Anglo-Norman to Tudor · event 1 of 5

1170

Strongbow takes Dublin. Richard de Clare, invited by the deposed king of Leinster, storms the city with an Anglo-Norman force. Henry II arrives the following year to prevent his barons founding an independent kingdom, and Dublin becomes the seat of English administration in Ireland.

The Anglo-Norman to Tudor era

  1. 1170
  2. 1204
  3. 1348
  4. 1592
  5. 1649

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