| Date | | | |
| 1676 | | Essex-bridge, so called after the lord lieutenant, began to be built. | |
| 1678 | | All Roman Catholic ecclesiastics ordered to quit the kingdom, and all persons of that religion forbidden to enter Dublin Castle. A letter found in the street, stating a conspiracy against the Duke of Ormond, lord lieutenant. St. Stephen's-green improved. | |
| 1678 | | Peter Talbot, Roman Catholic archbishop of Dublin, imprisoned in Dublin Castle, on the arrival of the news of the discovery of the popish plot in Dublin. | |
| 1679 | | Proclamation to imprison the relations of Tories until the principals be lolled or apprehended; also for apprehending the parish priest where a robbery was committed. The Royal College of Physicians founded. | |
| 1680 | | Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, for decayed and disabled soldiers, commenced to be built on the site of the dissolved Priory of Kilmainham. | |
| 1681 | | Oliver Plunkett, Roman Catholic archbishop of Dublin, hanged at Tyburn on a charge of treason. | |
| 1682 | | Ormond-market opened. Population of the city, according to Sir William Petty, 60,000. | |
| 1684 | | James II. proclaimed in Dublin. Part of the Castle burnt. Ormond-bridge and Arran-bridge built. Royal Hospital opened. St. Bridget's Church built. | |
| 1686 | | The city charter renewed by James II. under a quo warranto. A meeting-house erected in Meath-street by the Society of Friends. | |
| 1687 | | An inundation of the Liffey, by which the low parts of the city were laid under water, and part of Essex bridge broken down. | |