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1671 in Ireland
Events from the year
1671 in Ireland
.
Incumbent
Monarch
:
Charles II
Events
January 18
â Royalist Sir
Richard Talbot
petitions King
Charles II
on behalf of the
Catholic
nobility and gentry.
March 13
â the
Parliament of England
addresses the King against the growth of
popery
.
April 22
âÂÂ
Navigation Act
passed by the Parliament of England prohibits direct imports from the
English colonies
to Ireland.
May 26
âÂÂ
John O'Molony
is appointed Roman Catholic
Bishop of Killaloe
.
June 10
â the King permits
Sir George Hamilton
to raise a regiment for service in France.
August 1
âÂÂ
Prince Rupert of the Rhine
heads his first commission into land settlement in Ireland.
August 4
âÂÂ
Viscount Ranelagh
undertakes to manage revenues of the Crown in Ireland.
December 5
âÂÂ
Royal charter
granted to
The King's Hospital
(Blue Coat School) in
Dublin
.
Births
Jonathan Smedley
, religious opportunist and satirical victim who engaged in polemic with
Jonathan Swift
and the
Tory party
(d.
1729
)
Deaths
January âÂÂ
Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh
, scribe, translator, historian and genealogist (murdered).
April âÂÂ
William Caulfeild, 1st Viscount Charlemont
(b.
1624
)
June âÂÂ
William St Lawrence, 12th Baron Howth
(b.
1628
)
October -
Samuel Mather (Independent minister)
(b. 1626 in England) - nonconformist minister
References