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Multiple timeline of Ireland

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This scheme is a multiple timelime of the history of Ireland, part of the series of Series of multiple timelines of European countries and territories.
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Ireland (Éire / Ireland) is a republic with a bicameral parliament, the Parliament with the Assembly elected in free multi-party elections and the Senate with appointed and indirectly elected members, a popularly elected president and a government responsible to the parliament. Ireland is member of the European Union.
This section gives an outline of the history of Ireland. The history of Ireland has to be seen in relation to the history of Northern Ireland.
  • 400s/800s: Several kingdoms and other entities are established. See the kingdoms below and in Northern Ireland, but also others. According to medieval Irish historical tradition Ireland is ruled since historical times by the High Kings. Ireland doesn't develop into a state or kingdom, but is a conglomerate of tribes, kingdoms and other entities[1].
Ailech
  • 400s: Ailech gets a king.

Connacht Munster
  • 400s: Munster gets a king.

Tyrconnel Leinster
Ulaid


Kingdom of Breifne
Kingdom of Mide
Kingdom of Dublin




Thomond Desmond
Tyrone Lordship of IrelandEngland
  • 1171: King Henry II of England lands in Ireland and begins the English claim to and occupation of Ireland. He defeats king Ascall mac Ragnaill of Dublin and conquers Dublin, Mide, parts of Leinster and other parts of Gaelic Ireland. King Henry II becomes lord of Ireland as a Papal fief.
  • 1175: High king Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair, king of Connacht is defeated by the English invadors. He remains high king of the not conquered parts of Ireland and accepts king Henry II as his overlord. De facto the Kingdom of Ireland ceases to exist.
  • 1256: After a batlle under the rule of Conchobar O'Ruairc between the O'Rourkes and the O'Reillys Breifne is partitioned.


West Breifne East Breifne
  • 1474: Connacht desintegrates after the death of the last king Fedlim Geancach Ó Conchobair into semi-independent entities, partly under control of the lordship of Ireland.


Kingdom of IrelandEngland

  • 1542: Ireland becomes a kingdom with King Henry VIII of England as king of Ireland.



  • 1543: King Murchadh Ó Briain of Thomond submits to the king of Ireland and Thomond is annexed.



  • 1569–1583: A first and a second rebellion in Desmond, started by James FitzMaurice FitzGerald are suppressed.



  • 1596: After the death of king Donal IX MacCarthy Mór Desmond is annexed.
  • 1601: England defeats at Kinsale Irish and Spanish forces in Ireland, driving the Gaelic aristocracy out of Ireland and destroying the Gaelic clan system.
  • 1603: The rebellion in Ireland ends.
  • 1605: After the death of the last king Tadhg Ó Ruairc), West Breifne is annexed.
Commonwealth of England
Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland
Commonwealth of England
  • 1659: England is renamed including Scotland and Ireland, and has no head of state.
Kingdom of IrelandEngland/Great Britain
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Irish Republic
  • 1918: The separatist Irish Republic controls part of Ireland. Ireland gets a bicameral parliament with a chamber elected in free multi-party elections on an unequal universal suffrage and a senate for a part indirectly elected. Other members are either ex officio members or appointed members. The government is responsible to the parliament.
  • 1919: After the declaration of independence of the Irish Republic, the Irish War of Independence start.
  • 1921: The Anglo-Irish Treaty ends the Irish War of Independence and creates the Irish Free State in 1922.
Irish Free State
Ireland
  • 1937: Ireland becomes a independent dominion. Ireland gets a popularly elected president. The 1937 constitution doesn’t mention the king, nor does it state that the president was head of state.
  • 1940-1945: Ireland remains neutral during World War II.
Republic of Ireland
  • 1949: Ireland becomes de jure a republic. Ireland is a founding member of the Council of Europe.
  • 1955: Ireland joins the United Nations.
  • 1973: Ireland joins the European Communities., predecessors of the European Union.[2]
  • 1998: The civil war in Northern Ireland that started in 1969, comes to an end with the Good Friday Agreements between the governments of the United Kingdom and Ireland and between most of Northern Ireland's political parties. An agreement is reached that Northern Ireland eemains part of the United Kingdom until a majority both of the people of Northern Ireland and of the Republic of Ireland wish otherwise.

  1. ^ A list of Irish entities can be found at the List of Irish kingdoms.
  2. ^ In 1993 with the Maastricht Treaty, signed in 1991, the European Economic Community is renamed into the European Community, the institutions of the three communities (the European Community, the European Atomic Energy Community and the European Coal and Steel Community) merge into the institutions of the European Communities, being the first pillar of the European Union. In 2009 with the Treaty of Lisbon, signed in 2007, the European Community is dissolved into the European Union, becoming an overall legal unit.