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Date
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Event
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Topics
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Details |
1729 |
Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal."
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*Ireland |
Details |
1730 |
Famine in Ireland. |
*Ireland |
Details |
1741 |
Famine in Ireland. |
*Ireland |
Details |
1780 |
Ireland: Colonial trade opened to Irish goods. |
*Ireland
*Colonialism |
Details |
1782 |
Ireland: Volunteers call for legislative independence at Dungannon Convention. Catholic Relief Act allows Irish Catholics to own land outside Parliamentary boroughs and gives access to educational rights (dissenters also allowed valid marriage ceremonies). |
*Ireland |
Details |
1785 |
Ireland: First meeting of Irish Academy (Royal Irish Academy from 1786 on). Bill to regulate Anglo-Irish trade, adapted from William Pitt (the Younger)'s original free-trade proposals, introduced at College Green but later
abandoned. |
*Ireland |
Details |
Oct 14, 1791 |
Ireland: Foundation of United Irishmen in Belfast. |
*Ireland |
Details |
Nov 9, 1791 |
Ireland: First meeting of Dublin United Irishmen. |
*Ireland |
Details |
1792 |
Ireland: Catholic Relief Act allows Catholics to practice law. Wolfe Tone appointed to the Catholic Committee. |
*Ireland |
Details |
1793 |
Ireland: Catholic petition presented to the King. |
*Ireland |
Details |
Feb 1793 - Mar 1793 |
Ireland: Legislation restricting movement of arms and suppressing volunteering. |
*Ireland |
Details |
Apr 1793 |
Ireland: Relief Act granting Irish Catholics parliamentary franchise and certain civil and military rights. St. Patrick's [Catholic] College, Carlow, opened. |
*Ireland |
Details |
1794 |
Ireland: Catholics statutorily enabled to attend Trinity College, Dublin. Suppression of Dublin United Irishmen. |
*Ireland |
Details |
1796 |
Wolfe Tone arrives in France. |
*Ireland
*French Revolution |
Details |
Sept 1796 |
Ireland: United Irish leaders arrested in Belfast. |
*Ireland |
Details |
Dec 1796 |
Failed attempt by French (with Wolfe Tone) to invade Ireland at Bantry Bay, West Cork. |
*French Revolution
*Ireland |
Details |
Feb 1798 - Oct 1798 |
Ireland: The Irish Rebellion. 100,000 peasants revolt; approximately 25,000 die. Irish Parliament abolished. |
*Ireland |
Details |
Mar 1798 |
Ireland: United Irish leaders arrested in Dublin; martial law imposed. |
*Ireland |
Details |
May 1798 |
Ireland: Rebellions in Wexford. |
*Ireland |
Details |
Aug 1798 |
Ireland: French forces land at Killala. |
*Ireland |
Details |
Sept 8, 1798 |
Ireland: French forces surrender at Ballinamuck. |
*Ireland |
Details |
Nov 3, 1798 |
Ireland: Wolfe Tone arrested after arriving in Lough Swilly with another French force. |
*Ireland
*France |
Details |
Nov 19, 1798 |
Ireland: Wolfe Tone commits suicide in prison. |
*Ireland |
Details |
1799 |
William Pitt advocates union between Britain and Ireland. |
*Ireland |
Details |
Aug 1, 1800 |
Act of the Union with Ireland. |
*Ireland |