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| Date | | | | | 980 | | The power of the Danes of Dublin greatly broken by their defeat at Tarah, by Melaghlin, king of Ireland, who, the next year, ravaged Fingal with fire and sword. | | | 981 | | Melaghlin, king of Ireland, wastes Fingal with fire and sword. | | | 985 | | The Danes of Dublin ravage Derry | | | 989 | | The Danes of Dublin pay a tribute of an ounce of gold to the king of Ireland, for every capital messuage and garden in the city. ' | | | 999 | | Brien Boru ,king of Munster, takes and plunders Dublin. | | | 1014 | | Battle of Clontarf, in which Sitric, king of the Danes, was defeated, after a long and obstinate .engagement, by Brien Boru, who also was killed at the moment of victory. Murchad, Brien's son, and a number of the Irish chieftains, fell in the battle | | | 1026 | | Donagh O'Brien, king of Munster, obliges the Danes of Dublin to do him homage, and deliver hostages. | | | 1029 | | Aulaffe Sitric, king of the Danes of Dublin, taken prisoner by Matthew O'Regan, and ransomed, on payment of 200 beeves, 80 horses, 3 ounces of gold, and a sword called Charles's sword. | | | 1038 | | About this time, Christ Church, Dublin, was founded by Sitric, king of the Danes, with the aid of Donat, bishop of Dublin ; the latter of whom also built St. Michael's Chapel, which was converted into a parish church by Richard Talbot, archbishop of Dublin. | | | 1066 | | Godfred Crovan, king of Man, takes Dublin, and conquers great part of Leinster. | |
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