1699 in England

Events from the year 1699 in England.

Incumbents

January 19 – Parliament limits the size of the country's standing army to 7,000 "native born" men. The King's Dutch Blue Guards hence cannot serve in the line. By Act of February 1, it also requires disbandment of foreign troops in Ireland.
May 10 – Billingsgate Fish Market in London is sanctioned as a permanent institution by Act of Parliament.
June 11 – England, France and the Dutch Republic agree on the terms of the Second Partition Treaty for Spain.
June 14 – Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam pump to the Royal Society of London.
October 3 – The Liverpool Merchant, the first slave ship from the port of Liverpool in England, departs to imprison captured West Africans and transport them to the British colonies, arriving in Barbados on September 18, 1700 with 220 slaves.

Castle Howard in Yorkshire, designed by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor, is begun. It is one of the first significant English houses to incorporate corridors in the design.
John Blow is appointed to the newly created post of Composer to the Chapel Royal.
Edward Lhuyd produces the first published scientific treatment of what would now be recognized as a dinosaur, describing and naming a sauropod tooth, Rutellum implicatum found at Caswell, near Witney, Oxfordshire.

Matthew Brettingham, English architect
William Godolphin, Marquess of Blandford, nobleman and politician
Colonel Joshua Fry, English-born surveyor, adventurer, mapmaker, member of the House of Burgesses, and colonel in the American colonies