{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{YearInIrelandNav | 1671 }} Events from the year '''1671 in Ireland'''. ==Incumbent== *Monarch: Charles II ==Events== *January 18 – Royalist Sir Richard Talbot petitions King Charles II on behalf of the Catholic nobility and gentry.<ref name=Chronology>{{cite book|editor=Moody, T. W.|title=A New History of Ireland. '''8''': A Chronology of Irish History|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1989|isbn=978-0-19-821744-2|display-editors=etal}}</ref> *March 13 – the Parliament of England addresses the King against the growth of popery.<ref name=Chronology/> *April 22 – Navigation Act passed by the Parliament of England prohibits direct imports from the English colonies to Ireland.<ref name=Chronology/> *May 26 – John O'Molony is appointed Roman Catholic Bishop of Killaloe. *June 10 – the King permits Sir George Hamilton to raise a regiment for service in France.<ref name=Chronology/> *August 1 – Prince Rupert of the Rhine heads his first commission into land settlement in Ireland.<ref name=Chronology/> *August 4 – Viscount Ranelagh undertakes to manage revenues of the Crown in Ireland. *December 5 – Royal charter granted to The King's Hospital (Blue Coat School) in Dublin.<ref name=Chronology/>
==Births== *Jonathan Smedley, religious opportunist and satirical victim who engaged in polemic with Jonathan Swift and the Tory party (d.1729)
==Deaths== *January – Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh, scribe, translator, historian and genealogist (murdered). *April – William Caulfeild, 1st Viscount Charlemont (b. 1624) *June – William St Lawrence, 12th Baron Howth (b. 1628) *October - Samuel Mather (Independent minister) (b. 1626 in England) - nonconformist minister
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