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Timeline
(300 BC) Groups of Celts reach Ireland
(150) Ptolemy draws map of Ireland
(367) Irish Picts and Saxons attacked Roman controlled Britannia
(455) St. Patrick founds church at Armagh
(795) Vikings attack Celtic coastal monasteries
(841) Vikings fleets winters in Dublin
(967) Irish and powerful Vikings at war
(1014) King Brian Boru defeats Viking army
(1142) Cistercian house established at Mellifont
(1172) Pope in Rome declares King Henry II of England lordship over Ireland
(1224) Dominican order enters Ireland
(1260) Brian O Neill killed at Battle of Down
(1297) First Irish Parliament meets in Dublin
(1315) Scots attack Ireland
(1348-1351) Black death kills a third of population
(1394) England's King Richard tries to regain control
(1487) Lambert Simnel crowned Edward VI in Dublin
(1504) 8th Earl of Kildare declared master of Ireland after military victory at Knocktoe
(1539) Irish monasteries dissolved
(1541) Henry VIII of England declared King of Ireland
(1585) Ireland mapped and divided into counties
(1592) Trinity College of Dublin established
(1603) Treaty of Mellifont signed
(1649) Catholics rebel over land rights. Oliver Cromwell, England's "Protestant" Lord Protector, led a punitive expedition into Ireland. The massacre was bloody, brutal and most destructive.
(1650) The few remaining Catholic landowners are all relocated to western Ireland
(1688) James II, deposed Catholic King of England, flees to Ireland and gathers an army
(1689) Siege of Derry
(1690) William of Orange defeats James II at the Battle of Boyne
(1713) Jonathan Swift named Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral
(1731) Royal Dublin Society established
(1738) Turlough O'Carolan, harp player, dies
(1759) Arthur Guiness purchases brewery in Dublin
(1798) Wolfe Tones United Irishmen rebellion
(1800) By the Act of Union, Ireland becomes a part of Great Britain
(1817) Royal Canal completed
(1828) Catholic emancipation act passed
(1838) Whiskey production reduced
(1845-1849) Great Potato Famine causes great hardship, thousands of deaths, and forces mass-immigration to the United States
(1867) Thousands of Irish-Americans return home to fight for Irish Republican Brotherhood
(1879-82) Land War for the reform of tenancy laws
(1892) Irish Home Rule bill defeated, again
(1904) Dublin's Abbey Theater opens
(1912) Titanic, built in Belfast, sinks
(1916 Nationalists stage Easter Rising, proclaiming an independent Irish Republic. All of their leaders executed by the British.
(1919) Nationalists, led by Eamonn De Valera, establishes Dublin assembly. Guerrilla war begins between British forces and the Irish Republican Army
(1920) British parliament passes the Government of Ireland Act establishing one parliament for the six counties of Northern Ireland, and another for the rest of Ireland.
(1921) Anglo-Irish treaty signed. Northern Ireland partitioned off to remain part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
(1922) The Dublin parliament accepts the treaty despite Nationalist opposition. Subsequently civil war breaks out and hundreds are killed
(1923) Irish Free State joins League of Nations
(1932) Eamonn De Valera heads the Irish Free State government
(1937) Voters approve a new constitution, abolishing the Irish Free State, and proclaiming Ireland (Eire) as a sovereign, independent, democratic state, free from British control
(1938) Douglas Hyde elected president of Eire
(1949) On Easter Monday, Eire becomes Republic of Ireland, and totally independent from Britain
(1956) IRA launches terrorism campaign
(1957) Republic of Ireland joins United Nations
(1959) De Valera elected president
(1963) John F. Kennedy is the first American President to visit Ireland
(1972) Bloody Sunday, as British troops shoot and kill 13 demonstrators
(1973) The Republic joins European Economic Community, or EU; Northern Ireland violence intensifies
(1979) Pope John Paul II visits Ireland
(1987) IRA bomb explodes during Remembrance day parade
(1988) Dublin celebrates its millennium
(1990) Mary Robinson elected president
(1993) Downing Street Declaration signed
(1998) Good Friday Agreement on a political settlement for Northern Ireland is approved by voters
(2002) Irish punt note replaced by Euro
(2002) Bertie Ahern elected prime minister
(2004) Ireland holds EU presidency
(2005) IRA announces an end to armed campaign
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