Timeline of The Irish Confederate Wars - 1641

1641

• October 23: Outbreak of the Rebellion. Catholic rebels make an attempt to seize Dublin but their plan is discovered at the last minute and abandoned. In Ulster in the north, Phelim O'Neill takes Charlemont.

• October 26, Rebels under Phelim O'Neill capture Armagh.

• November 11, James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde is made Lieutenant general of Ireland and head of the English troops there.

• November 21, The rebels besiege Drogheda.

• November 28, A rebel attask on Lurgan, in east Ulster, is beaten off by Protestant settler forces.

• November 29:Battle of Julianstown, an English government force is defeated by Irish Catholic insurgents after it was sent to relieve Drogheda.

• November: Portadown Massacre, The English Protestants in Portadown are driven onto a bridge over the river Bann and then shot, piked or drowned.

• December 30, the first English reinforments, a force of 1,100 men under Simon Harcourt arrives in Dublin.

• December, the lords of the Pale enter the rebellion, as do the Catholic landowners in counties Roscommon, Mayo, Sligo, Tipperary and Kilkenny.