Timeline of Dublin

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Dublin, Ireland.

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Prior to 16th century

• 841 AD – Viking camp established.^[1]
• 1014 – Battle of Clontarf.
• 1028 – Christ Church founded (approximate date).
• 1171 – Henry II of England in power.^[2]
• 1172 – Dublin "given charter and made centre of English Pale."^[3]
• 1185 – St Catherine's Church built.
• 1190 – Fire.^[4]
• 1191 – St Patrick's Cathedral construction begins.
• 1229 – Richard Muton becomes mayor.
• 1230 – Dublin Castle built.
• 1283 – Fire.^[4]
• 1348 – Black Death.^[5]
• 1409 – Mayor appointed.^[4]
• 1446 – Weavers' Guild chartered.^[6]

16th-17th centuries

• 1541 – Dublin becomes capital of the Kingdom of Ireland.
• 1592 – Trinity College founded.
• 1597 – 11 March: Dublin Gunpowder Disaster.
• 1635 – Theatre built.^[4]
• 1646 – City besieged by Parliamentarians.^[3]
• 1661 – Dublin Corporation (city government) established.
• 1662
  • Smock Alley Theatre opens.^[7]
  • Royal Hunting Park established.
• 1664
  • Saint Stephen's Green enclosed by a wall.
  • Newman coffeehouse in business.^[8]
• 1666 – Cabbage Garden cemetery in use.^[9]
• 1680 – Hibernian Catch Club founded (approximate date).
• 1682 – Weavers' Guild hall built in The Coombe.
• 1683 – Dublin Philosophical Society founded.

18th century

• 1702 – State Paper Office established in Dublin Castle.
• 1707 – Marsh's Library incorporated.^[10]
• 1709 – St. Luke's Church built.
• 1710 – Mansion House (residence) built.
• 1725 – Dublin Weekly Journal begins publication.^[11]
• 1731 – Dublin Society founded.
• 1742 – 13 April: Premiere of Handel's Messiah.
• 1745 – Dublin Lying-In Hospital and Phoenix Park open.
• 1748 – Leinster House built.
• 1750 – Daly's Club active (approximate date).
• 1751 – Royal Hibernian Hotel established.^[12]
• 1753 – Parliament Street laid out.
• 1757 – Wide Streets Commission established.
• 1759 – Guinness brewery in business.
• 1761 – Dublin Magazine begins publication.^[13]
• 1770 – Trinity College Historical Society founded.
• 1779 – Royal Exchange built.
• 1783 – Bank of Ireland in business.
• 1784 – Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland founded.
• 1785 – Royal Irish Academy established.
• 1791
  • Society of United Irishmen Dublin branch founded.
  • Dublin Library Society instituted.^[14]
  • Apothecaries Hall incorporated.^[15]
  • Custom House built.^[10]
• 1792
  • Fitzwilliam Square laid out.
  • The Flapper begins publication.^[13]
• 1793 – Dublin Stock Exchange founded.
• 1794 – Carlisle Bridge constructed.
• 1796 – Four Courts built.^[10]

19th century

• 1801 – City becomes part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
• 1804
  • Grand Canal constructed.
  • Cork Street Fever Hospital opens.
• 1809 – Nelson's Pillar erected.
• 1815 – Tenter House built on Cork Street.
• 1817
  • Royal Canal constructed.
  • Cobourg Gardens open.^[5]
• 1818
  • General Post Office inaugurated.
  • Mountjoy Square constructed.
• 1821 – Population: 185,881.^[5]
• 1822 – 12 December: Storm.^[16]
• 1824 – Shelbourne Hotel in business.
• 1828 – Kings Bridge constructed.
• 1829 – Museum of the Royal Irish Academy established (approximate date).^[17]
• 1830 – Royal Zoological Society of Ireland founded.^[18]
• 1831 – Dublin Zoo opens.
• 1832 – Dublin Penny Journal^[13] and Paddy Kelly's Budget^[19] begin publication.
• 1833 – Dublin University Magazine begins publication.
• 1838 – Glasnevin Model Farm established.
• 1839
  • Adelaide Hospital founded.^[20]
  • The Citizen begins publication.^[21]
• 1842 – The Nation newspaper begins publication.
• 1843 – Dublin University Philosophical Society active.
• 1846 – All Hallows cemetery in use.^[9]
• 1854 – Catholic University of Ireland founded.
• 1857 – Natural History Museum opens.
• 1858 – St Catherine's Church dedicated on Meath Street.
• 1861 – Wellington Monument erected.
• 1865 – Royal College of Science for Ireland founded.
• 1871 – Gaiety Theatre opens.
• 1872 – Dublin tramways begin operating.
• 1873 – Irish Monthly begins publication.
• 1877
  • National Museum of Ireland established.
  • Dublin Metropolitan School of Art active.
• 1879
  • Star of Erin Music Hall opens.
  • Butt Bridge constructed.
• 1880 – St. Stephen's Park Temperance Hotel in business.^[22]
• 1882 – 6 May: Phoenix Park Murders.^[3]
• 1889 – Davy Byrne's pub in business.
• 1891 – Dublin United Transport Company formed.
• 1894 – New Ireland Review begins publication.
• 1895 – Shelbourne Football Club formed.
• 1898 – Dublin Port and Docks Board established.^[10]

20th century

• 1901 – Restaurant Jammet in business.^[23]
• 1904 – Abbey Theatre opens.
• 1905 – Irish Independent newspaper begins publication.
• 1907 – Irish International Exhibition held.
• 1909 – Volta Picture Theatre opens.^[24]
• 1913
  • Croke Park stadium opens.
  • Dublin Lock-out begins.
• 1916 – April: Easter Uprising.^[3]
• 1919 – 21 January: First Dáil (parliament) convenes in Mansion House.
• 1921 – 25 May: Burning of the Custom House.
• 1922
  • June–July: Battle of Dublin.
  • December: City becomes capital of the newly formed Irish Free State.
  • December: Oireachtas (parliament) begins meeting in Leinster House.
  • Dublin Opinion begins publication.
• 1923 – The Dublin Magazine begins publication.
• 1928 – Gate Theatre founded.
• 1930 – City boundaries expanded.
• 1937 – City becomes capital of the newly formed Republic of Ireland.
• 1940
  • 26 August: Bombing of Dublin in World War II by German forces begins.
  • The Bell (magazine) begins publication.
• 1941
  • 31 May: North Strand Bombing
  • Dublin Airport terminal built.
  • Saint Mary's College for Domestic Science opens.^[23]
• 1949 – Envoy, A Review of Literature and Art begins publication.
• 1951 – Hotel strike.^[25]
• 1953 – City boundaries expanded.
• 1954 – 16 June: Bloomsday begins.
• 1960 – Population: 468,103.^[3]
• 1966
  • March: Nelson's Pillar bombed.
  • Project Arts Centre established.^[26]
  • Garden of Remembrance opens.
• 1972 – 1 February: British Embassy in Merrion Square destroyed by protesters.^[27]
• 1973 – Grapevine Arts Centre founded.
• 1974 – Wood Quay excavation begins.
• 1975 – Accountancy and Business College founded.
• 1978 – Talbot Memorial Bridge constructed.
• 1981 – Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud in business.
• 1983
  • Dublin Pride begins.
  • Dublin Food Co-op founded.
• 1984
  • Dublin Area Rapid Transit begins operating.
  • East-Link Bridge opens.
• 1987
  • International Financial Services Centre, Dublin Bus, and Irish Traditional Music Archive^[28] founded.
  • Northside People newspaper begins publication.
• 1988 – Kerlin Gallery opens.
• 1989 – Dublin City University active.
• 1991
  • Institute of European Affairs founded.^[29]
  • Irish Museum of Modern Art opens.
• 1992
  • Irish Film Centre opens.
  • Dublin Institute of Technology established.
• 1996
  • National Print Museum of Ireland opens.
  • Dublin Choral Foundation established.
• 1999 – Dublin European Institute founded.^[29]

21st century

• 2000 – Dublin Writers Festival begins.^[30]
• 2001 – Dublin Corporation renamed Dublin City Council.
• 2002 – George's Quay Plaza built.
• 2003
  • Jameson Dublin International Film Festival begins.
  • Spire of Dublin erected.
  • James Joyce Bridge opens.
• 2004 – Dublin Gay Theatre Festival begins.
• 2006 – Dublin Port Tunnel opens.
• 2009
  • Economic protest.^[31]
  • 27 February: 2009 Bank of Ireland robbery
  • Dublinbikes launched.
  • Samuel Beckett Bridge opens.
• 2010
  • November: 2010 student protest in Dublin.
  • Grand Canal Theatre and Convention Centre Dublin opens.
• 2011
  • May: Queen Elizabeth II's visit
  • October: Occupy Dame Street begins.
  • The Little Museum of Dublin opens.
  • Population: 525,383.
• 2013 – Oisín Quinn becomes mayor.

See also

• History of Dublin
• Historical Maps of Dublin
• List of Mayors of Dublin

References

Further reading

Published in the 18th century

• Map of the City and Suburbs of Dublin, Charles Brooking, 1728 
• Walter Harris (1766). History and Antiquities of the City of Dublin. Dublin: L. Flinn. 
• William Wilson (1786). "Description of the City of Dublin". Post-Chaise Companion: or, Travellers' Directory through Ireland. Dublin. 
• John Ferrar (1796). A View of Ancient and Modern Dublin, with its Improvements to the Year 1796. Dublin. 

Published in the 19th century

1800s-1840s

• "Dublin", Kearsley's Traveller's Entertaining Guide through Great Britain, London: G. Kearsley, 1803 
• Nathaniel Jefferys (1810). An Englishman's Descriptive Account of Dublin. London: Cadell and Davies. 
• Abraham Rees (1819), "Dublin", The Cyclopaedia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown 
• John James McGregor (1821). New Picture of Dublin. Dublin: C.P. Archer. 
• G.N. Wright (1825), An Historical Guide to the City of Dublin (2nd ed.), London: London, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy 
• David Brewster, ed. (1830). "Dublin (metropolis)". Edinburgh Encyclopædia. Edinburgh: William Blackwood. 
• "Dublin", Cities and Principal Towns of the World, Cabinet Cyclopaedia, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1830, OCLC 2665202 
• M. Starrat (1830), History of Ancient and Modern Dublin, Dublin: J. Charles, OCLC 8029520 
• "Dublin", Leigh's New Pocket Road-book of Ireland (3rd ed.), London: Leigh & Son, 1835 
• John Thomson (1845), "Dublin", New Universal Gazetteer and Geographical Dictionary, London: H.G. Bohn 
• "Dublin". Slater's National Commercial Directory of Ireland. Manchester: Isaac Slater. 1846. 
• Edward Parry (1849), "Dublin and Environs", Railway Companion from Chester to Holyhead, Chester: T. Catherall, OCLC 7896287 

1850s-1890s

• "Dublin", Tourist's Illustrated Hand-Book for Ireland (3rd ed.), London: David Bryce, 1854 
• James Fraser (1854), "Dublin City", Hand Book for Travellers in Ireland (4th ed.), Dublin: James McGlashan, OCLC 4904184 
• "Dublin", Bradshaw's Descriptive Railway Hand-Book of Great Britain and Ireland, 1860 
• Thomas O. Summers, ed. (1860), Dublin: an historical sketch of Ireland's metropolis, Nashville, Tennessee: Southern Methodist Publishing House, OCLC 42516682 
• John Thomas Gilbert (1861), History of the City of Dublin, Dublin: James Duffy, OCLC 1988793  + v.2, v.3 + Index
• William Henry Overall, ed. (1870), "Dublin", Dictionary of Chronology, London: William Tegg, OCLC 2613202 
• John Parker Anderson (1881), "Dublin", Book of British Topography: a Classified Catalogue of the Topographical Works in the Library of the British Museum Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, London: W. Satchell 
• W. Pembroke Fetridge (1885), "Dublin", Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers in Europe and the East (24th ed.), New York: Harper & Brothers 
• "Dublin", Appletons' European Guide Book, New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1886 
• Ephraim MacDowel Cosgrave; Leonard R. Strangways (1895), Dictionary of Dublin, Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker, OCLC 9866024 

Published in the 20th century

1900s-1940s

• "Dublin", Chambers's Encyclopaedia, London: W. & R. Chambers, 1901 
• G.K. Fortescue, ed. (1902). "Dublin (City)". Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years 1881–1900. London. 
• "Topography: Dublin", List of works relating to Ireland, New York: New York Public Library, 1905, OCLC 29094144 
• E. D. Jordan (1906), "Dublin", Black's Guide to Ireland (24th ed.), London: Adam and Charles Black 
• John Cooke (1906), "Dublin", Handbook for Travellers in Ireland (7th ed.), London: Edward Stanford 
• Handbook to the City of Dublin and the Surrounding District, British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1908, OCLC 1616720 
• M. J. B. Baddeley (1909), "Northern Counties including Dublin and Neighbourhood", Ireland (6th ed.) (London: T. Nelson and Sons), OCLC 4605342  |chapter= ignored (help)
• "Dublin (City)". List of Works Relating to British Genealogy and Local History. New York: New York Public Library. 1910. 
• Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Dublin", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co. 
• Samuel Carter Hall; Anna Maria Hall (1911), "Dublin", Ireland: its Scenery, Character and History 4, Boston: Niccolls, OCLC 3567745 
• Esther Singleton (1913), "City of Dublin", Great Cities of Europe, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page 
• James Collins (1913), Life in Old Dublin, Dublin: J. Duffy, OCLC 4310334 
• Stephen Lucius Gwynn (1915), "Dublin", Famous Cities of Ireland, Dublin: Maunsel & Co., OCLC 4759563 
• Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Dublin and the Wicklow tours (20th ed.), London: Ward, Lock and Company, 1919, OCLC 8105082 

• Lucien E. Taylor, ed. (1921). "History: Local History and Description". List of Books on Modern Ireland in the Public Library of the City of Boston. Boston, Massachusetts: Boston Public Library. 
• Bulmer Hobson (1930). A Book of Dublin (2nd ed.). Dublin: Kevin J. Kenny. 

1950s-1990s

• Maurice James Craig (1952), Dublin, 1660–1860, London: Cresset Press, OCLC 3304156 
• Dublin, Great Cities, Time-Life Books, 1978, OL 4483796M 
• Mary E. Daly (1984), Dublin, the Deposed Capital: a Social and Economic History, 1860–1914, Cork, Ireland: Cork University Press, ISBN 0902561278 
• Kevin C. Kearns (1991). Dublin Street Life and Lore: an Oral History. 
• Kevin C. Kearns (1994). Dublin Tenement Life: an Oral History. 
• "Dublin". Ireland. Let's Go. 1995. p. 61+. OL 24212350M. 
• Kevin C. Kearns (1996). Dublin Pub Life and Lore: an Oral History. 

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dublin.

• "Sources". National Library of Ireland.  List of archival repositories in Dublin.
• Digital Public Library of America. Works related to Dublin, various dates
• Europeana. Items related to Dublin, various dates.

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