1675 in Ireland

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1675
in
Ireland

Centuries:
  • 15th
  • 16th
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
Decades:
  • 1650s
  • 1660s
  • 1670s
  • 1680s
  • 1690s
See also:Other events of 1675
List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1675 in Ireland.

Incumbent[]

  • Monarch: Charles II

Events[]

  • September 22 – King Charles II of England orders the setting up of a commission to determine the cases of Connacht transplanters.[1]

Births[]

  • February 7Hugh Howard, portrait painter (d. 1737 in London)
  • May 4Robert FitzGerald, 19th Earl of Kildare (d. 1743)
  • George Gore, Attorney-General for Ireland (d. 1753)
  • Peter Holmes, politician (d. 1732)
  • John Hopkins, poet (d. after 1700).
  • Popham Seymour, landowner (k. 1699)
  • William Stewart, 2nd Viscount Mountjoy, soldier (d. 1728)
  • Approximate date – Charles Jervas, portrait painter (d. 1739)

Deaths[]

  • March 16Daniel Witter, Church of Ireland Bishop of Killaloe since 1669.
  • March 18Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, soldier and politician (b. 1606)
  • August 1Patrick Duffy, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher since 1673.
  • Sir Audley Mervyn, lawyer, politician and soldier (b. 1603?)

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.
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