BRIEF CHRONOLOGY OF IRISH HISTORY AD200 Beginning of High Kingship at Tara, Meath. 377 - 405 Niall of the Nine Hostages, High King 432 St Patrick comes as a Christian Missionary. 795 Vikings attack the Irish Coast 852 Norse occupy Dublin and Waterford 900 - 908 Cormac MacCullenan, King of Cashel 940 - 1014 Reign of High King, Brian Boru, killed at Battle of Clontarf 1119 - 1156 Turlough Mor O Conor, High King 1134 - 1171 Dermot MacMurrough, King of Leinster 1166 - 1175 Rory O Conor, last native High King of Ireland 1170 Arrival of the Normans 1258 Gallowglasses ( mercenaries ) come to Ulster from Scotland 1366 Statutes of Kilkenny enacted to prevent Anglo-Normans from integrating with Irish by using the language, laws or customs 1376 - 1411 Art MacMurrough, King of Leinster 1460 Irish Parliamentary independance declared 1477 - 1513 Ireland ruled by Garret Mor Fitzgerald, Earl of Kildare 1513 - 1534 Ireland ruled by Garret Oge Fitzgerald, Earl of Kildare 1536 Anglo-Irish parliament acknowledges Henry 8th of England as King of Ireland. Suppression of Monasteries. 1569 - 1583 Revolt of the Fitzgeralds, Earls of Desmond 1588 Spanish Armada wrecked off Irish coast 1592 Trinity College Dublin founded 1594 Beginning of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, nine year war against the English 1598 Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone and Rory O Donnell, Earl of Tyrconnell, defeat the English at the battle of Yellow Ford 1602 Irish, reinforced by Spanish, defeated at Kinsale 1607 Flight of Irish Earls to Spain, led by O Neill and O Donnell 1608 - 1610 British colony founded in Ulster 1641 Rising, which begins in Ulster, spreads 1649 - 1651 Cromwellians devastate Ireland 1660 Restoration of Charles 2nd 1689 Seige of Derry 1689 James 2nd loses English throne to his nephew and son in law, William of Orange 1690 Having rallied a Jacobite Army in Ireland, James 2nd, deposed Stuart king, is defeated at the Battle of the Boyne by William of Orange 1691 11,000 "Wild Geese" soldiers sail for France 1692 - 1829 Exclusion of all Catholics from Parliament and professions 1695 Penal Laws enforced 1778 Irish Volunteers organise 1782 Independant Dublin Parliament 1791 Society of Irishmen founded 1798 Rising takes place 1800 Act of Union. Ireland loses its independant parliament 1829 Catholic Emancipation is inspired by Daniel O Connell 1842 - 1848 Young Ireland Movement 1845 - 1847 The Great Famine. Population falls from 8 million to 6 and a half million 1867 Fenian Uprising 1877 - 1891 Charles Parnell 1916 Easter Rising 1918 - 1921 Anglo Irish War 1920 Six counties in Ulster vote themselves out of Ireland Copied from a handout given out at a meeting of the Irish Family History Society in Liverpool.