The city of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey.

The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel is crowned in Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland with the name of Edward VI in a bid to threaten King Henry VII's reign.

George Frideric Handel's oratorio ''Messiah'' makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland.

Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed and killed during the Phoenix Park Murders in Dublin.

The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin opens.

Easter Rebellion: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.

The leaders of the Easter Rising are executed in Dublin.

Meeting of the First Dáil Éireann in the Mansion House Dublin. Sinn Féin adopts Ireland's first constitution. The first engagement of Irish War of Independence, Sologhead Beg, County Tipperary.

Irish War of Independence: In Dublin, 31 people are killed in what became known as "Bloody Sunday". This included fourteen British informants, fourteen Irish civilians and three Irish Republican Army prisoners.

The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.

A Luftwaffe air raid in Dublin, Ireland claims 38 lives.

At midnight 26 Irish counties officially leave the British Commonwealth. A 21-gun salute on O'Connell Bridge, Dublin, ushers in the Republic of Ireland.

A bomb planted by young Irish protesters destroys Nelson's Pillar in Dublin.

The British embassy in Dublin is destroyed in protest at Bloody Sunday.

Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape. Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escape from Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, Republic of Ireland aboard a hijacked helicopter that lands in the exercise yard.

Thirty-three people are killed by terrorist bombings in Dublin and Monaghan, Ireland.

In Dublin, Ireland, Provisional Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten.

Stardust Disaster: A fire in a Dublin nightclub kills 48 people

Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin

Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the European Union, celebrated at the residence of the Irish President in Dublin.