| 1485-1509 | reign of Henry VII (Tudor) |
| 1494 | Poynings' Law
|
| 1509-1547 | reign of Henry VIII (Tudor) |
| 1534-35 |
Kildare rebellion |
| 1530s |
"New English" begin arriving
|
| 1553-1558 | reign of Mary I (Tudor) |
| 1550s |
initial plantation of Laois and Offaly
|
| 1558-1603 | reign of Elizabeth I (Tudor) |
| 1569-1573 |
first Desmond rebellion (Munster) |
| 1578 |
Humphrey Gilbert's first attempt to set up an English colony in Newfoundland |
| 1579-1583 | second Desmond rebellion (Munster) |
| 1584 |
Hakluyt, Discourse on Western Planting |
| 1585-86 |
Walter Ralegh founds (and loses) the Roanoke (NC) colony |
| 1586 |
plantation of Munster begins |
| 1592 |
founding of Trinity College Dublin |
| 1593-1603 |
O'Neill rebellion; Nine Years War |
| 1596 | Spenser, A View of the Present State of Ireland
|
| 1603-1625 |
reign of James I (Stuart) |
| 1607 |
Flight of the Earls |
| 1609 |
plantation of Ulster begins |
| 1622 |
12,000 settlers in Ulster
|
| 1625-1649 |
reign of Charles I (Stuart) |
| 1628 |
Charles and the Old English agree to the Graces |
| 1638 |
Solemn League and Covenant (Scotland) |
| 1639 |
Scottish Revolt |
| 1641 |
execution
of Wentworth outbreak of rebellion in Ulster |
| 1642 |
Confederation of Kilkenny |
| 1646 |
Temple, The Irish Rebellion |
| 1649 |
execution of Charles I
|
| 1649-1660 |
interregnum |
| 1649-50 |
Cromwell in Ireland |
| 1652 |
Act for the Settlement of Ireland |