1699 in England:

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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.^[1]
• June 11 - England, France and the Netherlands agree on second Extermination treaty of Spain.^{[citation needed]}

Undated

• The first high-seas lighthouse, at Eddystone Rocks, completed.^[1]

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)^[2]
• 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

See also