1707 in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: Anne

  Events

• April 14 – at the Battle of Almansa in the War of the Spanish Succession, the Bourbon army of Spain and France under the French-born Englishman James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, soundly defeats the allied forces of Portugal, England, and the Dutch Republic led by the French-born Huguenot in English service Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway.
• October - Marsh's Library, the first public library in Ireland, is established by an Act of the Irish Parliament called ‘An Act for Settling and Preserving a Publick Library forever’.
• October 24 - an act of the Parliament of Ireland creates the Dublin Ballast Office to improve Dublin Port.
• Tailors' Hall completed in Dublin.

  Births

• James Cuffe, landowner and politician
• Arabella Fitzmaurice, later Lady Arabella Denny, philanthropist
• Matthew Dubourg, musician
• Philip Skelton, Church of Ireland cleric and controversialist
• Approximate date – Sir Robert Deane, 5th Baronet, lawyer and politician

  Deaths

• January 13 – Anthony Sharp, Quaker wool merchant
• April 29 – George Farquhar, dramatist
• c. July 1 – William Handcock, politician
• August 9 – William Cairnes, politician and merchant
• September 21 – Dominic Maguire, exiled Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh.
• December 31 – Nathaniel Foy, Church of Ireland Bishop of Waterford and Lismore
• Sir Francis Blundell, 3rd Baronet, politician
• Colonel The Honourable John Caulfeild, soldier and politician
• Ludowyk Smits, portrait painter