{"slug": "dublin", "label": "Dublin", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1761", "qid": "Q1761", "description": "capital and largest city of Ireland", "entries": 190, "years": 162, "span": [840, 2023], "span_label": ["840 CE", "2023 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 35}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 29}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 28}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 21}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 16}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 13}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 13}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 12}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 10}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 7}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 2}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Ath Cliath", "City of Dublin", "West Dublin"], "related": [{"slug": "ireland", "label": "Ireland", "shared": 7}, {"slug": "waterford", "label": "Waterford", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "parliament-of-ireland", "label": "Parliament of Ireland", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "british-army", "label": "British Army", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-dublin", "label": "Kingdom of Dublin", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "republic-of-ireland", "label": "Republic of Ireland", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "oliver-cromwell", "label": "Oliver Cromwell", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "george-frideric-handel", "label": "George Frideric Handel", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "vikings", "label": "Vikings", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "norway", "label": "Norway", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "scotland", "label": "Scotland", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "edward-iii", "label": "Edward III", "shared": 2}], "items": [{"year": 840, "year_label": "840 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Vikings from Norway capture Dublin and establish a Norse kingdom in Ireland, and also at about this date make their first overwintering at Lough Neagh in the north of Ireland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367666598#British_Isles", "title": "840", "revid": 1367666598, "section": "Events › By place › British Isles"}}, {"year": 841, "year_label": "841 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The town of Dyflin (meaning \"Black Pool\") or Dublin (modern Ireland) is founded by Norwegian Vikings, on the south bank of the River Liffey. The settlement is fortified with a ditch and an earth rampart, with a wooden palisade on top. The Norsemen establish a wool weaving industry, and there is also a slave trade. An artificial hill is erected, where the nobility meets to make laws and discuss policy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360650312#Ireland", "title": "841", "revid": 1360650312, "section": "Events › By place › Ireland"}}, {"year": 864, "year_label": "864 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Viking raiders, led by Olaf the White, arrive in Scotland from the Viking settlement of Dublin (Ireland). He rampages the country, until his defeat in battle by King Constantine I.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365939843#Europe", "title": "864", "revid": 1365939843, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 870, "year_label": "870 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Danes, led by Ivar the Boneless and King Olaf of the Dublin Vikings, besiege Dumbarton in Scotland, the capital of King Artgal of Stratchlyde. After a siege of four months, the citadel is captured and destroyed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341129562#Britain", "title": "870", "revid": 1341129562, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 875, "year_label": "875 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Danish Vikings, probably led by Halfdan Ragnarsson, invade Dublin. During the fighting, Eystein Olafsson, king of Dublin, is killed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352180718#Britain", "title": "875", "revid": 1352180718, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 914, "year_label": "914 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Viking raiders establish a settlement near Waterford (Ireland) led by Ottir (the Black). The Dublin Vikings are forced to pay tribute to the Irish kings of Meath and Leinster as the price to keeping their independence.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355643516#Europe", "title": "914", "revid": 1355643516, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 978, "year_label": "978 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "English troops are deployed on the Llŷn Peninsula on behalf of King Hywel of Gwynedd in order to prevent his uncle, King Iago, invading with Viking allies from Dublin.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365272344#England", "title": "978", "revid": 1365272344, "section": "Events › By place › England"}}, {"year": 992, "year_label": "992 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Approximate date – Norse Viking settlers establish a mint in Dublin (Ireland), to produce silver pennies.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364919750#Europe", "title": "992", "revid": 1364919750, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 995, "year_label": "995 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Malachy captures Dublin for the third time.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360634539#Europe", "title": "995", "revid": 1360634539, "section": "Events › Europe"}}, {"year": 1140, "year_label": "1140 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "A battle was fought by the foreigners of Ath-cliath, over the foreigners of Port-Lairge, in which the son of Mac Tormair was slain.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367186078#Events", "title": "1140 in Ireland", "revid": 1367186078, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1170, "year_label": "1170 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 21", "text": "September 21 – Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland: Following a siege, combined Anglo-Norman and Irish forces seize the city of Dublin, forcing Ascall mac Ragnaill, last King of Dublin, into exile.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367488642#Ireland", "title": "1170", "revid": 1367488642, "section": "Events › By place › Ireland"}}, {"year": 1170, "year_label": "1170 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 21", "text": "21 September - Following a siege, combined Anglo-Norman and Irish forces seize Dublin, forcing Ascall mac Ragnaill, King of Dublin, into exile.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247814053#Events", "title": "1170 in Ireland", "revid": 1247814053, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1171, "year_label": "1171 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 17", "text": "October 17 – Henry II invades Ireland and lands with a large army of at least 500 mounted knights, and 4,000 men and archers at Waterford. Henry commandeers merchant ships as part of his invasion. He claims the ports of Dublin, Waterford, and Wexford, and promises the Irish chieftains protection if they will acknowledge him as their overlord. Henry is recognized as \"Lord of Ireland\", traders are invited to Dublin where an English colony is set up.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362165802#Ireland", "title": "1171", "revid": 1362165802, "section": "Events › By place › Ireland"}}, {"year": 1192, "year_label": "1192 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "St Patrick's Cathedral built in Dublin.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358802055#Events", "title": "1192 in Ireland", "revid": 1358802055, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1209, "year_label": "1209 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Black Monday, Dublin: A group of 500 recently arrived settlers from Bristol are massacred by warriors of the Irish O'Byrne clan. The group (accompanied by women and children) leaves the safety of the walled city of Dublin to celebrate Easter Monday near a wood at Ranelagh, and are attacked without warning. Although a relatively obscure event in history, it is commemorated by a mustering of the Mayor, Sheriffs, and soldiers on the day, as a challenge to the native tribes for centuries afterwards.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362169644#Britain", "title": "1209", "revid": 1362169644, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 1229, "year_label": "1229 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "June 15", "text": "June 15 - Henry III assigns Dublin the right to elect a mayor annually", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1329194191#Events", "title": "1229 in Ireland", "revid": 1329194191, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1248, "year_label": "1248 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "King's Bench in Dublin is instituted (today contained within the Four Courts).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1318453619#Events", "title": "1248 in Ireland", "revid": 1318453619, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1283, "year_label": "1283 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "January 2", "text": "January 2 – Most of Dublin, including St. Patrick's Cathedral, is burned in a fire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1347549431#British_Isles", "title": "1283", "revid": 1347549431, "section": "Events › By place › British Isles"}}, {"year": 1297, "year_label": "1297 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The first representative Irish Parliament meets in Dublin.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1264642733#Events", "title": "1297 in Ireland", "revid": 1264642733, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1310, "year_label": "1310 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "January", "text": "January–June – trial of Knights Templar in Dublin", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1332057291#Events", "title": "1310 in Ireland", "revid": 1332057291, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1310, "year_label": "1310 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 9", "text": "February 9 – At Dublin, acting in his capacity as Lord of Ireland, King Edward II of England (as Éadbhard II Shasana, Tiarna Éireann) opens the first session of the Parliament of Ireland during his administration. The Irish Parliament will hold 14 sessions before being dismissed in 1326.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1332018292#January_–_March", "title": "1310", "revid": 1332018292, "section": "Events › January – March"}}, {"year": 1331, "year_label": "1331 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 21", "text": "21 January – Parliament at Dublin", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1323561638#Events", "title": "1331 in Ireland", "revid": 1323561638, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1331, "year_label": "1331 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 1", "text": "1 July – Irish Parliament meets at Dublin", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1323561638#Events", "title": "1331 in Ireland", "revid": 1323561638, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1332, "year_label": "1332 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 11", "text": "11 July William de Bermingham, hung at Dublin", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1323561565#Deaths", "title": "1332 in Ireland", "revid": 1323561565, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1332, "year_label": "1332 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 17", "text": "17 August Parliament at Dublin", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1323561565#Events", "title": "1332 in Ireland", "revid": 1323561565, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1332, "year_label": "1332 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "September 20", "text": "20 September Prisage of wine at ports of Dublin, Drogheda, Limerick and Waterford granted to the Earl of Ormond", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1323561565#Events", "title": "1332 in Ireland", "revid": 1323561565, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1339, "year_label": "1339 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Mint briefly reopens at Dublin (see 1302)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1323561050#Events", "title": "1339 in Ireland", "revid": 1323561050, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1341, "year_label": "1341 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October", "text": "October – parliament at Dublin is adjourned to Kilkenny (held in November). Petitions critical of administration are sent to Edward III.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1323560963#Events", "title": "1341 in Ireland", "revid": 1323560963, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1345, "year_label": "1345 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "April 24", "text": "24 April – Parliament is held in Dublin", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1323613882#Events", "title": "1345 in Ireland", "revid": 1323613882, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1349, "year_label": "1349 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "In the dispute over the Primacy of Ireland, Richard FitzRalph, Archbishop of Armagh, acting on letters of King Edward III of England specifically allowing him to do so, enters Dublin \"with the cross erect before him\". He is opposed by the prior of Kilmainham on the instructions of Alexander de Bicknor, Archbishop of Dublin, and forced to withdraw to Drogheda.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370789467#Events", "title": "1349 in Ireland", "revid": 1370789467, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1351, "year_label": "1351 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "October 17", "text": "17 October – Great council occurs in Dublin.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1323562468#Events", "title": "1351 in Ireland", "revid": 1323562468, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1362, "year_label": "1362 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "April 6", "text": "April 6 – A fire destroys much of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360556919#January–December", "title": "1362", "revid": 1360556919, "section": "Events › January–December"}}, {"year": 1401, "year_label": "1401 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June", "text": "June – The English Pale in Ireland is reduced to Dublin, County Kildare, County Louth, and County Meath.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1347806355#April–June", "title": "1401", "revid": 1347806355, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1402, "year_label": "1402 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The government of the Lordship of Ireland continued to struggle to maintain authority beyond the English-controlled region known as The Pale, which surrounded Dublin. Outside this area, Gaelic Irish lords and Anglo-Irish magnates exercised significant autonomy. Gaelic dynasties such as the O'Neill dynasty, O'Conor dynasty, and O'Brien dynasty maintaining regional power.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360230320#Events", "title": "1402 in Ireland", "revid": 1360230320, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1488, "year_label": "1488 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Rathbornes Candles is established in Dublin", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367744977#Events", "title": "1488 in Ireland", "revid": 1367744977, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1488, "year_label": "1488 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": null, "text": "Rathbornes Candles is established in Dublin; the company is still trading in the 21st century.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368209981#Date_unknown", "title": "1488", "revid": 1368209981, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1495, "year_label": "1495 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July", "text": "July – Perkin Warbeck, having failed to land in Kent in support of his claim to the English crown, retreats to Ireland before proceeding to Scotland. Walter St. Lawrence plays an active part in the defence of Dublin.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1330281294#Events", "title": "1495 in Ireland", "revid": 1330281294, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1516, "year_label": "1516 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 25", "text": "February 25 – In his capacity as Lord of Ireland, Henry VIII opens the first of six assemblies of parliament during his reign of the Parliament of Ireland at Dublin. The parliament holds three sessions, ending on October 2, when it is dismissed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368315851#January–March", "title": "1516", "revid": 1368315851, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1536, "year_label": "1536 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Reformation Parliament meets in Dublin (until 1537).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1318938597#Events", "title": "1536 in Ireland", "revid": 1318938597, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1541, "year_label": "1541 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 18", "text": "June 18 – by the Crown of Ireland Act, the Parliament of Ireland, meeting in Dublin, declares King Henry VIII of England and his heirs to be Kings of Ireland, replacing the Lordship of Ireland with the Kingdom of Ireland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369352416#Events", "title": "1541 in Ireland", "revid": 1369352416, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1546, "year_label": "1546 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Sir John Alan, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, is removed from office by the Privy Council of England on a complaint of corruption, and Sir Richard Reade is sent to Dublin to replace him.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1258791497#Events", "title": "1546 in Ireland", "revid": 1258791497, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1549, "year_label": "1549 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "January", "text": "January – William St Loe is knighted in Dublin for services in Ireland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247429420#Events", "title": "1549 in Ireland", "revid": 1247429420, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1551, "year_label": "1551 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "An edition of the Book of Common Prayer printed by Humphrey Powell, de facto King's Printer in Dublin, becomes the first book printed in Ireland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247429209#Events", "title": "1551 in Ireland", "revid": 1247429209, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1557, "year_label": "1557 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 1", "text": "June 1 – July 2: the Parliament of Ireland, meeting in Dublin, passes acts confirming the creation of King's County (now County Offaly) and Queen's County (now County Laois) with their respective county towns of Philipstown and Maryborough; repeals statutes directed against the Roman Catholic Church; declares the monarchy of Ireland to rest in Mary I of England; and acknowledges the monarch's right to amend legislative proposals. James Stanihurst is Speaker of the Irish House of Commons.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1324328107#Events", "title": "1557 in Ireland", "revid": 1324328107, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1560, "year_label": "1560 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland orders the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the Earl of Sussex, to appoint John Challoner of Dublin as the first Chief Secretary for Ireland \"because at this present there is none appointed to be Clerk of our Council there, and considering how more meet it were, that in our realm there were for our honour one to be our Secretary there for the affairs of our Realm\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247428935#Events", "title": "1560 in Ireland", "revid": 1247428935, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1571, "year_label": "1571 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "First printing in the Irish language in Dublin, Aibidil Gaoidheilge agus Caiticiosma, a primer printed by John Kearney.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247428726#Events", "title": "1571 in Ireland", "revid": 1247428726, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1573, "year_label": "1573 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "March 25", "text": "March 25 – Gerald FitzGerald, 15th Earl of Desmond, returns to Ireland. He is detained in Dublin but escapes about 11 November.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247428761#Events", "title": "1573 in Ireland", "revid": 1247428761, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1574, "year_label": "1574 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Essex meets Brian O'Neill of Clandeboye at his castle of Edendubhcarrig (County Antrim) where at least 200 of the clan O'Neill are treacherously massacred at a feast while O'Neill himself, his wife and brother are captured, taken to Dublin, executed and quartered. The Lordship of Clandeboye is partitioned in three by the English.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247428788#Events", "title": "1574 in Ireland", "revid": 1247428788, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1576, "year_label": "1576 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June", "text": "June – the rebel sons of Richard Burke, Earl of Clanricarde, attack Athenry. They are captured and imprisoned in Dublin but escape.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1320723235#Events", "title": "1576 in Ireland", "revid": 1320723235, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1585, "year_label": "1585 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "April 26", "text": "26 April – 25 May – Parliament of Ireland meets in Dublin with Sir Nicholas Walsh as Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare, is permitted to take his seat.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247428620#Events", "title": "1585 in Ireland", "revid": 1247428620, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1599, "year_label": "1599 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 23", "text": "April 23 – The Earl of Essex arrives in Dublin at the head of 16,000 troops, the largest army ever seen in Ireland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373325746#April–June", "title": "1599", "revid": 1373325746, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1605, "year_label": "1605 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Refugee French Huguenot merchants begin to settle in Dublin and Waterford.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362477436#Date_unknown", "title": "1605", "revid": 1362477436, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1608, "year_label": "1608 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 5", "text": "July 5 – Cahir O'Doherty is shot dead at the Battle of Kilmacrennan, a skirmish with an English force under Sir Richard Wingfield. His severed head is displayed in Dublin for some time afterwards. 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Countess Constance Markievicz, while detained in Holloway Prison (London), becomes the first woman elected to (but does not take her seat in) the British House of Commons.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373520023#December", "title": "1918", "revid": 1373520023, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1920, "year_label": "1920 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 21", "text": "November 21 – Irish War of Independence: Bloody Sunday – The Irish Republican Army (IRA), on the instructions of Michael Collins, shoot dead the \"Cairo gang\", 14 British undercover agents in Dublin, most in their homes. Later this day in retaliation, the Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary open fire on a crowd at a Gaelic Athletic Association football match in Croke Park, resulting in 14 deaths with 60 wounded. Three men are shot this night in Dublin Castle \"while trying to escape\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369258210#November", "title": "1920", "revid": 1369258210, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1921, "year_label": "1921 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 25", "text": "May 25 – Irish War of Independence: The Irish Republican Army occupies and burns The Custom House in Dublin, the centre of local government in Ireland. Five IRA men are killed, and over 80 are captured by the British Army which surrounds the building.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371086035#May", "title": "1921", "revid": 1371086035, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1921, "year_label": "1921 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 4", "text": "4 July – James Craig refuses to attend a peace conference in Dublin because the invitation by President Éamon de Valera was addressed to him personally instead of to the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363471337#Events", "title": "1921 in Northern Ireland", "revid": 1363471337, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1922, "year_label": "1922 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 28", "text": "June 28 – The Irish Civil War and Battle of Dublin begin when the Irish National Army, using artillery loaned by the British, begins to bombard the anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army forces occupying the Four Courts in Dublin. Fighting in Dublin lasts until July 5.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369983934#June", "title": "1922", "revid": 1369983934, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1923, "year_label": "1923 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "January 13", "text": "13 January – Beechpark, the residence of President W. T. Cosgrave in Ballyboden, Dublin, was set on fire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372008631#January", "title": "1923 in Ireland", "revid": 1372008631, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1925, "year_label": "1925 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Ernest Blythe, Minister for Finance in the Irish Free State, arranges an annual government subsidy of £850 for the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, making it the first state-supported theatre in the English-speaking world.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367485783#Date_unknown", "title": "1925", "revid": 1367485783, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1927, "year_label": "1927 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July 10", "text": "July 10 – Timothy Coughlan, Bill Gannon and Archie Doyle, members of the anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army, shoot dead Kevin O'Higgins, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State and Minister for Justice, as O'Higgins is walking to Mass in Dublin.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370012373#July", "title": "1927", "revid": 1370012373, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1928, "year_label": "1928 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "April 12", "text": "April 12 – 14 – The first east–west transatlantic flight by aeroplane takes place from Dublin, Ireland, to Greenly Island, Canada, using the German Junkers W 33 Bremen.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372527586#April", "title": "1928", "revid": 1372527586, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1935, "year_label": "1935 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "October 26", "text": "26 October – Lord Edward Carson, the Dublin-born unionist leader and barrister, is buried in St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1301064646#Events", "title": "1935 in Northern Ireland", "revid": 1301064646, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1940, "year_label": "1940 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "January 2", "text": "2 January – The Royal Ulster Constabulary finds 2½ tons of the ammunition stolen in last year's Irish Republican Army Dublin Christmas Raid inside County Armagh.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1321973658#Events", "title": "1940 in Northern Ireland", "revid": 1321973658, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1941, "year_label": "1941 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 15", "text": "15 April – The Belfast blitz: 1,000 people are killed in bombing raids on Belfast. 71 firemen with 13 fire tenders from Dundalk, Drogheda, Dublin, and Dún Laoghaire cross the Irish border to assist their Belfast colleagues.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1286174033#Events", "title": "1941 in Northern Ireland", "revid": 1286174033, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1944, "year_label": "1944 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "August 22", "text": "22 August – Men from Tyrone and Fermanagh form an Anti-Partition League in Dublin.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360150774#Visit_by_General_Eisenhower", "title": "1944 in Northern Ireland", "revid": 1360150774, "section": "Events › Visit by General Eisenhower"}}, {"year": 1949, "year_label": "1949 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "April 17", "text": "17 April – At midnight 26 counties officially leave the British Commonwealth under terms of the Republic of Ireland Act 1948. A 21-gun salute on O'Connell Bridge, Dublin, ushers in the Republic of Ireland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358290039#Events", "title": "1949 in Northern Ireland", "revid": 1358290039, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1958, "year_label": "1958 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "August 6", "text": "August 6 – Australian athlete Herb Elliott clips almost 3 seconds off the world record for the mile run at Santry Stadium, Dublin, recording a time of 3 minutes 54.5 seconds.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371827125#August", "title": "1958", "revid": 1371827125, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1965, "year_label": "1965 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "March 18", "text": "18 March – The Northern Ireland Minister for Agriculture, Harry West attends a meeting with his Southern counterpart, Charles Haughey, in Dublin.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1258394294#Events", "title": "1965 in Northern Ireland", "revid": 1258394294, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1966, "year_label": "1966 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "March 8", "text": "March 8 – Nelson's Pillar in O'Connell Street, Dublin, is clandestinely blown up by former Irish Republican Army volunteers marking this year's 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370246126#March", "title": "1966", "revid": 1370246126, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1972, "year_label": "1972 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "November 19", "text": "November 19 – Seán Mac Stíofáin, a leader of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, is arrested in Dublin after giving a radio interview to RTÉ and charged with being a member of the IRA.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371514417#November", "title": "1972", "revid": 1371514417, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1974, "year_label": "1974 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 17", "text": "May 17 – The Troubles: The Dublin and Monaghan bombings are carried out by the Ulster Volunteer Force, when they explode four car bombs in counties Dublin and Monaghan in the Republic of Ireland. The attacks kill 33 civilians and wound almost 300, the highest number of casualties in any single event during the conflict.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372602919#May–June", "title": "1974", "revid": 1372602919, "section": "Events › May–June"}}, {"year": 1979, "year_label": "1979 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "November 23", "text": "November 23 – The Troubles: In Dublin, Ireland, Provisional Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten of Burma in August. He was released in 1998 under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371786119#November", "title": "1979", "revid": 1371786119, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1981, "year_label": "1981 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "April 4", "text": "April 4 – UK pop group Bucks Fizz's song \"Making Your Mind Up\" wins the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin, Ireland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369107326#April", "title": "1981", "revid": 1369107326, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 2021, "year_label": "2021 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "April 23", "text": "April 23 – UEFA announces that due to a lack of guarantees regarding spectators caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland would be removed as a tournament host for the UEFA Euro 2020.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372689859#April", "title": "2021", "revid": 1372689859, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 2023, "year_label": "2023 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 23", "text": "November 23 – Riots broke out in Dublin, Ireland after a mass stabbing on Parnell Square East which injured 4 people.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372811827#November", "title": "2023", "revid": 1372811827, "section": "Events › November"}}]}