Anglo-Norman to Tudor · event 2 of 5

1204

Dublin Castle is begun. King John orders a castle built to defend the city and hold the treasury. It remains the centre of English and then British rule in Ireland for over seven hundred years, until it is handed over in 1922.

The Anglo-Norman to Tudor era

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

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