Births

• 20 October - Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington
  Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington
  Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington, 2nd Earl of Cork was Lord High Treasurer of Ireland and a cavalier.-Early years:...
  
  , cavalier
  Cavalier
  Cavalier was the name used by Parliamentarians for a Royalist supporter of King Charles I and son Charles II during the English Civil War, the Interregnum, and the Restoration...
  
   and Lord High Treasurer
  Lord High Treasurer
  The post of Lord High Treasurer or Lord Treasurer was an English government position and has been a British government position since the Act of Union of 1707. A holder of the post would be the third highest ranked Great Officer of State, below the Lord High Chancellor and above the Lord President...
  
   of Ireland
  Ireland
  Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
  
   (d.1698
  1698 in Ireland
  -Births:*15 June - George Browne, soldier of fortune, became field-marshal in the Russian army .*Ross Roe MacMahon, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, later Archbishop of Armagh .-Deaths:...
  
  ).

Deaths

• 11 February - Conor O'Devany
  Conor O'Devany
  Conchobhar O'Duibheannaigh, aka The Blessed Conor O'Devany was an Irish Catholic bishop, being the Lord Bishop of Down and Connor...
  
  , 8th Catholic Bishop of Down and Connor
  Bishop of Down and Connor
  The Bishop of Down and Connor is an episcopal title which takes its name from the town of Downpatrick and the village of Connor in Northern Ireland...
  
  , executed for high treason (b. c1532).

Publications

• John Davies
  John Davies (poet)
  Sir John Davies was an English poet and lawyer, who became attorney general in Ireland and formulated many of the legal principles that underpinned the British Empire.-Early life:...
  
  - Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued.