1707 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1707 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: Anne

Events

• April 14 (April 25 New Style) – at the Battle of Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession, the Bourbon army of Spain and France (with Irish mercenaries) under the French-born Englishman James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, soundly defeats the allied forces of Portugal, England, and the Dutch Republic led by the French-born Huguenot in English service Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway.^[1]
• October - Marsh's Library, the first public library in Ireland, is established by an Act of the Irish Parliament called ‘An Act for Settling and Preserving a Publick Library forever’.^[2]
• October 24 - an act of the Parliament of Ireland creates the Dublin Ballast Office to improve Dublin Port.^[3]
• Tailors' Hall completed in Dublin.^[4]

Births

• James Cuffe, landowner and politician (d. 1762)
• Arabella Fitzmaurice, later Lady Arabella Denny, philanthropist (d. 1792)
• Matthew Dubourg, musician (d. 1767)
• Philip Skelton, Church of Ireland cleric and controversialist (d. 1787)
• Approximate date – Sir Robert Deane, 5th Baronet, lawyer and politician (d. 1770)

Deaths

George Farquhar

• January 13 – Anthony Sharp, Quaker wool merchant (b. 1643)
• April 29 – George Farquhar, dramatist (b. 1677 or 1678)
• c. July 1 – William Handcock, politician (b. c.1631)
• August 9 (bur.) – William Cairnes, politician and merchant (b. c.1669)
• September 21 – Dominic Maguire, exiled Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh.
• December 31 – Nathaniel Foy, Church of Ireland Bishop of Waterford and Lismore
• Sir Francis Blundell, 3rd Baronet, politician (b. 1643)
• Colonel The Honourable John Caulfeild, soldier and politician (b. 1661)
• Ludowyk Smits, portrait painter (b. 1635 in Holland)

References

1. Payne, Stanley G. "Chapter 16: The Eighteenth-Century Bourbon Regime in Spain". A History of Spain and Portugal. Vol. 2. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0-299-06270-8. Retrieved 2008-04-17.
2. "Discover the Vibrant History of Marsh's Library". Marsh's Library. Retrieved 2024-08-18.
3. 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.
4. Dixon, F. E. (1969). The Dublin Tailors and Their Hall (2nd ed.). Dublin: The Tailors' Hall Fund.