Irish History at a Quick Glance
6500BC: Mesolithic hunter-gatherers arrive in Ireland
3200BC: Early farmers build Neolithic Passage Grave at Newgrange
500BC: First Celtic Tribes begin to arrive and settle in Ireland
432AD: Arrival of St. Patrick in Ireland on his Christian mission
795AD: First Viking raids in Ireland
1014: Brian Boru defeats the Vikings at the Battle of Clontarf
1169: Norman Invasion of Ireland
1586: English Plantation of Munster
1601: Ulster Chieftains and allies defeated at the Battle of Kinsale
1607: Flights of the Earls from Ulster to the Continent
1609: Plantation of Ulster begins
1649: Arrival of Oliver Cromwell in Ireland
1690: Battle of the Boyne – Protestant Ascendancy firmly established
1695: Beginning of Penal Laws against Catholics
1798: United Irishmen Rising
1801: Union of Ireland and Great Britain begins
1803: Robert Emmet’s Rising
1829: Catholic Emancipation achieved under Daniel O’Connell’s leadership
1845-1849: The Great Irish Famine
1848: Young Irelanders Uprising
1867: Fenian Rising
1916: Easter Rising
1919-21: War of Independence
1921: Anglo-Irish Treaty signed
1922-23: Irish Civil War
1949: Republic of Ireland inaugurated
1969: British troops arrive in Northern Ireland
1973: Ireland joins the European Economic Community (EEC)
1985: Anglo-Irish Agreement
1994: First cease-fire in Northern Ireland
1998: Good Friday Agreement signed in Belfast, introduces Power Sharing
2007: Devolved Government established in the Northern Ireland Assembly
2014: British forces in N.I. reduced to pre-conflict numbers of 1.800 personnel
2018: Northern Ireland Assembly suspended due to inter-party disagreements
2019: A No Deal Brexit threatens a return to instability in Northern Ireland