1699 in Ireland

Events from the year 1699 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: William III

Events

• January 26–June 14 – the Parliament of Ireland meets and enacts legislation to levy duties on exported woolens; to encourage the construction of parsonages; to oblige landowners to plant and conserve trees; and to prevent Roman Catholics from becoming solicitors.
• February 1 – the Parliament of England requires the disbandment of foreign troops in Ireland.
• May 4 – the Parliament of England enacts legislation providing for the appointment of a commission of inquiry into the administration of forfeited estates in Ireland.
• A Roman Catholic English language New Testament is probably printed in Dublin at about this date, but all copies appear to have been suppressed.

Arts and literature

• c. July–August – the Welsh scholar Edward Lhuyd first travels in Ireland.
• Publication of The Dublin Scuffle: being a challenge sent by John Dunton, citizen of London, to Patrick Campbel, bookseller in Dublin.

Births

• September 26 – Charles Macklin, actor and dramatist (d. 1797)
• Sir Richard Butler, 5th Baronet, politician (d. 1771)
• Edward Lovett Pearce, architect (d. 1733)
• Isaac Wayne, tanner (d. 1774 in the Province of Pennsylvania)

Deaths

• April 6 – Sir Richard Nagle, lawyer and politician (b. 1636)
• June 18 – Popham Seymour-Conway, landowner (b. 1675) (result of a drunken duel)
• Michael Hill, politician (b. 1672)
• Dudley Persse, landowner (b. 1625)

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