Viking & Medieval · event 3 of 5

988

The conventional founding date. Máel Sechnaill II of Meath takes the Norse town and imposes a tax. Dublin’s millennium was celebrated in 1988 on this basis, which is a choice of date rather than a settled fact — the town was already 150 years old.

The Viking & Medieval era

  1. c. 140 AD
  2. 841
  3. 988
  4. 1014
  5. c. 1030

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