Britain-Ireland Timeline 1900-Present

 

1900 – Present

1903 Land Purchase Act (Wyndham Act).
1906 Liberals win General Election.
1909 Land Purchase Act.
1912 Third Home Rule Bill.
1914 Outbreak of First World War. IRB decides on Rising.
1916 Easter Rising in Dublin. May 3-12 executions.
1917 De Valera wins East Clare.
1918 November: end of First World War.
1919-21 Irish War of Independence against Britain.
1920 Burning of Cork by Auxiliaries.
1921 December. Anglo Irish Treaty.
1922 Civil War starts between Free State army and IRA.
1923 End of Civil war.
1926 De Valera founds Fianna Fail.
1927 General Elections in Ireland.
De Valera and Fianna Fail enter Dail.
1932 General Election. Fianna Fail victory.
1937 Constitution of “Eire”, claims 32 counties.
1939 Second World War.
1945 End of Second World War.
1948 General Election. Fianna Fail defeated.
1949 Repeal of External Relations Act. Ireland leaves Commonwealth.
Republic of Ireland declared (26 counties)
1951-62 IRA campaign in North.
1955 Ireland joins the United Nations.
1965 O’Neill-Lemass Talks.
1967 Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association founded.
1968 August: First Civil Rights March.
October: Derry Civil Rights March, banned by William Craig,
Minister of home Affairs, held but broken up by brutality by police.
1969 January: People’s Democracy Belfast to Derry Civil Rights March.
January 4: Marchers attaacked at Burntollet Bridge.
April: O’Neill resigns. Chichester Clark Prime Minister.
August 14: British troops sent to Derry.
October: Protestant riot in Belfast.
1970 Dublin Arms Trial.
1971 First British soldier killed by IRA in Belfast.
Chichester Clark resigns, Faulkner Prime Minister.
Unionist government of NI introduces internment without
trial for suspected Republicans.
1972 Irelalnd joins the European Economic Community
1972 January 30: Bloody Sunday in Derry. British paratroopers
shoot 13 civilians during civil-rights march.
March: Stormont suspended.
1973 Sunningdale Agreement.
1974 Ulster Workers Strike brings down Faulkner and Assembly.
Direct Rule re-imposed.
Loyalits bomb Dublin and Monaghan, killing 30
1981-82 Ten Republicans die on hunger strike in Maze Prison, NI
Dying hunger-striker Bobby Sands elected to British Parliament
 

 

1993 Downing Street Declaration; British Government accepts the right
of the people of Irelalnd to self-determinination.
1994 IRA declares cease-fire
1996 Cease-fire breaks down after Britain’s Conservative government
refuses to allow Sinn Fein to join all-party talks on NI.
1997 IRA cease-fire resumes; talks begin in Belfast between government
of Irish Republic, Britain’s ne Labor government, and representatives
of all NI’s political parties.
 

 

1998 Initial peace-plan accepted by all parties.

 

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