| Year | Presbyterianism in Ireland | Events |
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| 1603 | James VI of Scotland becomes James I of England | |
| 1607 | The Flight of the Earls | |
| 1610 | Plantation of Ulster | |
| 1611 | King James Bible | |
| 1613 | First Scottish Presbyterian minister in Ireland - Rev Edward Brice, Broadisland (Ballycarry) | |
| 1625 | Six Mile Water Revival | King Charles I |
| 1636 | "Eagle Wing" sails from Belfast Lough for America with around 140 Presbyterians - men, women and children - and 4 Presbyterian ministers including Livingstone of Killinchy and Blair of Bangor | |
| 1638 | National Covenant read aloud in Greyfriar's Church, Edinburgh | |
| 1639 | "Black Oath" introduced | |
| 1641 | Rebellion | |
| 1642 | First Presbytery at Carrickfergus | |
| 1643 | Solemn League and Covenant signed in England and Scotland | |
| 1644 | Solemn League and Covenant signed in Ireland | |
| 1647 | Larger and Shorter Catechisms published | |
| 1649 | Westminster Confession of Faith published | |
| 1649 | The Commonwealth | |
| 1654 | Three Presbyteries : Down, Antrim, Route Synod of Ulster |
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| 1657 | Presbytery of Laggan | |
| 1659 | Presbytery of Tyrone | |
| 1660 | King Charles II | |
| 1661 | Synod's last meeting before the Disruption; at least 61 of Ulster's ministers were ejected from their pulpits | |
| 1663 | Blood's Plot - some Presbyterian ministers implicated | |
| 1672 | Regium Donum first granted | |
| 1683 | Rev Francis Makemie emigrates to America from Ramelton, Co. Donegal, and organises the first American Presbytery and founded the Presbyterian church in North America | |
| 1685 | King James II | |
| 1689 | King William III and Queen Mary | |
| 1690 | General Synod of Ulster constituted Minutes of Synod start |
Revolution Settlement |
| 1696 | Presbytery of Munster formed Southern Association formed |
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| 1697 | Presbytery of Belfast | |
| 1702 | Queen Anne | |
| 1704 | Sacramental Test Act - Presbyterians forced to take the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper according to the rites of the Church of Ireland as a condition of holding any office, civil or military, under the Crown. | |
| 1714 | King George I | |
| 1717 | First wave of Migration from Ulster-Scots to America - mostly Presbyterians | |
| 1718 | Migration from the Aghadowey area, Co. Londonderry to New England led by Rev James MacGregor of Aghadowey | |
| 1726 | Presbytery of Antrim formed | |
| 1727 | King George II | |
| 1740 | Irish Famine 1740-1 | |
| 1745 | Jacobite Rebellion | |
| 1750 | First Anti-burgher Presbytery met (Seceders) | |
| 1751 | Burgher Presbytery (Seceders) formed | |
| 1757 | First ordained Irish Reformed minister ordained - William Martin - at the Vow, Co. Antrim | |
| 1760 | King George III | |
| 1763 | Reformed Presbytery constituted | |
| 1764 | The "Cahans Exodus" | |
| 1775 | American War of Independence begins | |
| 1779 | Burgher Synod (Seceders) | |
| 1782 | Marriage Act - Marriages performed by Presbyterian ministers of their own members were legalised | |
| 1788 | Antiburgher Synod (Seceders) formed | |
| 1789 | French Revolution begins | |
| 1798 | United Irishmen Rebellion - many Presbyterians, including ministers, were actively involved | |
| 1801 | Union of Great Britain and Ireland | |
| 1809 | Sunday School Society for Ireland formed; Synod of Munster constituted |
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| 1811 | Reformed Presbyterian Synod formed - first Synod met in Cullybackey | |
| 1814 | Royal Belfast Academical Institution opened - many Presbyterian ministers educated there up until 1853 | |
| 1818 | The Presbyterian Synod of Ireland distinguished by the name of 'Seceders' (generally referred to as the Secession Synod) formed (by Burgher and Anti-burgher Synods uniting) | |
| 1819 | Presbyterian ministers are required to keep a register of baptisms and marriages | |
| 1820 | King George IV | |
| 1825 | The "Arian Controversy" began | |
| 1825 | "The Code" enacted by the General Synod of Ulster | |
| 1829 | Rev Dr John Edgar inaugurated the movement of Temperance Reform | Catholic Emancipation |
| 1830 | Remonstrant Synod of Ulster formed | King William IV |
| 1835 | Association of Irish Non-subscribing Presbyterians formed when the Synod of Munster joined with the Presbytery of Antrim and the Remonstrant Synod of Ulster | |
| 1837 | Queen Victoria | |
| 1840 | General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland (PCI) formed by the union of the General Synod of Ulster and the Secession Synod - Act of Union 16 ministers protested against the union |
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| 1841 | "The Code" enacted by the General Assembly PCI | |
| 1841 | 8 of the 16 protesting ministers joined PCI Original Secession Synod instituted Jewish Mission established by the PCI |
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| 1842 | Eastern Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church formed | |
| 1843 | Free Church of Scotland formed | |
| 1844 | Marriage Act (effective 1845) legalized marriages between a member of the Church of Ireland and a Presbyterian. All Presbyterian marriages are registered in the General Register Office with those of the Church of Ireland | |
| 1845 | The Great Famine started and continued for several years | |
| 1846 | Colonial and Continental Mission established by the Presbyterian Church in Ireland; Presbyteries were grouped into Synods - Armagh and Monaghan, Ballymena and Coleraine, Belfast, Derry and Omagh, and Dublin | |
| 1852 | The Presbyterian College, Belfast established | |
| 1852 | The Magee Presbyterian College, Londonderry established | |
| 1853 | Assembly's College opened | |
| 1854 | Presbytery of Munster joins the PCI | |
| 1859 | The 1859 Revival | |
| 1862 | The Sabbath School Society formed by the PCI | |
| 1865 | Magee College, Londonderry, opened | |
| 1866 | The Presbyterian Orphan Society formed by the PCI | |
| 1869 | Irish Church Act | |
| 1870 | Sustentation Fund started by the PCI | First Irish Land Act |
| 1871 | Church of Ireland disestablished 1 January |
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| 1871 | Irish Presbyterian Church Act | |
| 1881 | Presbyterian Theological Faculty of Ireland (PTFI) - Royal Charter granted | Second Irish Land Act |
| 1882 | Belfast Presbyterian College Act 1882 | |
| 1886 | First Home Rule Bill | |
| 1893 | Second Home Rule Bill | |
| 1901 | King Edward VII | |
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| 1905 | Assembly Buildings for the PCI opened in Belfast | |
| 1907 | Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland founded | |
| 1910 | King George V | |
| 1911 | Magee College renamed M'Crea Magee College |
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| 1912 | Ulster's Solemn League and Covenant, an expression of opposition to Home Rule; Thomas Sinclair, a leading Presbyterian layman, was heavily involved in its drafting which was modelled on the Scottish Covenants of the 16th and 17th centuries | Third Home Rule Bill |
| 1914 | World War I starts | |
| 1916 | Easter Rising begins in Dublin Battle of the Somme |
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| 1921 | Partition of Ireland | |
| 1926 | Presbyterian War Memorial Hostel opened in Belfast | |
| 1927 | Women admitted as Ruling Elders in PCI Irish Evangelical Church formed |
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| 1935 | Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church constituted when Presbytery of Antrim, Synod of Munster and Remonstrant Synod united | |
| 1936 | King Edward VIII King George VI |
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| 1940 | The Belfast Presbyterian College Act 1940 | |
| 1952 | Queen Elizabeth II | |
| 1953 | Magee University College, Londonderry (NI) Act 1953 | |
| 1955 | Coronary congregation received by the General Assembly into the PCI | |
| 1956 | Dromore and Toberdoney congregations received by the General Assembly into the PCI | |
| 1964 | Evangelical Presbyterian Church - new name for the Irish Evangelical Church | |
| 1970 | Magee University College Londonderry Act (NI) 1970 | |
| 1973 | Women admitted as Ministers in PCI | |
| 1978 | Union Theological College established | |
| 1979 | "The Code" enacted by the General Assembly PCI on 7 June 1979 - Effective from 1 January 1980 |