Aug: Battle of Bellahoe. Leonard Grey, Lord Deputy, defeats Con Bacagh O’Neill and Manus
O’Donnell

28 Dec: O’Neill submits to Sir Anthony St. Leger, Lord Deputy

10 Jan: Con O’Neill made Earl of Tyrone in Greenwich

Elizabeth ascends to the throne

14 May: Calvagh O’Donnell is captured by Shane O’Neill

17 July: Con O’Neill dies

18 July: Shane O’Neill defeats an English contingent in the Battle of the Red Sagums

6 Jan: O’Neill submits to Queen Elizabeth, but within a few months is under arms once more. Brian,
Lord Dungannon, illegitimate son of Con, Shane’s ½ brother is killed by Turlough Luineach O’Neill.

11 Sept: O’Neill again submits

Feb: Battle of Affane, a family dispute in which Thomas Butler, Earl of Ormond captures Gerald
Fitzgerald, Earl of Desmond.

May: Shane O’Neill, having invaded Antrim, defeats the MacDonalds at the Battle of Glenshesk
capturing most of their leaders

17 Sept -12 Nov: Sir Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy, campaigns against O’Neill in Ulster, restores
Calvagh O’Donnell to his lands and establishes a short-lived garrison at Derry.

8 May: O’Neill is decisively beaten at the Battle of Farsetmore by Hugh O’Donnell, losing 1,300 men.
He escapes to seek help from the MacDonalds, who murder him (2 June)

Sept: Turlough Luineach O’Neill in revolt until June 1575, when he is defeated by Walter Devereux,
Earl of Essex

26 July: The infamous massacre of Scots on Rathlin Island by English troops

Dec: Rory Oge O’Moore submits but is again in revolt early the next year.

17 July: James Fitzmaurice, in exile since 1575, lands at Smerwick with a small force. He is killed soon
after in an insignificant skirmish.

Sept: Battle of Springfield. John of Desmond routs Sir William Drury, Lord Justice of Ireland.

3 Oct: Battle of Monasternenagh. Sir Nicholas Malby, commander in Munster, defeats John of
Desmond. John’s brother Gerald Fitzgerald, Earl of Desmond, is effectively in rebellion from about this
time (The Desmond Rebellion 1579-83)

July: Rebellion in Leinster led by James Eustace, Viscount Baltinglas, and Feagh MacHugh O’Byrne

25 Aug: O’Byrne defeats Arthur Lord Grey, Lord Deputy, at the Battle of Glenmalure.

12-13 Sept: 700 papal-sponsored Italian and Spanish troops land at Smerwick. Swiftly besieged, they
surrender and are massacred (11 Nov)

Hugh O’Neill recognized by Dublin Parliament as Earl of Tyrone.

22 Sept: A body of New Scots is surprised in camp by Sir Richard Bingham, Governor of Connaught,
and heavily defeated at the Battle of Ardanree, 1,400 being killed. Sorley Boy receives patent for the
Antrim Glenns and the Route.

Sept: At least 17 ships of the Spanish Armada are wrecked on the coast of Ireland. Most of their
complements who fall into English hands are executed. Numerous survivors join the Irish.

10 Oct: Battle of Erne Fords. Hugh Maguire is defeated by Sir Henry Bagnall.

2 Feb: English capture Maguire’s castle of Enniskillen.

7 Aug: An English supply column en route to Enniskillen (besieged by the Irish since June) is defeated by
Maguire and Cormac O’Neill at the Arney Ford, renamed the Ford of the Biscuits after the supplies
scattered about in consequence of the battle.

16 Feb: Irish under Art MacBaron capture the Blackwater Fort.

May: Maguire and Cormac O’Neill recover Enniskillen Castle.

27 May: Sir Henry Bagnall, returning from revictualing Newry, is attacked and defeated in a running
fight at Clontibret by Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone. (Tyrone’s Rebellion 1595-1603)

17 July: Thomas Lord Burgh, Lord Deputy, storms  the Blackwater Fort. An attempt by Tyrone to
retake it is repulsed with loss (2 Oct)

2 Aug: Sir Conyers Clifford narrowly escapes Hugh O’Donnell’s forces in a running battle after being
repulsed from Ballyshannon Castle.

14 Aug: Sir Henry Bagnall, en route to revitual the Blackwater Fort, is killed when his army is smashed
by Tyrone and O’Donnell at the Yellow Ford. The English army appears to have lost not less than
1,800 men, probably many more-nearly half its strength.

Apr: Lord Lieutenant Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, arrives in Ireland. At his disposal are some
16,000 troops, the largest English army yet fielded in Ireland.

1 Mar: Hugh Maguire is killed in a cavalry skirmish. 

15 May: Sir Henry Docwra establishes a garrison at Derry.

20 Sept-13 Oct: A series of actions is fought in the Moyry Pass between Tyrone and the Lord Deputy
Henry Blount, Lord Mountjoy, who prevails.

21 Sept: A Spanish expeditionary force of 3,800 infantry, under Don Juan del Aguila lands at Kinsale.

26 Oct: Mountjoy lay siege to Kinsale.

24 Dec: Mountjoy defeats Tyrone and O’Donnell as they attempt to relieve Kinsale, inflicting 2,000
casualties. O’Donnell flees to Spain three days later, where he dies soon after.

2 Jan: Kinsale Capitulates. Its Spanish defenders are allowed to depart with their colours and guns.

Feb- Dec: Sir George Carew campaigns in Munster, storming Dunboy Castle on 17-18 June.

June- Sept: Mountjoy campaigns in Ulster.

Dec: O’Donnell’s brother Rory submits.

30 Mar: Tyrone submits, six days after Queen Elizabeth’s death has brought the Tudor dynasty to an
end.