| TIMELINES RELATING TO FAMILY HISTORY | Updated June 25, 2003 |
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| Date | Notable Persons & Events relating to our Family History | |
| 1811 | - Prince of Wales appointed Regent due to George III's insanity. -Birth of Francis MCCONNELL -27 April, birth of Mary Jane DILL -Birth of Wellington GILMORE -24 June, birth of Sarah JACKSON |
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| 1812 | -Birth of George Birch McCONNELL - June 28. Death of Elizabeth BIRCH |
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| 1813 | - First recorded "12th of July" sectarian riots take place
in Belfast -Birth of Rachel GILMORE |
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| 1814 | -Birth of Isobella DILL -Birth of John MCCONNELL - January 16 death of George BIRCH -4 February, birth of David JACKSON (father of Sir Thomas Jackson) |
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| 1815 | - British under Wellington defeated French under Napoleon
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| 1816 | -Birth of Sarah MCCULLAGH -Birth of Hugh MCCONNELL |
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| 1817 | - Typhus plague ( 50,000 deaths by end of 1819) -Birth of John Marcus DILL -Birth of Robert Gordon DILL - death of John JACKSON |
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| 1818 | - death of William DILL - February 27, death of Samuel BRADFORD |
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| 1819 | - death of Elinor
BIRCH - May 28 death of Jane WATSON 23 July, birth of Caroline GILMORE |
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| 1820 | - George III dies, George IV accedes to the throne. -Birth of Francis John DILL - death of Thomas Ledlie BIRCH - October 1, death of Allan MARTIN - October 10, death of James Jackson BIRCH |
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| 1822 | - Percy Bysshe Shelley dies -Birth of Richard DILL - January 29, death of Wellington GILMORE - December 31, death of Alexander GILMORE |
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| 1823 | - October 3, death of James Birch BLACK -Birth of Elizabeth DILL -Birth of Augusta WALE |
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| 1824 | - death of Phocian DARE -22 January, birth of Mary Jane MCCULLAGH - October 19, death of Ellen GILMORE - There are 9,000 hedge schools in Ireland |
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| 1825 | - Thomas D'Arcy McGee born in Carlingford, Co. Louth (Canadian politician) - February 5th, death of Caroline GILMORE - February 24th, death of Francis MCCONNELL - July 12th, death of Elizabeth BRADFORD - August 20, death of Robert Johnston BIRCH |
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| 1826 | -Birth of Mary DILL - November 17, death of Rachel GILMORE |
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| 1827 | - poet William Blake died -Birth of Esther MCCULLAGH (approx) - October 28, death of George BIRCH |
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| 1828 | - Anti Catholic "Brunswick Clubs" are founded - February 29, death of Sarah JACKSON - April 12, death of Thomas Ledlie BIRCH |
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| 1829 | - Andrew Jackson becomes USA 7th President -Birth of Thomas Murdock MCCULLAGH (aprox) -6 July, birth of William REID |
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| 1830 | - George IV dies, William IV accedes to the throne. - over 40% of the British Army is Irish - death of Rebecca NEWELL - September 18, death of George Watson BIRCH |
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| 1831 | - August 14, death of Rachel BIRCH - September 17, death of Marcus DILL |
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| 1832 | - 1832-34 First Irish railway is constructed (Dublin - Kingstown). - Parliamentary Reform Act increases electorate to 1.2% of population |
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| 1833 | - death of Marcus DILL -Birth of Jane DILL -Birth of George Talbot BIRCH |
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| 1834 | - Timothy Eaton born near Ballymena, Co. Antrim. (Eatons store in Canada) -Birth of Francis Hamilton MOORE - July 29, death of Eliezer Birch GILMORE - November 27, death of Sarah MARTIN |
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| 1835 | -Birth of Rev. Hugh EDGAR of Aghauville -9 June, birth of James MCCULLAGH |
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| 1836 | - January 28, death of John BIRCH - July 1, death of Arabella MARTIN - November 25th, death of Isabella LEDLIE -Birth of John Marcus MOORE |
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| 1837 | - William IV dies & Victoria accedes to the throne -Birth of Thompson BROWN - June 18, death of James BIRCH - July 8, death of George Birch Oceanus HILL -Birth of Edward Hume BIRCH - December 12, death of Adam BIRCH |
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| 1838 | -The Sirius - first steam power only crossing of Atlantic, Queenstown
- New York -Death of Catherine DILL -Death of Randal William McDonel JOHNSTON -Birth of Elizabeth MOORE |
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| 1839 | -Birth of John JACKSON (older brother of
Sir Thomas JACKSON) -Death of Robert Gordon DILL -21 April, birth of Robert MOOREHEAD |
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| 1840 | -Birth of John COULTER -Birth of George Mildmay DARE -2 April, birth of Isobella Dill MOORE |
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| 1841 | -Ireland's first commercial photography studio opens in Dublin -4 June, birth of Sir Thomas JACKSON -Birth of John Julius DARE -Birth of William R. BROWNE -Death of Mary DILL |
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| 1842 | - 2nd railway line connecting Belfast, Lisburn & Portadown is opened. - Abstinence crusade at its peak - 3,000,000 pledged adherents (out of 8,000,000 population). |
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| 1843 | - Thackeray publishes "The Irish Sketch Book". -29 January, birth of Elizabeth JACKSON (sister of Sir Thomas JACKSON) -Birth of Hugh William MOORE -19 July, birth of John Jackson BROWNE - November 29, death of John Marcus DILL |
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| 1844 | - Thackeray publishes "The Luck of Barry Lyndon" -23 November, birth of Mary JACKSON (sister of Sir Thomas JACKSON) |
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| 1845 | - death of Caroline JULIUS -Birth of Eliezer GILMORE |
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| 1846 | - 3/4 of potato harvest fails & first deaths from starvation reported. - death of Marcus John MOORE -October 9, death of Margaret HENRY -8 April, birth of Andrew Coulter Bradford JACKSON -1 August, birth of Eliza Emily GILMORE (see letters which she wrote) |
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| 1847 | -Bram Stoker born in Dublin -Birth of Susannah M. EDGAR - March 27, death of Hamilton BIRCH - May 10, death of Andrew Coulter BRADFORD -Birth of John MCCULLAGH (approx) |
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| 1848 | - January 29, death of Francis DILL -1 April, birth of Sarah JACKSON (sister of Sir Thomas JACKSON) |
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| 1849 | - 20 Catholics killed by soldiers during Orange Parade, near Castlewellan,
Co. Down - Queens Colleges open at Belfast, Cork & Galway. -28 July, birth of Daniel Francis BROWNE |
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| 1850 | - Party Processions Act bans provocative sectarian meetings & parades. - death of Isabella Anna Jane BIRCH - death of Hugh William MOORE - February 12, death Allan MARTIN |
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| 1851 | - January 12, death of Mary Jane DILL | |
| 1852 | - Britain & Ireland linked by submarine telegraph cable. -15 October, birth of Sarah MCCULLAGH (married WHITESIDE) -3 April, birth of Margaret JACKSON (sister of Sir Thomas JACKSON) |
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| 1853 | - Income Tax is extended to Ireland. - death of John MOORE - October 16, death of Francis DILL |
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| 1854 | - Oscar Wilde born in Dublin - death of Richard DILL - March, death of Allan MARTIN - October 28, death of George Birch MCCONNELL -23 November, birth of Thomas MCCULLAGH |
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| 1855 | -16 November, birth of David JACKSON (HSBC & Order of the Rising Son) | |
| 1856 | - death of George Julius DARE | |
| 1857 | - 10 days of riots spaked in Belfast by "12th of July" speech
to Orangemen by Thomas Drew. - August 13, death of Sarah MCCULLAGH |
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| 1858 | -Birth of George William JACKSON |
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| 1859 | -15 August, death of James BIRCH -14 November, death of Richard DILL -28 November death of George William JACKSON |
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| 1860 | -10 February, death of Ann BIRCH -1 September, birth of William Sherlock WHITESIDE |
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| 1861 | -American Civil War begins. 150,000 Irish serve with Union & 40,000 with Confederacy | |
| 1862 | -12 April, death of William R. BROWNE -7 September, birth of Thomas BARTLEY |
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| 1863 | -24% of recruits to Indian Civil Service are Irish. -death of Thomas Murdock MCCULLAGH (approx) -19 January, death of Isobella HAMILTON -13 October,death of Elizabeth BIRCH |
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| 1864 | -two weeks of rioting in Belfast. - Compulsory marriage registry begun, 61% of grooms & 49% of brides can sign their name. -Birth of Dora Elizabeth ELLIOT -death of WIlliam Denny BIRCH |
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| 1865 | -William Butler Yeats born in Dublin | |
| 1866 | -Fenians conduct brief raid on Quebec under name IRA (1st use of acronym) - submarine cable between Valentia Island, Co. Kerry to Newfoundland. -Birth of George Birch MCCONNELL - Birth of William REID |
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| 1867 | -Irish largest anglophone ethnic group in Canada - Confederation of Canada -Birth of Robert Dill MOORHEAD -February, death of Daniel Francis BROWNE |
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| 1868 | -Gladstone becomes British Prime Minister. - Thomas D'Arcy McGee assassinated in Ottawa after condemning Fenianism -Birth of Mary Towers MCCONNELL -Birth of Mary Josephine MOORHEAD -21 August, birth of Thompson BROWN -28 December, birth of Margaret Louisa WRIGHT (wife of David JACKSON of HSBC) -Death of Mary Anna HODGE |
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| 1870 | -The Irish National Foresters secedes from (British) Ancient Order of
Foresters. -last Fenian raids on Canada (led by Col. John O’Neill from Vermont). -Belfast Telegraph founded to further interests of the Orange Order. -End of Red River Rebellion, Manitoba becomes a Canadian Province. -Franco-Prussian War, France declares war on Prussia, Napoleon III capitulates at Sedan. -Charles Dickens died. -Tchaikovsky premier of Romeo and Juliet in Moscow. -John D. Rockefeller founds Standard Oil Co. 2 November, birth of Elizabeth BROWN |
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| 1871 | 16% of the adult male Irish population entitled to vote (34% in England). -British Columbia joins Dominion of Canada -William I, King of Prussia, proclaimed German Emperor at Versailles. -Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll published. -Middlemarch by George Eliot published. -The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin published. -Verdi’s Aïda performed in Cairo. -Pneumatic rock drill invented. -P.T. Barnum opens his circus The Greatest Show on Earth. -S.S. Oceanic, White Star Line launched first of the large modern luxury liners. -Death of John DILL |
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| 1872 | -Sectarian rioting Aug 15-20 in Belfast. -Ballot Act in Britain, voting by secret ballot. -Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne. -Jesuits expelled from Germany. -Bertrand Russell born. -Edison perfects the duplex telegraph. -William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) invents machine for ships to take accurate soundings -16 March, birth of John Marcus MOORHEAD -5 November, birth of Mary MENARY -Death of John COULTER -14 July, death of Francis MCCONNELL |
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| 1873 | -Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 2 performed in Moscow. -Colour photographs first developed. -Gunsmith firm, E. Remington & Sons produce first typewriters. -Home Rule Confederation of Great Britain is founded in Manchester. -Home rule League is founded in Dublin.1873 Autobiography by John Stuart Mill. He died later in the year. -Anna Karenina by Tolstoy -Cézanne The Straw Hat. -Bruckner Symphony no. 2 performed in Vienna. -Rimsky-Korsakov Ivan the Terrible performed in Moscow |
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| 1874 | -Home Rulers are returned in a February general election. Gladstone
(British PM) resigns. -Home Rule vote in British Parliament rejected 458 to 61.1874 Winston Churchill born. -Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy. -First Impressionist exhibition in Paris - name from Monet’s Impression: Sunrise. -Renoir La Loge. -Brahms, Hungarian Dances. -Birth of Arnold Schönberg. -Johann Strauss II Die Fledermaus operetta performed in Vienna. -pressure cooking methods for canning foods introduced in US. -Birth of Somerset Maugham in Paris of Irish ancestry -Birth of Gugliemo Marconi in Bologna (Irish & Italian ancestry) -27 May, birth of Amy Oliver JACKSON (second child of Sir Thomas JACKSON) -6 June, birth of Acheson George Henry GILMORE -17 August, death of Margaret BRADFORD -6 September, death of Mary Towers MCCONNELL -7 September, death of Edith Bradford JACKSON |
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| 1875 | -10,000 horse-operated threshing machines in Ireland. -The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. -Bizet’s Carmen performed in Paris. He died later in the year. -Trial by Jury the first Gilbert & Sullivan operetta performed. -Tchaikovsky Concerto No. 1, Op. 23 performed in Boston. -London’s main sewage system is completed. -Birth of James USSHER -Birth of James WRIGHT -Death of Mary Jane OLIVER (approx) |
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| 1876 | -Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone -29 January, birth of Mary Jane GILMORE 14 June, Thomas Dare JACKSON (Son of Sir Thomas JACKSON & Amelia Lydia DARE) -Birth of Eva Oliver REED -January, death of John Jackson BROWNE -29 February, death of Sarah MURDOCK |
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| 1877 | -Parnell elected Pres. Of Home Rule Confederation of
Great Britain. -College of Physicians licences its first female practitioner. -Buenos Aires has an Irish population of 25,000. -Queen Victoria proclaimed Empress of India. -The Pillars of Society by Ibsen. -The Blue Cross founded to fight alcoholism. -Rodin The Age of Bronze sculpture. -Brahms Symphony No. 2 Op 75 -Edison invents the phonograph -First public telephones (USA) 8 March 1877 James Birch GILMORE -17 March, death of Thomas MCCULLAGH -26 May, death of John COULTER -23 July, birth of George BROWN -17 August, birth of Jeannie Coulter JACKSON -7 December, birth of Charles Andrews MOORHEAD |
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| 1878 | -19 May, birth of Maud Elizabeth REED -11 December, death John WILLIAMS |
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| 1879 | -10,000 attend land agitation meeting at Irishtown, Co. Mayo. -Irish National Land League founded in Dublin. Parnell is first President. -Both Stalin & Trotsky are born. -Ibsen A Doll’s House -Daisy Miller Henry James. -The Red Room Strindberg. -First electric tram exhibited by E.W. Siemens at Berlin Trade Exhibition. -Albert Einstein born. - London’s first telephone exchange established. -19 June birth of Thomas Jackson BROWN (my grandfather) -5 May, birth of Thomas Dare JACKSON -21 October, birth of Francis Gordon JACKSON (grandfather of Ian JACKSON) --Birth of Marion Elizabeth ARCOLL -Death of John Julius DARE (brother-in-law of Sir Thomas JACKSON) -Death of Sarah Strieve DARE (mother of John Julius DARE-both died of cholera) 22 February, Mary Jane MCCONNELL |
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| 1880 | -Parnell elected in General Election, Chairman of Irish
Parliamentary Party. -Lord Erne’s crops are harvested by 50 Cavan Orangemen protected by 1,000 policemen. -Trial of Parnell & others for conspiracy begins. -Dublin Mean Time is introduced, 25 minutes behind Greenwich Mean Time. -First commercial electricity in Ireland generated by Dublin Electric Light Company. -Telephone exchanges open in Dublin & Belfast. -The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky. -Uncle Remus J.C. Harris. -Helen Keller born. -Rodin The Thinker -Canned fruits and meats first appear in stores. -Parcel Post introduced in England. -Birth of Margaret Hamilton REED -Death of Elizabeth MCCULLAGH -Death of Francis Hamilton MOORE 17 November, death of Joseph BARKLEY 7 December, death of James MCCULLAGH |
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| 1881 | -2nd Gladstone Land Act & sets up Land Commission (fair rent, fixed
tenure & free sale). -Parnell arrested for attacking Land Act. Agrarian violence increases. -9 April, birth of Andrew Hugh Gilmore JACKSON -25 May, birth of Thomas Jackson REID -10 July, birth of Jane Edgar BROWNE (my grandmother) 16 September, death of Robert Hamilton REED -14 October, birth of Margaret Anna REID |
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| 1882 | -Two politicians assassinated by “The Invincibles” (extremist
society) in Dublin. -James Joyce born in Dublin -Birth of Frances Olive BROWN (approx) |
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| 1883 | World’s first hydro-electric tramway, from Portrush to the Giant’s
Causeway. -4 June George Julius JACKSON (fifth child of Sir Thomas JACKSON & Amelia Lydia DARE) -3 October 1883, birth of Elizabeth Oliver GILMORE |
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| 1884 | -Dublin-Belfast trunk telephone routes are installed. -Franchise extended to most male householders. Rural electorate increases greatly. -Gerard Manley Hopkins appointed to Chair of Greek at University College, Dublin |
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| 1885 | - Redistribution of Seats Act enacted. Electorate triples in size
(from 226,000 to 738,000). |
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| 1886 | -Irish hierarchy formally endorses Home Rule. -Gladstone (now supporting Home Rule) introduces bill, defeated 341-311 -A summer of serious rioting in Belfast. -Gladstone defeated as PM. Salisbury takes over again. -Guinness incorporated as a public company -Stock exchange established in Cork. 21 July, death of John JACKSON |
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| 1887 | -Birth of Sarah Margaret BROWN (approx) 21 July, death of Edward Hume BIRCH, age 50 |
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| 1888 | -Cecil Rhodes (South African statesman) sends £10,000
to Parnell to support Home Rule. -80 die & 400 injured in crash of two trains between Armagh & Warrenpoint. -World’s first pneumatic tyre factory opens in Dublin. -William Morris The Decorative Arts. -Gilbert & Sullivan H.M.S. Pinafore -First bicycles manufactured in US -German engineer builds first motorized tricycle (top speed 7 mph). -Electric street lighting introduced in London. -Birth of Thomas Jackson GILMORE |
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| 1889 | -Death of Francis John DILL -7 February 1889, death of Isobella DILL |
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| 1890 | -Birth of Herbert E. BROWN -Birth of Mary MCCULLAGH (approx) -27 January, birth of Edith Eileen GILMORE -8 March, birth of Walter David Russell JACKSON (seventh child of Sir Thomas JACKSON) -13 July, birth of Elizabeth Oliver Muriel JACKSON -18 April, death of John MCCONNELL -30 December, death of Jane MARTIN |
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| 1891 | -The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
is published. -9 November, death of Mary Watson BIRCH |
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| 1892 | -12,000 delegates at Ulster convention in Belfast oppose any Home Rule
Parliament. - Gladstone re-elected to 4th Parliament. -30 January, birth of Claude Stewart JACKSON (8th child of Sir Thomas Jackson) -Death of Margaret Hamilton REED -6 February, death of Sarah JACKSON (Aunt of Sir Thomas JACKSON) 6 April, death of Robert MCCULLAGH -24 May, death of Daniel Gunn BROWNE |
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| 1893 | -Gladstone introduces 2nd Home Rule Bill passed by
Commons, rejected by Lords (419-416) -1 October, birth of Thomas Clair WHITESIDE -20 November, death of Robert MOORHEAD |
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| 1894 | -Birth of Alice Margaret MCCULLAGH (approx) -22 April, death of Rev. Hugh EDGAR of Aghauville |
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| 1895 | -Stock exchange established in Belfast. -Wilde’s An Ideal Husband and The Importance of being Earnest premier in London -Birth of Andrew ALEXANDER -April, birth of Kathleen HUNTER 18 April 1895, birth of Elemer FABIAN . |
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| 1896 | Women appointed to local government posts for the first time in Ireland. -4 November, birth of George David MCCULLAGH 8 January, birth of Jozsa SARLO -death of Robert James BIRCH |
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| 1897 | -November, birth of John MCCULLAGH -31 March, Mary Margaret GREEN -Death of Robert Dill MOORHEAD -21 July, death of Andrew Bradford MCCULLAGH |
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| 1898 | -Centenary of 1798 rebellion leads to formation of separatist “‘98
Clubs”. -Women gain the right to stand for election to district councils. -Marconi tests his radio invention between Rathlin Island and the Mainland. -C.S. Lewis born in Belfast. -24 April, death of Hugh MCCONNELL -15 September, death of Mary REID |
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| 1899 | -Boer War commences. 28,000 Irishmen fight on British side; 400 for the Boers.
-16 July, death of Elizabeth Oliver GILMORE -11 November, death of David JACKSON (father of Sir Thomas JACKSON) |
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| 1900 | -7 June, birth of Mary BARTLEY |
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