1707 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1707 in Ireland.
Events
- April 14 (April 25 New Style) - At the Battle of Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession, the Bourbon army of Spain and France (with Irish mercenaries) under the French-born Englishman James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, soundly defeats the allied forces of Portugal, England, and the Dutch Republic led by the French-born Huguenot in English service Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway.[1]
- October 24 - An Act of the Parliament of Ireland creates the Dublin Ballast Office to improve Dublin Port.[2]
Births
- James Cuffe, landowner and politician (d. 1762)
- Arabella Fitzmaurice, later Lady Arabella Denny, philanthropist (d. 1792)
- Matthew Dubourg, musician (d. 1767)
- Philip Skelton, Church of Ireland cleric and controversialist (d. 1787)
- Approximate date - Sir Robert Deane, 5th Baronet, lawyer and politician (d. 1770)
Deaths
- January 13 - Anthony Sharp, Quaker wool merchant (b. 1643)
- April 29 - George Farquhar, dramatist (b. 1677 or 1678)
- c. July 1 - William Handcock, politician (b. c.1631)
- August 9 (bur.) - William Cairnes, politician and merchant (b. c.1669)
- September 21 - Dominic Maguire, exiled Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh.
- December 31 - Nathaniel Foy, Church of Ireland Bishop of Waterford and Lismore
- Sir Francis Blundell, 3rd Baronet, politician (b. 1643)
- Colonel The Honourable John Caulfeild, soldier and politician (b. 1661)
- Ludowyk Smits, portrait painter (b. 1635 in Holland)
References
- ↑ Payne, Stanley G. "Chapter 16: The Eighteenth-Century Bourbon Regime in Spain". A History of Spain and Portugal 2. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0-299-06270-8. Retrieved 2008-04-17.
- ↑ 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.
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