Deaths

• 2 January - Lady Mary Butler
  Lady Mary Butler
  Lady Mary Butler was the second daughter of the 2nd Duke of Ormonde and a maternal granddaughter of the 1st Duke of Beaufort. She was born at Kilkenny Castle in Ireland. She married John, 1st Earl of Ashburnham on October 21, 1710, and died two years later in childbirth...
  
  , younger daughter of 2nd Duke of Ormonde and Jonathan Swift
  Jonathan Swift
  Jonathan Swift was an Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer , poet and cleric who became Dean of St...
  
  ’s "greatest favourite" (b.1689
  1689 in Ireland
  -Events:*13 February - William III and Mary II become King and Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland following the deposition of James II.*8 March - Richard Hamilton, the Jacobite commander, was dispatched from Drogheda with 2,000 men, in order to pacify the north east of Ireland.*14 March - Break...
  
  ).