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16th Century |
Henry VIII (the 8th) of England deposed the FitzGerald dynasty, |
[135] |
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1536, 1541 |
[and] the new Kingdom of Ireland was declared by Henry VIII |
[136] |
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[and] Belfast, originally a Bronze Age village, from the Gaelic |
[137] |
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‘Beal Feirste’, ‘mouth of the sandy ford’ on the River Farset |
[138] |
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17th Century |
The Plantations of Ulster (northern Ireland) |
[139] |
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1606 |
Private plantations, County Down, and (northern) County Antrim |
[140] |
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1610 |
Official plantations in six counties - Donegal, Coleraine, Tyrone, |
[141] |
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Fermanagh, Cavan and Armagh (and not in County Monaghan) |
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1613 |
County Londonderry, by King James I, absorbed Co. Coleraine |
[142] |
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1649–1653 |
Cromwell's conquest of Ireland (the Wars of the Three Kingdoms) |
[143] |
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1650-1700 |
Little Ice Age, cold period beginning about 1650 |
[144] |
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1690 |
Battle at the River Boyne near Drogheda on the east coast of |
[145] |
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Ireland, William III ("William of Orange") defeated King James II |
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18th Century |
Ulster Scots emigrations to North America |
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1718 |
First large scale migration of Ulster-Scots to America |
[146] |
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1750’s-1760’s |
Our earliest-known immigrant ancestors were born at this time |
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1760’s |
Emigration to North America: more than 20,000 people left from |
[147] |
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the Ulster ports of Newry, Portrush, Belfast, Lares and Ferry. |
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1770 to 1774 |
. . . at least 30,000 people departed. Over the whole century, |
[147] |
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it is estimated that more than 400,000 emigrated from Ulster. |
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1790 |
. . . number of the United States population of Irish stock |
[147] |
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estimated to have been 447,000, two-thirds coming from Ulster. |
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19th Century |
1803, Agricultural Census, County Antrim |
[148] |
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1823-1837 |
The Tithe Applotment Books, tithes for the Church of Ireland |
[149] |
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1845-1852 |
Great Famine, period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration |
[150] |
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1848-1864 |
Griffiths Valuation, first full-scale valuation of property in Ireland |
[151] |
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20th Century |
Northern Ireland (six counties in Ulster), in the United Kingdom |
[152] |
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1921, 1922 |
Ireland (aka Republic of Ireland), created as the Irish Free State |
[153] |
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1950 |
Standard year selected for 'ybp' Years Before Present calculations |
[57] |
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1953, 1962 |
1953: James Watson and Francis Crick (Cavendish Laboratory, |
[154] |
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DNA and the |
University of Cambridge, England) suggested the first correct |
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Nobel Prize |
double-helix model of DNA structure. 1962: Watson, Crick, and |
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Maurice Wilkins share the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
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21st Century |
2003, The Human Genome Project was completed and published |
[155] |
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McAninch Y-DNA Status Report 2016: Timeline: 5 of 5: Ulster Plantations, Emigration, DNA |
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