1703 in Ireland

Events

• June 11 – Charles Hickman is consecrated as Church of Ireland Bishop of Derry.
• September 11 – a privateering expedition comprising the ships St George and Cinque Ports commanded by William Dampier leaves Kinsale for South America.
• Parliament of Ireland assembles, the first under Anne, Queen of Great Britain, and the first for five years.
• Popery Act, enacted by the Parliament of Ireland, reintroduces gavelkind: when a Roman Catholic dies, his estate is to be divided equally among his sons if they retain their Catholic faith.
• Treason Act 1703, enacted by the Parliament of Ireland, enforces the Protestant line of succession to the British throne.
• Sir Robert Doyne is appointed as Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas.
• The Parliament of Ireland investigates the possibility of improving navigation on the rivers Shannon and Barrow and constructing a Newry Canal.

  Births

• February 5 – Gilbert Tennent, Presbyterian pastor in Colonial America
• March 1 – Philip Tisdall, lawyer and politician
• Arthur Gore, 1st Earl of Arran, politician
• John Ussher, politician
• Approximate date
• *John Blakeney, politician
• *Samuel Boyse, poet
• *Henry Brooke, novelist and dramatist
• *George Faulkner, publisher and bookseller

  Deaths