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| 1487 |
| | | Lambert Simnel, supposedly a nephew of Edward IV, is crowned in Dublin - but ends up working in the royal kitchens of Henry VII | |
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| 1607 |
| | | The earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnel sail from Ireland with their families, in the event known as the Flight of the Earls | |
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| 1649 |
| | | Cromwell captures the royalist stronghold of Drogheda and massacres some 2800 people | |
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| 1650 |
| | | James Ussher, archbishop of Armagh, calculates that creation began on Sunday, October 23, 4004 BC | |
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| 1658 |
| | | Parliamentary reprisals against the rebellious Irish result in two thirds of Ireland's land being owned by the English or the Scots | |
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| c. 1680 |
| | | Ireland becomes the first European region in which the potato is an important food crop | |
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| 1689 |
| | | James II, landing in Ireland, is acclaimed as king in Dublin by enthusiastic Irish Catholics | |
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| 1690 |
| | | The armies of James II and William III confront each at the river Boyne, with victory going to William | |
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| c. 1700 |
| | | In the years after the battle of the Boyne, Catholic ownership of land in Ireland is reduced to just 14% of the total | |
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| 1766 |
| | | Irish novelist Oliver Goldsmith publishes The Vicar of Wakefield, with a hero who has much to complain about but keeps calm | |
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