1608
License granted
Sir Thomas Phillips is licensed by King James I to produce whiskey.
1784
Hugh Anderson founded the Old Bushmills Distillery Company
1860
Jame McColgan and Patrick Corrigan
1885
Fire
Bushmills Distillery is destroyed by fire.
1890
Launch of the steamship SS Bushmills
1923
Samuel Wilson Boyd
1929
Production changes
Bushmills switches from double to triple distillation.
1972
Irish Distillers Group
1987
Pernod Ricard acquires Irish Distillers
2005
Diageo
2014
Jose Cuervo
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