| |||||
| Centuries: |
| ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Decades: |
| ||||
| See also: | Other events of 1702 List of years in Ireland | ||||
Events from the year 1702 in Ireland.
Incumbent
- Monarch: William III (until 8 March), then Anne
Events
- 8 March – Anne becomes Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland upon the death of William III.[1]
Arts and literature
- October – Jonathan Swift returns to Ireland in the company of Esther Johnson.
Births
- January – Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally, French general, born at Romans, Dauphin, the son of Sir Gerald Lally, an Irish Jacobite from Tuam, County Galway, who married a French noblewoman (d. 1766)
Deaths
- 10 December[2] – Michael Boyle (archbishop of Armagh) (Church of Ireland) (b. 1609?)
References
- ↑ James Barclay (curate of Edmonton.) (1792). A complete and universal English dictionary. ANNE, queen of Great Britain. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
- ↑ Arthur Collins (1779). The peerage of England. 3 vols. p. 164.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.