1702 in Ireland

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1702
in
Ireland

Centuries:
  • 16th
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
Decades:
  • 1680s
  • 1690s
  • 1700s
  • 1710s
  • 1720s
See also:Other events of 1702
List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1702 in Ireland.

Incumbent[]

  • Monarch: William III (until 8 March), then Anne

Events[]

  • March 8Anne becomes Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland upon the death of William III.[1]

Arts and literature[]

  • October – Jonathan Swift returns to Ireland in the company of Esther Johnson.

Births[]

  • January – Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally, French general, born at Romans, Dauphin, the son of Sir Gerald Lally, an Irish Jacobite from Tuam, County Galway, who married a French noblewoman (d. 1766)

Deaths[]

  • December 10[2]Michael Boyle (archbishop of Armagh) (Church of Ireland) (b. 1609?)

References[]

  1. ^ James Barclay (curate of Edmonton.) (1792). A complete and universal English dictionary. ANNE, queen of Great Britain. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
  2. ^ Arthur Collins (1779). The peerage of England. 3 vols. p. 164.


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