Events from the year 1699 in England.

1699
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  • January 19 – Parliament limits the size of the country's standing army to 7,000 "native born" men.[1] The King's Dutch Blue Guards hence cannot serve in the line. By Act of February 1, it also requires disbandment of foreign troops in Ireland.[2]
  • May 10 – Billingsgate Fish Market in London is sanctioned as a permanent institution by Act of Parliament.[3]
  • June 11 – England, France and the Dutch Republic agree on the terms of the Second Partition Treaty for Spain.[4]
  • June 14 – Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam pump to the Royal Society of London.
  • October 3 – The Liverpool Merchant, the first slave ship from the port of Liverpool in England, departs to imprison captured West Africans and transport them to the British colonies, arriving in Barbados on September 18, 1700 with 220 slaves.

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References

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  1. ^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 200–201. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  2. ^ Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
  3. ^ 'William III, 1698: An Act for making Billingsgate a Free Market for Sale of Fish. [Chapter XIII. Rot. Parl. 10 Gul. III. p.3. n.4.]', Statutes of the Realm: volume 7: 1695–1701 (1820), pp. 513–14 accessed: 2013-01-24.
  4. ^ John, Rule (2017). Onnekink, David; Mijers, Esther (eds.). The Partition Treaties, 1698-1700: A European View in Redefining William III: The Impact of the King-Stadholder in International Context. Routledge. ISBN 978-1138257962.
  5. ^ Macy, L. (ed.). "Blow, John". Grove Music Online. Archived from the original on 2008-05-16. Retrieved 2006-12-13.
  6. ^ Lhuyd, E. (1699). Lithophylacii Britannici Ichnographia, sive lapidium aliorumque fossilium Britannicorum singulari figura insignium. London: Gleditsch and Weidmann.
  7. ^ Delair, J.B.; Sarjeant, W.A.S. (2002). "The earliest discoveries of dinosaurs: the records re-examined". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 113 (3): 185–197. doi:10.1016/S0016-7878(02)80022-0.
  8. ^ Gunther, R.T. (1945). Early Science in Oxford: Life and Letters of Edward Lhuyd, volume 14. Oxford.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  9. ^ Information on Joshua Fry's birth and death.