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| Date | | | | | 1697 | | The old parish of St. Michan, which included all the city north of the Liffey, divided into those of new St. Michan's, St. Paul's, and St. Mary's; and churches erected in the two latter by a tax on the inhabitants. Act passed for erecting lamps through the city. Bartholomew Van Homrigh, then lord mayor, obtained from William III. a royal donative of a collar of SS., in lieu of that lost in 1688. It has a miniature likeness of the royal donor attached to it. £3,000 granted to enlarge the buildings of Trinity College. Peace with France proclaimed in Dublin. | | | 1698 | | The courts of justice transferred to the new buildings in Christ-church lane. The church in lower Temple-street, commonly called Little George's, erected. | | | 1700 | | Presbyterian meeting-house in Plunket-st. erected. Pue's Occurrences, the first Dublin newspaper, published. | | | 1701 | | Equestrian statue of King William erected in College-green, on the anniversary of the battle of the Boyne. Patrick-street and its vicinity much damaged by an inundation of the Poddle. | | | 1703 | | The corporation of Dublin marched through the city with their pageants, at an entertainment given to the Duke and Duchess of Ormond by His magistrates at the Tholsel. | | | 1704 | | The foundations laid of the Foundling Hospital Workhouse, and Royal Barracks. Castle Market built on the site of old St. Andrew's Church, and opened by the civic authorities by beat of drum. | | | 1705 | | The society of the Ouzel Galley, for deciding mercantile controversies, instituted. | | | 1707 | | The Custom-house at Essex-bridge commenced. Interest of money reduced from ten to eight per cent. St. Patrick's, commonly called Marsh's Library. founded. St. Anne's Church, Dawson-street, commenced; and St. Nicholas Within, Nicholas-street, erected. The Ballast board incorporated. | | | 1708 | | St. Luke's Church, on the Coombe, erected. | | | 1711 | | The council-chamber, treasury, with many of the records belonging to it, burnt. A convocation held, in which some new canons were ordained. | |
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