Events from the year 1747 in Ireland.

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Events

*19 January – "Kelly riots" at the Smock Alley Theatre in

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, the proprietor, is in dispute with some gentlemen. *28 February – George Stone,

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Bishop of Derry, is elevated to

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13 March), an office he will hold until

1764 1764 ( MDCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday and is the fifth year of the 1760s decade, the 64th year of the 18th century, and the 764th year of the 2nd millennium. Events January–June * January 7 – The Siculicidium is ...

. *21 April –

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sets up Burke's Club, a debating society at Trinity College Dublin, which will become the

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. *9–14 August –

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pays his first visit to Ireland. *14 August – death of

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is separated into the bishopric of Cork and the bishopric of Cloyne and Ross. *9 September–20 March

1748 Events January–March * January 12 – Ahmad Shah Durrani captures Lahore. * January 27 – A fire at the prison and barracks at Kinsale, in Ireland, kills 54 of the prisoners of war housed there. An estimated 500 prison ...

– Charles Wesley pays his first visit to Ireland. *11 September – Daniel O'Reilly is appointed to succeed

Ross MacMahon Ross Roe MacMahon (born 1698 in Enagh, County Monaghan) was ordained to the priesthood in 1727. He was appointed as Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher on 8 November 1738 following the appointment of his predecessor, Bernard MacMahon, to the see ...

as Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, an office he will hold until

1778 Events January–March * January 18 – Third voyage of James Cook: Captain James Cook, with ships HMS ''Resolution'' and HMS ''Discovery'', first views Oahu then Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands of the Pacific Ocean, which he na ...

Births

*February –

Daniel Delany Daniel Delany DD (February 1747, in Paddock, Mountrath, Laois, Ireland – 9 July 1814, in Tullow, County Carlow) was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin. Educated at the Irish College in Paris, he taught at the English Boys Col ...

, Bishop of Kildare and Leighton (1787–1814), founder of Carlow College (1793),

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(1807) and

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(1808). *8 April –

William Hales William Hales (8 April 1747 – 30 January 1831) was an Irish clergyman and scientific writer. He was born in Cork, Ireland, the son of Samuel Hales, the curate at the cathedral church there. He went to Trinity College, Dublin in 1764 and became ...

, clergyman and scientific writer (died

1831 Events January–March * January 1 – William Lloyd Garrison begins publishing '' The Liberator'', an anti-slavery newspaper, in Boston, Massachusetts. * January 10 – Japanese department store, Takashimaya in Kyoto establ ...

). *27 December – R. Luke Concanen, Dominican priest, consecrated first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York (died 1810 in Naples). *

John Dunlap John Dunlap (1747 – 27 November 1812) was an early American printer who emigrated from Ireland and who printed the first copies of the United States Declaration of Independence and was one of the most successful Irish/American printers of his ...

, printer of the

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1812 in the United States The following is a partial list of events from the year 1812 in the United States. After years of increasing tensions, the United States declares war on the British Empire, starting the War of 1812. Incumbents Federal Government * President ...

). *

Andrew Robinson Stoney Andrew Robinson Stoney, later renamed Andrew Robinson Stoney-Bowes, (1747–1810) was an Anglo-Irish member of parliament, high sheriff and criminal. Stoney grew up at Greyfort House, Borrisokane, County Tipperary in Ireland, son of George Sto ...

, adventurer (died 1810 in King's Bench Prison, London).

Deaths

*27 May – Bernard MacMahon, Roman Catholic

(born

1680 Events January–March * January 2 – King Amangkurat II of Mataram (located on the island of Java, part of modern-day Indonesia), invites Trunajaya, who had led a failed rebellion against him until his surrender on December ...

). * Anthony Duane, businessman in America (born

1679 Events January–June * January 24 – King Charles II of England dissolves the "Cavalier Parliament", after nearly 18 years. * February 3 – Moroccan troops from Fez are killed, along with their commander Moussa ben Ahmed be ...

References

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1740s in Ireland