1696 in Ireland

Events from the year 1696 in Ireland.

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Centuries:
  • 15th
  • 16th
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
Decades:
  • 1670s
  • 1680s
  • 1690s
  • 1700s
  • 1710s
See also:Other events of 1696
List of years 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.[1]
  • 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)[2]

Deaths
Henry Capel
  • 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)

References
  1. 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.
  2. Richey, Rose (October 2009). "Shackleton, Abraham". Dictionary of Irish Biography. doi:10.3318/dib.007986.v1. Retrieved 2023-02-12.
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