Events
- January - Edmund Ludlow lands in Ireland as lieutenant-general of horse and second-in-command to Henry Ireton.
- June - Re-start of the Siege of Limerick by English Parliamentarian troops under Ireton.
- July - Battle of Knocknaclashy. Irish force trying to relieve Limerick is routed.
- August - Start of the Siege of Galway: an English Parliamentarian army under Charles Coote blockades the city.
- 27 October - Siege of Limerick: Hugh Dubh O'Neill surrenders Limerick after part of the English Royalist garrison mutinies. The soldiers are permitted to march unarmed to Galway but some leaders are executed.
- 26 November - Henry Ireton dies of fever and is succeeded in command by Edmund Ludlow.
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