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1777 in Ireland
Summary
Events from the year
1777 in
Ireland
.
←
1776
1775
1774
1773
1772
1777
in
Ireland
→
1778
1779
1780
1781
1782
Centuries:
16th
17th
18th
19th
20th
Decades:
1750s
1760s
1770s
1780s
1790s
See also:
Other events of 1777
List of years in Ireland
Incumbent
edit
Monarch
:
George III
Events
edit
25 January –
John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire
, is sworn in as
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
.
[1]
19 February – the
Langrishe Baronetcy
, of
Knocktopher
Abbey in the County of
Kilkenny
, is created in the
Baronetage of Ireland
for
Hercules Langrishe
, Member of Parliament for
Knocktopher
in the
Irish House of Commons
.
[2]
29 May – the
Palmer Baronetcy
, of Castle Lackin in the County of
Mayo
, is created in the Baronetage of Ireland for Roger Palmer.
[3]
Summer – the
code duello
is adopted at the
Clonmel
Assizes
as the form for pistol
duels
by gentlemen in Ireland.
Rev.
Thomas Campbell
publishes the first edition of
A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland in a series of letters to John Watkinson, M.D.
anonymously in London.
Arts and literature
edit
15 April – first performance of
John O'Keeffe
's play
The Shamrock
at the
Crow Street Theatre
in Dublin. The playwright moves to London this year.
8 May – first performance of
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
's
comedy of manners
The School for Scandal
at the
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
in London.
[4]
Births
edit
17 March –
Patrick Brunty
,
Anglican
clergyman
and father of the
Brontë sisters
(died 1861).
4 May –
Richard Bourke
, soldier and
Governor
of
New South Wales
,
Australia
from 1831 to 1837 (died
1855
).
22 June –
William Brown
, creator and first admiral of the
Argentine Navy
(died
1857
).
12 August -
Chichester Fortescue
, who briefly served as an Irish Member of Parliament (died
1826
).
Deaths
edit
3 February –
Hugh Kelly
, dramatist and poet (born
1739
).
18 July –
William O'Brien, 4th Earl of Inchiquin
, peer and politician (born
1700
).
References
edit
^
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
.
^
Kidd, Charles; Williamson, David, eds. (1990).
Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage
. New York: St. Martin's Press.
^
Leigh Rayment's list of baronets
^
Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History
. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 331.
ISBN
0-304-35730-8
.