Events from the year 1696 in Ireland. Incumbent 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)
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