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Christ Church Cathedral (exterior) Siege of Dublin, 1535. The Earl of Kildare's attempt to seize control of Ireland reignited English interest in the island. After the Anglo-Normans taking of Dublin in 1171, many of the city's Norse inhabitants left the old city, which was on the south side of the river Liffey and built their own settlement on the north side, known as Ostmantown or "Oxmantown".
1702 – State Paper Office established in Dublin Castle. 1707 – Marsh's Library incorporated. [1]1707 - The original Custom House opens on Custom House Quay, Dublin.; 1708 – The Registry of Deeds is established by an Irish Act of Parliament entitled "An Act for the Publick Registering of all Deeds, Conveyances and Wills that shall be made of any Honors, Manors, Lands, Tenements or ...
That same year, Spain opened its first consulate in Dublin. In 1935, the first Irish Minister was appointed to Spain with residence in Madrid. [7] In 1936, Spain was engulfed in a Civil War between the Republican faction led by President Manuel Azaña; and the Nationalist faction led by General Francisco Franco.
Cornmarket, Dublin: the heart of the earliest settlement. Dublin is Ireland's oldest known settlement. It is also the largest and most populous urban centre in the country, a position it has held continuously since first rising to prominence in the 10th century (with the exception of a brief period in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when it was temporarily eclipsed by Belfast).
12 March – The 45th Company of the Imperial Yeomanry left Dublin for service in South Africa. 17 March – In celebration of Saint Patrick's Day, the Lord Lieutenant (Earl Cadogan), accompanied by his staff, reviewed a military display in the yard of Dublin Castle, followed by dinner and a ball in Saint Patrick's Hall that evening.
1914: 'Dublin method' in radiation therapy discovered by John Joly. [49] 1926: Three-point linkage invented by Harry Ferguson. [50] 1927: "Variant colonies of staphylococcus aureus" discovered by Joseph Warwick Bigger and his students. [51] 1931: Drumm Battery Train invented by James J. Drumm. [52] Sudocrem invented by Dublin pharmacist Thomas ...
Juan Carlos I (born 1938), King of Spain (1975–2014) Federica Montseny (1905–1994), Minister of Health (1936–1937) and anarchist - first woman to be a minister in Spanish History; José Antonio Primo de Rivera (1903–1936) Mariano Rajoy (born 1955), Prime Minister (2011–2018) Rodrigo Rato (born 1949), managing director of the IMF since ...
The supply of Portuguese and Spanish people willing to emigrate was so high that the Spanish and Portuguese governments even had to restrict emigration to the Americas [3] (very early Spain had restricted emigration to the Spanish West Indies [5] and Portugal had to pass three laws prohibiting the migration of people from the Portuguese ...