Location:
Ireland
Coordinates:
53.0000, -8.0000
Events at Ireland (11)
500 BC
ID: 3661
Celtic expansion at height - Celts spread from Ireland to Turkey, distinctive art and culture
ID: 3661
405
ID: 5616
Patrick captured by Irish raiders at age 16 from Roman Britain (possibly Bannavem Taburniae) and enslaved in Ireland as a shepherd
ID: 5616
411
ID: 5617
Patrick escapes from slavery in Ireland after six years, travels 200 miles to the coast and returns to Britain
ID: 5617
432
ID: 3792
St. Patrick brings monasticism to Ireland - establishes Celtic monastic tradition combining scholarship and mission
ID: 3792
444
ID: 5618
St. Patrick lights the Paschal fire on the Hill of Slane in defiance of the High King's decree, confronts druids at Tara
ID: 5618
445
ID: 5619
St. Patrick establishes his principal church at Armagh, which becomes the primatial see of Ireland
ID: 5619
457
ID: 5620
St. Patrick retires to Saul in County Down, where he had made his first convert and established his first church in Ireland
ID: 5620
461
ID: 5621
March 17, 461
Death of St. Patrick at Saul; buried at Downpatrick - becomes patron saint of Ireland
ID: 5621
1589
ID: 5672
Sir Walter Raleigh allegedly introduces potatoes to Ireland - plants them at his estate in Cork (story possibly apocryphal)
ID: 5672
1800
ID: 5679
Potatoes become Ireland's primary crop - population depends almost entirely on potato, setting stage for disaster
ID: 5679
1845
ID: 5680
September 1845
Irish Potato Famine begins - Phytophthora infestans destroys crops, one million die, two million emigrate
ID: 5680