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1776 in Ireland
Summary
Events from the year
1776 in Ireland
.
←
1775
1774
1773
1772
1771
1776
in
Ireland
→
1777
1778
1779
1780
1781
Centuries:
16th
17th
18th
19th
20th
Decades:
1750s
1760s
1770s
1780s
1790s
See also:
Other events of 1776
List of years in Ireland
Incumbent
edit
Monarch
:
George III
Events
edit
3 February – proclamation imposing an
embargo
on export of provisions from Ireland to secure supplies for the
British Army
fighting in the
American Revolutionary War
.
[1]
4 April – act of the
Parliament of Ireland
to prevent "tumultuous risings", directed against the
Whiteboys
.
[1]
4 July –
United States Declaration of Independence
signed in
Philadelphia
. Eight of the signatories are
Irish American
, three (
Matthew Thornton
,
George Taylor
and
James Smith
) having been born in Ireland. This night,
Strabane
-born
John Dunlap
prints copies at his shop in the city.
Births
edit
3 July –
Henry Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton
, politician. (died
1842
).
1 August –
Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford
,
MP
,
Lieutenant-Governor
of
Lower Canada
and
Governor General
of
British North America
(died
1849
).
11 September –
Thomas Arbuthnot
, British military officer (died
1849
).
1 October –
Augustus Warren Baldwin
, naval officer and political figure in
Upper Canada
(died
1866
).
Deaths
edit
25 September –
Thomas Burke
,
Roman Catholic Bishop of Ossory
(born c.1709).
References
edit
^
a
b
Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989).
A New History of Ireland.
8
: A Chronology of Irish History
. Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-19-821744-2
.