465. March 17--Death of St. Patrick.
554. The last triennial council held at Tara.
795. First Invasion of the Danes.
1014. April 23, Good Friday--Defeat of the Danes at Clontarf by Brian Boroihme.
1152. Synod of Kells. Supremacy of the Church of Rome acknowledged.
1159. Pope Adrian"s bull granting Ireland to Henry II.
1169. May--First landing of the Normans.
1171. October 18--Henry II. arrives in Ireland.
1172. A Council, called by some a Parliament, held by Henry II. at Lismore.
1185. Prince John is sent over by his father as Lord of Ireland, accompanied by his tutor, Giraldus Cambrensis.
1210. King John, at the head of a military force, arrives in Ireland.
1216. Henry III. grants Magna Charta to Ireland.
1254. Ireland granted, under certain conditions, by Henry III. to his son, Prince Edward.
1277. Some of the Irish pet.i.tion Edward I. for an extension of English laws and usages to them.
1295. A Parliament held at Kilkenny by Sir John Wogan, Lord Justice.
1309. A Parliament held at Kilkenny by Sir John Wogan. Its enactments on record in Bolton"s Irish Statutes.
1315. Edward Bruce lands with 6,000 men at Larne in May, invited by the Irish. Crowned near Dundalk.
1318. Defeat and death of Bruce at f.a.ghard, near Dundalk.
1367. Parliament a.s.sembled at Kilkenny by Lionel, Duke of Clarence, at which the celebrated Anti-Irish Statute was pa.s.sed prohibiting adoption of Irish costume or customs, intermarriage with the Irish, etc., under very severe penalties, to the Anglo-Irish of the Pale.
1379. The first Act ever pa.s.sed against Absentees.
1394. Richard II. lands with an army at Waterford.
1399. Richard II."s second expedition to Ireland.
1463. A College founded at Youghal by the Earl of Desmond. Another at Drogheda.
1472. Inst.i.tution of the Brotherhood of St. George for the protection of the Pale.
1494. Nov.--The Parliament a.s.sembled at Drogheda pa.s.sed Poyning"s Law.
1534. First step of the Reformation in Ireland.
1536. Nearly total destruction of the Kildare Geraldines. Henry VIII."s supremacy enacted by Statute.
1537. Act pa.s.sed for the suppression of religious houses.
1541. Act pa.s.sed declaring Henry VIII. _King_ of Ireland.
1579. The last Earl of Desmond proclaimed a traitor.
1583. The Earl of Desmond a.s.sa.s.sinated.
1586. April 26--Attainder of Desmond and his followers. Forfeiture of his estate--574,628 Irish acres. Elizabeth inst.i.tutes the planting system.
1592. The Dublin University founded.
1595. Aodh O"Neill"s victory at Blackwater, and death of Marshal Bagnal.
1603. March 30--Submission of O"Neill (Tyrone) to Mountjoy.
1607. Flight of the Northern Earls, Tyrone and Tyrconnell. Consequent seizure by the Crown of the six entire counties of Cavan, Fermanagh, Armagh, Derry, Tyrone, and Tyrconnel (now Donegal), amounting in the whole to about 511,456 Irish acres.
1608. May 1--Sept.--Sir Cathair O"Dogherty"s rising.
1613. May 18--After the creation of fourteen peers and forty new boroughs, a Parliament is a.s.sembled to support the new _plantation_ of Ulster by the attainder and outlawry of the gentlemen of that province.
1616. Commission for inquiring into defective t.i.tles.
1635. Lord Wentworth"s oppressive proceedings to find a t.i.tle in the Crown to the province of Connaught.
1641. Oct. 23--The breaking out of the celebrated Irish insurrection.
1642. The confederate Catholics form their General a.s.sembly and Supreme Council at Kilkenny--"Pro Deo, pro rege, _et patria, Hibernia, unanimes_," their motto.
1646. June 5--Monroe totally defeated by Owen Roe O"Neill at Benburb, near Armagh.
1649. Aug. 15--Oliver Cromwell arrives in Dublin.
---- Sept. 2, 10, 15.--Siege, storming, and ma.s.sacre of Drogheda.
---- Oct. 1--Siege and ma.s.sacre of Wexford.
---- Nov. 6--Death of Owen Roe O"Neill at Cloch-Uachdar Castle, Co.
Cavan.
1650. May 29--Cromwell embarks for England.
1653. Sept. 26--The Irish war proclaimed ended by the English Parliament.--Act of Grace, ordering the Irish Catholics to transport themselves, on pain of death, into Connaught before 1st of March, 1654.
1661. May 8, 1666. Acts of Settlement and Explanation. 7,800,000 acres confiscated and distributed under them.