Ireland

Poblacht Na h'Eireann



379-1541

YEAR DATE EVENT HEAD OF STATE PRIME MINISTER GENERAL GOVERNOR
379 High Kingdom of Ireland king Niall Noigillach
405 king Nath I
429 king Loeguire mac Neill
463 king Ailill Motl mac Nath I
483 king Lugaid mac Loeguiri O'Neill
507 king Muirchertach macErcae O'Neill
534 king Tuathal Maelgarb macCorpri Caech O'Neill
544 king Diarmait macCerbaill O'Neill
565 king Domnall macMuirchertaig O'Neill and Forggus macMuirchertaig O'Neill
566 king Ainmere macSatnai O'Neill
569 king Baetan macMuirchertaig O'Neill and Eochaid macDomnaill O'Neill
572 king Baetan macNinnedo O'Neill
581 king Aed macAinmerech O'Neill
598 king Aed Slaine macDiarmao O'Neill
604 king Aed Uaridnach macDomnaill O'Neill
612 king Mael Cobo macAedo O'Neill
615 king Suibne Menm macFiachnai O'Neill
628 king Domnall macAedo O'Neill
642 king Conaill Coel macMaele Cobo O'Neill and Cellach macMaele Cobo O'Neill
654 king Cellach macMaele Cobo O'Neill
656 king Cellach macMaele Cobo O'Neill and Diarmait macAedo Slaine O'Neill and Blathmac macAedo Slaine O'Neill
658 king Diarmait macAedo Slaine O'Neill and Blathmac macAedo Slaine O'Neill
665 king Sechnussach mac Blathmaic O'Neill
671 king Cen Faelad mac Blathmaic O'Neill
675 king Finsnechtae Fiedach macDunchada O'Neill
695 king Loingsech macOengus O'Neill
704 king Congal Cinn Magir macFergus Fanat O'Neill
710 king Fergal macMaele Duin O'Neill
722 king Fogartach macNeill O'Neill
724 king Cinaed mac Irgalaig and Flaithbbertach macLoingsig O'Neill
728 king Flaithbbertach macLoingsig O'Neill
734 king Aed Allan macFergal O'Neill
743 king Domnall Midi O'Neill
763 king Niall Frossaich mac Fergal O'Neill
770 king Donnchad Midi macDomnaill Midi O'Neill
797 king Aed Oirdnide macNeill Frossach O'Neill
819 king Conchobar macDonnchado Midi O'Neill
833 king Niall Caille macAedo Oirdnide O'Neill
846 king Mael Sechnaill macMaele Ruanaid O'Neill
862 king Aed Findliath macNeill Caille O'Neill
879 king Flann Sionna macMaele Sechnaill O'Neill
916 king Naill Glundubh macAedo Findliath O'Neill
919 king Donnchad Donn macFlann O'Neill
944 king Congalach Cnogba macMael Mithig O'Neill
956 king Domnaill macMuirchertaig O'Neill
980 king Mael Schnaill macDomnaill O'Neill (I)
1002 king Brian Boruma mac cennetig O'Neill
1014 king Mael Schnaill macDomnaill O'Neill (II)
1022 Division in kingdom of Munster, Leinster, Connacht and Ailech king Donnchad MacBrian king of Munster
1171 october Kingdom of King of England
1269 Viceroy John
1316 Kingdom king Eduard Bruce
1318 Kingdom of Kingdom of England
1528 Piers Butler, 1st Earl of Ossory
1529 Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset
1534 William Skeffington
1536 Lord Leonard Grey
1540 Anthony St Leger

1541-1800

YEAR DATE EVENT HEAD OF STATE PRIME MINISTER GENERAL GOVERNOR
1541 june Kingdom of King of England Anthony St Leger (I)
1548 Edward Bellingham
1549 Anthony St Leger (II)
1551 James Croft
1553 Anthony St Leger (III)
1556 Thomas Radcliffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex
1565 Henry Sidney (I)
1571 William Fitzwilliam (I)
1575 Henry Sidney (II)
1580 Arthur Grey, 14th Lord Grey de Wilton
1584 John Perrot
1588 William Fitzwilliam (II)
1594 William Russell
1597 Thomas Burgh, Lord Burgh
1599 Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
1600 Charles Blount, 8th Baron Mountjoy
1604 Sir Arthur Chichester
1615 Sir Oliver St John
1622 Henry Cary, 1st Viscount of Falkland
1629 Thomas Wentworth, 1st Viscount Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford
1641 Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester
1643 James Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormonde (I)
1646 Philip Sydney, Lord Lisle
1648 James Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormonde (II)
1649 Oliver Cromwell
1651 Henry Ireton
1652 Charles Fleetwood
1657 Henry Cromwell
1659 Edmund Ludlow
1660 George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle
1662 James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde (I)
1668 Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory
1669 John Robartes, 2nd Baron Robartes
1670 John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton
1672 Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex
1677 James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde (II)
1685 Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon
1687 Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell
1689 King James II of England
1690 King William III of England
1692 Henry Sydney, 1st Viscount Sydney
1693 Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell
1697 6 february Henry de Massue, Earl of Galway
1699 november Humphrey May
1700 28 december Cyril Wyche
1701 18 september Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester
1701 28 december Francis Gwyn
1703 19 february Edward Southwell (I)
1703 4 june James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde (I)
1707 30 april George Dodington
1707 24 june Thomas Herbert, Earl of Pembroke
1708 4 december Joseph Addison
1709 21 april Thomas Wharton, Baron Wharton
1710 26 october Edward Southwell (II)
1711 3 july James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde (II)
1713 22 september Sir John Stanley
1713 27 october Charles Talbot, Duke of Shrewsbury
1714 4 october Joseph Addison Charles Spencer, Earl of Sunderland
1715 22 september Martin Bladen
1717 13 february Charles Townshend, Viscount Townshend
1717 27 april Edward Webster
1717 7 august Charles Paulet, Duke of Bolton (II)
1720 8 april Horatio Walpole
1721 28 august Edward Hopkins Charles Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton
1724 6 may Thomas Clutterbuck
1724 22 october John Carteret, Baron Carteret
1730 april Hugh Boulter
1730 23 june Walter Cary
1731 11 september Lionel Cranfield Sackville, Duke of Dorset (I)
1737 9 april Sir Edward Walpole
1737 7 september William Cavendish, Devonshire
1739 11 may Thomas Townshend
1739 13 october Henry Bilson Legge
1741 8 june William Ponsonby, Viscount Duncannon
1745 8 january Richard Liddell
1745 31 august Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield
1746 5 july Sewallis Shirley
1746 15 november Edward Weston
1747 13 september William Stanhope, Earl of Harrington
1750 april Henry Boyle
1750 15 december Lord George Sackville
1751 19 september Lionel Cranfield Sackville, Duke of Dorset (II)
1755 2 april Henry Seymour Conway
1755 5 may William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire
1757 3 january Richard Rigby
1757 25 september John Russell, Duke of Bedford
1761 3 april William Gerard
1761 6 october George Montagu-Dunk, Earl of Halifax
1763 22 september Hugh Smithson Percy, Earl o fNorthumberland
1764 3 july Charles Moore, Earl of Drogheda
1765 5 june Sir Charles Bunbury Thomas Thynne, Viscount Weymouth
1765 7 august Francis Seymour Conway, Viscount Beauchamp
1765 18 october Francis Seymour, Earl of Hertford
1766 6 october Augustus John Hervey George William Hervey, Earl of Bristol
1767 9 july Theophilus Jones
1767 19 august Lord Frederick Campbell
1767 14 october George Townshend, Viscount Townshend
1769 1 january Sir George Mcartney
1772 30 november Sir John de Blaquiere Simon Harcourt, Earl Harcourt
1776 13 december Sir Richard Heron
1777 25 january John Hobart, Earl of Buckinghamshire
1780 29 november William Eden
1780 23 december Frederick Howard, Earl of Carlisle
1782 14 april Richard Fitzpatrick William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of Portland
1782 15 august William Wyndham Grenville
1782 15 september George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, Earl Temple (I)
1783 3 may William Wyndham
1783 3 june Robert Henley, Earl of Northington
1783 27 august Thomas Pelham (I)
1784 12 february Thomas Orde
1784 24 february Charles Manners, Duke of Rutland
1787 7 november Alleyne FitzHerbert
1787 16 december George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, Marquess of Buckingham (II)
1789 6 april Robert Hobart
1790 5 january John Fane, Earl of Westmorland
1793 16 december Sylvester Douglas
1794 13 december George Damer, Viscount Milton
1795 4 january William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, Earl Fitzwilliam
1795 13 march Thomas Pelham (II)
1795 31 march John Jeffreys Pratt, Earl Camden
1798 20 january Charles Cornwallis, Marquess Cornwallis
1798 2 november Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh

1801-1922

YEAR DATE EVENT HEAD OF STATE PRIME MINISTER GENERAL GOVERNOR
1801 1 january Part of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1801 26 april John, Viscount Fitzgibbon
1801 25 may Charles Abbot Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke
1802 13 february William Wickham
1804 6 february Sir Evan Nepean
1805 23 march Sir Nicholas Vansittart
1805 21 september Charles Lang
1806 28 march William Elliot John Russell, Duke of Bedford
1807 19 april Sir Arthur Wellesley Charles Lennox, Duke of Richmond
1809 13 april Robert Saunders-Dundas
1809 18 october William Wellesley-Pole
1812 4 august Robert Peel
1813 26 august Charles, Earl of Whitworth
1817 9 october Charles Chetwynd Talbot, Earl Talbot
1818 4 august Charles Grant
1821 29 december Henry Goulbourn Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley (I)
1827 29 april William Lamb, Viscount Melbourne
1828 1 march Henry William Paget, Marquess of Anglesey (I)
1828 21 june Francis Egerton Leveson-Gower, Earl Gower
1829 6 march Hugh Percy, Duke of Northumberland
1830 17 july Sir Henry Hardinge (I)
1830 29 november Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Earl Stanley
1830 23 december Henry William Paget, Marquess of Anglesey (II)
1833 29 march Sir John Cam Hobhouse
1833 17 may Edward John Littleton
1833 26 september Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley (II)
1834 16 december Sir Henry Hardinge (II)
1835 6 january Thomas Hamilton, Earl of Haddington
1835 29 april George William Freceick Howard, Viscount Morpeth
1835 11 may Constantine Henry Phipps, Earl of Mulgrave, Marquess of Normanby
1839 3 april Hugh Fortescue, Earl Fortescue
1841 6 september Edward Graville Elliot, Earl of St. Germans
1841 15 september Thomas Robinson, Earl Grey
1844 26 july William à Court, Baron Heytesbury
1845 1 february Sir Thomas Francis Freemantle, Baron Cottosloe
1846 14 february Henry Pelham Pelham-Clinton, Earl of Lincoln
1846 11 july Henry Labouchere John William Ponsonby, Earl of Bessborough
1847 26 may George Villiers, Earl of Clarendon
1847 22 july Sir William Meredyth Sommerville
1852 10 march Richard Southwell Bourke, Earl Naas (I) Archibald Montgomerie, Earl of Eglinton (I)
1853 6 january Sir John Young Edward Granville Eliot, Earl of St. Germans
1855 13 march Edward Horsman George Howard, Earl of Carlisle (I)
1857 27 may Henry Arthur Albert
1858 12 march Richard Southwell Bourke, Earl Naas (II) Archibald Montgomerie, Earl of Eglinton (II)
1859 24 june Edward Cardwell
1859 13 july George Howard, Earl of Carlisle (II)
1861 29 july Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue (I)
1864 8 november John Wodehouse, Baron Wodehouse, Earl of Kimberley
1865 7 december Sir Robert Peel
1866 20 june Richard Southwell Bourke, Earl Naas (III) James Hamilton, Duke of Abercorn (I)
1868 29 september James Wilson-Patten
1868 23 december Chicheser Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue (II) John Poyntz Spencer, Earl Spencer (I)
1871 12 january Spencer Cavendish, Marquis of Hartington
1874 27 february Sir Michael Edward Hicks-Beach
1874 18 april James Hamilton, Duke of Abercorn (II)
1876 11 december John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough
1878 15 february James Lowther
1880 5 may William Edward Forster Francis Thomas de Grey, Earl Cowper
1882 6 may Frederick Charles Cavendish, Earl Cavendish John Poyntz Spencer, Earl Spencer (II)
1882 9 may Sir George Otto Trevelyan
1884 23 october Henry Campbell-Bannerman
1885 30 june Sir William Hart Dyke Henry Herbert, Earl of Carnarvon
1886 23 january William Henry Smith
1886 6 february John Morley (I)
1886 20 february John Campbell Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen (I)
1886 5 august Sir Michael Hicks-Beach Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marquess of Londonderry
1887 7 march Sir Arthur James Balfour
1889 5 october Lawrence Dundas, Earl of Zetland
1891 9 november Willliam Lawies Jackson
1892 18 august John Morley (II) Robert Crewe-Milnes, Baron Houghton
1895 8 july Gerald Willian Balfour George Henry Cadogan, Earl Cadogan
1900 7 november George Wyndham
1902 16 august William Humble Ward, Earl of Dudley
1905 12 march Walter Hume Long
1905 14 december James Bryce John Campbell Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen (II)
1907 23 january Augustine Birrell
1915 19 february Ivor Churchill Guest, Viscount Wimborne (I)
1916 11 may John Denton Pinkstone French, Viscount French (I)
1916 31 july Henry Edward Duke
1916 11 august Ivor Churchill Guest, Viscount Wimborne (II)
1918 2 may Edward Shortt John Denton Pinkstone French, Viscount French (II)
1919 10 january James Ian Mcpherson
1920 2 april Sir James Hamar Greenwood
1921 2 may Edmund Bernard Howard, Viscount Fitzalan of Derwent
1922 14 janaury Michael Collins
1922 25 august William Thomas Cosgrave

1922-1937

YEAR DATE EVENT HEAD OF STATE PRIME MINISTER GENERAL GOVERNOR
1922 6 december Dominion king George V William Thomas Cosgrave Timothy Michael Healy
1928 31 january James McNeill
1932 9 march Eamon de Valera (I)
1932 27 november Domhnall Ua Buachalla
1936 11 december king George VI Francis "Frank" Patrick Fahy

1937-

YEAR DATE EVENT HEAD OF STATE PRIME MINISTER
1937 29 december Republic into Commonwealth Timothy Sullivan Eamon de Valera (I)
1938 25 june Douglas Hyde
1945 25 june Sean Thomas O'Kelly
1948 18 february John Aloysius Costello (I)
1949 18 april Republic Sean Thomas O'Kelly John Aloysius Costello (I)
1951 13 june Eamon de Valera (II)
1954 2 june John Aloysius Costello (II)
1957 20 march Eamon de Valera (III)
1959 24 june Eamon de Valera Sean Francis Lemass
1966 10 november John Mary "Jack" Lynch (I)
1973 14 march Liam Cosgrave
1973 24 june Erskine Hamilton Childers
1974 19 december Cearbhall O Dalaigh
1976 3 december Patrick John Hillery
1977 5 july John Mary "Jack" Lynch (II)
1979 11 december Charles James Haughey (I)
1981 30 june Garret FitzGerald (I)
1982 9 march Charles James Haughey (II)
1982 14 december Garret FitzGerald (II)
1987 10 march Charles James Haughey (III)
1990 3 december Mary Robinson
1992 11 february Albert Reynolds
1994 15 december John Gerard Bruton
1997 26 june Patrick "Bertie" Ahern
1997 11 november Mary McAleese
2008 7 may Brian Cowen


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