988 The city of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey.
1487 The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel is crowned in Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland with the name of Edward VI in a bid to threaten King Henry VII's reign.
1742 George Frideric Handel's oratorio ''Messiah'' makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland.
1882 Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed and killed during the Phoenix Park Murders in Dublin.
1899 The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin opens.
1916 Easter Rebellion: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.
1916 The leaders of the Easter Rising are executed in Dublin.
1919 Meeting of the First Dáil Éireann in the Mansion House Dublin. Sinn Féin adopts Ireland's first constitution. The first engagement of Irish War of Independence, Sologhead Beg, County Tipperary.
1920 Irish War of Independence: In Dublin, 31 people are killed in what became known as "Bloody Sunday". This included fourteen British informants, fourteen Irish civilians and three Irish Republican Army prisoners.
1922 The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.
1941 A Luftwaffe air raid in Dublin, Ireland claims 38 lives.
1949 At midnight 26 Irish counties officially leave the British Commonwealth. A 21-gun salute on O'Connell Bridge, Dublin, ushers in the Republic of Ireland.
1966 A bomb planted by young Irish protesters destroys Nelson's Pillar in Dublin.
1972 The British embassy in Dublin is destroyed in protest at Bloody Sunday.
1973 Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape. Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escape from Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, Republic of Ireland aboard a hijacked helicopter that lands in the exercise yard.
1974 Thirty-three people are killed by terrorist bombings in Dublin and Monaghan, Ireland.
1979 In Dublin, Ireland, Provisional Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten.
1981 Stardust Disaster: A fire in a Dublin nightclub kills 48 people
1996 Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin
2004 Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the European Union, celebrated at the residence of the Irish President in Dublin.