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This is a timeline of Irish history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Ireland. To read about the background to these events, see History of Ireland . See also the list of Lords and Kings of Ireland , alongside Irish heads of state , and the list of years in Ireland .
The history of Ireland from 1691–1800 was marked by the dominance of the Protestant Ascendancy. These were Anglo-Irish families of the Anglican Church of Ireland, whose English ancestors had settled Ireland in the wake of its conquest by England and colonisation in the Plantations of Ireland, and had taken control of most of the land. Many ...
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With English colonies going back to the 1550s, Ireland was arguably the first English and then British territory colonised by a group known as the West Country Men. Gaelic Ireland was finally defeated at the battle of Kinsale in 1601 which marked the collapse of the Gaelic system and the beginning of Ireland's history as fully part of the ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... 1700s in Ireland — 1700: ... History of Ireland (1536–1691) History of Ireland (1691–1800)
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Republic of Ireland history timelines ... Pages in category "Irish history timelines" The following 4 pages ...
1639: Naval Battle of the Downs – Republic of the United Provinces fleet decisively defeats a Spanish fleet in English waters. 1639: Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649. 1639–1651: Wars of the Three Kingdoms, civil wars throughout Scotland, Ireland, and England.
1889: Length contraction discovered by George Francis FitzGerald. [41] 1891: 'Electron' coined by George Johnstone Stoney. [42] 1894: Cohesion-tension theory discovered by Henry Horatio Dixon and John Joly. [43] Joly colour screen invented by John Joly. [44] 1897: Holland VI invented by John Philip Holland. [45]