1690 in Ireland

Events

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

Births

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

  Deaths

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