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10,000 BC
Human beings arrive in Ireland during the mesolithic era, originally crossing a land bridge between
Scotland and Ireland and later the sea in hide-covered boats.
AD 431-432
Pope Celestine I sends Bishop Palladius to Ireland to minister to those 'already believing in Christ';
St Patrick arrives the following year to continue the mission.
917
Plundering Vikings establish a new settlement at the mouth of the harbour and call it 'Dyfflin', which
soon becomes a centre of economic power.
988
High King Mael Seachlainn II leads the permanent Irish conquest of Dyfflin, giving the settlement its
modern name in Irish - Baile Átha Cliath, meaning 'Town at the Hurdle Ford'.
1169
Henry II's Welsh and Norman barons capture Waterford and Wexford with the help of Dermot
MacMurrough, beginning a 750-year occupation of Ireland by Britain.
1172
King Henry II of England invades Ireland, forcing the Cambro-Norman warlords and some of the
Gaelic Irish kings to accept him as their overlord.
1297
Dublin becomes the main seat of the Parliament of Ireland, comprised of merchants and landowners.
1315
A Scottish army led by Edward de Bruce attacks the city; waning English interest in defending Dub-
lin forces the Earls of Kildare to become the city's main protector.
1348
Roughly half of the city's population of 30,000 succumbs to the Black Death; victims were buried in
mass graves in an area of the Liberties still known as the 'Blackpitts'.
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