| Date | | | |
| 1686 | | The city charter renewed by James II. under a quo warranto. A meeting-house erected in Meath-street by the Society of Friends. | |
| 1687 | | An inundation of the Liffey, by which the low parts of the city were laid under water, and part of Essex bridge broken down. | |
| 1688 | | The Tholsel built at the expense of the city. Commission of grace held its sittings at the King's Inns. A severe frost from December to the end of March. | |
| 1688 | | James II arrives in Dublin, and holds a parliament at the King's Inns. A mint set up in which brass money was coined, to pass for half-crowns, shillings, and sixpences, to the nominal value of £1,496,799, the Weight of metal being 879,724 lbs. | |
| 1689 | | Trinity College converted into a barrack. | |
| 1690 | | James II. sleeps one night in Dublin after the battle of the Boyne, after which he proceeded to France. Dublin Castile taken possession of for King William. King William attended divine service at St. Patrick's Cathedral to return for his victory at the Boyne, when the sermon was preached by the Very Rev. Dean King. A frigate of King William with much property, captured by Sir Cloudesley Shovel in Dublin bay. An earthquake felt in Dublin. | |
| 1691 | | The officers taken at Aughrim sent from Dublin to Chester. A severe frost in January and February. | |
| 1692 | | The King and Queen's College of Physicians incorporated by charter. The meeting-house of the Society of Friends, Eustace-street, built. | |
| 1695 | | The rates of foreign coin fixed by proclamation. The Four Courts in Christ-church lane rebuilt. The rolls of King James's parliament publicly burnt. | |
| 1696 | | A packet boat, with eighty passengers, lost at Sutton, in Howth; the captain and a boy only saved. | |