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1776 in Ireland
Events from the year
1776 in Ireland
.
Incumbent
Monarch
:
George III
Events
3 February â proclamation imposing an
embargo
on export of provisions from Ireland to secure supplies for the
British Army
fighting in the
American Revolutionary War
.
4 April â act of the
Parliament of Ireland
to prevent "tumultuous risings", directed against the
Whiteboys
.
4 July âÂÂ
United States Declaration of Independence
signed in
Philadelphia
. Eight of the signatories are
Irish American
, three (
Matthew Thornton
,
George Taylor
and
James Smith
) having been born in Ireland. This night,
Strabane
-born
John Dunlap
prints copies at his shop in the city.
Births
3 July âÂÂ
Henry Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton
, politician. (died
1842
).
1 August âÂÂ
Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford
,
MP
,
Lieutenant-Governor
of
Lower Canada
and
Governor General
of
British North America
(died
1849
).
11 September âÂÂ
Thomas Arbuthnot
, British military officer (died
1849
).
1 October âÂÂ
Augustus Warren Baldwin
, naval officer and political figure in
Upper Canada
(died
1866
).
Deaths
25 September âÂÂ
Thomas Burke
,
Roman Catholic Bishop of Ossory
(born c.1709).
References