Events
- 12 July - Williamite War in Ireland: Battle of Aughrim.
- 22 July - Surrender and treaty of Galway.
- August–October - Williamite War in Ireland: Siege of Limerick.
- 3 October - Treaty of Limerick ends the Williamite War. The Flight of the Wild Geese — the departure of the Jacobite army — follows.
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“By many a legendary tale of violence and wrong, as well as by events which have passed before their eyes, these people have been taught to look upon white men with abhorrence.... I can sympathize with the spirit which prompts the Typee warrior to guard all the passes to his valley with the point of his levelled spear, and, standing upon the beach, with his back turned upon his green home, to hold at bay the intruding European.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Just as a mirror may be used to reflect images, so ancient events may be used to understand the present.”
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—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)