World History
Macardles History
 
1707
A Brief History of Brewing in Dundalk from 1707 - 1862

Us Civil War

Red Cross Founded

President Lincoln Assassinated

1863

Macardle Moore & Co Ltd formed on Cambricville Site.

E. Remington Begins to make typewriter

Alexander Graham bell Invents the Telephone & internal combustion engine

Edison invents the electric Light bulb

Custer and Men Killed by indians

1870
 

Benz builds gasoline engine for motor car

Statue of Liberty dedicated

Eiffel Tower built

1880
1882
Macardles awarded first prize gold medal at the Dublin exhibition

First Moving Picture in NY

Benz builds 4 wheel car.

Ford builds his first car

1890

1892
Cambricville wins 4 major awards at trade exhibition

1894
Macardle Moore & Co
becomes a limited company

First flight by Wright Brothers

Einstein 'Theory of Relativity

1900

1900
Directors Report

1903
Copper explosion

1907
Macardles Patent malt wagon & measure at the Irish international exhibition

Halley's comet observed

The 'Weekend' becomes popular in US

First World War

Irish Revolt Suppressed

End of World War

Worldwide Influenza epidemic Kills 22 million

1910

1915
General meeting outlines "Grave financial conditions"

1915
Sir Thomas Callan Macardle is awarded the KBE for services in supplying grain to the British Troops during WW1.

League of Nations

BBC founded

Lenin Introduces new economic policy in Russia

Irish Free state Proclaimed

First Scheduled TV Broadcast

Penicillin Discovered

1920
Dorothy Macardle becomes prominent in the Irish Patriot Movement. A prize in her name continues to be awarded for "Musician of the Year" in Dundalk

Empire State Building

Hitler Appointed German chancellor

WWII

1930
Michael Macardle (son of Patrick St John) tragically dies after a fall from his horse. A trophy in his name continues to be awarded each year at Dundalk Racecourse.

Electronic Computer Developed

WWII ends

1940
 

Colour TV

USSR Lunic Reaches the moon

1950
1959
New Bottling line installation

Vietnam war

President Kennedy Assassinated

Martin Luther King and R. Kennedy Assassinated

First man on the moon

1960

Early 1960
Ian Cook (Burton on Trent) introduces Double Diamond, a new chilled and filtered beer at MM.


1962 Irish Ale Breweries was formed including Guinness, Macardle Moore, Smithwicks and Cherry's Breweries.

1963
Macardle Moore & Co. Celebrates its 100th Anniversary

1963
Medialle D'augent won in Cologne

 

IRA bombings in Ireland and England

Margaret Thatcher becomes first woman prime minister

1970
1977
The Great Flood

PC Launched by IBM

Aids Virus discovered

Anglo Irish Agreement

Chernobyl Disaster 133,000 evacuated - Effects all of Europe

World Stock market Crash

1980

1988
Macardle Moore 125th Year anniversary

1988
Guinness purchase Irish Ale Breweries including Macardle Moore & Co. Ltd.

Desert Storm

IRA Ceasefire

Ban on British Beef (mad cow disease)

Peace Accord in N. Ireland

1990

1994
ISO 9002 award won

1996
Canning line & Bottling Upgrade Commissioned (£22 million)

World Trade Center Attacks
2000
April 2001
Closure of Macardle Moore & Co. Ltd (Dundalk Packaging)