Kilkenny

city in County Kilkenny, Ireland

23 dated entries naming Kilkenny, drawn from 19 separate years between 1225 CE and 1710 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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13th century

1225Dominican Order founds the 'Black Abbey', lying just off Parliament Street in Kilkenny.source
1251Saint Canice's Cathedral built in Kilkenny.source

14th century

1302Fulk de la Freigne becomes seneschal of the Liberty of Kilkenny.source
13109 February Parliament at Kilkenny. Law passed against reception of Irishmen as members of Anglo-Irish religious housessource
1324November 3 – At Kilkenny in Ireland, Petronilla de Meath, the maidservant of Dame Alice Kyteler, becomes the first person in the British Isles to be burned at the stake as a witch. Dame Alice had been able to escape before capture.source
1341October – parliament at Dublin is adjourned to Kilkenny (held in November). Petitions critical of administration are sent to Edward III.source
134627 July – Roger de la Freigne, Sheriff of Kilkenny, "seized a great prey over Cearbhall Mac Giollaphádraig and over his men such as had rearely been taken in those parts, remembered by men for many years." [8].source
1347"On the same day at Kilkenny, Lady Isabella Palmer, who had built the front of the friars choir, was committed to the earth; she had reached a praiseworthy old age and, having lived about 70 years religiously and honourably in her widowhood and in virginity, as it was said and believed, she passed from this life."source
1349Christmas to March – the Black Death: "The pestilence gathered strength in Kilkenny during Lent ... there was scarcely a house in which only one died."source
135025 June – Great council at Kilkenny.source
135131 October – Great council occurs in Kilkenny; ordinances to curtail Gaelisization of Anglo-Irish, and the statute of labourers applied to Ireland.source
1366Irish Parliament at Kilkenny before Prince Lionel of Clarence, Earl of Ulster codifies the legislation of the previous 50 years in the Statutes of Kilkenny, prohibiting, among other things, the adoption of the Irish language by the colonists.source

16th century

158514 December – Nicholas Walsh, Church of Ireland Bishop of Ossory, is stabbed to death in his house in Kilkenny by a disaffected member of his flock.source

17th century

1609Kilkenny is granted a royal charter by James I.source
1614June 22 – the Synod of Kilkenny regulates discipline and practice in the Catholic Province of Dublin.source
1642May 10 – In a Catholic synod at Kilkenny, bishops draft the Confederate Oath of Association, calling on Catholics to swear allegiance to King Charles I and to obey orders and decrees made by a "Supreme Council of the Confederate Catholics", hence the Irish rebels of 1641 become known as Confederate Ireland.source
164210 May – in a Catholic synod at Kilkenny, bishops draft the Confederate Oath of Association, calling on Catholics to swear allegiance to Charles I and to obey orders and decrees made by a "Supreme Council of the Confederate Catholics", hence the rebels become known as Confederate Ireland.source
1642October 24 – The first Confederate Assembly of Ireland is held in Kilkenny where it sets up a provisional government, largely Catholic Royalist; start of the Irish Confederate Wars.source
164224 October – the first Confederate Assembly is held in Kilkenny where it sets up a provisional government, largely Catholic Royalist; start of the Irish Confederate Wars.source
165027 March – Confederate Ireland's besieged capital Kilkenny is surrendered to Cromwell.source
1652May – the largest Irish guerrilla forces under John Fitzpatrick (in Leinster), Edmund O'Dwyer (in Munster) and Edmund Daly (in Connacht) surrender, under terms signed at Kilkenny, allowing Irish troops to go abroad to serve in foreign armies not at war with the Commonwealth of England.source

18th century

1710John Smithwick begins brewing Smithwick's ale at Kilkenny, Ireland (St. Francis Abbey Brewery).source
1710John Smithwick begins brewing Smithwick's ale at Kilkenny.source