Ireland

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  • Nov 3, 664

    "Yellow Plage"

    "Yellow Plage"
    Between 664-666 there is a record of a pervasive "yellow plague," otherwise known as yellow fever, on the island of Ireland. Female mosquitoes carry yellow fever and bite the humans. Yellow fever is only spreadable to humans, mosquitoes, and other primates.
  • Jan 1, 1297

    first representative Irish Parliament

    first representative Irish Parliament
    The Irish Parliament is Legaslative. The representitives made the parlement to approve taxes that were equaled for the Lordship of Ireland.
  • Nov 3, 1542

    Irish Parliment

    Irish Parliment
    The Irish parliament passed the Crown of Ireland Act, which established a Kingdom of Ireland to be ruled by Henry VIII and his successors.

  • Irish Rebellion of 1641

    Irish Rebellion of 1641
    The Irish Rebellion of 1641 began as an attempt by Irish Catholic gentry, who tried to seize control of the English administration in Ireland to force concessions for the Catholics living under English rule.

  • Little Irish Ice Age

    Little Irish Ice Age
    Through the years of 1750-1850 the tempurture stayed very cold throught they seasons in Ireland. The climate was too cold to grow crops on. There was a lot of famine and about 310,000 people died.

  • Bloody Sunday

    Bloody Sunday
    26 civil rights protesters and bystanders were shot by soldiers of the British Army, during a Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march; the soldiers involved were members of the First Battalion of the Parachute Regimen.

  • Bronze Age 2000 BC

    Bronze Age 2000 BC
    Bronze Age technologies start to arrive in Ireland, including the moulding of Ballybeg type flat axes, and the beginnings of copper mining at Mount Gabriel in Co. Cork, and Ross Island in Co. Kerry.

  • First Viking raids

    First Viking raids
    First Viking raids on Iona, Rathlin Island, Inishmurray and Inishbofin. The vikings wanted to take the land and the wealth away from the inhabitants of Ireland. There tatics of doing so are very forceful and usually end up in people dying and getting injured.

  • Neolithic chamber tombs 3500 BC

    Neolithic chamber tombs 3500 BC
    The Neolithic peoples of the Boyne Valley build a complex of chamber tombs, standing stones and enclosures over a period of hundreds of years. The tombs were ment to hold the bodies of passed away family members and people who were honored such as a prince. In the tombs, other items were found, like tools and jewelery.

  • Mesolithic hunter-gatherers migrate to Ireland in 8000 BC

    Mesolithic hunter-gatherers migrate to Ireland in 8000 BC
    The Mesolithic people were the first people to come into Ireland. They were hunter gathers and made tools to hunt their prey.