1775 in Ireland

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Decades:	1750s • 1760s • 1770s • 1780s • 1790s
Centuries:	16th • 17th • 18th • 19th • 20th
See also:	Other events of 1775 List of years in Ireland

Contents

1 Events
2 Births
- 2.1 Full date unknown
3 Deaths
4 References

Events

Henry Flood accepts a seat on the Privy Council of Ireland and becomes vice-treasurer.^[1]
Henry Grattan enters the Irish Parliament and becomes leader of the "patriot party".^[1]

Births

3 March - Henry Prittie, 2nd Baron Dunalley, politician (d.1854).
25 April - William Warren Baldwin, doctor, businessman, lawyer, judge, architect and political figure in Upper Canada (d.1844).
6 August - Daniel O'Connell, politician, campaigner for Catholic 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

31 December - Richard Montgomery, soldier, major general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War (b.1738).

References

^ ^a ^b Moody, TW & Martin, FX (eds) (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork, Ireland: The Mercier Press. pp. p 373.