Date | | | |
1726 | | The Linen-hall opened for the sale of goods. | |
1727 | | Charter granted to the city by George II. | |
1728 | | The Charitable Infirmary on the Inns-quay founded. Population of Dublin, 146,075. | |
1729 | | Parliament met in Dublin at the Blue Coat Hospital, in which an attempt was made to vote the supplies for twenty-one years, which was negatived by a majority of one. The building of the Parliament House, College green, commenced. The river on the north side confined by the north wall. Foundations of St. Mark's church and of Ringsend-bridge laid. Linen scarfs worn at funerals to encourage the linen manufacture. | |
1730 | | The workhouse converted into an hospital for foundlings. | |
1730 | | An intense frost from the end of December to the beginning of February, when the Liffey was frozen over, so that the people amused themselves on the ice. A plague and famine followed. The Parliament House, College-green, finished, at an expense of £40,000. | |
1731 | | A music-hall opened in Crow-street on the site where the theatre was afterwards built. The Dublin Society instituted. | |
1732 | | The building of the College Library finished. | |
1733 | | The custom of burying in wooden shrouds introduced. Interest of money reduced to six per cent. The society for the erection of Protestant schools, commonly called the Charter Schools' Society incorporated. A school built near Clontarf. Theatres opened in Rainsford-street and Aungier-street. The steeple of Trinity College commenced. Steevens' Hospital opened. | |
1734 | | Mercer's Hospital, built on the site of St. Stephen's Church, finished. | |