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| 1882 | Birth |  |
| Birth of Eamon de Valera
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| 1915 | Commandant | |
| Appointed Commandant in the Irish Volunteers
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| 1916 | Arrest | |
| Dublin Arrested for treason, 1916-1917
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| Dublin Spared the death penalty because of his US citizenship & receives a life sentence
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| 1916 | Independence | |
| 15th Jan Dublin The Irish Free State, southern Ireland, is established
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| 1916 | Siege of Dublin | |
| 24th April Dublin 24-29 April, leads 125 men & captures the Boland mill during the Easter Rebelion
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| 1916 | Sinn Fein | |
| Surviving leaders of the Rising under amon de Valera took over the party. De Valera replaced Griffith as president.
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| 1917 | Arrest | |
| Spare execution, because of his American citizenship & released after nearly 2 years
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| 1917 | Election | |
| July Clare Elected Member of Parliament for East Clare
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| 1917 | President | |
| Appointed President of Sinn Fein
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| 1917 | Sinn Fein | |
| Nearly splits between monarchist and republican wings at its Ard Fheis (conference) until, in a compromise motion, it proposes the establishment of an independent republic, after which people could decide whether they wanted a monarchy or republic
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| 1918 | Election | |
| Sinn Fein win 73 seats but refuse to sit at Westminster
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| Sinn Fin wins 73 of Ireland's 105 seats in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland parliament at the general election and many of the seats it won were uncontested
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| 1918 | President | |
| Appointed President of the Provisional Republican Government
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| 1918 | Sinn Fein | |
| Sinn Fin wins 73 of Ireland's 105 seats in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland parliament at the general election and many of the seats it won were uncontested
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| 1919 | Arrest | |
| 3rd Feb Michael Collins organises de Valera's escape from Lincoln Gaol
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| 1919 | Assassination | |
| Soloheadbeag Irish Volunteers shoot dead 2 policemen & civil war erupts
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| 1919 | Constitution | |
| 21st Jan Dublin 30 of the Sinn Fin MPs assembled in Dublin's Mansion House and proclaim themselves the Parliament of Ireland, Dil ireann
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| 21st Jan 37 Sinn Fein MPs establish the Dail Eirean, Irish Parliament
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| 21st Jan Dublin Sinn Fein elect an Aireacht (ministry) headed by a Promh Aire (Prime Minister)
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| 21st Jan Dublin The Irish Republic is proclaimed
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| 1919 | Dail Eireann | |
| 21st Jan Dublin 30 of the Sinn Fin MPs assembled in Dublin's Mansion House and proclaim themselves the Parliament of Ireland, Dil ireann
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| 1st April Dublin 2nd session of the Dail, Valera elected Priomh-Aire
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| 1919 | Death | |
| Soloheadbeag Irish Volunteers shoot 2 policemen dead & civil war erupts
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| 1919 | Promh Aire | |
| 21st Jan Dublin Sinn Fein elect an Aireacht (ministry) headed by a Promh Aire (Prime Minister)
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| 1919 | Sinn Fein | |
| 21st Jan Dublin 30 of the Sinn Fin MPs assembled in Dublin's Mansion House and proclaim themselves the Parliament of Ireland, Dil ireann
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| 1920 | Dail Eireann | |
| Dublin Helps found the Dail Eireann, Irish Assembley
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| Joins Nationalists in forming the Irish Assembly, the Dail Eireann
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| Refuses to sit in the British Parliament
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| 1920 | Election | |
| In the 1920 city council elections, Sinn Fin gain control of ten of the twelve city councils in Ireland, only Belfast and Derry remain under Unionist and IPP (respectively) control
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| In the local elections Sinn Fein win control of all the county councils except Antrim, Down, Londonderry and Armagh
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| 1920 | Leader Dail Eireann Valera | |
| Dublin Appointed Leader of the Dail Eireann, Irish Assembley
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| 1921 | Constitution | |
| Aug Dublin The Promh Aire (also known as President of Dil ireann) is upgraded to President of the Republic, a full head of state
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| 14th Aug Dublin De Valera rejects Dominion status for Ireland
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| 6th Dec London Negotiations ultimately result in the Anglo-Irish Treaty signed on 6 December 1921, which provides for a new Irish State, named the "Irish Free State"
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| 6th Dec London The new Irish Free State is to be a Dominion, with a bicameral parliament, executive authority vested in the king but exercised by an Irish government elected by a lower house called Dil ireann
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| 1921 | Independence | |
| 6th Dec London The new Irish Free State is to be a Dominion, with a bicameral parliament, executive authority vested in the king but exercised by an Irish government elected by a lower house called Dil ireann
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| 1921 | Irish Free State | |
| 6th Dec London The new Irish Free State is to be a Dominion, with a bicameral parliament, executive authority vested in the king but exercised by an Irish government elected by a lower house called Dil ireann
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| 1921 | Peace | |
| 23rd Aug Dublin The Irish Dail rejects the British peace offer
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| 6th Dec Britain signs a peace treaty with Ireland
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| 6th Dec de Valera nominates a team of delegates headed by Arthur Griffith, with Michael Collins as his deputy, Collins agreed to go to London
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| 1921 | Priomh Aire | |
| Aug Dublin The Promh Aire (also known as President of Dil ireann) is upgraded to President of the Republic, a full head of state
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| 1921 | Treaty of Anglo Irish | |
| Dec Dublin The Treaty is controversial, amon de Valera, President of the Irish Republic is unhappy that Collins had signed any deal without his and his cabinet's authorisation
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| 6th Dec London Negotiations ultimately result in the Anglo-Irish Treaty signed on 6 December 1921, which provides for a new Irish State, named the "Irish Free State"
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| 6th Dec London Republican purists regard it as a sell-out, with the replacement of the republic by dominion status within the British Empire, and an Oath of Allegiance made (it was then claimed) directly to the King
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| 6th Dec London The new Irish Free State is to be a Dominion, with a bicameral parliament, executive authority vested in the king but exercised by an Irish government elected by a lower house called Dil ireann
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| 6th Dec London The treaty provides for a possible all-Ireland state, subject to the right of a six-county region in the northeast to opt out of the Free State (which it immediately does)
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| 1922 | Election | |
| Arthur Griffith defeats de Valera in the vote and assumes the presidency, (Griffith calls himself "President of Dil ireann" rather than de Valera's more exalted "President of the Republic"
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| 1922 | Treaty of Anglo Irish | |
| Dublin De Valera joins the anti-treaty faction opposing the perceived concessions
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| 7th Jan Dublin Sinn Fin splits over the treaty, and the Dil debates the matter bitterly for ten days until it is approved by a vote of 64 to 57
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| 1923 | Arrest | |
| Arrested by the Irish Free State, 1923-1924
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| 1924 | Fianna Fail Party | |
| Founds the Fianna Fail Party
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| 1926 | Fianna Fail Party | |
| Founds Fianna Fil with fellow advocates of participation in constitutional politics
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| 1926 | Fianna Fil | |
| Founds Fianna Fil with fellow advocates of participation in constitutional politics
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| 1926 | Resignation | |
| 11th Mar Resigns as head of Sinn Feinn
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| 1926 | Sinn Fein | |
| Founds Fianna Fil with fellow advocates of participation in constitutional politics
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| Having temporarily suspended armed action in the Free State, Sinn Fein splits with the departure of its leader amon de Valera, after having lost a motion to abandon abstention if the statement of "Fidelity to the King" were abolished
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| 1927 | Constitution | |
| Dublin Leads the Fianna Fail into the Free State Parliament
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| 1930 | Conference of London | |
| 1st Oct London The Irish demand independence
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| 1930 | Independence | |
| 1st Oct London The Irish demand independence at the London Conference
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| 1932 | Election | |
| The election returns de Valera's party
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| 1932 | Minister | |
| Appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs
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| 1933 | Constitution | |
| 3rd May Dublin The Dail abolishes loyalty to the British crown
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| 1933 | Election | |
| Jan The election increases de Valera's support
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| 1937 | Prime Minister | |
| Appointed Prime Minister of Ireland, 1st term
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| 1951 | Prime Minister | |
| 13th June Appointed Prime Minister of Ireland, 2nd term
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| 1957 | Prime Minister | |
| Appointed Prime Minister of Ireland, 3rd term
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| 1959 | President | |
| Appointed President of Ireland, 1st term
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| 1966 | President | |
| 2nd June Appointed President of Ireland, 2nd term
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| 1973 | Resignation | |
| 24th June Dublin Resigns as President of Ireland, aged 90
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| 1975 | Death | |
| Death of Eamon de Valera
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