- 1797 in Ireland
Events
*General Lake's disarming of
Ulster .cite book | last=Moody, TW & Martin, FX (eds)| year=1967 |title=The Course of Irish History | publisher=The Mercier Press | location=Cork, Ireland | pages=p 374]
*Henry Grattan retires from parliament.Births
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Joseph Henry Blake , 3rdBaron Wallscourt ,socialist (d.1849).
*Charles C. Ingham , painter and founder of New York National Academy of Design (d.1863).
*Laurence F. Renehan , priest and historian (d.1857).Deaths
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9 July -Edmund Burke , statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher (b.1729)
*11 July -Charles Macklin , actor and dramatist (b.1690).Full date unknown
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William Orr , member of theUnited Irishmen , executed (b.1766).References
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