1696 in Ireland

• Monarch: William III ==Events==

• April 27 – an act of the Parliament of England for encouraging linen manufacture in Ireland allows plain linen to be exported to England without an import tariff being applied. • May 2 – The Irish Admiralty’s prize commissioners lodged embezzlement charges related to captured French goods, mainly wines, valued at over £7,279. The suit targeted naval officers such as: Captains Bing, Shovell, and Fitz-Patrick. • Famine in the Scottish Borders leads to a new wave of Scottish Presbyterian migration from Scotland to Ulster. ==Births==

• December 1 – Francis Burton, politician (d. 1744) • Sir Edward Barry, 1st Baronet, physician and politician (d. 1776) • Thomas Drennan, Presbyterian minister (d. 1768) • Approximate date – James Latham, portrait painter (d. 1747) • Abraham Shackleton, Quaker (d. 1771) ==Deaths==

• March 18 – Bonaventure Baron, Franciscan theologian (b. 1610) • May 9 – Henry Capell, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1638) • October? – Sir Oliver St George, 1st Baronet, politician. • December 8 – Sir Charles Porter, Lord Chancellor of Ireland (b. 1631) • Daibhidh Ó Duibhgheannáin, scribe and poet (b. before 1651) ==References==