shannon made navigable from Killaloe (Lough Derg) to Roosky above Lough Ree.^[1]

1 May – the Hon. Arthur Wesley, later Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, soldier and statesman (died 1852).
May – Nicholas Tuite MacCarthy, Jesuit preacher (died 1833).
18 June – Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, politician, represented the United Kingdom at the Congress of Vienna (died 1822).
28 July – Hudson Lowe, British military leader (died 1844).
23 December – Martin Archer Shee, painter (died 1850).
Approximate date – Gorges Lowther, politician (died 1854).

23 January – Thomas Fortescue, politician (born 1683).
19 September – Robert MacCarty, Viscount Muskerry, Royal Navy officer (born 1698).
20 November – Charles Gardiner, landowner and politician (born 1720).
James Daly, politician (born c.1716).

^ Delany, Ruth (1988). A celebration of 250 years of Ireland's Inland Waterways. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 49. ISBN 0-86281-200-3.