February ("Bloody Monday") – Protestants in Bandon, County Cork, kill or drive out the town's Jacobite garrison whose General, Justin McCarthy, returns and rounds up the Protestant ringleaders.[3]
15 April – Battle of the Fords: In separate actions near Strabane, Jacobite forces under Marshal Conrad de Rosen and General Richard Hamilton force Lundy's troops back to Derry.[4][7]
16 April – Siege of Derry: English ships having arrived in Lough Foyle with reinforcements under Colonel Cunningham, Governor Robert Lundy dissuades the officers from landing on the grounds that the city's position is hopeless.
18 April – James II arrives at Derry and asks for its surrender. This is refused by Majors Henry Baker and George Walker, now in command of its defences.[8]
Relief of the siege of Derry after 105 days: the English ships Mountjoy, Phoenix and Jerusalem (under protection of HMS Dartmouth) break through the floating boom across the Foyle to end the siege.[11]
The Jacobite army encamps near Enniskillen and bombards the Williamite outpost of Crom Castle.
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