DeDanaan

Filed by Aine MacDermot

51 Romans push into Cornwall and Wales. Caratacus, a Welsh leader, is captured.

59 Queen Boudicca of the Iceni led a revolt against the Romans in Wales. She is described by a Greek writer, Diocassius who wrote she “was of huge frame and terrifying aspect with a harsh voice. A great mass of bright red hair fell to her knees”.

75 Aithech Tuatha, Carbri ruled Ireland.

Weaker kings followed Conor MacNessa, the Firbolgs were in the streets, in what was called the Aithech Tuatha (revolt of the rent-paying people). The Firbolg grew more bold. they organized and were led by Carbri Cinn Cait, a man said to have a head shaped like a cat’s. Carbri offered the Milesians a peace, and to celebrate, he arranged a great banquet at Magh Croin in Galway. All the Milesian leaders were invited to attend. The Milesians wanted to end the strife in Ireland and a return to civility, so they attended this Firbolg feast.

After all were seated and the main meal begun, the Milesian were slaughtered where they sat. Carbri the Firbolg was Ard Rígh (high king) of Ireland, the 101st. He ruled brutally for five years. When he died his son, Morann, refused the crown saying it should be returned to the more genteel Milesians. This was done and Morann became a noted Brehon, a lawgiver of Ireland. He became the Chief Justice of Ireland and was noted for his judgments. He was also noted for being the first person in Ireland to believe in a single, all-knowing, all-powerful god.

78 The Roman General Agricola succeeds in subjecting North Wales. He then goes to Scotland to fight the Celtic tribes there. In his reports he identifies 17 separate tribes. Agricola builds a series of forts separating the highlands from the lowlands.

81 Agricola considers invading Ireland, he decided against it.

84 The Battle of Mons Graupius, Scotland where Agricola defeated the Celts under Calgácus.

100 Feradach is High King in Ireland.

120 Emperor Hadrian of Rome orders a wall to be built connecting the forts of Agricola separating the Scottish Lowlands from the Highlands. The wall is known as Hadrian’s Wall.

160 Another wall is built further north of Hadrian’s Wall in Scotland by Roman General Antoninus.

200 Kingdom of Meath founded in Ireland by Conn. He later was the High King of Ireland. The name of the province Connacht often anglicized to Connaught, gets its name from him. During his reign there was an organization formed called the Fianna made up of soldiers and police.

208 Invasion of the Scottish Highlands by the Roman General Severus.

260 Germanic tribes push remaining Celts from the Rhine toward the Atlantic.

275 Cormac, grandson of Conn, is High King of Ireland. He founds Tara as the Capital of Ancient Ireland. He brought the windmill to Ireland. He ruled for 40 years. He made Scotland a part of his kingdom.

About this time there was in the Roman Army an Irishman by the Latin name of Carausius. He was appointed by Emperor Diocletian as the Commander in Gaul. On the Rhine there was a Roman unit, a predecessor of Irish units in foreign armies called the Primi Scotti. With this group as his nucleus, Carausius left the Roman service with elements of the army he commanded in Gaul, and set himself up to rule England, as the King of the Britons. For seven years Britain was ruled by this Irish King.

300 Irish raids begin against Roman Britain.

360 Gallic monastery in Tours founded by Saint Martin.

367 Saxons, Frank, Jutes, Attacotti (from the Western Islands; Orkneys and Hebrides) and Picts pushed the Celts from the continent to Britain and Ireland.

Picts raid Britain from Scotland.

St. Ninian teaches Christianity from Whithorn, Galloway, Scotland.

377 Niall of the Nine Hostages is High King in Ireland.

400 Patrick is captured in Wales, or western Britain, and brought to what is now County Mayo, Ireland and made a slave.

Celestius, an religious Irish lawyer and zealot living in Rome fostered first the Pelagian and then the Nestorian controversies in the Catholic Church.

Saxons, Angles, Jutes, and Franks raid Britain from the continent.

Romans begin a withdrawal from Britain.

Increased migrations into Scotland and Wales from Ireland.

Cunedda led the Votadini to North Wales.

406 Visigoths, Vandals, Lugi, and Ostrogoths push across the Rhine into Gaul and Spain; Burgundians and Visagoths moved into Alsace.

409 Armorica rebels against the Romans.

410 Romans formally announce their withdrawal from Britain.

428 Patrick, using the shamrock, explains to King Laoghaire at Tara the Blessed Trinity.

450 Patrick founded a Cathedral in Dublin (Saint Patrick’s).

The beginning of political activity in Wales which led to the formation of the kingdoms of Gnynedd in the northwest, Powis in the northeast, Dehenbarth in the southwest, and Morgann and Gwent in the southeast. The kingdoms were firmly in place by 600.

The spread of Irish monasticism into Wales.

End of the La Tene era in Ireland.

The capital of the kings of Ulster is destroyed. The Uí Neill and the Eoganachta divide Ireland north and south between them.

461 Saint Patrick died at Saul, County Down, Ireland.

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