Mesolithic and neolithic periods
Bronze and Iron Ages
1st century
2nd century
Year | Date | Event |
c. 140 AD | | Ptolemy's Geographia provides the earliest known written reference to habitation in the Dublin area, referring to a settlement in the area as Eblana Civitas |
3rd century
Year | Date | Event |
c. 220 AD | | The Annals of the Four Masters, Foras Feasa ar Éirinn, and other semi-historical (non-contemporary) texts, place Cormac mac Airt as a longstanding High King of Ireland. (The Annals date his reign as 226–266, but scholars vary in their assessment of Mac Airt's reign as legend or historical fact) |
4th century
Year | Date | Event |
c. 300 AD | | Pollen data records from the late Iron Age indicate a resurgence in human activity after a relatively stagnant period |
5th century
6th century
7th century
Year | Date | Event |
664–666 | | Several sources record a pervasive "yellow plague" on the island. |
8th century
9th century
10th century
11th century
12th century
13th century
14th century
15th century
16th century
Year | Date | Event |
1534 | 11 June | Thomas FitzGerald, the 10th Earl of Kildare, publicly renounces his allegiance to Henry VIII of England. |
1537 | 3 February | FitzGerald is hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn. |
1542 | | The Irish parliament passes the Crown of Ireland Act, which establishes a Kingdom of Ireland to be ruled by Henry VIII and his successors. |
1570 | 25 February | Pope Pius V issues a papal bull, Regnans in Excelsis, declaring Elizabeth I of England a heretic and releasing her subjects from any allegiance to her. |
1575 | May–August | The Annals of the Four Masters records a drought, in which no rain fell "from Bealtaine to Lammas" (1 May to 1 August), resulting in disease and plague. |
1577 | November | The Annals of the Four Masters records that the Great Comet of 1577 "was wondered at by all universally". |
1579 | 16 July | Second Desmond Rebellion: James FitzMaurice FitzGerald, a cousin of the 14th Earl of Desmond, lands a small force of rebels at Dingle. |
1594 | | The Nine Years' War commences in Ulster, as Hugh O'Neill and Red Hugh O'Donnell rebel against Elizabeth I's authority in Ulster. |
17th century
Year | Date | Event |
1607 | 14 September | The Flight of the Earls: The departure from Ireland of Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone and Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell. |
1609 | | Plantation of Ulster by Scottish Presbyterians begins on a large scale. |
1641 | 22 October | Irish Rebellion of 1641: Phelim O'Neill leads the capture of several forts in the north of Ireland. |
1642 | | Irish Confederate Wars: The Irish Catholic Confederation is established, under the nominal overlordship of Charles I of England, with its capital at Kilkenny. |
1646 | 28 March | The Supreme Council of the Irish Catholic Confederation signs an agreement with a representative of Charles I, which procures some rights for Catholics in return for their military support of the royalists in England. |
| The members of the Supreme Council are arrested; the General Assembly renounces the agreement with England. |
1647 | | A more favorable agreement is reached with Charles's representative, which promises toleration of Catholicism, a repeal of Poynings' Law, and recognition of lands taken by Irish Catholics during the war. |
1690 | 1 July | Battle of the Boyne |
1695 | | The Education Act, one of a series of Penal Laws, is passed in 1695. It prohibits Catholics from sending their children to be educated abroad, and remains in place until 1782. |
18th century
19th century
20th century
Year | Date | Event |
1913 | 19 August | A Dublin businessman, William Martin Murphy, fires forty workers he suspects belong to the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union (ITGWU). A resulting strike and related civil unrest, the Dublin Lockout, lasts from August 1913 to January 1914. |
1914 | 18 September | Government of Ireland Act is passed, providing for Irish Home Rule, but its application is simultaneously postponed for the duration of World War I. |
1916 | 24 April | Easter Rising: The Irish Republican Brotherhood leads an action which seizes key government buildings in Dublin, and issues the Proclamation of the Irish Republic. The Rising lasts til 29 April 1916. |
1918 | 18 April | Acting on a resolution of Dublin Corporation, the Lord Mayor convenes a conference at the Mansion House to devise plans to resist conscription. |
14 December | A general election returns a majority for Sinn Féin. |
1919 | 21 January | The First Dáil of the Irish Republic meets and issues a Declaration of Independence from the UK. |
21 January | Irish War of Independence: Volunteers of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary in what is considered to be the first act of the War of Independence. |
1921 | 3 May | Northern Ireland is established. |
1921 | 6 December | Irish War of Independence: The War of Independence ends when negotiations between the British government and representatives of the de facto Irish Republic conclude with the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the creation of the Irish Free State. |
1922 | 28 June | Irish Civil War: Bombardment by Michael Collins of Anti-Treaty forces occupying the Four Courts marks the start of the Irish Civil War, |
1923 | 24 May | Irish Civil War: IRA Chief of Staff Frank Aiken orders volunteers to dump arms, effectively ending the Civil War. |
1925 | 17 September | An election was held for 19 of the 60 seats in Seanad Éireann. Single transferable vote was used, with the entire state forming a single 19-seat electoral district, the largest number of members elected in one contest in Irish history. |
1937 | 29 December | The Constitution of Ireland comes into force, replacing the Irish Free State with a new state called "Éire", or, in the English language, "Ireland" |
1949 | 18 April | The Republic of Ireland Act abolishes the statutory functions of the British monarch in relation to Ireland and confers them on the President of Ireland. |
1955 | 14 December | Ireland joins the United Nations along with sixteen other sovereign states. |
1969 | August | Troops are deployed on the streets of Northern Ireland, marking the start of the Troubles. |
1972 | March | The Parliament of Northern Ireland is prorogued (and abolished the following year). |
1973 | 1 January | Ireland joins the European Community along with the United Kingdom and Denmark. |
1973 | June | The Northern Ireland Assembly is elected. |
1974 | 1 January | A power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive takes office, but resigns in May as a result of the Ulster Workers' Council strike; the Assembly is suspended and later abolished. |
1985 | 15 November | The governments of Ireland and the United Kingdom sign the Anglo-Irish Agreement. |
1990 | 3 December | Mary Robinson becomes the first female President of Ireland. |
1995 | | Ireland enters the Celtic Tiger period, a time of high economic growth which continues until 2007. |
1998 | April | The Belfast Agreement is signed; as a result, the Northern Ireland Assembly is elected, to which powers are devolved in 1999 and a power-sharing Executive takes office. |
1999 | 1 January | Ireland yields its official currency, the Irish pound, and adopts the Euro. |
21st century
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