of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border
with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west. At the time of the 2001 UK Census
, its population was 1,685,000, constituting about 30% of the island's total population and about 3% of the population of the United Kingdom.
Northern Ireland consists of six
of the nine counties of the Irish province
of Ulster
.
1889 78 are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in what is now Northern Ireland.
1910 The hull of the {{RMS|Olympic}}, sister-ship to the ill-fated {{RMS|Titanic}}, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1921 Belfast's Bloody Sunday: 16 people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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.
1941 In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) attack Belfast, Northern Ireland killing one thousand people.
1942 World War II: The first United States forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.
1966 The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.
1969 Members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary damage property and assault occupants in the Bogside in Derry, Northern Ireland. In response, residents erect barricades and establish Free Derry.
1969 Violence erupts after the Apprentice Boys of Derry march in Derry, Northern Ireland, resulting in a three-day communal riot known as the Battle of the Bogside.
1969 British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland.