Work began on building the new city across the River Foyle from the ancient town of Derry ( Doire Cholm Chille or Doire ) in 1613.

Work began on building the new city across the River Foyle from the ancient town of Derry ( Doire Cholm Chille or Doire ) in 1613.

In 1613, this larger area became incorporated into the newly-founded County Londonderry, with its county town in the city of Derry, which was renamed Londonderry as part of the Royal Charter.

It was renamed Londonderry, in recognition of donations from the livery companies of the City of London ; a new charter in 1613 stated " that the said city or town of Derry, for ever hereafter be and shall be named and called the city of Londonderry ".

Samuel Lewis ' 1837 Topographical Dictionary of Ireland said " It was originally and is still popularly called Derry [...] the English prefix London was imposed in 1613 [...] and was for a long time retained by the colonists, but has [...] fallen into popular disuse ".

Bloody Sunday ()— sometimes called the Bogside Massacre — was an incident on 30 January 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland, in which 26 unarmed civil-rights protesters and bystanders were shot by soldiers of the British Army.

In a quid pro quo gesture to nationalists, all marches and parades were banned, including the flashpoint march by the Apprentice Boys of Derry which was due to take place on 12 August.

On 10 August Bombardier Paul Challenor became the first soldier to be killed by the Provisional IRA in Derry, when he was shot by a sniper on the Creggan estate.

By the end of 1971, 29 barricades were in place to prevent access to what was known as Free Derry, 16 of them impassable even to the British Army's one-ton armoured vehicles.

The people planned on marching to the Guildhall, but because of army barricades designed to reroute the march it was redirected to Free Derry Corner.

Continuing violence by British troops escalated, and eventually the order was given to mobilise the troops in an arrest operation, chasing the tail of the main group of marchers to the edge of the field by Free Derry Corner.

Evidence given by Martin McGuinness, a senior member of Sinn Féin and now the deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, to the inquiry stated that he was second-in-command of the Derry City brigade of the Provisional IRA and was present at the march.

In response McGuinness rejected the claims as " fantasy ", while Gerry O ' Hara, a Sinn Féin councillor in Derry stated that he and not Ward was the Fianna leader at the time.

Enniskillen and Derry were the two garrisons in Ulster that were not wholly loyal to James II, it was the last town to fall before the siege of Derry.

His maternal grandfather was an immigrant from Derry in northern Ireland and his maternal grandmother was of German ancestry.

The Irish author grew up in the famous Republican stronghold of the Creggan Estate, Derry, Northern Ireland, at the height of the troubles and was a schoolboy witness to the tragic events of Bloody Sunday, 30 January 1972.

Sharkey was also responsible for giving the band their first name: at the introduction to a gig at Saint Joseph's Secondary School in Derry on 16 March 1976, Feargal Sharkey was asked the name of the band and quickly replied " The Hot Rods ".

The name of the county comes from the city of Derry, which originally in Irish was known as Doire meaning oak.

Derry, together with West Tyrone, was henceforward in a new, different jurisdiction officially called Northern Ireland.

Speaking of his early life and education, he commented " I learned that my local County Derry experience, which I had considered archaic and irrelevant to ' the modern world ' was to be trusted.

By 1635, it was apparent that Ussher had lost de facto control of the church to John Bramhall, Bishop of Derry, in everyday matters, and to Laud in matters of policy.

Shepard was born in Derry, New Hampshire to Lieutenant Colonel Alan B. Shepard, Sr. and Renza ( née Emerson ) Shepard.

The LVF was also blamed for petrol bombing the homes of two Catholics in Derry.

It has been suggested that this was a reaction to offence caused by the Governor-General of Canada, Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis who was of Northern Irish descent and who allegedly arranged to have placed symbols of Northern Ireland, notably a replica of the famous Roaring Meg cannon used in the Siege of Derry, in front of Costello at a state dinner.

* 1932 – Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

gigs performed at The Casbah gave the Undertones increased confidence in their musical ability, and in June 1977 they performed concerts outside of Derry for the first time, supporting a Dublin punk group named The Radiators from Space.

* Completion of St Columb's Cathedral, Derry, Ireland, the first post-Reformation Anglican cathedral built in the British Isles and the first Protestant cathedral built in Europe.

Derry was given its first charter by James I in 1604, but the garrison was attacked and destroyed by Cahir O ' Doherty in 1608.

The town was first settled in 1768 by John and Martha Taggart, immigrants from Derry, Ireland.

The first official government in Derry Township was established in 1759.

The original " Derry " in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania was named after the city Derry in Northern Ireland, because the area ’ s first non-Indian inhabitants were Scotch-Irish.

Derry was the first ever planned city in Ireland.

Before her trip to Lebanon she visited Derry on one of her last official engagements to Northern Ireland, becoming the inaugural speaker at the first Conversations Across Walls and Borders event in First Derry Presbyterian Church.

He decided against becoming a minister and went to work first as a bank clerk in Derry, where Mrs Mitchel's brother, William Haslett, was director of a bank, and then in late 1835 or early 1836, he entered the office of a Newry solicitor, John Quinn, who was a friend of his father.

He publicised a pamphlet by his uncle, Mr Haslet, Mayor of Derry, on the estates of the London Societies in Ulster, wrote a leading article entitled " Convicted Criminals ", and contributed half of an article on " Anti-Irish Catholics ", the first part of which was written by Thomas Davis.

Derry was the first ever planned city in Ireland.

The gallery was known for bringing the work of significant international artists to Derry, notably an installation of sculptures by Antony Gormley on the city walls, one of the artist's first Public Art projects, as well as promoting Irish artists, such as Willie Doherty, abroad.

In the 20th century, Dundalk's secondary railway links were closed: first the line to Greenore in 1951 and then that to Derry in 1957.

In 1719, the first American potato was grown in Derry, then a part of Londonderry.

The town's nickname, " Space-town ", derives from the fact that Derry is the birthplace of Alan Shepard, the first US astronaut in space.

Although it was first settled by Scottish-Irish families in 1719, Derry was not incorporated until 1827.

The family moved, first to Derry City, where his younger brother Dónal was born in 1949, and then to Cork, where the two brothers were raised, and where Rory attended the North Monastery School.

The Fleadh will be held in Derry in 2013, the first time that it will be held in Northern Ireland.