A Chronology of Dublin History

A year-by-year chronology of Dublin, set out in four period pages with an index. The entries record events in the city and county alongside national events that shaped Dublin: wars and politics, the founding of buildings and institutions, fires, storms and floods, and the births and deaths of notable people. As the compilers note, the older the date, the more likely it is to be approximate.

The first page runs from Roman knowledge of Ireland and Ptolemy's Eblana through the Norse kingdom of Dublin, the Norman arrival and the Williamite war to 1699. The eighteenth-century page covers the penal laws, Jonathan Swift, the first performance of Handel's Messiah and the 1798 rebellion. The nineteenth century runs from the Act of Union and Robert Emmet's rising to O'Connell, the Famine and Parnell, and the twentieth from Queen Victoria's visit in 1900 through the Easter Rising and the foundation of the State to the 1990s.