1696 in Ireland

Events from the year 1696 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: William III

Events

• 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.
• 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.
• Famine in the Scottish Borders leads to a new wave of Scottish Presbyterian migration from Scotland to Ulster.

Births

• 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)

Deaths

• 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)

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