* 1916 – Easter Rising: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.

* 1916 – Easter Rising: The Irish Republican Brotherhood led by nationalists Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett starts a rebellion in Ireland.

Irish Republicans, who sought full independence for Ireland rather than just Home Rule, staged the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin against British rule.

General Post Office ( Dublin ) | The GPO on O ' Connell Street was at the centre of the 1916 Easter Rising.

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The Easter Rising () was an insurrection staged in Ireland during Easter Week, 1916.

Organised by the Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Rising lasted from Easter Monday 24 to 30 April 1916.

Centre of the Easter Rising

British soldiers searching the River Tolka in Dublin for arms and ammunition after the Easter Rising.

The aftermath of the Rising, and in particular the British reaction to it, helped to sway a large section of Irish nationalist opinion away from hostility or ambivalence and towards support for the rebels of Easter 1916.

A plaque commemorating the Easter Rising at the General Post Office ( Dublin ) | General Post Office, Dublin, with the Irish text in Gaelic type | Gaelic script, and the English text in regular Latin script

A few months after the Easter Rising, W. B. Yeats commemorated some of the fallen figures of the Irish Republican movement, as well as expressed his torn emotions regarding these events, in the poem Easter, 1916.

The first episode focusses especially on the Easter Rising.

* The Easter Rising is discussed in the television series Downton Abbey, which is set in an English country estate during the 1910s.

The family's chauffeur, Tom Branson, is an Irish republican and socialist whose cousin was killed by British soldiers during the Easter Rising under the suspicion that he was " probably a rebel.

* The Plough and the Stars is a play by Seán O ' Casey that takes place during the Easter Rising.

* Coogan, Tim Pat, 1916: The Easter Rising ISBN 0-304-35902-5

* Foy, Michael and Barton, Brian, The Easter Rising ISBN 0-7509-2616-3

* Kostick, Conor & Collins, Lorcan, The Easter Rising, A Guide to Dublin in 1916 ISBN 0-86278-638-X

), Leaders and Men of the Easter Rising, Dublin 1916

* McNally, Michael and Dennis, Peter, Easter Rising 1916: Birth of the Irish Republic ( 2007 ), Osprey Publishing, ISBN 978-1-84603-067-3

* Easter Rising 50th Anniversary audio & video footage from RTÉ ( Irish public television )

* 1916 – Easter Rebellion: The United Kingdom declares martial law in Ireland.

* Easter, 1916

* Caulfield, Max, The Easter Rebellion, Dublin 1916 ISBN 1-57098-042-X

* Neeson, Eoin, Myths from Easter 1916, Aubane Historical Society, Cork, 2007, ISBN 978-1-903497-34-0

* Townshend, Charles, Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion

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* Easter Rising site and walking tour of 1916 Dublin

It was descended from the Irish Volunteers, an organisation established on 25 November 1913 that staged the Easter Rising in April 1916.

* 1916 – The Irish Nationalist and British diplomat Sir Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.

* 1916 – The leaders of the Easter Rising are executed in Dublin.

Irish Volunteer units mobilised on Easter Sunday in several places outside of Dublin, but due to Eoin MacNeill's countermanding order, most of them returned home without fighting.

In 1919, the Irish Republic that had been proclaimed during the Easter Rising was formally established by an elected assembly ( Dáil Éireann ), and the Irish Volunteers were recognised by Dáil Éireann as its legitimate army.

However the term Irish Republican Army in its modern sense was first used in the second decade of the 20th century for the rebel forces of the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army during the Easter Rising.

A small Irish nationalist party, Sinn Féin, was widely, but wrongly, credited with orchestrating the Easter Rising even though its leader Arthur Griffith advocated only Irish self-government under a dual monarchy.

* 1972 – Vietnam War: Easter Offensive – American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.

* 1972 – Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone ( DMZ ) of South Vietnam.

* March 30 – Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone ( DMZ ) of South Vietnam.

In Easter 1918 he was one of the speakers at the Third Inter-State Peace Conference, an event organised by the Australian Union of Democratic Control for the Avoidance of War, a group that was deeply opposed to the plans by Prime Minister Billy Hughes ( then the leader of the centre-right Nationalist Party of Australia ) to introduce conscription for Australian males.

Shute's father, Arthur Hamilton Norway, became head of the post office in Ireland before the First World War, and was based at the main post office in Dublin in 1916 at the time of the Easter Rising.

A veteran of the 1916 Easter Rising, the War of Independence and the Civil War, Lemass was first elected as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála ( TD ) for the Dublin South constituency in a by-election on 18 November 1924 and was returned at each election until the constituency was abolished in 1948, when he was re-elected for Dublin South – Central until his retirement in 1969.

Although World War I unleashed previously unimagined horrors upon the world, it was the Easter Rebellion and the destruction of Dublin that especially disturbed Bax.

Had All-Ireland home rule evolved earlier, there would most likely have been no Easter Rising, no Anglo-Irish War, no independent twenty-six county Free State and no ensuing civil war.

O ' Connell Street has often been centre-stage in Irish history, attracting the city's most prominent monuments and public art through the centuries, and formed the backdrop to one of the 1913 Dublin Lockout gatherings, the 1916 Easter Rising, the Irish Civil War of 1922, the destruction of the Nelson Pillar in 1966, and many public celebrations, protests and demonstrations through the years-a role it continues to play to this day.

* 1914: Third Irish Home Rule Bill passed to the statute books, temporarily suspended by intervention of World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ), finally following the Easter Rising in Dublin ( 1916 ).

After the Nazi Vidkun Quisling was made dictatorial head of state by the German occupiers during World War II, and introduced a number of controversial measures such as state-controlled education, the Church's bishops and the vast majority of the clergy disassociated themselves from the government in the Foundations of the Church ( Kirkens Grunn ) declaration of Easter 1942, stating that they would only function as pastors for their congregations, not as civil servants.

On the cover of Puck ( magazine ) | Puck published on April 6, 1901, in the wake of gainful victory in the Spanish – American War, Columbia ( name ) | Columbia – the National personification of the U. S. – preens herself with an Easter bonnet in the form of a warship bearing the words " World Power " and the word " Expansion " on the smoke coming out of its stack.

" Some criticised the film as an attempt to blacken the legacy of the 1916 Easter Rising and the subsequent Irish War of Independence in relation to the eruption of " the Troubles " in Northern Ireland at the time of the film's release, but approval of the project had started years before the Troubles.

It was not an immediate constitutional priority however, especially after the Irish Home Rule Bill was defeated in the House of Commons, and by the time a Scottish home rule bill was first presented to parliament in 1913, its progress, along with that of the Irish Home Rule Act 1914, was interrupted by World War I and subsequently became overshadowed by the Easter Rising and Irish War of Independence, although the Scottish Office was relocated to St. Andrew's House in Edinburgh during the 1930s.

He fought in the 1916 Easter Rising, served as Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army during the War of Independence and became commander of the pro-treaty forces in the Irish Civil War after the death of Michael Collins.

Cathal Brugha (; born Charles William St. John Burgess ) ( 18 July 1874 – 7 July 1922 ) was an Irish revolutionary and politician, active in the Easter Rising, Irish War of Independence, and the Irish Civil War and was the first Ceann Comhairle ( chairman ) of Dáil Éireann.

Along with its English allies who arrived on the 1385 Easter, consisting of a company of about 100 English longbowmen, veterans from the Hundred Years War, sent to honor the 1373 alliance ( presently the oldest active treaty in the world ).

The one to the north celebrates Easter, the plain one to the south was probably decorative but suffered from bomb damage in the Second World War.

On Easter Day, 1865, his troops assaulted and captured the city of Columbus, Georgia, widely regarded as the final battle of the Civil War.