1696 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1696 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- April 27 â 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]
- May 2 â The Irish Admiraltyâs prize commissioners lodged embezzlement charges related to captured French goods, mainly wines, valued at over £7,279. The suit targeted naval officers such as: Captains Bing, Shovell, and Fitz-Patrick.[2]
- Famine in the Scottish Borders leads to a new wave of Scottish Presbyterian migration from Scotland to Ulster.
Births
- December 1 â Francis Burton, politician (d. 1744)
- Sir Edward Barry, 1st Baronet, physician and politician (d. 1776)
- Thomas Drennan, Presbyterian minister (d. 1768)
- Approximate date â James Latham, portrait painter (d. 1747)
- Abraham Shackleton, Quaker (d. 1771)[3]
Deaths
- March 18 â Bonaventure Baron, Franciscan theologian (b. 1610)
- May 9 â Henry Capell, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1638)
- October? â Sir Oliver St George, 1st Baronet, politician.
- December 8 â Sir Charles Porter, Lord Chancellor of Ireland (b. 1631)
- Daibhidh à Duibhgheannáin, scribe and poet (b. before 1651)