1685 in Ireland

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Events from the year1685 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch:Charles II(until 6 February), thenJames II

Events

• 6 February –James IIbecomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland upon the death ofCharles II.
• 1 October –Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon,appointedLord Lieutenant of Ireland.
• The4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guardsis raised as acavalry 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? – theNews-letterfirst published inDublin.
• Rev.William Bedell'sOld Testamenttranslation into Irish,transcribed byUilliam Ó Duinnínand revised by Rev.Narcissus Marshwith the aid ofJesuitscholarsAndrew Salland Paul Higgins and scientistRobert Boyle,is published posthumously in London in a newtypefacedesigned by Sall and made byJoseph Moxon.
• Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaighsemi-mythical history of Ireland,Ogygia: seu Rerum Hibernicarum Chronologia & etc.,is published.
• SirWilliam Petty'sHiberniae Delineatio,the first printed atlas of Ireland (based on hisDown Surveyof 1655–6) is published.

Births

George Berkeley

• 11 March –William Flower, 1st Baron Castle Durrow,politician (d.1746).
• 12 March – BishopGeorge Berkeley,philosopher and writer (d.1753).
• Samuel Haliday,Presbyterianminister (d.1739).
• Henry Ponsonby,soldier and politician (d.1745).
• approximate date
  • Henry Colley,politician (d.1723/4).
  • Alexander Cosby,soldier inNova 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,Franciscanscholar.
• William Alington, 3rd Baron Alington,peer (b. before 1641).
• John Eyre,Cromwellian settler and Mayor of Galway.