Georgian & Victorian · event 7 of 13

1 January 1801

The Act of Union. The Irish Parliament abolishes itself and Ireland is governed directly from Westminster. The aristocracy leaves for London, the money goes with them, and Dublin’s Georgian houses begin their conversion into tenements almost immediately.

The Georgian & Victorian era

  1. 1707
  2. 1745
  3. 1759
  4. 1782
  5. 1791
  6. 1798
  7. 1 January 1801
  8. 1803
  9. 1845
  10. 1854
  11. 1904
  12. 16 June 1904
  13. 1913

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