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TIMELINE OF THE HISTORY OF IRELAND
BEFORE CHRIST
7,500 B.C.- The first humans arrive in Ireland.
4,000 B.C-. The first farmers arrive in Ireland
2,000 B.C.- Bronze is introduced into Ireland
750 B.C.- The Celts arrive in Ireland. They bring iron tools and weapons.
500 B.C.- A Greek writer mentions a place he calls 'Holy Island'. This is the first time Ireland
is mentioned in writing.
ANNO DOMINI (Latin for “Year of the Lord”)
367- The Irish join with the Scots and Picts to raid Roman Britain
400- Christianity is accepted Ireland
432- St Patrick arrives in Ireland
461- St Patrick dies
795- The Vikings begin raiding Ireland
1002- Brian Boru becomes High King of Ireland
1014- The battle of Clontarf… The Irish defeat the Vikings but Brian Boru is killed.
1169- The first English soldiers arrive in Ireland and capture Wexford
1556- Queen Mary sends English people to settle land confiscated from Irish rebels in Laois
and Offaly.
1586- Queen Elizabeth sends English people to settle lands confiscated from the Irish rebels
in Munster
1593-1603 The Nine Years War
1610- The first Protestant settlers arrive
1649- Cromwell lays siege to Drogheda and Wexford where he carries out massacres upon
the townspeople.
1653-1654- Cromwell confiscates land held by Irish Catholics.
1695- The first penal laws are passed. Catholic education is severely restricted.
1704- Further penal laws are passed. More restrictions are placed on Catholics. They are
not allowed to buy land, inherit from Protestants or lease it for more than 31 years. They are
not allowed to leave land to a single heir but land must be divided among all their sons (or
daughters if they don't have any male heirs).
1727- Catholics are deprived of the right to vote… Ireland is struck by famine
1740-1741- A severe famine affects Ireland… About 400,000 people die.
1759- Guinness is brewed for the first time
1817- Famine and typhus in Ireland
1832- Cholera epidemic in Irish towns
1841- The population of Ireland is 8,175,000
1845-1849- The potato blight causes a potato famine… 1 million people die
1848-1850- Cholera epidemics strike
1851- The population of Ireland has fallen to 6,552,000
1890- Oscar Wilde publishes The Picture of Dorian Gray
1921- A truce is made between the IRA and the British
1925 George Bernard Shaw wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
1941- A German air raid kills 34 people in Dublin
1955- Ireland joins the United Nations
1972- 'Bloody Sunday' in Derry. Fourteen people are killed when the British 1st Parachute
Regiment opens fire on demonstrators.
BEFORE CHRIST
7,500 B.C.- The first humans arrive in Ireland.
4,000 B.C-. The first farmers arrive in Ireland
2,000 B.C.- Bronze is introduced into Ireland
750 B.C.- The Celts arrive in Ireland. They bring iron tools and weapons.
500 B.C.- A Greek writer mentions a place he calls 'Holy Island'. This is the first time Ireland
is mentioned in writing.
ANNO DOMINI (Latin for “Year of the Lord”)
367- The Irish join with the Scots and Picts to raid Roman Britain
400- Christianity is accepted Ireland
432- St Patrick arrives in Ireland
461- St Patrick dies
795- The Vikings begin raiding Ireland
1002- Brian Boru becomes High King of Ireland
1014- The battle of Clontarf… The Irish defeat the Vikings but Brian Boru is killed.
1169- The first English soldiers arrive in Ireland and capture Wexford
1556- Queen Mary sends English people to settle land confiscated from Irish rebels in Laois
and Offaly.
1586- Queen Elizabeth sends English people to settle lands confiscated from the Irish rebels
in Munster
1593-1603 The Nine Years War
1610- The first Protestant settlers arrive
1649- Cromwell lays siege to Drogheda and Wexford where he carries out massacres upon
the townspeople.
1653-1654- Cromwell confiscates land held by Irish Catholics.
1695- The first penal laws are passed. Catholic education is severely restricted.
1704- Further penal laws are passed. More restrictions are placed on Catholics. They are
not allowed to buy land, inherit from Protestants or lease it for more than 31 years. They are
not allowed to leave land to a single heir but land must be divided among all their sons (or
daughters if they don't have any male heirs).
1727- Catholics are deprived of the right to vote… Ireland is struck by famine
1740-1741- A severe famine affects Ireland… About 400,000 people die.
1759- Guinness is brewed for the first time
1817- Famine and typhus in Ireland
1832- Cholera epidemic in Irish towns
1841- The population of Ireland is 8,175,000
1845-1849- The potato blight causes a potato famine… 1 million people die
1848-1850- Cholera epidemics strike
1851- The population of Ireland has fallen to 6,552,000
1890- Oscar Wilde publishes The Picture of Dorian Gray
1921- A truce is made between the IRA and the British
1925 George Bernard Shaw wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
1941- A German air raid kills 34 people in Dublin
1955- Ireland joins the United Nations
1972- 'Bloody Sunday' in Derry. Fourteen people are killed when the British 1st Parachute
Regiment opens fire on demonstrators.
