The First Regular Stage-Coach Service Between Dublin and Belfast Commences

Birth in Dublin of dramatist and orator, Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Colin Campbell of Glenure, known as the Red Fox, a notorious persecutor of Jacobites after Culloden, was shot in Appin

The first stage coach service from Dublin to Belfast opened on the 16th of April 1752.

The service was part of a campaign of improved infrastructure in Ireland.

All of the stage coach services ran from various inns in Dublin.

This meant that those who could afford the fare could now travel between towns at a much greater speed.