{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{YearInIrelandNav | 1690 }} Events from the year '''1690 in Ireland'''. ==Incumbent== *Monarch: William III and Mary II ==Events== *14 June – King William III of England (William of Orange) lands at Carrickfergus in Ulster and marches south to take Dublin. *29 June – Williamites reach the River Boyne. *1 July (O.S.) – Battle of the Boyne: William III defeats the deposed James II of England, who returns to exile in France<ref>Equivalent to 11 July in the "new style" (Gregorian) calendar, although today commemorated on 12 July.</ref><ref name="Cassell's Chronology">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/285 285]|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/285}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Parades and Marches – Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events| work=Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN)|url=https://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/parade/chpa2.htm|access-date=28 January 2010}}</ref> from Kinsale. *17 July – William III issues the Declaration of Finglas offering a pardon to ordinary Jacobites but not their leaders. *7 August – William III and his army reach Limerick. *August to September – Siege of Limerick, by the Williamites is unsuccessful. *September – Siege of Cork. *7 October – an earthquake with its epicentre at Caernarfon is felt in Dublin.<ref>{{cite web|title=Notes on individual earthquakes|url=http://www.quakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/historical/historical_listing.htm|publisher=British Geological Survey|access-date=8 December 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516173115/http://www.quakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/historical/historical_listing.htm|archive-date=16 May 2011}}</ref> *Siege of Athlone by the Williamites is unsuccessful. [[File: The Battle of the Boyne, 1 July 1690 (by Jan Wyck).jpg |thumb|300px|The Battle of the Boyne, painted by Jan Wyck]]
==Births== *26 September – Charles Macklin, actor and dramatist (d.1797) *Charles Clinton, French and Indian War Colonel (d.1773) *William Cosby, British royal governor of New York (d.1736)
==Deaths== *1 July (O.S.) – Battle of the Boyne **Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg, soldier (b. 1615 or 1616) **Rev. Sir George Walker, soldier, Governor of Londonderry (b. c. 1618)
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