Anglo-Normans take Dublin

September 21, 1170

Strongbow's forces stormed the wooden city walls and chased its Norse king Hasculf out to sea. Within a year Henry II himself would land in Ireland to place himself between his over-powerful vassal and the native kingdoms, beginning the formal English lordship of Ireland. Henry received the submission of most Irish kings at a parliament in Waterford, establishing a pattern of nominal Irish acknowledgment and practical Irish resistance that would persist for centuries.