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-50000: First humans anatomically similar to today 
(sullchron)
-13000: End of Ice Age
-7000: First settlers in Ireland (sullchron)
-6000: Celtic Nose Length
-4000: Irish elm decline (sullchron)
-3212: French coastal megaliths (sullchron)
-3199: Irish oaks show sharp chill
-3190: Heckla eruption, Iceland (sullchron)
-3150: Iceman of the Alps
-3113: Mayan Creation date (sullchron)
-3100: Stonehenge foundations dug ()
-3075: Newgrange
Megalithic Tomb ()
-3000: Carnac Megaliths (sullchron)
-3000: Cessair arrives in
Ireland
-2700: Gilgamesh, King of Uruk (sullchron)
-2500: Partholon Arrives in Ireland (mythological)
-2400: Climatic disturbance; meteor impact? (SIS)
-2000: First Nemed invasion (mythological)
-1680: Santorini eruption ()
-1500: Fir Bolg (possibly the Belgae of NW Gaul, per Julius Caesar)
(mythological)
-1400: Goidels at Exodus: Irish help Israelites to escape Egypt
-1263: Heber and Heremon (Keating)
-1000: Tuatha de Danann (mythological)
-500: Galicia: Milesian home?
-390: Pull Beards of Roman Senate
-335: Asks Celtic Chief's Fears
-300: Sons of Mil (from Spain, possibly Helvetians or
Celt-Iberians)
-259: Egyptian revolt of Celts
-189: No Casual Sex
-100: Calls Gauls Bombastic
-50: Early Munster Settlers
200: Owen (Eoghan) More, celebrated king of Munster, father of Oliol
(Williams)
200: Ascendancy of Eoganacht ancestors of Sullivans
200: AD 47th Oliol Ollum, son of Princess Beara, father of Eoghan,
founder of Sullivan line
375: Niall of the nine hostages (Keating)
450: Saint Patrick arrives in Ireland (Keating)
575: Finghin founds O'Sullivan line, younger brother founds McCarthy line
(Keating)
600: Fingan, son of Aodh Dubh, King of Munster (Williams)
750: Convert Heathens 
950: Suildhubhain the blackeyed p114, generation 101 from adam (sull/burk)
1027: Brian Boru (Keating)
1050: Saint Bridget (sullchron)
1100: Gerald of Wales
1571: Macarthy resumes title of maccarthy, act of contempt toward english p733
(cusak)
1571: First Desmond rebellion (berleth)
1572: Owen imprisoned in limerick; robin hood escaspe p305 (o'murcada)
1573: Desmond returns from prison-fence straddles (bottigheimer)
1574: Desmond raids maccarthy more p734 (cusak)
1575: Fitzmaurice escapes (bottigheimer)
1575: Sidney in Cork; attended by clacare; desmond loyalty dubious;p 730
(cusak)
1575: Sidney doesn't trust macsweeney pledges p 295 (o'murcada)
1576: Sidneys mission to munster, macsweeney submits p 101 (new history)
1576: Scots mercenaries in Cork p 101 (new history)
1576: Macsweeney executed with banner p 296 (o'murcada)
1578: McCarthy and desmond dispute lands, almost fight p 731 (cusak)
1579: Desmond burns Youghal; ormond v. munster rebels; grey lands (new hist
viii)
1579: Fitzmaurice arrivies smerwick p 105 (new history)
1579: Desmond murders english party at tralee p 738 (cusak)
1579: Captain Zouch p 20; Owen beaten by gilbert p 65 (somerville)
1579: Peter White's school Waterford p138,563 (new history)
1580: Smerwick nov 10; sir james captured, executed oct 3 (new hist viii)
1580: Spenser in Ireland (sullchron)
1580: English atttacking desmond, o'Sullivan submits p107; grey "fear not (new
history)
1580: Donal took no part in desmond rebellion (bacam)
1580: James sussex of the geraldines seized by queens maccarthy at cork, executed
(cusak)
1580: Eugene o'Sullivan chief of Beare put in prison for war duration p23
(o'sullivan)
1580: Lord deputy plunders as far as dingle, takes "Sullivan beare hostage p742
(cusak)
1580: Daniel ravaged english with stones p 26 (o'sullivan)
1580: Maccarthy taking english side against the rebels p744 (cusak)
1580: Sack of Munster
1580: Dermot commands infantry of bear (o'sullivan)
1580: A Native View of O'Sullivan
1580: Desmond rebellion ends 79-84 (berleth)
1580: 30,000 die in Munster (berleth)
1581: Smerwick massacre (bottigheimer)
1581: O'Donovan cattle raid (bacam)
1581: Rising of kavanaughs, o'connors, o'mores; sanders dies (new hist viii)
1581: Sanders dies; tribal warfare (berleth)
1581: Raleigh captures Lord Roche p760 (cusak)
1581: Annals say that Capt Zouch sends macsweeney and o'donovan to carberry to plunder
o'Sullivan beare suul w/50 kills 300 (four masters)
1582: Sir John of desmond killed; pardon proclamation munster (new hist viii)
1582: Cap Zouch kills john desmond (cusak)
1582: Zouch gets john p190. famine and plague (berleth)
1582: Famine even in munster towns-70 die per day in cork (new history)
1583: Desmond killed (new history)
1583: Gilbert drowns sept 9; o'hurley arrested, tortured; desmond killed (new hist
viii)
1583: Owen o'sull comes in from gerald p 205 (berleth)
1584: General peace after desmond war (cusak)
1584: Perrot returns (new history)
1584: bishop o'hurley executed (new history)
1584: Survey of desmond lands (bottigheimer)
1584: O'hurley executed; norris president munster; survey munster (new hist
viii)
1586: Thady o'sull sheltered by owen p 44 (o'sullivan)
1586: munster planatation on macsheey/desmond lands (bottigheimer)
1587: doanl chalenges uncle (berleth)
1587: donal challenges uncle; case lasts rtwo years p23 (somerville-ross)
1588: Earl of Clancar claims: Rising Out, 50 Gallowglass, the Giving of the Rod,
(sutro)
1588: 1588 Florence Maccarthy marrries Earl of Clancarty's
daughter
1588: munster plantation establushed 2 yrs (new history)
1588: armada (new history)
1588: owen marries daushgters to clancarty illeg son and knight of kerry son
(o'murcada)
1588: Florence Maccarthy story p811 (cusak)
1589: Florence McCarthy jilts Julia O'Sullivan, daughter of Owen. Sir Nicholas Browne
(sutro)
1593: Donal gets title at Mallow p 23 (somerville-ross)
1593: Owen's son-in law tries to kill Owen's oldest son (o'murcada)
1594: Owen implicated in desmond rebellion (new history)
1594: Donal Cam, florence maccarthy and o'neil allied (o'murcada)
1595: Donal revolts (new history)
1596: Earl of Clancarthy dies (somerville-ross)
1598: Essex, rebellion, munster overrrun (bottigheimer)
1600: Sir owen's son, sir owen fights on side of english against Donal
(somerville-ross)
1600: florence macarthy "comes in" (new history)
1601: Spanish land at Kinsale.
1602: The March of O'Sullivan Beare
1603: Donal O'Sullivan's march (sullchron)
1605: one of Owen's sons a page w/ king james; 2 brothers in spain
(o'murcada)
1618: Dermot O'Sullivan Beare murdered in Spain (sullchron)
1618: Donal O'Sullivan Beare Dies (sullchron)
1618: Murdered with Rosary
1633: Diarmaid o'Sullivan copies florence maccarthy's book. P55 (o'murcada)
1633: Mac Carthaigh's Book, DA 905 03 compiled for (McCarhty)
1650: Daniel More 38th from Eogan More, (Keating)
1650: Eoghan is 46th after Heber(Keating p228) (Keating)
1650: MacFirbis' Book of Genealogies
1692: Birth of Owen, #23 after genealogy p 90; 1692-23*30=992 (sull/burke)
1699: Steals bread from window sill
1709: Poet O Rathaille (sullchron)
1714: Joseph Sullivan hanged at Newgate.
1714: John Suulivan executed. (sullchron)
1723: Master John Sullivan says his family will never see or hear from him again after
he (sull/burke)
1724: Litigiousness of Ensign Alferes Juan Julian O'Sulivan
1735: Master John Sullivan advises Margery that he would like to marry her see p 26
(sull/burke)
1735: Master John in New England
1736: Master John Sullivan marries Margaret (or 1723???) (sull/burke)
1739: John O'Sullivan of Kerry a "fat, well-fed seminarian"
1739: John O Sullivan at Corsica (sullchron)
1740: General John Sullivan born (sullchron)
1743: New Hampshire Wife Seeks Husband, Begs for Return
1744: James Sullivan born (sull/burke)
1745: bonny prince charlie; sir john Sullivan, who fou (sullchron)
1745: Sings "God Save the King"
1745: 1745 Lord Chesterfield lord-lieutenant of Irelan (sullchron)
1750: Morty Sullivan (sullchron)
1751: Darmod's Boddy and Memory
1752: John William Sullivan (sullchron)
1752: Letter from Cambray, France
1753: Eben Sullivan fights indians, p 16 (sull/burke)
1756: LORD Have Mercy; Last Words of Owen
1756: 1756 Sullivan, Great Hulking Brute
1756: Morty Oge O'Sullivan towed headless to Cork
1758: Young John, A carribean Fantasy
1760: Hard Drinking
1760: Another Letter, Pitiable
1760: Barry Lyndon beats tom sull, Captain Freeny (sullchron)
1765: Success in New Hampshire
1765: Agreement between john and father p 42 (sull/burke)
1775: Master john studies french at 80+ p9 (sull/burke)
1775: Daniel; Gives Life for English Master
1776: Charms Abigail Adams, But Not Her Husband
1776: Studies French in Eighties
1777: Throws Soup on Native Americans
1777: Reprimand from G. Washington
1777: Borgoynes captive army including irish back from (sullchron)
1778: Sergeant Thomas Sullivan Deserts
1778: Poet Owen O'Sullivan (sullchron)
1778: Ailments of General John Sullivan
1779: john Sullivan defeatws iroqois (sullchron)
1781: john Sullivan's intrigues, brother daniel, wooed (sullchron)
1783: Captain Sullivan & Lady Courtney
1784: Poet Owen O'Sullivan
1784: General John Sullivan writng to ireland for genealogy p 71 (sull/burke)
1784: Thomas Herbert Sullivan leaves for Holland after (sullchron)
1790: Gen John (sullchron)
1790: Robbery Warrants for Owen and Tuige Sullivan of
DromSullivan
1790: General, Retired, Sums Career
1792: Drown Aged Priests
1795: death of Master John Sullivan p51 (sull/burke)
1795: gen john Sullivan d (sullchron)
1795: Death of Master John
1796: 1796 m john dies at 104 (sull/burke)
1797: Dennis Sullivan Hanged
1800: Sullivan among the Blackfeet
1802: Last Seen Remnants of the Book of Sullivan
1809: A Visit to Finin Duibh
1809: Poets Competition
1810: Chews Flesh, Wife Cleans Teeth with Jacknife
1810: samuel Sullivan brother of mortimer converts to (sullchron)
1817: James Forester Sullivan Spanish Am war b (sullchron)
1820: Governor Sullivan Names Indianapolis
1821: barry Sullivan b (sullchron)
1824: mortimer Sullivans captain rock (sullchron)
1825: Sullivans to Canada
1825: mortimer 0'Sullivan converts to protestantism (sullchron)
1827: tim dan Sullivanof cork b (sullchron)
1827: Cherokee Sullivan Born
1828: Cornelius Melody's tavern; Touch of the Poet (sullchron)
1832: Another Emigrant
1834: Wexford Colony
1838: Marries Mexican Girl
1845: James Forester Sullivan Spanish Am war (sullchron)
1845: Born in Tralee
1845: James Forester Sullivan Spanish Am war (sullchron)
1845: Stowed away
1846: A Revolutionary Soldier
1847: When at length we journey home..
1847: big wave of immigration for Sullivans (sullchron)
1847: alexander Sullivan b (sullchron)
1848: Sullivans to Oregon
1849: My Sullivans
1850: Old Dan Sullivan
1850: First Bicycle
1850: O'Sullivan Clan in Australia
1850: Loved Wild Blackfeet Indians
1851: Hawthorne writes Blithedale Romance on w newton (sullchron)
1853: James Forester Sullivan Spanish Am war to aus (sullchron)
1853: yankee Sullivan losses title- goes to ca; sh p41 (sullchron)
1855: Lineage of Sullivan's Hollow
1856: louis Sullivan b (sullchron)
1857: will Sullivan b (sullchron)
1858: john l Sullivan b (sullchron)
1858: John Lawrence Sullivan
1859: Lizzie Gets Married (a prediction of her future )
1859: Robert SULLIVAN in Australia
1859: John Sullivan 40 Julia O'Neil 19 Married
1860: Fenian Connections
1861: Hanged and buried (Or Hist Soc)
1862: The Eugene O'Sullivan's Fight for the North
1862: Timothy died Sullivan b (sullchron)
1863: He May Have Had 3 Families!
1864: Murdered at Cascades (Or Hist Soc)
1864: Accidentally shot himself (Or Hist Soc)
1864: Saloon Owner Hides Molly Mcguires
1865: timothy Sullivan, photographer (sullchron)
1866: anne Sullivan macy b (sullchron)
1867: Arrived in NYC
1867: ellen fitzgerald born ireland, kilorgan (sullchron)
1868: alan Sullivan, canadian writer b (sullchron)
1869: Daniel Sullivan of cork-inflammatory toast (sullchron)
1869: Cork mayor Sullivans inflammatory toast (sullchron)
1870: Shoot First, Ask Questions Later
1870: barry 50 (sullchron)
1870: Julia Sullivan
1871: For God's Sake Save the Piano, Catherine
1871: Richard Meehan born ireland (sullchron)
1872: Louis Sullivan's Delight
1872: Sir Edward 50 (sullchron)
1872: Fell from the cars (Or Hist Soc)
1873: "I'm Glad to be rid of the Place!"
1875: Pine Farm for boys, the Pest house at Angier sch (sullchron)
1875: marg sull born ireland (sullchron)
1875: Tom Sullivan attacks mex cattle rustlers (sullchron)
1875: Plays Hamlet 3500 Times
1875: Arrives in So. Glens Falls
1876: Down and Under, But Not Down and Out!!!!
1876: Alexander Sullivan murders man (sullchron)
1876: James Forester Sullivan Spanish Am wardied 59 (sullchron)
1877: Thrown from wagon (Or Hist Soc)
1877: Battle with Nez Perce Indians (Or Hist Soc)
1878: Murdered at Union (Or Hist Soc)
1879: Accidentally Killed
1880: John H. Sullivan at Hopi res (sullchron)
1881: Beaten, Killed
1881: Phoenix Family Man
1883: Shot at Mineral Creek
1883: Alexander Sullivan ir na le (sullchron)
1884: Jeremiah Sullivan among the hopis (sullchron)
1885: Otto O'Sullivan Knighted
1885: Cup that Cheers
1885: Richard Sullivan immigrates (sullchron)
1886: Presbyterian Minister
1886: Anne Sullivan macy perkins (sullchron)
1886: Sullivan or Sorohan?
1887: Marietta was born and orphaned
1888: John L. Sullivan ill after losing to Mitchell (sullchron)
1889: John L Loses to Kilrean (sullchron)
1890: Sullivans in Montana
1890: Norumbega eben horsford thinks Leif Erickson her (sullchron)
1890: Marg Sullivan immigrates (sullchron)
1891: mary sull bornboston (sullchron)
1891: barry Sullivandied 70 (sullchron)
1892: Joseph Sullivan
1892: Mary Sullivan born (sullchron)
1893: julia born (sullchron)
1893: Addio, 1892!
1894: Crooked Pol Turns Fifty
1894: Hit by Falling Brick
1895: Please Help
1895: Satin, Lace, and Diamonds
1895: alexander 50 (sullchron)
1895: Builds House on RR Tracks
1897: Ellen Sullivan works days washing Somerville nig (sullchron)
1897: uncle james born (sullchron)
1898: One Last Visit Home
1899: Thomas russell 50 (sullchron)
1900: Timothy died Sullivan czar (sullchron)
1900: anne Sullivan macy (sullchron)
1900: Big Tim Sullivan
1900: James Sullivan, boxer rebellion (sullchron)
1900: Baseball in Muncie, Indiana
1900: William Sullivan senator (sullchron)
1900: Giving Away The ''0"
1900: big tim Sullivan woos jews and establishes corru (sullchron)
1901: Prize baby (Or Hist Soc)
1901: Elopement. (Or Hist Soc)
1901: Two Visitors
1901: Louis Sullivan kind chats (sullchron)
1902: Great Bend, PA Sullivans
1902: Great Grandfather Disappeared
1902: Nora Born
1902: Harry Stack Sullivan born (sullchron)
1902: Frank 50 san francsico (sullchron)
1902: Timothydied Sullivan congress (sullchron)
1904: John Darias Sullivan
1905: Broods Over Lack of Work
1905: Two Dead in Rhyolite Shootout
1905: Marries Quint
1905: 10/28 wm born (sullchron)
1905: mary sull works in brush factory (sullchron)
1905: John L. Sullivan reformed (sullchron)
1905: Louis Sullivan's decline (sullchron)
1905: John L. Sullivan quits drinking 3/4/05 (sullchron)
1905: tim danTim Dan (sullchron)
1905: 10/28 wm meehan born (sullchron)
1906: Gene O'Neill/Montauk Inn (sullchron)
1906: The Making of a Union Man
1907: Only sad tales to tell
1908: John L. (sullchron)
1909: The Good Old Boy
1910: Louis Sullivan, Sad Letter
1910: Bricks Don't Click!
1910: E W O'Sullivan, australia politicinan (sullchron)
1910: Wild Bill of Sullivan's Hollow
1910: 9/13 mother born (sullchron)
1911: Mary Sullivan!?!?
1914: James Sullivan, Santo Domingo scandal (sullchron)
1915: Marries Gertrude
1916: Weds Regina Doherty
1916: Anne Sullivan age 50 (sullchron)
1916: WW1 Soldiers die of Malaria
1917: Strongman, Booze Free, Marries Sweetheart
1917: Joseph E. Sullivan dies in the Diamond Mine
1918: Sullivan Disappears
1918: Boxes Tunney to Draw
1918: Suicide, Unsuccessful
1918: Louis Sullivan, Declining, Hires Salesman to Get Work
1918: John L Sullivan dies age 60 (sullchron)
1920: maurice o'Sullivan, 1904-1950 (sullchron)
1920: Nora Born
1922: Father graduates from English high (sullchron)
1923: Died in the gutter
1924: Mark 50 (sullchron)
1924: Louis Sullivan dies age 68 (sullchron)
1928: Invade the Bronx
1928: O'Sullivan from Bantry Bay
1930: Wallace Stevens, Sort of
1932: A Rueful Life
1935: Mary Barratt Sullivan age 50 (sullchron)
1936: Anne Sullivan Macy dies, age 70 (sullchron)
1936: Anna Sullivan organizes textile workers (sullchron)
1936: Maureen O'Sullivan in Tarzan (sullchron)
1938: Mary, Undercover Cop
1938: Death of JWN
1941: Pawns Army Buddy's Suit
1941: Pawns Army Buddy's Suit
1942: Five Sullivan Brothers
1942: The Seven Sullivans, War Heroes
1942: Harry Stack Sullivan age 50 (sullchron)
1944: Fred Allen, age 50 ()
1947: Alan Sullivan, canadian writer, died age 79 (sullchron)
1948: Wendell Jay Sullivan
1948: Hit By Car
1949: Harry Stack Sullivan dies age 47 (sullchron)
1949: Florence P. Sullivan Invades U.S.A
1950: From Poverty to Wealth
1953: Joe Sullivan declining (sullchron)
1953: Ellen Fitzgerald and Rich meehan die (sullchron)
1954: Four Harvard Sullivans Reach 50
1955: William (Sullivan) Meehan turns fifty (sullchron)
1956: Buried Alive in Poems
1958: Maureen O' Sullivan wins Vatican Award (sullchron)
1961: Maureen O'Sullivan turns 50 (sullchron)
1962: Mia's Mom, Divorce
1963: Wm Sullivan, asst to J Edgar Hoover (sullchron)
1965: We Are Not Alone-Popular science book by Walter Sullivan (sullchron)
1971: Death of Joe Sullivan, jazz pianist (sullchron)
1971: Fired by J. Edgar Hoover
1975: Attends Pompton Plains High
1977: Daniel Sullivan and Eugene O'Neill (sullchron)
1980: Goodbye to a Grand Irishman!
1986: Arizona Leader
1988: That evening I looked in my local telephone directory
1988: New World Meets Old World - and Flees
1989: Dies in Cabin
1991: An Infamous Sullivan
1991: Colleen: Suicide
1992: Bankruptcy Is His Game
1993: Ferriter's Cove
1993: Died in Chico California
1993: Cork
1995: The (un)happy home of my (un)happy ancestors
1996: Book of Sullivan/O'Sullivan
1996: Looking for lineage!?
1997: Coat of Arms
1997: The Sullivan Family is a Circle
1997: A Legendary O'Sullivan
1997: The Sullivan Family is a circle
1997: Proud or Not?
1998: Sadly Seeking Sullivans
1998: Song
1998: Grave Search
1998: O'Sullivan's - Pride in our History & Future!
1998: Family Reunion, Aussie style
1998: Sullivans: Extraordinary people!
1998: A tale of a boy and his dad in a cybercafe
1998: Happy St. Patrick's Day
1998: Sullivan Sucks
1998: O'Sullivan, Our Struggle
1998: John L III
1998: I've found O'Sullivan Beare!
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