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Munster

province in Ireland

43 dated entries naming Munster, drawn from 38 separate years between 639 CE and 2018 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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7th century

  • 639Faílbe Flann mac Áedo Duib, king of Munster (Ireland)source

8th century

  • 742Cathal mac Finguine, king of Munster (Ireland)source

9th century

  • 804Ludger, Frisian missionary, becomes the first bishop of Münster, and builds a monastery there.source
  • 820Fedelmid mac Crimthainn assumes the kingship as ruler of Munster (modern Ireland).source
  • 820Tnúthgal mac Donngaile, king of Munstersource
  • 821Artrí mac Cathail, king of Munster (Ireland)source
  • 838King Fedelmid mac Crimthainn of Munster calls for a great royal meeting at Kildare (Cluain-Conaire-Tommain) between himself and King Niall Caille of Uí Néill.source
  • 847Fedelmid mac Crimthainn, king of Munster (Ireland)source
  • 851Ólchobar mac Cináeda, king of Munster (Ireland)source
  • 853Áilgenán mac Donngaile, king of Munster (Ireland)source
  • 859Máel Gualae, king of Munster (Ireland)source
  • 872Cenn Fáelad hua Mugthigirn, king of Munster (Ireland)source

10th century

  • 908September 13 – Battle of Belach Mugna: In an alliance with the kings Cerball mac Muirecáin of Leinster, Cathal mac Conchobair of Connacht, and Cellach mac Cerbaill of Osraige, High King Flann Sinna defeats the forces of King Cormac mac Cuilennáin of Munster near Castledermot (County Kildare).source
  • 908September 13 – Cormac mac Cuilennáin, king of Munster (Ireland)source
  • 954Cellachán Caisil, king of Munster (Ireland)source
  • 999December 30 – Battle of Glenmama: The combined forces of Munster and Meath under Brian Boru (High King of Ireland) inflict a crushing defeat on the allied armies of Leinster and Dublin near Lyons Hill (County Kildare).source

11th century

  • 1002Brian Boru, king of Leinster and Munster, becomes High King of Ireland. After the submission of Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, Brian Boru makes an expedition to the North.source

12th century

  • 1113Diarmaid Ua Longain, steward of Munstersource
  • 1141Aedh Ua Longain, steward of Munster.source
  • 1167The Barnwells arrived in Ireland with Strongbow in 1167 and had settled in Berehaven in Munster.source
  • 1182Donnell O’Huallaghan - Archbishop of Munster.source
  • 1191Roderic (Ruaidrí) O’Conor, former High King and king of Connacht, set out from Connacht seeking forces to recover his kingdom, first reaching Tirconnell and then Tyrone without success. After the Ultonians and the English of Meath declined to aid him, he went into Munster, where the Sil-Murray granted him the lands of Tir Fiachrach and Kinelea of Echtge.source

14th century

  • 133220 January – 2 May Justicier de Lucy campaigns in Munster, where he captures William and Walter de Bermingham in February (see 11 July)source
  • 134421 July – Justiciar campaigns in south Leinster and Munster.source

15th century

  • 1402Local conflicts between Gaelic chieftains and Anglo-Irish lords continued throughout the year, particularly in frontier areas bordering The Pale and in parts of Leinster and Munster.source

16th century

  • 1534February 23 – A group of Anabaptists, led by Jan Matthys, seize Münster, Westphalia and declare it The New Jerusalem, begin to exile dissenters, and forcibly baptize all others.source
  • 1534April 5 (Easter Sunday) – Anabaptist Jan Matthys is killed by the Landsknechte, who laid siege to Münster on the day he predicted as the Second Coming of Christ. His follower John of Leiden takes control of the city.source
  • 1535June 24 – Münster Rebellion: The Anabaptist state of Münster is conquered and disbanded.source
  • 1536January 22 – John of Leiden, Bernhard Knipperdolling and Bernhard Krechting are executed in Münster for their roles in the Münster Rebellion.source
  • 154215 February – 7/10 March: the Parliament of Ireland meets in Limerick and re-enacts the Crown of Ireland Act, declaring King Henry VIII of England and his heirs to be Kings of Ireland, for the benefit of Munster and Connacht.source
  • 1574September 2 – Desmond submits to William FitzWilliam (Lord Deputy) at Cork following a month's campaign in Munster during which his castle at Derinlaur has been taken.source
  • 1582April – after three years of scorched earth warfare, the provost marshal of Munster, Sir Warham St Leger, estimates that 30,000 people died of famine in his province during the previous six months and hundreds are dying in Cork.source
  • 1584July – English government commissions a survey of Munster, following the Desmond Rebellions. Sir Valentine Browne is appointed to the task. It becomes known as the Peyton Survey after Sir Christopher Peytonsource
  • 1599May 29 – Nine Years' War: Essex captures Cahir Castle in Munster.source
  • 1600January – Nine Years' War against England is renewed by Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, with an invasion of Munster.source
  • 1600January 20 – Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, renews the Nine Years' War (Ireland) against England with an invasion of Munster.source
  • 160018 February – Nine Years' War: Rebel cavalry in Munster led by Hugh Maguire (Lord of Fermanagh) are intercepted and their leaders killed.source

17th century

  • 1634Landowner Sir Vincent Gookin publishes and circulates in Munster (under the form of a letter addressed to the Lord Deputy of Ireland, Thomas Wentworth) a bitter attack on everyone in Ireland and is forced to return in haste to England to escape prosecution.source
  • 1672September 26 – General Raimondo Montecuccoli, commander of the army of the Holy Roman Empire, joins forces with the Brandenburg troops commanded by Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg and the two groups assemble at Halberstadt, to attack the French and the bishops of Münster and Cologne.source
  • 1675September 15 – The Bremen-Verden Campaign of the Northern Wars begins, with the invasion of Amt Wildeshausen by the Münster army, and their advance on Verden via the city of Bremen.source

18th century

  • 17551 November – the Spanish Arch in Galway is partially destroyed by a tsunami generated by the Lisbon earthquake which is felt across Munster.source
  • 1780April 16 – The University of Münster in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded.source

21st century

  • 2018April 7 – 2018 Münster attack: In a suicide attack, a man drives a van into people seated outside restaurants in a pedestrianised square in the old part of the German city of Münster, resulting in 5 other deaths.source

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