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August 24, 1747

Birth in Dublin of William La Touche, founder of the Bank of Ireland

May 20, 1747

James Lind began a controlled experiment which demonstrated that citrus fruits could prevent scurvy

June 13, 1748

Sir Robert King, MP for Boyle, Co. Roscommon, is created Baron Kingsborough

March 10, 1748

John Playfair, clergyman, geologist, mathematician, born.

October 3, 1750

James McLaine, gentleman highwayman born in Monaghan, is hanged at Tyburn

July 24, 1750

John Philpott Curran, born

October 30, 1751

Birth in Dublin of dramatist and orator, Richard Brinsley Sheridan

October 19, 1751

Birth in Dublin of Charles Edward Kilmaine who was a general in the French army

July 9, 1751

Rotunda Hospital, in Dublin, foundation stone is laid

November 2, 1752

Philip Twisden, Bishop of Raphoe, dies

September 3, 1752

Give us back our, 11 days with the adoption of the Gregorian calendar

September 2, 1752

The Gregorian calendar is adopted in Ireland and Britain

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