{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{YearInIrelandNav | 1685 }} 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.<ref>{{cite book|chapter=1685|title=The People's Chronology|editor=Everett, Jason M.|publisher=Thomson Gale|year=2006}}</ref> * 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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Treasures of the Irish Language: Some early examples from Dublin City Public Libraries |url=http://www.dublinheritage.ie/historic_collections/irish_language_treasures.html |year=2006 |access-date=2012-10-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309074657/http://www.dublinheritage.ie/historic_collections/irish_language_treasures.html |archive-date=2012-03-09 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Bedell's Irish Old Testament|url=http://www.kingscollections.org/exhibitions/specialcollections/bible/european-bible/bedells-irish-old-testament|publisher=King's College London|access-date=2012-10-03}}</ref> *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&ndash;6) is published.

==Births== [[File:John Smibert - Bishop George Berkeley - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|166x166px|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== {{reflist}}

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