Dates CNED Flashcards
Founding of the Irish Home Rule movement
19 May 1870
First meeting of the Home Government Association
1 September 1870
Creation of the Home Rule League
November 1873
Isaac Butt elected to the Commons
1871
Parnell elected to the Commons
1875
First Home Rule debate in the Commons
1876
Parnell president of the Home Rule League of GB
1877
Death of Isaac Butt
1879
Foundation of the Irish Land League with Parnell as President
1879
Parnell elected chairman of the “Irish party” by 23 votes to 18
1880
Suppression of the Land League
October 1881
First specifically Welsh Bill passed by Parliament
Welsh Sunday Closing Act
1881
Foundation of the Irish National League
17 October 1882
Creation of the Irish Loyal and Patriotic Union
1885
Resignation of the Liberal government
June 1885 (Salisbury appointed PM)
Gladstone’s conversion
17 December 1885
Foundation of the Ulster Unionist Party
1886
Resignation of the Conservative government
January 1886 (Gladstone appointed PM)
First Irish Home Rule Bill introduced in the Commons
8 April 1886
Creation of the Scottish Home Rule Association
May 1886
Creation of the Irish Protestant Home Rule Association
June 1886
Defeat of the First Irish Home Rule Bill on its Second Reading in the Commons
8 June 1886
Creation of Cymru Fydd in England
1886
Irish National League is proclaimed a “dangerous association”
1887
Formation of the Welsh Parliamentary Party
1888
Publication of the Special Commission on “Parnellism and Crime”’s report
1890
IPP party split
December 1890
Death of Parnell
1891
Establishment of the first Welsh Cymru Fydd branch
1891
Second Irish Home Rule Bill introduced in the Commons
13 February 1893
Defeat of the Second Irish HR Bill in the Lords
8 September 1893
Gladstone resigns as PM
1894
Healy expelled from the Irish National Federation
1895
Foundation of Healy’s People’s Rights Association
1897