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1690 in Ireland
Summary
Events from the year
1690 in Ireland
.
←
1689
1688
1687
1686
1685
1690
in
Ireland
→
1691
1692
1693
1694
1695
Centuries:
15th
16th
17th
18th
19th
Decades:
1670s
1680s
1690s
1700s
1710s
See also:
Other events of 1690
List of years in Ireland
Incumbent
edit
Monarch
:
William III
and
Mary II
Events
edit
June 14
– King
William III of England
(William of Orange) lands at
Carrickfergus
in
Ulster
and marches south to take
Dublin
.
June 29
– Williamites reach the
River Boyne
.
July 1
(
O.S.
) –
Battle of the Boyne
:
William III
defeats the deposed
James II of England
, who returns to exile in
France
[1]
[2]
[3]
from
Kinsale
.
July 17
– William III issues the
Declaration of Finglas
offering a pardon to ordinary Jacobites but not their leaders.
August 7
–
William III
and his army reach
Limerick
.
August to September –
Siege of Limerick
, by the Williamites is unsuccessful.
September –
Siege of Cork
.
October 7
– an
earthquake
with its
epicentre
at
Caernarfon
is felt in Dublin.
[4]
Siege of Athlone
by the
Williamites
is unsuccessful.
The
Battle of the Boyne
, painted by
Jan Wyck
Births
edit
September 26
–
Charles Macklin
, actor and dramatist (d.
1797
)
Charles Clinton
,
French and Indian War
Colonel
(d.
1773
)
William Cosby
, British royal governor of
New York
(d.
1736
)
Deaths
edit
July 1
(
O.S.
) –
Battle of the Boyne
Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg
, soldier (b.
1615
or
1616
)
Rev. Sir
George Walker
, soldier, Governor of Londonderry (b. c.
1618
)
References
edit
^
Equivalent to 11 July in the "
new style
" (
Gregorian
) calendar, although today commemorated on 12 July.
^
Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History
. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 285.
ISBN
0-304-35730-8
.
^
"Parades and Marches – Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events".
Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN)
. Retrieved
28 January
2010
.
^
"Notes on individual earthquakes".
British Geological Survey
. Archived from the original on 16 May 2011
. Retrieved
8 December
2011
.