1783 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 1783 in Ireland.

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5 March – the Count de Belgioioso, bound from Liverpool to China, founders on the Kish Bank in Dublin Bay in a storm. On 2 June, Scottish diver Charles Spalding and his nephew Ebenezer Watson die in attempting to salvage the £150,000-worth of cargo from the ship using a diving bell of Spalding's design.^[1]
17 March – Installation dinner for the founding of the Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick by King George III of the United Kingdom takes place in Dublin Castle.^[2]
17 April – the Renunciation Act, is passed by Westminster. It acknowledges the exclusive right of the Parliament of Ireland to legislate for Ireland.
25 June – the Bank of Ireland opens for business in a former private residence at Mary's Abbey off Capel Street in Dublin and begins to issue notes.
The first balloon ascent takes place on Leinster House grounds in Dublin^[3]
3 October – first Waterford Crystal glassmaking business begins production in Waterford.

26 April – Peter Boyle de Blaquière, politician in Canada and first chancellor of the University of Toronto (died 1860).
28 April – Sir Eyre Coote, KB, soldier (born 1726).
24 July – William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey, politician and statesman (died 1843).

2 October – Joseph Leeson, 1st Earl of Milltown (born 1701).
10 October – Henry Brooke, writer (born 1703).
2 December – Thomas Burke, physician, lawyer and Governor of North Carolina (b. c1747).

Book: Kilfeather, Siobhán. Dublin: a cultural history. 2005. Oxford University Press. New York. 9780195182019. 63–65. 2nd. 2013-01-23.
Book: Galloway, Peter. Peter Galloway. 1999. The Most Illustrious Order: The Order of St Patrick and its Knights. London. Unicorn. 0906290236.
Web site: 9 November 2016. Leinster House, Houses of the Oireachtas.