1672 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1672 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: Charles II

Events

• February 25 (6 March N.S.) – John O'Molony is consecrated as Roman Catholic Bishop of Killaloe in Paris.^[1]
• March 15 – King Charles II of England issues a Royal Declaration of Indulgence, suspending execution of Penal Laws against Roman Catholics in his realms; this is withdrawn the following year under pressure from the Parliament of England.^[2]
• May 21 – The Earl of Essex is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (sworn 5 August).^[1]
• September 24 – elected representatives on corporations are to take an Oath of Supremacy to the Crown unless exempted.^[1]
• The office of Lord President of Munster is suppressed.
• John Lynch's De praesulibus Hiberniae is written (first published in Dublin, 1944).^[3]
• Sir William Petty's Political Anatomy of Ireland is written (first published in Dublin, 1691);^[1] also, engraving of the maps for his Hiberniae Delineatio (published 1685) is completed.

Births

• March 12 (bapt.) – Richard Steele, writer and politician, co-founder of The Spectator magazine (d. 1729)
• August 7 – Michael Hill, politician (d. 1699)
• William Blakeney, 1st Baron Blakeney, soldier (d. 1761)

Deaths

• August 10 – Robert Leslie, Church of Ireland Bishop of Clogher.
• December 7 – Sir Paul Davys, politician and civil servant (b. c.1600)
• Approximate date
  • Thomas Carve, historian (b. 1590)
  • Thomas Dillon, 4th Viscount Dillon, peer (b. 1615)

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. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
3. Gwynn, Aubrey (March 1945). "John Lynch's De Praesulibus Hiberniae". Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. 34 (133). Irish Province of the Society of Jesus: 37–52. JSTOR 30099542.