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August 12, 1796

Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin receives its first prisoners

July 12, 1796

Orange Order 1st Twelfth

June 21, 1796

Scottish explorer Mungo Park reached the source of the river Niger in Africa.

May 8, 1796

John Pitt Kennedy, civil engineer; road and railway pioneer in India, is born in Carndonagh, Co. Donegal

March 24, 1796

The Insurrection Act imposes curfews, arms searches, and the death penalty for oath-taking

November 2, 1797

Tyrone Power, actor and great-grandfather of the Hollywood movie star of the same name, is born

October 11, 1797

The British fleet, defeated the Dutch off the village of Camperdown, Holland

August 29, 1797

Battle of Tranent

July 9, 1797

Edmund Burke, died

February 26, 1797

The Bank of Ireland suspends gold payments

February 24, 1797

Samuel Lover, Dublin writer, artist, musician and songwriter, born

February 22, 1797

The last invasion of England, Small French force commanded by Irishman William Tate lands in Wales

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