February ("Bloody Monday") – Protestants in
Bandon, County Cork, kill or drive out the town's Jacobite garrison whose General,
Justin McCarthy, returns and rounds up the Protestant ringleaders.[3]
15 April – Battle of the Fords: In separate actions near
Strabane, Jacobite forces under Marshal
Conrad de Rosen and General Richard Hamilton force Lundy's troops back to
Derry.[4][7]
16 April –
Siege of Derry: English ships having arrived in
Lough Foyle with reinforcements under Colonel Cunningham, Governor
Robert Lundy dissuades the officers from landing on the grounds that the city's position is hopeless.
18 April – James II arrives at
Derry and asks for its surrender. This is refused by Majors Henry Baker and
George Walker, now in command of its defences.[8]
Relief of the
siege of Derry after 105 days: the English ships Mountjoy, Phoenix and Jerusalem (under protection of
HMS Dartmouth) break through the floating boom across the Foyle to end the siege.[11]
The Jacobite army encamps near
Enniskillen and bombards the Williamite outpost of
Crom Castle.
February ("Bloody Monday") – Protestants in
Bandon, County Cork, kill or drive out the town's Jacobite garrison whose General,
Justin McCarthy, returns and rounds up the Protestant ringleaders.[3]
15 April – Battle of the Fords: In separate actions near
Strabane, Jacobite forces under Marshal
Conrad de Rosen and General Richard Hamilton force Lundy's troops back to
Derry.[4][7]
16 April –
Siege of Derry: English ships having arrived in
Lough Foyle with reinforcements under Colonel Cunningham, Governor
Robert Lundy dissuades the officers from landing on the grounds that the city's position is hopeless.
18 April – James II arrives at
Derry and asks for its surrender. This is refused by Majors Henry Baker and
George Walker, now in command of its defences.[8]
Relief of the
siege of Derry after 105 days: the English ships Mountjoy, Phoenix and Jerusalem (under protection of
HMS Dartmouth) break through the floating boom across the Foyle to end the siege.[11]
The Jacobite army encamps near
Enniskillen and bombards the Williamite outpost of
Crom Castle.