Henry Grattan, Dies

Robert O’Hara Burke, explorer, born in St. Cleran’s, Co. Galway

The Dublin Society for Improving Husbandry, which was originally founded on June 25 in 1731, becomes the Royal Dublin Society on this date

Henry Grattan, the driving force behind the independent Irish Parliament at College Green before its dissolution by the Act of Union, dies. Despite his expressed wishes, he is buried in Westminster Abbey.