1699 in England
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Events from the year 1699 which occurred in the Kingdom of England.
Contents
Incumbents
- Monarch - William III
Events
- January 19 - Parliament limits the size of the country's standing army to 7,000 'native born' men.[1] The King's Dutch Blue Guards hence cannot serve in the line. By Act of February 1, it also requires disbandment of foreign troops in Ireland.[2]
- June 11 - England, France and the Dutch Republic agree on the terms of the Second Partition Treaty for Spain.[citation needed]
- June 14 - Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam pump to the Royal Society of London.
Undated
- Castle Howard in Yorkshire, designed by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor, is begun.
- John Blow is appointed to the newly created post of Composer to the Chapel Royal.[3]
- Billingsgate Fish Market in London is sanctioned as a permanent institution by Act of Parliament.[4]
- Edward Lhuyd produces the first published scientific treatment of what would now be recognized as a dinosaur, describing and naming a sauropod tooth, "Rutellum implicatum" found at Caswell, near Witney, Oxfordshire.[5][6][7]
In fiction
- May 4 - The beginning of Gulliver's Travels (1726).
Births
- January? - Frank Nicholls, English physician (died 1778)
- July 14 - Vere Beauclerk, 1st Baron Vere, English peer, politician and admiral (died 1781)
- August 13 (bapt.) - John Dyer, Welsh poet (died 1757)
- 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)
- November 5 - Sir Merrik Burrell, 1st Baronet, English politician (died 1787)
- December 19 - William Bowyer, English printer (died 1777)
Unknown dates
- Matthew Brettingham, English architect (died 1769)
- Colonel Joshua Fry, English-born surveyor, adventurer, mapmaker, member of the House of Burgesses, and colonel in the American colonies (died 1754)[8]
Deaths
- January 21 - Obadiah Walker, academic and Master of University College, Oxford from 1676 to 1688 (born 1616)
- January 27 - Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet, statesman and essayist (born 1628)
- February 1 - Sir Thomas Chicheley, politician (born c. 1618)
- February 27 - Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton, politician (born c. 1625)
- March 27 - Edward Stillingfleet, theologian (born 1635)
- June 22 - Sir Josiah Child, merchant, economist, politician and governor of the East India Company (born 1630)
- October 8 (buried) - Mary Beale, portrait painter (born 1633)
References
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- ↑ 'William III, 1698: An Act for making Billingsgate a Free Market for Sale of Fish. [Chapter XIII. Rot. Parl. 10 Gul. III. p.3. n.4.]', Statutes of the Realm: volume 7: 1695-1701 (1820), pp. 513-14 accessed: 2013-01-24.
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