1699 in England

1699 in England

Events from the year 1699 which occurred in the Kingdom of England.

Incumbents

*Monarch - William III of England

Events

* 19 January - Parliament limits the size of the home army to 7,000 'native born' men.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 200-201|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* June 11 - England, France and the Netherlands agree on second Extermination treaty of Spain.fact|date=March 2008

Undated

* The first high-seas lighthouse, at Eddystone Rocks, completed.

Births

* July 14 - Vere Beauclerk, 1st Baron Vere, English peer, politician and admiral (died 1781)
* September 12 - John Martyn, English botanist (died 1768)
* September 29 - Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, English noble and Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland (died 1751)
* November 2 - Thomas Holmes, 1st Baron Holmes, English Member of Parliament (died 1764)
* December 19 - William Bowyer, English printer (died 1777)

Unknown dates

* Phanuel Bacon, English playwright, poet and author (died 1783)
* Matthew Brettingham, English architect (died 1769)
* Sir Merrik Burrell, 1st Baronet, English politician (died 1787)
* John Dyer, Welsh poet (died 1757). Possibly born in 1700.
* Colonel Joshua Fry, English surveyor, adventurer, mapmaker, member of the House of Burgesses, and soldier (died 1754) [ [http://politicalgraveyard.com/death/falls.html Information on Joshua Fry's birth and death] ]
* Frank Nicholls, English physician (died 1778)

Deaths

* 21 January - Obadiah Walker, academic and Master of University College, Oxford from 1676 to 1688 (born 1616)
* January 27 - Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet, English statesman and essayist (born 1628)
* February 1 - Sir Thomas Chicheley, English politician (born c. 1618)
* February 27 - Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton, English Member of Parliament and peer (born c. 1625)
* June 22 - Sir Josiah Child, 1st Baronet, English merchant, economist and governor of the East India Company (born 1630)

Unknown dates

* Mary Beale, English portrait painter (born 1633)
* Edward Stillingfleet, English theologian (born 1635)

References

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