Britain and Ireland Timeline: 1300 AD – 1599
| 1361 | An edict bans pure-blooded from becoming mayors, baillifs, officers of the king or clerygmen, serving the English. |
| 1366 | Statutes of Kilkenny forbade Irish/English marriages and preventing English to use Irish language, custom or laws. |
| 1394 | October. King Richard II, landed at Waterford, and marched up to Dublin. |
| 1496 | Line of “the Pale” at Clongowes. This was a small enclave around Dublin, which became the area of English rule. |
| 1507 | Accession of Henry VIII. |
| 1515 | Anarchy in Ireland. |
| 1529-36 | Henry VIII made his great breach with Rome, and set himself up as head of the Church in England. |
| 1534 | Kildare rebellion. |
| 1541 | Henry VIII declares himself king of Ireland. |
| 1545-63 | The Council of Trent gives Catholics a greater sense of purpose. |
| 1547 | Henry VIII dies, succeeded by the boy king Edward VI. England and Ireland were ruled by the senior nobility of England. |
| 1553 | Mary ascends the Throne. |
| 1558 | Accession of Elizabeth I. |
| 1562 | Elizabethan Wars in Ireland. |
| 1588 | Spanish Armada sent by Philip of Spain, to conquer England. |
| 1594 | August. Hugh O’Neill defeated a small English force at the Ford of Biscuits near Enniskillen. |
| 1595 | Rebellion of Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone. |
| 1598 | O’Neill’s great victory at Yellow Ford in Ulster |
