1800 -1899
| 1800 | Act of Union passed (effective 1 January 1801) |
| 1803 | Robert Emmett’s rising, trial and execution. |
| 1823 | Daniel O’Connell’s Catholic Association founded. |
| 1828 | O’Connell elected for Clare. |
| 1829 | Catholic emancipation passed. Tithe War began. |
| 1837 | Accession of Queen Victoria. |
| 1839 | January 6.. the Night of the BIG WIND |
| 1840 | O’Connell’s Repeal Association founded. |
| 1842 | “The Nation” newspaper founded by Thomas Davis. |
| 1843 | O’Connell’s “Monster Meetings” for Repeal of the Union. |
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| 1845 | Blight in the Potato Harvest. |
| 1845-49 | Beginning of Famine. Charles Tteveleyan, permanent Head of Treasury. Sir Robert Peel, Prime Minister, imports Indian Corn. |
| 1846 | April. Treveylan opens depots for sale of Indian corn, but closes them later in summer. Repeal of Corn Laws. |
| 1846 | July. Lord John Russell replaces Peel as Prime Minister. August: Total failure of potato harvest. October: First deaths from starvation. |
| 1847 | Fever spreading. Treveleyan winds up Soup Kitchen Act, and retires to write history of famine. |
| 1848-49 | Worst years of famine. By 1848 through emigration and deaths by famine, Ireland’s population decreased by more than 2 million people (8.5 to 6.5). |
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| 1848 | Smith O’Brien (Young Ireland Leader) arrested. James Stephens flees to France. |
| 1856 | Stephens returns from France. |
| 1858 | Stephens founds Irish Republican Brotherhood. Fenian Brotherhood founded in America. |
| 1861 | Beginning of American Civil War. |
| 1863 | “Irish People” newspaper founded. |
| 1865 | End of American Civil War. Arrest of editorial board of “Irish People”. James Stephens arrested, and escapes from Richmond Jail. |
| 1867 | February: Abortive raid on Chester Castle. March: Fenian rising in Ireland. December: Clerkenwell explosion. |
| 1869 | Gladstone, Prime Minister, dis-establishes Protestant Church in Ireland. |
| 1870 | Gladstone’s first Land Act. |
| 1875 | Charles Stewart Parnell elected MP for Co Meath. |
| 1879 | Threat of famine. Evictions.Irish National League founded. |
| 1879-82 | Land War |
| 1881 | Gladstone’s 2nd Land Act. Parnell imprisoned. |
| 1882 | Kilmainham “Treaty”. Parnell’s release. Phoenix Park murder. |
| 1886 | First home Rule Bill. |
| 1891 | Parnell loses three by-elections in Ireland. Parnell dies in October. |
| 1893 | Second Home Rule Bill. Gaelic League founded. |
