1699 in England

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Events from the year 1699 in England.

Incumbents

• Monarch – William III
• Parliament – 4th of King 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.
• 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

1. Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 200–201. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
2. Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
3. Macy, L. (ed.). "Blow, John". Grove Music Online. Retrieved 2006-12-13.
4. '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.
5. Lhuyd, E. (1699). Lithophylacii Britannici Ichnographia, sive lapidium aliorumque fossilium Britannicorum singulari figura insignium. London: Gleditsch and Weidmann.
6. Delair, J.B.; Sarjeant, W.A.S. (2002). "The earliest discoveries of dinosaurs: the records re-examined". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 113: 185–197. doi:10.1016/S0016-7878(02)80022-0.
7. Gunther, R.T. (1945). Early Science in Oxford: Life and Letters of Edward Lhuyd, volume 14. Oxford.
8. Information on Joshua Fry's birth and death.

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