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Waterford

city in Ireland

23 dated entries naming Waterford, drawn from 21 separate years between 914 CE and 1923 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.

Also written as Port Láirge, Waterford (city), Waterford City in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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10th century

  • 914Viking raiders establish a settlement near Waterford (Ireland) led by Ottir (the Black). The Dublin Vikings are forced to pay tribute to the Irish kings of Meath and Leinster as the price to keeping their independence.source

12th century

  • 1140A battle was fought by the foreigners of Ath-cliath, over the foreigners of Port-Lairge, in which the son of Mac Tormair was slain.source
  • 1167August – Diarmait Mac Murchada, exiled King of Leinster, returns from Wales with a force of Flemings under Richard fitz Godbert de Roche of Rhos (the first Anglo-Norman knight to land in Ireland) and retakes control of the Uí Ceinnselaig, presaging the Norman invasion of Ireland, but fails to take Waterford.source
  • 11691 May – Norman invasion of Ireland starts with the arrival at Bannow Bay in Leinster of Norman military leaders Robert Fitz-Stephen, Maurice FitzGerald and others including Cambro-Norman knight (and vassal of Henry II of England) Richard de Clare ("Strongbow") who has made an alliance with exiled Irish chief Diarmait Mac Murchada to help him regain the throne of Leinster. Wexford, Waterford, Dublin and the Kingdom of Ossory are taken and Mac Murchada restored as King of Leinster.source
  • 1171October 17 – Henry II invades Ireland and lands with a large army of at least 500 mounted knights, and 4,000 men and archers at Waterford. Henry commandeers merchant ships as part of his invasion. He claims the ports of Dublin, Waterford, and Wexford, and promises the Irish chieftains protection if they will acknowledge him as their overlord. Henry is recognized as "Lord of Ireland", traders are invited to Dublin where an English colony is set up.source
  • 1174October – Battle of Thurles: Gaelic-Irish forces under King Domnall Mór Ua Briain defeat an Anglo-Norman invasion at Thurles in Ireland. The English expedition led by Earl Richard de Clare (Strongbow) is surprised while encamped in the area of Lognafola and is forced to retreat to Waterford.source
  • 118525 April–December – John's first expedition to Ireland: King Henry II of England knights his son and heir, the 18-year-old Prince John, newly created Lord of Ireland, and sends him to Ireland, accompanied by 300 knights and a team of administrators to enforce English overlordship. Landing at Waterford, he treats the local Irish rulers with contempt, making fun of their unfashionable long beards. Also failing to make allies amongst the Anglo-Norman settlers, the English army is unable to subdue the Irish fighters in unfamiliar conditions and the expedition soon becomes a complete disaster, returning to England in defeat. Nonetheless, Henry gets John named 'King of Ireland' by Pope Urban III and procures a golden crown with peacock feathers. The expedition is accompanied and chronicled by Gerald of Wales.source

13th century

  • 1204Fairs Act enacted by John, King of England provides for the erection of a castle and fortifications at Dublin and the establishment of fairs at Donnybrook (near Dublin), Waterford and Limerick. It will be the oldest statute in force on the Irish statute book as of 2007.source

14th century

  • 133220 September Prisage of wine at ports of Dublin, Drogheda, Limerick and Waterford granted to the Earl of Ormondsource
  • 1367Attack on the city of Waterford, killing over one hundred people, by the Poers, an English family.source

15th century

  • 1495July 23 – After failing at the Battle of Deal, Perkin Warbeck and his troops land with 11 ships at the Ireland port of Waterford to gain a foothold in his attempt to invade England. Warbeck is joined by an Irish noble, Maurice FitzGerald, Earl of Desmond, and begins an 11-day siege. The defenders of Waterford protect the walled city by damming the St. John's River to flood the marshes around Warbeck's soldiers, and fire the fortresses cannons at Warbeck's ships.source

16th century

  • 1536St John's Priory Hospital, Waterford (granted to William Wise, November).source

17th century

  • 1605Refugee French Huguenot merchants begin to settle in Dublin and Waterford.source
  • 161823 January – Charter of Waterford revoked after election of recusants (restored 1626).source
  • 1626Charter of Waterford (revoked in 1618) is restored.source

18th century

  • 1783October 3 – The first Waterford Crystal glassmaking business begins production in Waterford, Ireland.source
  • 17833 October – first Waterford Crystal glassmaking business begins production in Waterford.source
  • 1793Construction commences on the first bridge across the River Suir at Waterford, built by the American Lemuel Cox in wood.source

19th century

  • 1802First Christian Brothers' school founded by Edmund Rice in Waterford.source
  • 1802May – Amelia, commanded by William Proby, Lord Proby sails to Cork, Waterford and Dublin to land 150 discharged seaman.source
  • 18206 May – failure of Newport's Bank in Waterford.source
  • 188220 October – The Victory, a Bideford schooner carrying coal from Cardiff to Waterford, sinks near Ballyteique with the loss of all crew.source

20th century

  • 192322 August – Fires at the Waterford offices of the Waterford News and Sinn Féin.source

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