Births

• 29 May - James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster
  James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster
  Lieutenant-General James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, etc. PC , styled Lord Offaly until 1744 and known as The Earl of Kildare between 1744 and 1761 and as The Marquess of Kildare between 1761 and 1766, was an Irish nobleman, soldier and politician.-Background:Leinster was the son of Robert...
  
  , politician (d.1773
  1773 in Ireland
  -Births:*23 July - Abraham Colles, professor of Anatomy, Surgery and Physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland .*19 August - Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry, politician ....
  
  ).
• Sir John Blackwood, 2nd Baronet
  Sir John Blackwood, 2nd Baronet
  Sir John Blackwood, 2nd Baronet was an Irish politician and baronet.He was the eldest son of Sir Robert Blackwood, 1st Baronet. Blackwood entered the Irish House of Commons for Killyleagh in 1761 and sat for it until 1768. He was then returned for Bangor until 1776...
  
  , politician (d.1799
  1799 in Ireland
  -Births:*1799 Joseph M. Hawkins, Alamo Defender .*28 February - William Dargan, engineer and railway builder .*9 August - Henry Maxwell, 7th Baron Farnham, politician and peer .*12 August - Patrick MacDowell, sculptor .-Deaths:...
  
  ).

Deaths

• 11 March - John Toland
  John Toland
  John Toland was a rationalist philosopher and freethinker, and occasional satirist, who wrote numerous books and pamphlets on political philosophy and philosophy of religion, which are early expressions of the philosophy of the Age of Enlightenment...
  
  , philosopher (b.1670
  1670 in Ireland
  -Births:*30 November - John Toland, philosopher .*Turlough O'Carolan, blind, itinerant, harpist, sometimes styled "The Last of the Bards" ....
  
  ).