1685 in Ireland

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See also:Other events of 1685
List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1685 in Ireland.

Incumbent[]

  • Monarch: Charles II (until 6 February), then James II

Events[]

  • 6 February – James II becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland upon the death of Charles II.[1]
  • 1 October – Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon, appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
  • The 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards is raised as a cavalry regiment of the British Army, the Earl of Arran's Regiment of Cuirassiers, by the regimenting of various independent troops, and ranked as the 6th Regiment of Horse.

Publications[]

  • August? – the News-letter first published in Dublin.
  • Rev. William Bedell's Old Testament translation into Irish, transcribed by Uilliam Ó Duinnín and revised by Rev. Narcissus Marsh with the aid of Jesuit scholars Andrew Sall and Paul Higgins and scientist Robert Boyle, is published posthumously in London in a new typeface designed by Sall and made by Joseph Moxon.[2][3]
  • Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh semi-mythical history of Ireland, Ogygia: seu Rerum Hibernicarum Chronologia & etc., is published.
  • Sir William Petty's Hiberniae Delineatio, the first printed atlas of Ireland (based on his Down Survey of 1655–6) is published.

Births[]

George Berkeley
  • 11 March – William Flower, 1st Baron Castle Durrow, politician (d.1746).
  • 12 March – Bishop George Berkeley, philosopher and writer (d.1753).
  • Samuel Haliday, Presbyterian minister (d.1739).
  • Henry Ponsonby, soldier and politician (d.1745).
  • approximate date
    • Henry Colley, politician (d.1723/4).
    • Alexander Cosby, soldier in Nova Scotia (d.1742).
    • Edward England, born Edward Seegar, pirate (d.1720/1 in Madagascar)
    • Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe, Graf von Taaffe, soldier (d.1769).

Deaths[]

  • 17 March – Sir Richard Bulkeley, 1st Baronet, politician (b.1634).
  • 18 March – Francis Harold, Franciscan scholar.
  • William Alington, 3rd Baron Alington, peer (b. before 1641).
  • John Eyre, Cromwellian settler and Mayor of Galway.

References[]

  1. ^ Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1685". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
  2. ^ "Treasures of the Irish Language: Some early examples from Dublin City Public Libraries". 2006. Archived from the original on 2012-03-09. Retrieved 2012-10-03.
  3. ^ "Bedell's Irish Old Testament". King's College London. Retrieved 2012-10-03.
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