Ireland 1450-1700

By Tarama99
  • 1487

    Lambert Simnel crowned Edward VI in Dublin

  • 1494

    Poyning's Law

    According to this act the Irish Parliament was essentially put under the control of the Westminster Parliament.
  • 1517

    The Reformation

    Martin Luther pins his 95 theses to the Cathedral wall in Germany
  • 1534

    Kildare rebellion took place against Henry VIII.

    The earls of Kildare, the House of Fitzgerald, who were meant to represent royal authority, rebelled against the Crown. Thomas, Lord Offaly, son of the ninth earl of Kildare, led a symbolic revolt to show that the power of the Kildares must remain. Henry VIII sent an army of 2300 and had all male members of the FitzGerald family executed. This harshness may have been because FitzGerald backed the pope, and because Henry needed to draw up an Irish parliament to confirm him head of the church.
  • 1536

    Henry VIII becomes head of Church of Ireland

    However, the reformation makes little progress in Ireland
  • 1539

    Irish monasteries dissolved

  • 1541

    Henry VIII of England declared King of Ireland

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    The Nine Years War

  • Treaty of Mellifont signed

    The Treaty of Mellifont was signed in 1603 ending the Nine Years' War which took place in the Kingdom of Ireland from 1594 to 1603.

  • Irish Rebellion

    The Irish in Ulster rise in rebellion and kill Protestant settlers

  • Massacre of Drogheda

    Oliver Cromwell took an army to Ireland determined to put an end to Irish revolts against English rule. He massacred a large number of Catholics at Drogheda as ‘revenge’ for the alleged massacre of Protestants in 1641. Cromwell then gave even more Irish land to English Protestants and new established anti-Catholic laws which took away many political rights.

  • Islandmagee witch trial

    Last witch trial that took place in Ireland. Eight women were put on trial and found guilty of witchcraft.