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]
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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