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1696 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1696 in Ireland.
Incumbent
[edit]Events
[edit]- April 27 – an act of the Parliament of England for encouraging linen manufacture in Ireland allows plain linen to be exported to England without an import tariff being applied.[1]
- May 2 – The Irish Admiralty’s prize commissioners lodged embezzlement charges related to captured French goods, mainly wines, valued at over £7,279. The suit targeted naval officers such as: Captains Bing, Shovell, and Fitz-Patrick.[2]
- Famine in the Scottish Borders leads to a new wave of Scottish Presbyterian migration from Scotland to Ulster.
Births
[edit]- December 1 – Francis Burton, politician (d. 1744)
- Sir Edward Barry, 1st Baronet, physician and politician (d. 1776)
- Thomas Drennan, Presbyterian minister (d. 1768)
- Approximate date – James Latham, portrait painter (d. 1747)
- Abraham Shackleton, Quaker (d. 1771)[3]
Deaths
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- March 18 – Bonaventure Baron, Franciscan theologian (b. 1610)
- May 9 – Henry Capell, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1638)
- October? – Sir Oliver St George, 1st Baronet, politician.
- December 8 – Sir Charles Porter, Lord Chancellor of Ireland (b. 1631)
- Daibhidh Ó Duibhgheannáin, scribe and poet (b. before 1651)
References
[edit]- ^ Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
- ^ "Volume 37: March 21-May 14, 1696 | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 2025-06-06.
- ^ Richey, Rose (October 2009). "Shackleton, Abraham". Dictionary of Irish Biography. doi:10.3318/dib.007986.v1. Retrieved 2023-02-12.