Timeline of Dublin

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{{History of Ireland}}

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

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Prior to 9th century

{{see also|History of Dublin to 795|Early Scandinavian Dublin}}

9th–15th centuries

  • 841 – Viking camp established.{{Citation |last=Julian D. Richards |title=The Vikings |date=2005 |series=Very Short Introductions |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-280607-9 |author-link=Julian D. Richards}}
  • c.846 - St. Mary's Abbey founded on the North side of the River Liffey.
  • 1014 – Battle of Clontarf.
  • 1028 – Christ Church founded (approximate date).
  • 1171 – Henry II of England in power.{{Cite web |title=Middle Ages |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/timeline/middleages_timeline_noflash.shtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004044115/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/timeline/middleages_timeline_noflash.shtml |archive-date=4 October 2013 |access-date=8 September 2013 |website=British History Timeline |publisher=BBC |df=dmy-all}} {{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1172 – Dublin "given charter and made centre of English Pale."
  • 1176 - Strongbow, earl of Pembroke leader of the Anglo-Norman forces, dies in Dublin.
  • 1185 – St Catherine's Church built.
  • 1190 – Fire.{{sfn|Townsend|1867}}
  • 1190 - First iteration of St. Audoen's Church erected.
  • 1191 – St Patrick's Cathedral construction begins.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1192 - Prince John, Lord of Ireland grants the citizens of Dublin by charter the ability to form guilds.{{Cite journal |last=Webb |first=John J. |date=1917 |title=The Guilds of Dublin |journal=The Irish Monthly |volume=45 |issue=530 |pages=507–514 |jstor=20504864}}
  • 1204 - John, King of England grants a licence to the corporation of Dublin to hold an annual eight-day fair in Dublin, henceforth it is known as Donnybrook Fair and continues until it is shut down by the authorities in 1855.
  • 1207 - John, King of England grants a charter to the inhabitants of Dublin. {{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1229 – Richard Muton becomes first Lord Mayor of Dublin.
  • 1230 – Dublin Castle built.
  • 1283 – Fire.{{sfn|Townsend|1867}}
  • 1348 – Black Death.{{sfn|Connellan|1845}}
  • 1394 - Richard II of England enters Dublin with 30,000 bowmen, 4000 cavalry and the Crown Jewels.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1446 – Weavers' Guild chartered.{{Cite web |date=30 May 2013 |title=History |url=http://weavespindye.ie/history/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140125120744/http://weavespindye.ie/history/ |archive-date=25 January 2014 |access-date=29 August 2013 |publisher=Irish Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers |df=dmy-all}}
  • 1466 - Ireland's first public clock was installed on the tower of the Tholsel

16th–17th centuries

18th century

{{see also|Georgian Dublin}}

  • 1702 – State Paper Office established in Dublin Castle.
  • 1707 – Marsh's Library incorporated.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1707 - The original Custom House opens on Custom House Quay, Dublin.
  • 1708 – The Registry of Deeds is established by an Irish Act of Parliament entitled "An Act for the Publick Registering of all Deeds, Conveyances and Wills that shall be made of any Honors, Manors, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments". The Registry is initially based in Dublin Castle.{{Cite web |title=Blog 11: Publication of Introduction to the Memorials and Transcription Books in the Registry of Deeds |url=https://www.tailte.ie/registration/registry-of-deeds/heritage-and-events/blogs/blog-11/blog-11-publication-of-introduction-to-the-memorials-and-transcription-books-in-the-registry-of-deeds.html |access-date=2023-06-29 |website=www.tailte.ie}}
  • 1709 – St. Luke's Church built.
  • 1710 – Mansion House (residence) built.
  • 1722 - Equestrian statue of George I purchased by the city for £2,000 and erected on a plinth on the upstream side of Essex bridge.
  • 1725 - Henrietta Street is laid out by Luke Gardiner as Dublin's first Georgian street.
  • 1731 – 25 June: Royal Dublin Society founded.{{cite web |title=Ireland's Philanthropic Society |url=http://rds.ie/Ireland-s-Philanthropic-Society |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222112534/http://rds.ie/Ireland-s-Philanthropic-Society |archive-date=22 February 2017 |access-date=21 February 2017 |website=rds.ie |publisher=RDS}}
  • 1742 – 13 April: Handel's Messiah is premiered in Neale's Musick Hall, Dublin.
  • 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.{{Cite book |title=Whitaker's Almanack |title-link=Whitaker's Almanack |year=1908}}
  • 1753 – Parliament Street laid out.
  • 1757 – Wide Streets Commission established.
  • 1759 – Guinness brewery in business.
  • 1763 - Freeman's Journal begins publication
  • 1770
  • City directory published.{{Cite book |last=A. V. Williams |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=62QQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA6 |title=Development and Growth of City Directories |publisher=Williams Directory Company |year=1913 |location=Cincinnati |access-date=25 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160519082447/https://books.google.com/books?id=62QQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA6 |archive-date=19 May 2016 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all}}
  • Trinity College Historical Society founded.
  • 1771 - City Assembly House built.{{Cite web |title=City Assembly House - a history |url=http://www.igs.ie/conservation/project/city-assembly-house-a-history |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150908035333/http://www.igs.ie/conservation/project/city-assembly-house-a-history |archive-date=8 September 2015 |access-date=30 August 2015 |publisher=Irish Georgian Society |df=dmy-all}}
  • 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.{{Cite book |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000063476 |title=Dublin Almanac and General Register of Ireland |publisher=Pettigrew and Oulton |year=1845 |location=Dublin}}
  • Apothecaries Hall incorporated.{{sfn|Wilson|1830}}
  • The Custom House built.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1792 - Fitzwilliam Square laid out.
  • 1793 – Dublin Stock Exchange founded.
  • 1794 – Carlisle Bridge constructed.
  • 1796 – Building of the Four Courts commences.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}

19th century

20th century

21st century

See also

References

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Bibliography

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=Published in the 18th century=

  • {{Citation |title=Map of the City and Suburbs of Dublin |year=1728 |publisher=Charles Brooking}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Walter Harris |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009711631 |title=History and Antiquities of the City of Dublin |publisher=L. Flinn |year=1766 |location=Dublin |ref=none}}
  • {{Cite book |last=William Wilson |title=Post-Chaise Companion: or, Travellers' Directory through Ireland |year=1786 |location=Dublin |chapter=Description of the City of Dublin |hdl=2027/mdp.39015077815960 |ref=none}}
  • {{Cite book |last=John Ferrar |url=https://archive.org/stream/viewofancientmod00ferr#page/n5/mode/2up |title=A View of Ancient and Modern Dublin, with its Improvements to the Year 1796 |year=1796 |location=Dublin |ref=none}}

=Published in the 19th century=

== 1800s–1840s ==

  • {{Citation |title=Kearsley's Traveller's Entertaining Guide through Great Britain |date=1803 |chapter=Dublin |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/kearsleystravell00hein#page/n405/mode/2up |place=London |publisher=G. Kearsley}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Nathaniel Jefferys |url=http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:128858 |title=An Englishman's Descriptive Account of Dublin |publisher=Cadell and Davies |year=1810 |location=London |ref=none}}
  • {{Citation |last=Rees |first=Abraham |title=The Cyclopaedia |title-link=Rees's Cyclopædia |date=1819 |chapter=Dublin |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/cyclopaediaoruni12rees#page/290/mode/1up |place=London |publisher=Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown |ref=none |authorlink=Abraham Rees}}
  • {{Cite book |last=John James McGregor |url=http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:127417 |title=New Picture of Dublin |publisher=C.P. Archer |year=1821 |location=Dublin |ref=none}}
  • {{Citation |last=G.N. Wright |title=An Historical Guide to the City of Dublin |date=1825 |url=https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:historicalguidet00wri/An_historical_guide_to_the_city_of_Dublin |edition=2nd |place=London |publisher=London, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy |ol=25580486M |ref=none}}
  • {{Cite book |title=Edinburgh Encyclopædia |title-link=Edinburgh Encyclopædia |date=1830 |publisher=William Blackwood |editor-last=David Brewster |location=Edinburgh |chapter=Dublin (metropolis) |ref=none |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/edinburghencyclo08edinuoft#page/168/mode/2up}}
  • {{Citation |title=Cities and Principal Towns of the World |date=1830 |series=Cabinet Cyclopaedia |chapter=Dublin |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/citiesprincipalt00lond#page/128/mode/2up |place=London |publisher=Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green |oclc=2665202}}
  • {{Citation |last=M. Starrat |title=History of Ancient and Modern Dublin |date=1830 |place=Dublin |publisher=J. Charles |oclc=8029520 |ol=19356155M |ref=none}}
  • {{Cite book |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006799094 |title=Wilson's Dublin Directory, for the Year 1830 |year=1830 |location=Dublin |ref={{harvid|Wilson|1830}}}} + [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89096950837?urlappend=%3Bseq=245 Historical Annals of the City of Dublin]
  • {{Citation |title=Leigh's New Pocket Road-book of Ireland |date=1835 |chapter=Dublin |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/leighsnewpocketr00leig#page/n83/mode/2up |edition=3rd |place=London |publisher=Leigh & Son}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Owen Connellan |author-link=Owen Connellan |title=Dublin Almanac and General Register of Ireland |publisher=Pettigrew and Oulton |year=1845 |location=Dublin |chapter=Annals of Dublin |hdl=2027/mdp.39015074776223 |ref={{harvid|Connellan|1845}}}}
  • {{Citation |last=John Thomson |title=New Universal Gazetteer and Geographical Dictionary |date=1845 |chapter=Dublin |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/newuniversalgaze00thomuoft#page/343/mode/1up |place=London |publisher=H.G. Bohn |ref=none}}
  • {{Cite book |title=Slater's National Commercial Directory of Ireland |publisher=Isaac Slater |year=1846 |location=Manchester |chapter=Dublin |chapter-url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101045358296;view=2up;seq=22}}
  • {{Citation |last=Edward Parry |title=Railway Companion from Chester to Holyhead |date=1849 |chapter=Dublin and Environs |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/railwaycompanion00parr#page/134/mode/2up |place=Chester |publisher=T. Catherall |oclc=7896287 |ref=none}}

== 1850s–1890s ==

  • {{Citation |title=Tourist's Illustrated Hand-Book for Ireland |date=1854 |chapter=Dublin |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/touristsillustra00lond#page/2/mode/2up |edition=3rd |place=London |publisher=David Bryce}}
  • {{Citation |last=James Fraser |title=Hand Book for Travellers in Ireland |date=1854 |chapter=Dublin City |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/ahandbookfortra02frasgoog#page/n28/mode/2up |edition=4th |place=Dublin |publisher=James McGlashan |oclc=4904184 |ref=none}}
  • {{Citation |last=Bradshaw |title=Bradshaw's Descriptive Railway Hand-Book of Great Britain and Ireland |year=1860 |chapter=Dublin |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qaNDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA82 |ref=none}}
  • {{Citation |title=Dublin: an historical sketch of Ireland's metropolis |date=1860 |editor-last=Thomas O. Summers |place=Nashville, Tennessee |publisher=Southern Methodist Publishing House |oclc=42516682 |ol=23663246M |ref=none}}
  • {{Citation |last=John Thomas Gilbert |title=History of the City of Dublin |date=1861 |url=https://archive.org/stream/historyofcityofd01gilb#page/n3/mode/2up |place=Dublin |publisher=James Duffy |oclc=1988793 |ref=none |author-link=John Thomas Gilbert}} + v.2, [https://archive.org/stream/historyofcityofd03gilbiala#page/n5/mode/2up v.3] + [https://archive.org/stream/historyofcityofd03gilbiala#page/382/mode/2up Index]
  • {{Citation |last=George Henry Townsend |title=A Manual of Dates |date=1867 |chapter=Dublin |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/manualofdatesdic00townrich#page/342/mode/1up |edition=2nd |place=London |publisher=Frederick Warne & Co. |ref={{harvid|Townsend|1867}} |author-link=George Henry Townsend}}
  • {{Citation |title=Dictionary of Chronology |date=1870 |editor-last=William Henry Overall |chapter=Dublin |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofchro00overiala#page/223/mode/1up |place=London |publisher=William Tegg |oclc=2613202 |ref=none |editor-link=William Henry Overall}}
  • {{Citation |last=John Parker Anderson |title=Book of British Topography: a Classified Catalogue of the Topographical Works in the Library of the British Museum Relating to Great Britain and Ireland |date=1881 |chapter=Dublin |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/bookofbritishtop00andeuoft#page/431/mode/1up |place=London |publisher=W. Satchell |ref=none}}
  • {{Citation |title=Guide to Dublin Charities |date=1884 |editor-last=R.M. Barrett |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X7IuwAEACAAJ |place=Dublin |publisher=Hodges Figgis & Company |ref={{harvid|Barrett|1884}}}}
  • {{Citation |last=W. Pembroke Fetridge |title=Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers in Europe and the East |title-link=Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers |date=1885 |chapter=Dublin |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/harperseuropeeast00fetr#page/n87/mode/2up |edition=24th |place=New York |publisher=Harper & Brothers |ref=none}}
  • {{Citation |title=Appletons' European Guide Book |title-link=Appletons' travel guides |date=1886 |chapter=Dublin |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/appletonseurope00unkngoog#page/n91/mode/2up |place=New York |publisher=D. Appleton & Co.}}
  • {{Citation |title=Dublin, Cork, and South of Ireland: A Literary, Commercial, and Social Review |year=1892 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mn3-Ls_-UAQC |place=London |publisher=Stratten & Stratten |ref={{harvid|Stratten|1892}}}}
  • {{Citation |last=Ephraim MacDowel Cosgrave |title=Dictionary of Dublin |date=1895 |place=Dublin |publisher=Sealy, Bryers & Walker |oclc=9866024 |ol=7042634M |ref=none |last2=Leonard R. Strangways}}

=Published in the 20th century=

== 1900s–1940s ==

  • {{Citation |title=Chambers's Encyclopaedia |date=1901 |chapter=Dublin |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/chamberssency04lond#page/102/mode/1up |place=London |publisher=W. & R. Chambers}}
  • {{Cite book |title=Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years 1881–1900 |publisher=The Trustees |year=1902 |editor-last=G.K. Fortescue |location=London |chapter=Dublin (City) |hdl=2027/uc1.b5107011 |ref=none}}
  • {{Citation |title=List of works relating to Ireland |date=1905 |chapter=Topography: Dublin |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/listworksrelati01librgoog#page/n32/mode/2up |place=New York |publisher=New York Public Library |oclc=29094144}}
  • {{Citation |last=E. D. Jordan |title=Black's Guide to Ireland |title-link=Black's Guides |date=1906 |chapter=Dublin |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tVgPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1 |edition=24th |place=London |publisher=Adam and Charles Black |ref=none}}
  • {{Citation |last=John Cooke |title=Handbook for Travellers in Ireland |date=1906 |chapter=Dublin |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/handbookfor00john#page/n79/mode/2up |edition=7th |place=London |publisher=Edward Stanford |ref=none}}
  • {{Citation |title=Handbook to the City of Dublin and the Surrounding District |date=1908 |publisher=British Association for the Advancement of Science |oclc=1616720 |ol=13505672M}}
  • {{Citation |last=M. J. B. Baddeley |title=Northern Counties including Dublin and Neighbourhood |date=1909 |series=Ireland |chapter=Dublin |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/irelandpartinort00badd#page/n79/mode/2up |edition=6th |place=London |publisher=T. Nelson and Sons |oclc=4605342 |ref=none |author-link=M. J. B. Baddeley}}
  • {{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Dublin (city) |volume= 8 | pages = 618–623 |date=1910 |ref= {{harvid|Britannica|1910}} |short= 1}}
  • {{Cite book |title=List of Works Relating to British Genealogy and Local History |publisher=New York Public Library |year=1910 |location=New York |chapter=Dublin (City) |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/listworksrelati04librgoog#page/n141/mode/1up}}
  • {{Citation |last=Benjamin Vincent |title=Haydn's Dictionary of Dates |title-link=Haydn's Dictionary of Dates |date=1910 |chapter=Dublin |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/haydnsdictionary00hayd#page/426/mode/1up |edition=25th |place=London |publisher=Ward, Lock & Co. |ref=none}}
  • {{Citation |last=Samuel Carter Hall |title=Ireland: its Scenery, Character and History |date=1911 |volume=4 |chapter=Dublin |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/irelanditsscener04halliala#page/34/mode/2up |place=Boston |publisher=Niccolls |oclc=3567745 |ref=none |last2=Anna Maria Hall |author-link=Samuel Carter Hall |author-link2=Anna Maria Hall}}
  • {{Citation |last=Esther Singleton |title=Great Cities of Europe |date=1913 |chapter=City of Dublin |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/greatcitiesofeur00singiala#page/294/mode/2up |place=Garden City, N.Y. |publisher=Doubleday, Page |ref=none}}
  • {{Citation |last=James Collins |title=Life in Old Dublin |date=1913 |place=Dublin |publisher=J. Duffy |oclc=4310334 |ol=6600535M |ref=none}}
  • {{Citation |last=Stephen Lucius Gwynn |title=Famous Cities of Ireland |date=1915 |chapter=Dublin |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/famouscitiesofir00gwyn#page/218/mode/2up |place=Dublin |publisher=Maunsel & Co. |oclc=4759563 |ref=none}}
  • {{Citation |title=Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Dublin and the Wicklow Tours |date=1919 |edition=20th |place=London |publisher=Ward, Lock and Company |oclc=8105082 |ol=23663882M}}
  • {{Cite book |title=List of Books on Modern Ireland in the Public Library of the City of Boston |publisher=Boston Public Library |year=1921 |editor-last=Lucien E. Taylor |location=Boston, Massachusetts |chapter=History: Local History and Description |hdl=2027/mdp.39015033681407 |ref=none}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Bulmer Hobson |author-link=Bulmer Hobson |title=A Book of Dublin |publisher=Kevin J. Kenny |year=1930 |edition=2nd |location=Dublin |ref=none}}

== 1950s–1990s ==

  • {{Citation |last=Maurice James Craig |title=Dublin, 1660–1860 |date=1952 |place=London |publisher=Cresset Press |oclc=3304156 |ref=none}}
  • {{Citation |title=Dublin |year=1978 |url=https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3507331W/Dublin |series=Great Cities |publisher=Time-Life Books |ol=4483796M}}
  • {{Citation |last=Mary E. Daly |title=Dublin, the Deposed Capital: a Social and Economic History, 1860–1914 |date=1984 |place=Cork, Ireland |publisher=Cork University Press |isbn=0-902561-27-8 |ref=none}}
  • {{Cite book |first=Kevin C. |last=Kearns |title=Dublin Street Life and Lore: an Oral History |year=1991 |ref=none}}
  • {{Cite book |first=Kevin C. |last=Kearns |title=Dublin Tenement Life: an Oral History |year=1994 |ref=none}}
  • {{Cite book |title=Ireland |year=1995 |isbn=978-0-312-11302-5 |series=Let's Go |page=61+ |chapter=Dublin |ol=24212350M |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/letsgobudgetguid00fitz#page/60/mode/2up}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Kevin C. Kearns |title=Dublin Pub Life and Lore: an Oral History |year=1996 |ref=none}}

=Published in the 21st century=

  • {{Citation |last=Annemarie Piso |title=Unionisation in the Dublin hotel industry |work=International Journal of Tourism Research |volume=5 |year=2003 |ref=none}}
  • {{Cite journal |last=Mary Clark |year=2006 |title=Dublin City Archives and Its Collections |journal=Dublin Historical Record |publisher=Old Dublin Society |volume=59 |issue=1 |pages=20–27 |jstor=30101603 |ref={{harvid|Clark|2006}}}}
  • {{Citation |last=Juliana Adelman |title=Animal Knowledge: Zoology and Class-ification in Nineteenth-Century Dublin |work=Field Day Review |volume=5 |pages=108–121 |year=2009 |jstor=25664529 |ref={{harvid|Adelman|2009}}}}
  • {{Citation |last=Mairtin Mac Con Iomaire |title=Culinary voices: perspectives from Dublin restaurants |work=Oral History |volume=39 |issue=1 |pages=77–90 |year=2011 |jstor=25802217 |ref={{harvid|Iomaire|2011}} |author-link=Mairtin Mac Con Iomaire}}

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