A Chronology

	Robert Molesworth(1656-1725)
	Dates (OS)	Events relevant to Molesworth’s Life	Other Events
	1656-09	Death of Robert Molesworth (father) (3rd),  Robert Molesworth born (7th), Fishamble St. Dublin	(Sept-Nov) Publication of Harrington’s The Commonwealth of Oceana
	1660-05-29		Charles II’s Restoration – entry into London
	1662	Birth of half-brother Henry Tichborne (ie mother Judith now married to Sir William Tichborne)
	1666-09-03		Start of Great Fire of London
	1669-09 – 1670-09		Arthur Capel Earl of Essex Amb. Ext. to Denmark
	1671-08-04	Viscount Ranelagh’s ‘undertaking’ to manage Irish revenues of the crown
	1672-08-05	Arthur Capel Earl of Essex Lord Lt. of Ireland
	1672-10-16	Entered Trinity Coll as Fellow Commoner
	1675	BA Trinity College, Dublin; Lincoln’s Inn, London
	1676-08-16	Marriage to the Hon Letitia Coote
	1677-08-24	Duke of Ormond sworn in as Lord Lieutenant
	1677-11-04		William of Orange m. Princess Mary
	1679-08-04	Charles Coote, Lord Mountrath m. Isabella Dormer
	1680-01-28	Death of Chief Baron John Bysse
	1680-06-30	Death of Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory, (aged 46)
	1683-06-23	Discovery of Rye House Plot to kill Charles II
	1683-07	Death of Earl of Essex in the Tower (13th); marriage of Henry Tichborne to Arabella Cotton (28th)	Princess Anne m. Prince George (Jørgen) (28th)
	1683-12-07	Execution of Algernon Sidney
	1684-01	Molyneux establishes Dublin Philosophical Society.
	1684-1688	Annual “voyages into forreign countreys. allwayes takeing Holland in my way.”
	1685-01-28	Death of Richard Butler, Earl of Arran, (aged 45)
	1685-02-06		Death of Charles II, succ. by James II
	1685-03-20	Ormond leaves Ireland, no longer Ld. Lt
	1685-07-06		Defeat of Duke of Monmouth at Sedgemoor
	1685-10-08		Revocation of Edict of Nantes
	1686-01-09	2nd Earl of Clarendon sworn in as Ld. Lt.
	1686-06-05	Tyrconnell appointed to comand army in Ireland
	1687	Col. Ld. Coote serving as capt of horse in Dutch army
	1687-02-06	Tyrconnell sworn in as Ld Deputy in Dublin
	1688-03-29	Col. Ld. Coote appointed treasurer and receiver-general to Princess Mary of Orange
	1688-06		Birth of son to James II – Old Pretender (10th), Acquittal of the 7 Bishops & Invitation to William (30th)
	1688-11		William lands at Torbay (5th)
	1688-12		James II flees to France; (11th, 23rd)
	1689-02-13		William and Mary King & Queen
	1689-03-12		James II lands in Ireland
	1689-05-02	Molesworth attainted by Dublin parliament (7th); Sequestrated estate £2,825 pa	Treaty of Vienna – The Grand Alliance (2nd), England declares war on France (7th)
	1689-06	Credentials dated (6th), 1st Instructions dated (6th), 2nd Instructions dated (19th), Treaty of Altona signed (20th)
	1689-07	Arrives in Denmark (7th)	Breaking of boom on River Foyle and relief of Londonderry (28th)
	1689-08	Agreement reached on treaty to hire Danish troops (15th)	Marshal Schomberg lands in Bangor Bay (13th), Carrickfergus Surrenders (28th)
	1689-09-04	William III ratifies treaty to hire Danish troops
	1689-11-06	Last troops set sail (arr. in Humber instead of Leith)
	1690-03-13	The Danish Force lands in Ireland
	1690-05	First mention of Colonel Scot in correspondence,  (last mention 1691-05)
	1690-06	Arrival of Amerongen in Copenhagen (4th), defeat of Anglo-Dutch fleet at Beachy Head (30th)	William lands nr Carrickfergus (14th)
	1690-07	Battle of the Boyne (1st),	William enters Dublin (6th)
	1690-09-03	Joined by family in Copenhagen
	1691-09-29	Death of Amerongen
	1692-05-23	French fleet defeated at La Hogue
	1692-06-20	Departure from Denmark
	1692	Publication by Anthony Dopping, bp of Meath of Modus tenendi parliamenta in Hibernia (Dublin)	Publication of John Locke’s Some Thoughts concerning Education.
	1693-12-15	First publication of An Account of  Denmark as it was in the year 1692. (13 editions published before 1700; 22 editions published by 1752)
	1695 – 1699	MP[I] for Dublin
	1695 – 1698	MP for Camelford
	1697- 1713-01	Privy Councillor [I]
	1698-03-23	Fellow of the Royal Society
	1698-04	Publication of William Molyneux’s The case of Ireland’s being bound by acts of parliament in England stated (Dublin)
	1702-03-08		Death of William III, succ. by Anne
	1703 – 1705	MP[I] for Swords
	1705- 1706-01	MP for Lostwithiel
	1706-01- 1708	MP for East Retford
	1711	Preface to translation of Francis Hotoman’s Franco-Gallia, first published without the preface but reissued with the preface in 1721. The preface was later published as The Principles of a Real Whig
	1714-08-01		Death of Anne, succ. by George I
	1714 – 1716	Commissioner for Trade and Plantations
	1714-10 –	Privy Councillor [I]
	1715 – 1722	MP for Mitchell
	1716-07-16	Created Lord Molesworth, Baron of Phillipstown in King’s County and Viscount Molesworth of Swords, County Dublin.
	1716	Preface to his daughter, the Hon M Monck’s Marinda, Poems and Translations Upon Several Occasions
	1717	A Short Narrative of the Life and Death of John Rhinholdt Count Patkul.
	1721	Publication of Letters from the Right Honourable the Late Earl of Shaftesbury, to Robert Molesworth, Esq; Now the Lord Viscount of that Name. Edited and with introduction by John Toland
	1721- 1722	Commissioner in the Enquiry into the South Sea Bubble
	1722	Toland’s final illness and death (March 11th); prospect of Molesworth standing as MP for Westminster.
	1722 – 1723	Correspondence with Glasgow University students and others Scottish admirers: William Stuart, George Turnbull, William Wishart and James Arbuckle.
	1723	Some Considerations for the Promoting of Agriculture and Employing the Poor.
	1724	Frances Hutcheson finishes An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue. With acknowledgement to Molesworth.
	1724-12-03	Swift dedicates the 5th Drapier’s Letter to Molesworth.
	1725-05-22	Death at Swords, Co Dublin.