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840 Foundation of Dublin by Vikings.
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988 Baile Átha Cliath (Dublin, Ireland) was founded.
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1170 City of Dublin captured by the Normans
1605 French huguenot refugees settle in Dublin and Waterford
1649 Admiral Robert Blake blockades Prince Rupert to allow Oliver Cromwell to land in Dublin and begin the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
1742 The first performance of George Frideric Handel's oratorio ''The Messiah'', in Dublin.
1882 "Invincibles", militant Irish republicans kill Lord Frederick Cavendish, chief secretary for Ireland and permanent undersecretary T.H. Burke in Phoenix Park, Dublin; "Chinese Exclusion Act" - the first important law which restricted immigration into the USA
1905 Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin in Dublin as a political party whose goal was the independence for all of Ireland.
1908 The ''Irish Universities Act, 1908'' is passed and creates the National University of Ireland at Dublin and the Queen's University of Belfast.
1920 Bloody Sunday - British forces open fire on spectators and players during a Football match in Dublin's Croke Park, following the assassinations of 12 British agents.
1927 Kevin O'Higgins, vice president of the Irish Free State, assassinated in Dublin
1951 Judy Garland, opened the first of 14 concerts in Dublin, Ireland at the Theatre Royal.
1966 An IRA bomb destroys Nelson's Pillar in Dublin.
1972 Anti-British riots throughout Ireland take pla The British Embassy in Dublin is burned to the ground, as are several British-owned businesses.
1979 In Dublin, Ireland, Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten.
1996 Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot dead in her car just outside Dublin.
2004 In Dublin, Ireland, the Dublin Port Tunnel excavation works are completed and the final tunnel boring machine breakthrough ceremony takes pla
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