- 1775 in Ireland
Events
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Henry Flood accepts a seat on thePrivy Council of Ireland and becomes vice-treasurer.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 373]
*Henry Grattan enters the Irish Parliament and becomes leader of the "patriot party".Births
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3 March -Henry Prittie, 2nd Baron Dunalley , politician (d.1854).
*25 April -William Warren Baldwin , doctor, businessman, lawyer, judge, architect and political figure inUpper Canada (d.1844).
*6 August -Daniel O'Connell , politician, campaigner forCatholic Emancipation and Repeal of the Union (d.1847).
*30 September -Robert Adrain , scientist and mathematician in America (d.1843).Full date unknown
*William Thompson, political and philosophical writer and social reformer (d.1833).
Deaths
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31 December -Richard Montgomery , soldier,major general in theContinental Army during the Revolutionary War (b.1738).References
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