Historical place archive

Belfast in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Belfast in England. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

2 records2 event labels2 people1177–1647

Historical events in Belfast

1177

1177
Belfast
John de Courcy · Military

Builds a castle to command the ford near the mouth of the Lagan River

1647

1647
Eastern Ulster Command
George Monck · Irish Confederate Wars

Appointed to command Parliamentarian forces in eastern Ulster after leaving Royalist captivity.

Provenance

About these place records

These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match England and Belfast. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.

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