1700 in Ireland

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1700
in
Ireland

Centuries:
  • 15th
  • 16th
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
Decades:
  • 1680s
  • 1690s
  • 1700s
  • 1710s
  • 1720s
See also:Other events of 1700
List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1700 in Ireland.

Incumbent[]

  • Monarch: William III

Events[]

Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester
  • December 28Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.[1][2]

Arts and literature[]

  • c. March – the Yellow Book of Lecan is acquired by antiquary Edward Lhuyd.
  • An edition of the late 16th-century Scots poet Alexander Montgomerie's The Cherrie and the Slae is printed in Ulster.

Births[]

Deaths[]

  • Henry Colley, politician (b. 1648)
  • Sir William Gore, 3rd Baronet.

References[]

  1. ^ John Cannon (2004). A Dictionary of British History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-158022-2.
  2. ^ Court-Register and Statesmans Remembrancer. G. Robinson. 1782. p. 66.
  3. ^ Leslie Stephen; Sir Sidney Lee (1885). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 2. Macmillan. p. 58.
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