| Date | | | |
| 1552 | | Contest for military precedence between the mayors of Dublin and Drogheda, during an expedition against O'Reilly, when it was decided that the former, by right, should command the van going out, and the rere returning. A great scarcity; the peck of wheat, about four bushels English, sold for 24s., but the harvest proving plentiful, it fell to 5s. The testoon, or groat of mint money, ordered by proclamation to pass for 2s. | |
| 1553 | | The militia of Dublin took part in an expedition to Dundalk, against O'Neill. The service of the mass restored in Dublin by order of Queen Mary. | |
| 1554 | | Several English Protestants who fled from England to avoid persecution, settled in Dublin. | |
| 1555 | | The plot of ground that contains the head of water which supplies the city was enclosed with stone and lime at the expense of the citizens. | |
| 1556 | | The Cavenaghs, who were plundering the southern part of the county of Dublin, defeated by the citizens hemmed into Powercourt Castle, mid forced to surrender. Seventy-four of them hanged in Dublin, the rest pardoned. Cannons and muskets imported by John Chalonor, mayor, at his own expense, for the use of the city. Queen Elizabeth proclaimed in Dublin. | |
| 1557 | | St. Paul's Church much damaged by fire. | |
| 1558 | | Rathlin Island taken by Lord Deputy Sussex, with the assistance of the citizens of Dublin. | |
| 1559 | | A parliament held in Christ Church. English Bible placed in Christ Church and St, Patrick's. | |
| 1560 | | Dublin Castle repaired and fitted up as a residence for the chief governor of Ireland; at which time a clock was set up there, and others at the Tholsel and St.Patrick's. | |
| 1561 | | The Earl of Sussex, accompanied by a band of citizens, marches against Shane O'Neill, who submits without any great action being performed on either side. | |