1783 in Ireland

1783 in Ireland

Events

*17 April - The Renunciation Act, is passed by Westminster. It acknowledges the exclusive right of the Parliament of Ireland to legislate for Ireland.

Births

*26 April - Peter Boyle de Blaquière, politician in Canada and first chancellor of the University of Toronto (d.1860).
*28 April - Sir Eyre Coote, KB, soldier (b.1726).
*24 July - William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey, politician and statesman (d.1843).

Deaths

*2 October - Joseph Leeson, 1st Earl of Milltown (b.1701).
*2 December - Thomas Burke, physician, lawyer and Governor of North Carolina (b. c1747).

Full date unknown

*James Adair, trader with Native Americans and historian (b. c1709).
*Robert Barber, quartermaster on "HMS Adventure" during Captain Cook's Second Voyage (b.1749).
*Henry Brooke, novelist and dramatist (b.1703).


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