1690 in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: William III and Mary II

  Events

• 14 June – King William III of England lands at Carrickfergus in Ulster and marches south to take Dublin.
• 29 June – Williamites reach the River Boyne.
• 1 July – Battle of the Boyne: William III defeats the deposed James II of England, who returns to exile in France from Kinsale.
• 17 July – William III issues the Declaration of Finglas offering a pardon to ordinary Jacobites but not their leaders.
• 7 August – William III and his army reach Limerick.
• August to September – Siege of [Limerick |Siege of Limerick], by the Williamites is unsuccessful.
• September – Siege of Cork.
• 7 October – an earthquake with its epicentre at Caernarfon is felt in Dublin.
• Siege of Athlone by the Williamites is unsuccessful.

Births

• 26 September – Charles Macklin, actor and dramatist
• Charles Clinton, French and Indian War Colonel
• William Cosby, British royal governor of New York

  Deaths

• 1 July – Battle of the Boyne
• *Frederick Schomberg, 1st [Duke of Schomberg], soldier
• *Rev. Sir George Walker, soldier, Governor of Londonderry