Ireland

By mamö
  • 432

    Arrival of St. Patrick to help convert pagan Gaelic Kings to Christianity

    To this day Irish people celebrate his arrival in Ireland
  • 550

    onwards Irish monks re-Christianize Europe

  • Jan 1, 1002

    Brian Boru wins recognition as king of all ireland

  • Jan 1, 1014

    High King Brian Boru, killed at Battle of Clontarf

  • Jan 1, 1066

    Normans defeats Saxons in England

  • Jan 1, 1167

    Arrival of Normans at Baginbun, Co, Wexford, thus started 800 year struggle between English and Irish

  • Aug 1, 1272

    The English had now conquered Ulster, east of Lough Neagh, in Meath, as well as most of Connacht and of Munster

  • Jan 1, 1361

    An edict bans Irish from becoming mayors, baillifs, officers of the king or clerygmen, serving the English

  • Jan 1, 1366

    Statues of Kilkenny forbade Irish/English marriages and preventing English to use Irish language, custom or laws

  • Jan 1, 1541

    Henry VIII declares himself king of Ireland

  • Rebellion of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone

  • Defeat of O'Neill, at Battle of Kinsale

  • Accession of James 1. Surrender of HUgh O'Neill, Enforcement of English Law in Ireland

  • Plantation of Derry and others confiscated countres planned

  • Creat Catholic-Gaelic rebellion for return of lands, English settlers were driven out of Ulster

  • Oliver Cromwell, landed at Dublin. His troops killed 2000 men, Munster, Leinster and Ulster divided among the English

  • Over 60.000 Irish Catholics had been sent slaves to Barbados, and other islands in the Caribbean

  • The population of Ireland, estimated at 1.500.000, was reduced by two-thirds, to 500.000, at Cromwell's death in 1658

  • Anti-Catholic Penal Laws Introduced

  • Failed Rebellion

  • Potatoes famine, all other crops are sent to English markets. The natives starved

    Emigration and deaths by famine, Ireland's population decreased by more than 2 million people

  • Proclamation of the Republic

  • Irish War of Independence against Britain

  • Civil War starts between Free Stat army and IRA

  • The IRA continues its battle with the British, escalating the campaign due to unfair treatment of catholics

  • Unionist government of NI introduces internment withount trial for suspected Republicans

    During the 30 years of the troubles almost 3,500 people were killed

  • Celts started arriving in Ireland, from central Europe. They continued to arrive, up to the time of Christianity.

    600 BC
    The country was divided into about 150 minitature kingdoms, each called a "tuath"
    This caused constant shifting in power between kings
    Celtic culture flourished in Ireland for the next 800 years

  • More people reached Ireland, producing a greater variety of weapons and artifacts

    1200 BC
    A common dwelling of this period was the "crannog", an artificial island, constructed in the middle of a lake

  • IRA has disbanded and puts its weapons beyond use

    The two main partys of the political divide have mad peace and the future loods brighter for a united Ireland.

  • Most Irish are descended from one of three sons of Milesius of Spain

    1699 BC
    Five were killed in landing upon the treacherous coast

  • Ireland attacked by Viking Norsemen, on Lambay Island, off Dublin

    The book of Kells is written

  • The settlements of Waterford, Dublin, Limerick are established

  • Brian Boru was born

  • Brian Boru defeats Vikings