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, Somerset, England.


Prehistory

*
Mesolithic The Mesolithic (Greek: μέσος, ''mesos'' 'middle' + λίθος, ''lithos'' 'stone') or Middle Stone Age is the Old World archaeological period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic. The term Epipaleolithic is often used synonymous ...
– Human activity on
Bathampton Down Bathampton Down is a flat limestone plateau in Bathampton, Somerset, England, overlooking the River Avon and the city of Bath. There is evidence of man's activity at the site since the Mesolithic period including Bathampton Camp, an Iron Age hi ...
. * Iron Age – Hillfort on Bathampton Down. * 863 BC (traditional date) – In legend, King
Bladud Bladud or Blaiddyd is a legendary king of the Britons, although there is no historical evidence for his existence. He is first mentioned in Geoffrey of Monmouth's ''Historia Regum Britanniae'' ( 1136), which describes him as the son of King Rud ...
discovers the sacred spring at Bath.


1st to 5th centuries

* c. 60s – First Roman temple structures built, around the hot water springs; completed by 76. * 2nd century ** Early: Baths extended. ** Late: Baths vaulted. * 3rd century – By this time,
Bath city walls Bath's city walls (also referred to as borough walls) were a sequence of defensive structures built around the city of Bath in England. Roman in origin, then restored by the Anglo-Saxons, and later strengthened in the High medieval period, the ...
are built for defence. * 300–350 – Evidence for Christians in Bath. * 5th century – Following the
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, Bath is largely abandoned.


6th to 10th centuries

* 516 – Battle of Badon: A famous battle against the Saxons, where a progenitor of
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is said to have been victorious; perhaps on
Bathampton Down Bathampton Down is a flat limestone plateau in Bathampton, Somerset, England, overlooking the River Avon and the city of Bath. There is evidence of man's activity at the site since the Mesolithic period including Bathampton Camp, an Iron Age hi ...
. * 577 – Battle of Deorham: Bath is captured by the Saxons and, being north of the River Avon, then falls within the Saxon petty-kingdom of the Hwicce. * 628 – Following the Battle of Cirencester, the Hwicce come under the rule of the kingdom of Mercia. * 676 – Abbess Berta founds a convent under the protection of Osric, king of the Hwicce. * 757 –
Cynewulf of Wessex Cynewulf was the King of Wessex from 757 until his death in 786. He ruled for about 29 years. He was a direct male descendant of Cerdic. Cynewulf became king after his predecessor, Sigeberht, was deposed. He may have come to power under the inf ...
grants land in Bath to monks of St Peter. * 781 –
Offa of Mercia Offa (died 29 July 796 AD) was List of monarchs of Mercia, King of Mercia, a kingdom of History of Anglo-Saxon England, Anglo-Saxon England, from 757 until his death. The son of Thingfrith and a descendant of Eowa of Mercia, Eowa, Offa came to ...
takes control of the monastery from the Bishop of Worcester. * 878 – Bath becomes a royal borough ( burh) of
Alfred the Great Alfred the Great (alt. Ælfred 848/849 – 26 October 899) was King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons from 886 until his death in 899. He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf and his first wife Osburh, who bot ...
, in his kingdom of Wessex (and also in the county of Somerset). * c. 900 – Market active. * 973 – 11 May (Whitsunday):
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, King of England 959–975, is crowned and anointed with his wife Ælfthryth at
Bath Abbey The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, commonly known as Bath Abbey, is a parish church of the Church of England and former Benedictine monastery in Bath, Somerset, England. Founded in the 7th century, it was reorganised in the 10th ...
by
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, Archbishop of Canterbury. The Church of St Swithin, Walcot, is founded at about this date. * c. 980 – Ælfheah becomes abbot of Bath.


11th to 17th centuries

* 1087 – Town, Abbey and mint pass to John of Tours. * 1090 – John of Tours, Bishop of Wells, moves the episcopal seat to Bath, giving it city status. * Early 12th century? – King's Bath built. * 1102 – Bath
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active. * 1137 – Major fire. * 1148–1161 – Abbey consecrated between these dates. * c. 1174 – St John's Hospital founded. * 1273 – Old Bridge extant. * 1285 – Church of St Michael's Within built in St John's Hospital. * c. 1333 – Monks of the abbey establish a weaving trade in Broad Street. * 1371 – Market mentioned in charter. * c. 1435 – Hospital of St Catherine established. * 1482 – " Sally Lunn's House" built. * c. 1495 – St Mary Magdalen, Holloway, built as a chapel to a leper's hospital. * 1499 – Abbey found derelict by Oliver King, Bishop of Bath and Wells, who begins its reconstruction. * 1533 – Rebuilding of Abbey substantially completed by this date. * 1539 – January: Dissolution of the Monasteries: Abbey surrendered. * 1552 ** King Edward's School founded as a grammar school. ** Approximate date: First market house built. * 1572 ** The roofless Abbey is given to the corporation of Bath for restoration as a parish church. ** Dr. John Jones makes the first public endorsement of the medicinal properties of the city's water. * 1576 – Queen's Bath built. * 1578 – Drinking fountain installed in the Baths. * 1590 – Bath chartered (city status confirmed) by Elizabeth I. * 1597 – Deserving poor given free use of the mineral water. * 1608 – Bellott's Hospital established. * 1613 and 1615 - Anne of Denmark, wife of James VI and I, visits Bath for her health * 1616 – Abbey Church consecrated. * 1625–1628 – Guildhall rebuilt. * 1643 – 5 July: Battle of Lansdowne fought near the city. * 1657 – Regular coach service from London. * 1676 – Dr.
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publishes ''A discourse of Bathe, and the hot waters there. Also, Some Enquiries into the Nature of the water'', the first published account of the medicinal properties of the city's water. * 1677 – West Gate pub in business. * 1680 – Supposed origin of the
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. * 1687 –
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, queen consort of James II of England, visits in the hope that Bath waters would aid conception; by the end of the year she is pregnant with James Francis Edward Stuart.


1700s

* 1702–1703 – Queen Anne visits. * 1704 – First pump-room built; Richard "Beau" Nash is appointed Master of Ceremonies. * 1705 – First theatre in the city built. * 1707 – Bath Turnpike Trust established. * 1708 – Harrison's Assembly Rooms, with a riverside walk, open. * 1711 – Bluecoat school founded as a charity. * 1712 – March: Ralph Allen appointed postmaster. * 1715 – Church of St Michael's Within in St John's Hospital rebuilt to the design of William Killigrew. * 1720 – Ralph Allen begins to farm the Cross and Bye Posts in the south west of England. * 1717 – Approximate date: Green Street developed. * 1721 – Bluecoat school opens. * 1724 – James Leake (bookseller) in business. * 1725–1727 – Guildhall extended. * 1725 **
John Wood, the Elder John Wood, the Elder (1704 – 23 May 1754) was an English architect, working mainly in Bath. In 1740 he surveyed Stonehenge and the Stanton Drew stone circles. He later wrote extensively about Bladud and Neo-Druidism. Because of some ...
, newly returned to Bath, presents his plans for the city to Ralph Allen. ** Approximate date:
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settles in Bath. * 1726 ** Ralph Allen begins buying up
Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines Combe Down and Bathampton Down Quarries () make up a 6.22 hectare (15.37 acre) Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Bath and North East Somerset, England, important for its bat population. The disused quarries date from the 17th and 18t ...
for building stone. **
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, buys Chandos House to let as lodgings. * 1727–1728 –
John Wood, the Elder John Wood, the Elder (1704 – 23 May 1754) was an English architect, working mainly in Bath. In 1740 he surveyed Stonehenge and the Stanton Drew stone circles. He later wrote extensively about Bladud and Neo-Druidism. Because of some ...
, executes his first private commission in Bath, a new building for St John's Hospital. * 1727–1736 – Beaufort Square laid out by
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. * 1727 ** Gilt bronze head from cult statue of Sulis Minerva from the Roman Temple is found by workmen excavating a sewer and placed in the guildhall. ** 15 December: River Avon made navigable downstream to Bristol. ** Approximate date: Construction of
Ralph Allen's Town House Ralph Allen's Town House is a grade I listed townhouse in Bath, Somerset, England. Ralph Allen commenced building it in or shortly after 1727, although it is unlikely he ever lived there. At the time Allen was living in Lilliput Alley, in a ho ...
begins. * 1728 ** St John's Gate ("Trim Bridge") built. ** First Bath Racecourse recorded. * 1728–1736 – Queen Square laid out by
John Wood, the Elder John Wood, the Elder (1704 – 23 May 1754) was an English architect, working mainly in Bath. In 1740 he surveyed Stonehenge and the Stanton Drew stone circles. He later wrote extensively about Bladud and Neo-Druidism. Because of some ...
. * 1730s –
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laid out. * 1731 – A
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is opened to carry building stone from Ralph Allen's Combe Down mine through his
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estate down to the
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. * c. 1733 ** Thomas Warr Attwood becomes ''de facto'' first
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and
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. ** First printing press established in the city, by Felix Farley of Bristol. * 1734 ** Royal visit by William IV, Prince of Orange, marked by an obelisk of 1735. ** Construction begins on Ralph Allen's house at
Prior Park Prior Park is a Neo-Palladian house that was designed by John Wood, the Elder, and built in the 1730s and 1740s for Ralph Allen on a hill overlooking Bath, Somerset, England. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The house was bu ...
to the design of
John Wood, the Elder John Wood, the Elder (1704 – 23 May 1754) was an English architect, working mainly in Bath. In 1740 he surveyed Stonehenge and the Stanton Drew stone circles. He later wrote extensively about Bladud and Neo-Druidism. Because of some ...
. ** 25 December: St Mary the Virgin opened near Queen Square as the city's first
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(foundation stone laid 25 March 1732; designed by
John Wood, the Elder John Wood, the Elder (1704 – 23 May 1754) was an English architect, working mainly in Bath. In 1740 he surveyed Stonehenge and the Stanton Drew stone circles. He later wrote extensively about Bladud and Neo-Druidism. Because of some ...
). * 1735 ** Construction of New Bridge to carry the Bristol Road over the Avon begins. ** Gay Street laid out by
John Wood, the Elder John Wood, the Elder (1704 – 23 May 1754) was an English architect, working mainly in Bath. In 1740 he surveyed Stonehenge and the Stanton Drew stone circles. He later wrote extensively about Bladud and Neo-Druidism. Because of some ...
. * 1738 – Royal visit by Frederick, Prince of Wales with Princess Augusta, marked by erection of an obelisk in Queen Square. * 1739 **
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(Royal Mineral Water Hospital, "The Min") established by Act of Parliament as The Hospital or Infirmary in the City of Bath; it will be built to plans of 1738 by
John Wood, the Elder John Wood, the Elder (1704 – 23 May 1754) was an English architect, working mainly in Bath. In 1740 he surveyed Stonehenge and the Stanton Drew stone circles. He later wrote extensively about Bladud and Neo-Druidism. Because of some ...
. ** Portrait painter William Hoare settles in Bath. * c. 1741 –
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built by
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. * 1742 ** Ralph Allen elected mayor and his residence at
Prior Park Prior Park is a Neo-Palladian house that was designed by John Wood, the Elder, and built in the 1730s and 1740s for Ralph Allen on a hill overlooking Bath, Somerset, England. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The house was bu ...
is completed. ** Church of St Swithin, Walcot, rebuilt following storm damage in 1739. ** William Frederick (bookseller) in business. * 1743–1749 – South Parade built to the design of
John Wood, the Elder John Wood, the Elder (1704 – 23 May 1754) was an English architect, working mainly in Bath. In 1740 he surveyed Stonehenge and the Stanton Drew stone circles. He later wrote extensively about Bladud and Neo-Druidism. Because of some ...
. * 1744 ** 27 February: The ''Bath Journal'', the city's first newspaper and a predecessor of the '' Bath Chronicle'', begins publication. ** Sham bridge in Ralph Allen's
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estate designed by Alexander Pope. * 1745 – Beau Nash forced to retire as Master of Ceremonies due to anti-gambling laws. * 1747 – Bath Pauper Scheme originates. * 1750 ** 27 October:
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opens as St James' Theatre. ** Approximate date:
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biscuit devised by
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. * 1751 – Pump Room enlarged, truncating the King's Bath. * 1752 – King Edward's School rebuilt in Broad Street. * 1754 ** February: The Circus house construction begins to the design of
John Wood, the Elder John Wood, the Elder (1704 – 23 May 1754) was an English architect, working mainly in Bath. In 1740 he surveyed Stonehenge and the Stanton Drew stone circles. He later wrote extensively about Bladud and Neo-Druidism. Because of some ...
. ** Old Bridge rebuilt. * 1754–1755 – North and South Gates demolished (West Gate demolished c. 1776). * 1755 ** '' Bath Advertiser'' newspaper begins publication. **
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rediscovered. ** Kingston Baths built for
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on the site of the Abbey cloister. ** Palladian bridge in Ralph Allen's
Prior Park Landscape Garden Prior Park Landscape Garden surrounding the Prior Park estate south of Bath, Somerset, England, was designed in the 18th century by the poet Alexander Pope and the landscape gardener Capability Brown, and is now owned by the National Trust. Th ...
built to a design by Richard Jones. * 1758–1774 – Portrait painter Thomas Gainsborough resident at 17 The Circus. * 1759 – William Pitt, Secretary of State, from 7 The Circus, orders James Wolfe to capture Quebec City. * 1760 – Gay Street developed. * 1762 – Sham castle built as an eye-catcher in Ralph Allen's
Prior Park Landscape Garden Prior Park Landscape Garden surrounding the Prior Park estate south of Bath, Somerset, England, was designed in the 18th century by the poet Alexander Pope and the landscape gardener Capability Brown, and is now owned by the National Trust. Th ...
to a design by Richard Jones. * 1762–1763 – Milsom Street built. * 1765 – 6 October: The second chapel of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion is opened in The Paragon;
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is the first preacher. * 1766 **
Christopher Anstey Christopher Anstey (31 October 1724 – 3 August 1805) was an English poet who also wrote in Latin. After a period managing his family's estates, he moved permanently to Bath and died after a long public life there. His poem, ''The New Bath Gui ...
publishes his long satirical epistolary poem ''The New Bath Guide''. ** William Herschel arrives in Bath, initially as organist of the Octagon Chapel (completed 1767); his house in New King Street is built. ** 20 December:
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house construction begins to the design of John Wood, the Younger. * 1767–1768 – Brock Street built to the design of John Wood, the Younger. * 1768 – The Theatre Royal, Bath (
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) and Theatre Royal, Norwich, assume these titles having been granted Royal Patents, making them officially England's only legal provincial theatres. * 1769 – The Circus ("King's Circus") houses completed to the design of John Wood, the Younger. * 1769–1774 – Pulteney Bridge constructed to the design of Robert Adam.Commemorative inscription. * 1771 – 30 September: New (Upper) Assembly Rooms, built to the design of John Wood, the Younger, open with Capt. William Wade as Master of Ceremonies. * 1772 – 18 March: Playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan elopes with soprano
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from her home in
Royal Crescent The Royal Crescent is a row of 30 terraced houses laid out in a sweeping Crescent (architecture), crescent in the city of Bath, Somerset, Bath, England. Designed by the architect John Wood, the Younger and built between 1767 and 1774, it is a ...
. * 1774 –
Royal Crescent The Royal Crescent is a row of 30 terraced houses laid out in a sweeping Crescent (architecture), crescent in the city of Bath, Somerset, Bath, England. Designed by the architect John Wood, the Younger and built between 1767 and 1774, it is a ...
houses completed to the design of John Wood, the Younger. * 1775–1777 – Hot Bath built to the design of John Wood, the Younger. * 1775 – 15 November: Architect Thomas Warr Attwood is killed by the collapse of a derelict building which he is inspecting on the site of the intended new Guildhall and is succeeded as
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by Thomas Baldwin. * 1777–1779 – Wesleyan church built in New King Street. * 1777 ** 28 August: Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture, Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce founded. ** Church of St Swithin, Walcot, rebuilt to the design of
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, opens. ** Card room added to the Assembly Rooms. **
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court opens in Julian Road. * 1778–1782 – Sarah Siddons appears at the
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. * 1778 – New Guildhall completed to the design of Thomas Baldwin and the previous one is demolished. * 1779 – 28 December: Bath Philosophical Society founded; ceases 1787. * 1780 ** 13 June: Anti-Catholic unrest. ** Roman Great Bath rediscovered. ** First record of the
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. ** Approximate date: Oxford Row built. * 1781 – 13 March: William Herschel makes the first observation of the planet Uranus from his back garden in New King Street. * 1783–1784 – Cross Bath built by Thomas Baldwin. * 1784 – 2 August:
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demonstrates his mail coach system. * 1787–1788 – Camden Crescent built by John Eveleigh. * 1788–1794 – Laura Place built by Thomas Baldwin and John Eveleigh. * 1788 – Bath Casualty Hospital (a predecessor of the Royal United Hospital) opens. * 1789–1793 – Lansdown Crescent built by
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. * 1789 ** July: Bath Improvement Act passed by Parliament giving the City Council powers to purchase, demolish and rebuild. ** South Colonnade for Grand Pump Room scheme completed by Thomas Baldwin. **
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opened in Argyle Street. * 1790 ** 9 April: Thomas Baldwin is appointed first architect and surveyor to the Improvement Commissioners formed under the Act of 1789. ** North Colonnade for Grand Pump Room scheme completed by Thomas Baldwin. ** Roman temple pediment discovered during work near the Baths. ** Somerset Place construction begins to the design of John Eveleigh. * 1791 – 31 March: Bath Street construction begins to the design of Thomas Baldwin. * 1792 ** March: Norfolk Crescent construction begins to the design of
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. ** Bath City Dispensary and Infirmary founded. ** Lansdown Course races begin. * 1793 ** September: Laying out of
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begins to the design of Thomas Baldwin. ** Bath bank crash. * 1795 ** 11 May:
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open as Bath Vauxhall Gardens, commercial pleasure grounds. Sydney Hotel is under construction here. ** 28 December: Grand Pump Room opens. Begun around 1789 by Thomas Baldwin, construction work is completed 1793–1799 by
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. ** Harmonic Society formed. * 1796? – York Street opened. * 1797–1798 – Cross Bath rebuilt by
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. * 1797 ** 30 May: Abolitionist William Wilberforce marries Barbara Spooner at the Church of St Swithin, Walcot, the couple having met on 15 April in Bath. ** House of Antiquities opened to display archaeological finds. * 1798 – 7 November: Christ Church dedicated as a
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built to the design of
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. * 1799 ** By summer: William Smith produces the first large-scale geological map, of the area round Bath. ** 8 August: Lace goes missing from Elizabeth Gregory's milliner's shop; Jane Leigh Perrot (Jane Austen's aunt) is charged with its theft. ** 11 December: William Smith draws up a table of
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round Bath. ** Sydney Hotel opens in
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to the design of
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. ** A new Philosophical Society is established.


1800s

* 1800 ** North side of Pulteney Bridge collapses in a flood. ** S. W. Simms (bookseller) in business. ** Approximate date *** Jewish congregation formed. *** First houses in
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completed to the design of Thomas Baldwin. * 1801 ** January:
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becomes resident in Bath when her father retires here; she will remain until summer 1806 living mostly in the new-built Sydney Place. ** 1 May:
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opens from Bath to Devizes (completion of the locks at the latter place at the end of 1810 creates through inland water communication to London). * 1802 – Balloon ascents from
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. * 1805 ** 1 January:
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's father, the Rev. George Austen, dies in Bath; he is buried at the Church of St Swithin, Walcot, where he had been married in 1764 ** Penitentiary established. ** New Theatre Royal (replacing the
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) and Barker's Picture Gallery open. ** De Montalt Mill, Combe Down, established as a
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. * 1806 – East wing of Grand Pump Room completed. * 1808 – New houses in
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completed to the design of John Pinch the elder. * 1810 ** Lancasterian Free School established. ** Union Street completed. * 1812 – Jewish Burial Ground, Combe Down opened. * 1813 -
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opens, allowing the Bath locks on the
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to be used in periods of low rainfall. * 1815 **
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opened. ** Stothert's iron foundry established. * 1816 – 8 January: Third Bath Philosophical Society formed. * 1817 ** Royal visit by Queen Charlotte. ** Atkinson & Tucker (booksellers) in business. * 1818 – Bath Gas Light Company established. * 1819 – Masonic Hall dedicated. * 1821 – 6 February: Original Assembly Rooms in Terrace Walk destroyed by fire. * 1822 ** Norfolk Crescent completed to the design of John Pinch the elder. ** Post office in Broad Street. * 1824 –
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founded (given Royal status 1837). * 1825 ** 19 January:
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opens its premises on the site of the original Assembly Rooms in Terrace Walk. ** The Corridor, one of the world's earliest retail arcades, is built to the design of architect
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. ** Mechanics Institute opens. ** Lansdown Cricket Club formed. * 1826 ** Bath United Hospital opens in Beau Street in a building designed by John Pinch the elder. ** A. H. Hale's pharmacy in business in Argyle Street. * 1827 **
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(Lansdown Tower) is completed by
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for William Beckford. **
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opened as a toll bridge. ** John Loudon McAdam appointed Surveyor of the Bath Roads, a post which he holds until his death in 1836. ** Partis College completed as almshouses for women by Ann and Fletcher Partis. * 1829 – New basin at baths completed. * 1830 **
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is opened by the 11-year-old Princess Victoria as a private pleasure ground. ** Prior Park College is opened as the Sacred Heart College. * 1831 – Jolly's department store opens as The Bath Emporium. * 1832 – Sydney Buildings constructed. * 1833–1834 –
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restores the Abbey, replacing the pinnacles. * 1834–1837 – St Michael's Without church rebuilt to the design of
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. * 1834 – Stothert, Rayne & Pitt acquire the Newark Iron Foundry. * 1836 ** 1 January: Local government reformed under terms of the
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; city corporation is obliged to surrender control over Abbey appointments. ** 28 March: Bath Poor Law Union formed and begins construction of a new workhouse at
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. ** 30 May: Major fire at
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. ** North Parade Bridge built in cast iron to the design of
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and Victoria suspension bridge built to the patent of
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* 1837 – Victoria Column erected. * 1839 –
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moves to Bath. * 1840 ** 2 May: First
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postage stamp sent from 8 Broad Street by Thomas Musgrave. ** 6 June: Novelist Fanny Burney dies in Bath; she is buried at the Church of St Swithin, Walcot. ** 31 August:
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opened from
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to
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; 30 June 1841 through to
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. * 1841 ** January: Major floods. ** November: First "
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Institute" (photographic studio) in Bath opened, in Subscription Walk Gardens. * 1846 – City authorised to provide drinking water from springs at Bathampton and Batheaston. * 1847 – Commercial Reading Room and Tottenham Library founded. * 1851 – Kingswood School moves to Bath. * 1852 – Bath School of Art founded. * 1854 – Post Office in York Buildings, George Street (1750s). * 1855 ** February: Bath Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club established by Leonard Jenyns. ** Bath Quartet Society established. ** Corn market built in Walcot Street. * 1856 – J. B. Bowler, engineer and carbonated drink manufacturer, in business. * 1859–1860 – New Bluecoat school built. * 1861–1863 – St John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church in South Parade is built to the design of
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. * 1861 – Guildhall Market built. * 1862 – 18 April: A major fire causes the Theatre Royal to be rebuilt. * 1863 – Widcombe ("Halfpenny") footbridge first built over the Avon in wood. * 1864 ** Bath United Hospital given its Royal prefix on opening of its Albert wing. **
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opens as Walcot Cemetery. * 1865 **
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founded by members of Lansdown Cricket Club as Bath Football Club. **
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becomes a Masonic Hall. * 1867 **
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rigs up a telegraph line in Bennett Street while teaching at Somerset College. ** James Irvine records remains of the Roman temple of Sulis Minerva. * 1869–1885 – Excavations of
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by Maj. C. E. Davis, the city architect. * 1869 ** 4 August: Queen Square station opens to passengers as terminus of the Midland Railway's Mangotsfield and Bath Branch Line. ** Original White Horse Inn (opposite the Pump Room) is demolished. * 1870–1873 – St Andrew's Church built to the design of
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. * 1874 ** 20 July:
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begins operating from Queen Square station. ** Manvers Estate sold. * 1875 **
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established by the Girls' Public Day School Company. ** ?: Bath City Police established. * 1877 – 6 June: Widcombe footbridge collapses, killing eleven, causing it to be rebuilt as a wrought-iron lattice girder. * 1878 ** Bath College opens. ** Corporation acquires Kingston Baths. * 1880 ** 28 February: Bath Golf Club founded ** 24 December:
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begins operating horsecars. ** Approximate date: Blaine's Folly built. * 1881 – Population: 52,557. * 1882 – Holburne Museum fine art collection bequeathed to the city. * 1883 – Queen's Bath largely demolished revealing a Roman circular bath. * 1886 – First telephone exchange. * 1887 – Botanical Gardens opened in Royal Victoria Park. * 1888 – Bath Photographic Society formed. * 1889 ** 1 April: Bath becomes a county borough under terms of the Local Government Act 1888. ** 21 June: William Friese-Greene, working in Bath since c. 1875, patents a "chronophotographic" camera, an early form of movie camera. ** New douche and massage baths incorporating parts of the Queen's Bath and of the 1786 New Private Baths and including an arch over York Street completed to the design of C. E. Davis. ** Landslide destroys nine houses in Camden Crescent. **
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Co-operative Society, a consumers' co-operative, opens its first shop. ** Bath Association Football Club formed. * 1890 – Electricity generating station begins operation. * 1891 – Bath Fire Brigade and Ambulance Service established. * 1892 – Technical training begins, origin of
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and Bath College of Domestic Science. * 1893 – Holburne Museum opens in Charlotte Street. * 1894 – Major floods. * 1896 – April: Bath Municipal Technical College and Bath City Secondary School established in a new north extension of the Guildhall. * 1897 ** 18 October:
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foundation stone laid to commemorate the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria. ** Henrietta Gardens laid out to commemorate the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria. **
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and associated Concert Room designed by
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are opened to the public.


1900s

* 1900 ** Silcox Son & Wicks, furnishers, established. ** May:
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and Reference Library opens. ** New (redbrick) houses for the working classes erected in Dolemeads. * 1901 ** Empire Hotel in business (designed by C. E. Davis). ** Population: 49,839. * 1902 – 25 July: Horse tram system closes for electrification, being temporarily replaced by horsebuses. * 1904 – 2 January:
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begins operating. * 1905 – 12 December:
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, a replacement lattice-girder bridge over the Avon, is opened. * 1907 – Bath School of Pharmacy established. * 1909 ** c. February: Old Bath Preservation Society, predecessor of
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, set up. ** 19–24 July: Historical Pageant staged in Royal Victoria Park. ** St Winifred's Quarry built as a house on
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to the design of Charles Voysey. * 1910 – Jubilee Hall Cinema operating in Assembly Rooms. * 1911 – 9 November:
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and parts of Charlcombe and Weston are incorporated within the city boundary under terms of the Local Government Act 1888. * 1915 ** T. R. Hayes, furnishers, established. ** December:
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is commissioned to produce a post-war plan for the city. * 1916 ** Bath War Hospital set up at Combe Park. ** Holburne Museum moves to the former Sydney Hotel. * 1920 – Bath Tramways Motor Company set up to operate motor buses. * 1923 ** Roman hot plunge baths excavated. ** Kingston Baths demolished. * 1925 ** Bath Corporation Act includes conservation powers. ** Lansdown Water Tower built. * 1927 ** 16 May: New Post Office and Telephone Exchange opens in Northgate Street. ** 3 November: City war memorial dedicated. * 1929 ** 20 June:
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, having been acquired in 1925 by Bath Corporation and rebuilt, is freed of toll. ** July: Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady & St Alphege completed in Oldfield Park to the design of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. * 1931 – October: Assembly Rooms purchased by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings with funds provided by Ernest Cook and transferred to the National Trust for restoration and preservation. * 1932 **
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moves to premises in Queen Square. ** 11 December:
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opens on the Combe Park site and its former premises are taken over by
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. * 1934 –
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founded. * 1936–1941 – Haile Selassie, deposed
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, spends most of his exile in Bath. * 1936 – North Parade Bridge rebuilt in stone-faced reinforced concrete. * 1937 ** Bath Corporation Act includes additional conservation powers. ** A school crossing patrol ("lollipop lady") is appointed, one of the earliest in the UK. * 1938 ** 15 October: Assembly Rooms reopened after restoration. ** Kilowatt House on Claverton Down, a unique example of modernist architecture in the city, is completed to the design of Mollie Taylor as a residence for electrical engineer Anthony Greenhill. * 1939 ** 6 May: The Bristol Tramways and Carriage Company, operator of the Bath tramways, converts the last remaining routes to motor bus operation. ** 3 September: On the outbreak of World War II, departments of the
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begin evacuation to Bath. * 1942 – 25–27 April: Bath Blitz: Three German aerial bombing raids as part of the " Baedeker Blitz" kill 417; among the buildings destroyed or badly damaged are the newly restored Assembly Rooms, St Andrew's church and All Saints Chapel. * 1944 – March–November:
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is assigned to a wartime job working on publicity for the Admiralty at the requisitioned Empire Hotel. * 1945 – Town planner Patrick Abercrombie produces ''A Plan for Bath'' for post-war reconstruction. * 1946 – October:
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founded. * 1948 ** Bath Assembly (music festival) begins. ** Queen Square is given to the citizens of Bath in memory of those killed in the Blitz. * 1951 **
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opens the innovative Hole in the Wall restaurant. ** July–August: John Straffen strangles two young girls. * 1955 ** Bath Terraces Scheme introduced to conserve the city's historic architecture. ** Covered reservoir opens on
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. * 1958 – Bus station opened in Manvers Street. * 1960 – December: Major floods. * 1961 – Bath Crematorium opens. * 1963 ** 23 May: Assembly Rooms reopen after post-war reconstruction incorporating the Museum of Costume. ** 10 June: The Beatles play the Pavilion. * 1965–Easter 1983 – Excavations of
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under the direction of
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, including areas beneath the Grand Pump Room and in the sacred spring. * 1965 – Town planner Colin Buchanan publishes ''Bath: a planning and transport study''. * 1966 ** 7 March:
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and
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close with effect from this date. ** November: University of Bath chartered, work having started on its Claverton Down site in 1964. ** Churchill Bridge replaces Old Bridge over the Avon. ** Electricity generating station ceases operation. * 1969–1972 – Original
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built to the design of Owen Luder. * 1969 – J. B. Bowler, engineer and carbonated drink manufacturer, ceases business. * 1970 ** 16 May: Reopening of Widcombe bottom lock as part of the restoration of the
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. ** June: Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music held. ** 20 June:
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opened to the public as an historic house museum by
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after a 2-year restoration. ** 23–29 September: Adam Fergusson's essay criticising inappropriate development, "
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", is published in '' The Times'' newspaper by the editor William Rees-Mogg; it is subsequently expanded into a book with photographs by
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and verses by
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. * 1971 ** 25 April: Population: 84,670. ** New semicircular Pulteney Weir in the Avon designed by Neville Conder is completed. ** Bath gasworks ceases production. * 1973 – 30 March: Beaufort Hotel (later
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Bath City Hotel) opens in Walcot Street. * 1974 **1 April: Bath becomes part of Avon non-metropolitan county under terms of the
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. ** 9 December: Irish Republican Army bomb exploded in The Corridor. * 1975 ** Bath College of Higher Education established. ** Hermann Miller furniture factory built by Farrell/Grimshaw Partnership. * 1978 – Spa baths closed due to contamination. * 1979 ** 27 April:
Bath Postal Museum The Bath Postal Museum is in Bath, Somerset, England. The museum was founded in 1979 by Audrey and Harold Swindells in the basement of their house in Great Pulteney Street. In 1985, it moved to a home in Broad Street. This was the site of Bath ...
opens in
Great Pulteney Street Great Pulteney Street is a grand thoroughfare that connects Bathwick on the east of the River Avon with the City of Bath, England via the Robert Adam designed Pulteney Bridge. Viewed from the city side of the bridge the road leads directly to t ...
. ** Roper Rhodes bathroom accessories business launched. * 1981 –
Bath Fringe Festival The Bath Fringe Festival is an annual art festival, held in Bath, England. Bath Fringe was founded in 1981 as a counterbalance to the 'classical'-dominated Bath Music Festival, which some people perceived to be elitist and out-of-touch with w ...
and Bath Half Marathon begin. * 1986 –
Bristol and Bath Railway Path The Bristol and Bath Railway Path is a off-road cycleway, part of National Cycle Network NCR 4, National Cycle Route 4. It has a wide tarmacked surface, and was used for 2.4 million trips in 2007, increasing by 10% per year. It was built by ...
laid out. ** 26 July: Major fire at The Colonnades, Bath Street * 1987 ** 22 May: GWR FM Bath launches as an independent local radio station. ** December: City of Bath inscribed as a World Heritage Site. * 1989 – 11 January: Closure of
Stothert & Pitt Stothert & Pitt was a British engineering company founded in 1855 in Bath, England. It was the builder of various engineering products ranging from Dock cranes to construction plant and household cast iron items. It went out of business in 1989 ...
is announced. * 1991 ** 21 April: Population: 78,689. ** Summer: Major fire at
Prior Park Prior Park is a Neo-Palladian house that was designed by John Wood, the Elder, and built in the 1730s and 1740s for Ralph Allen on a hill overlooking Bath, Somerset, England. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The house was bu ...
. * 1993 ** April:
Museum of East Asian Art The Museum of East Asian Art or MEAA is in Bennett Street, Bath, Somerset, England. Just a few metres off The Circus in central Bath, the Museum of East Asian Art is situated in a restored Georgian house. Its collection includesceramics, jad ...
opens. ** May:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution The Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution (also known as BRLSI) is an educational charity based in Bath, England. It was founded in 1824 and provides a museum, an independent library, exhibition space, meeting rooms and a programme of ...
relaunched at its Queen Square premises; new public library opened in the Podium. * 1995 –
Bath Literature Festival The Bath Literature Festival, held annually in Bath, Somerset, England, was an important date in the national literary calendar, playing host to an array of journalists, novelists, poets, politicians, actors, comedians, writers and biographers bet ...
begins. * 1996 – 1 April: City becomes part of the Bath and North East Somerset non-metropolitan district. Charter Trustees of the City of Bath established. * 1997 – Ustinov Studio (theatre) built. * 1999 – 15 November: Bath FM launches as an independent local radio station, broadcasting until 24 March 2010.


2000s

* 2000 – New Wessex Water headquarters on Claverton Down built to the design of Bennetts Associates. * 2001 – April: city population recorded by the census is 83,992. * 2002 – '' Bath Times'' newspaper begins publication as a free weekly; it ceases publication by 2007. * 2005 ** August: Bath Spa University gains full university status. ** October: The Egg opens. * 2006 – 7 August:
Thermae Bath Spa Thermae Bath Spa is a combination of the historic spa and a contemporary building in the city of Bath, Somerset, Bath, England, and reopened in 2006. Bath and North East Somerset council own the buildings, and, as decreed in a Royal Charter of ...
facility opens. * 2007 **September:
Bath Festival of Children's Literature The Bath Children's Literature Festival (also known as Bath Kids' Lit Fest) is an annual book festival held in Bath, Somerset aimed at children's books. The festival features a variety of authors, poets, illustrators and storytellers. It typicall ...
begins. **October: '' Bath Chronicle'' changes from daily to weekly publication. * 2008 –
Beau Street Hoard The Beau Street Hoard, found in Bath, Somerset, is the fifth-largest hoard ever found in Britain and the largest ever discovered in a British Roman town. It consists of an estimated 17,500 silver Roman coins dating from between 32 BC and 274 ...
found. * 2009 –
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and
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shopping centre open. * 2011 ** April: city population recorded by the census is 88,859. ** October: Occupy Bath begins. ** Construction of Bath Western Riverside residential development on former
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crane factory site begins. * 2015 ** 9 February: A child and three adults are killed and four others seriously injured when a poorly maintained tipper truck runs away down Lansdown Lane into Weston. ** April: City of Bath College renamed Bath College.


Births

* c.953 – Ælfheah of Canterbury, archbishop (d. 1012) * c.1080 –
Adelard of Bath Adelard of Bath ( la, Adelardus Bathensis; 1080? 1142–1152?) was a 12th-century English natural philosopher. He is known both for his original works and for translating many important Arabic and Greek scientific works of astrology, astronom ...
, natural philosopher (d. c.1152) * 1704 –
John Wood, the elder John Wood, the Elder (1704 – 23 May 1754) was an English architect, working mainly in Bath. In 1740 he surveyed Stonehenge and the Stanton Drew stone circles. He later wrote extensively about Bladud and Neo-Druidism. Because of some ...
, architect (d. 1754) * 1707 –
Benjamin Robins Benjamin Robins (170729 July 1751) was a pioneering British scientist, Newtonian mathematician, and military engineer. He wrote an influential treatise on gunnery, for the first time introducing Newtonian science to military men, was an early en ...
, military engineer (d. 1751) * 1728 – 25 February: John Wood, the younger, architect (d. 1782) * 1732 – David Hartley, the younger, statesman and inventor (d. 1813) * c.1738 –
John Palmer John Palmer may refer to: People Politicians * John Palmer (fl. 1377–1394), English politician *Sir John Palmer, 5th Baronet (1735–1817), British politician *John Palmer (1785–1840), U.S. congressman from New York *John Palmer (1842–1905) ...
, architect (d. 1817) * 1742 –
John Palmer John Palmer may refer to: People Politicians * John Palmer (fl. 1377–1394), English politician *Sir John Palmer, 5th Baronet (1735–1817), British politician *John Palmer (1785–1840), U.S. congressman from New York *John Palmer (1842–1905) ...
, postal innovator and theatre owner (d. 1818) * 1744 – 31 May: Richard Lovell Edgeworth, politician, writer and inventor (d. 1817) * 1751 –
Honora Sneyd Honora Edgeworth (''née'' Sneyd; 1751 – 1 May 1780) was an eighteenth-century English writer, mainly known for her associations with literary figures of the day particularly Anna Seward and the Lunar Society, and for her work on children's e ...
, educationalist (d. 1780) * 1754 – September:
Elizabeth Ann Linley Elizabeth Ann Sheridan ( Linley; September 1754 – 28 June 1792) was an 18th-century English singer who was known to have possessed great beauty. She was the subject of several paintings by Thomas Gainsborough, who was a family friend, Joshu ...
, soprano (d. 1792) * 1771 – Frances Brett Hodgkinson, actress in the United States (d. 1803) * 1773 – 14 January: William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, diplomat and Governor-General of India (d. 1857) * 1780 ** 3 June:
William Hone William Hone (3 June 1780 – 8 November 1842) was an English writer, satirist and bookseller. His victorious court battle against government censorship in 1817 marked a turning point in the fight for British press freedom. Biography Hon ...
, libertarian writer, satirist and bookseller (d. 1842) ** Approximate date: Daniel Terry, actor and playwright (d. 1829) * 1790 – 19 December: William Parry, Arctic explorer (d. 1855) * 1794 ** 9 September:
William Lonsdale William Lonsdale (9 September 1794 in Bath, Somerset, Bath11 November 1871 in Bristol), English geologist and palaeontologist, won the Wollaston Medal, Wollaston medal in 1846 for his research on the various kinds of fossil corals. Biography H ...
, geologist (d. 1871) ** James Dredge, the elder, civil engineer and brewer (d. 1863) * 1796 – John Pinch, the younger, architect (d. 1849) * 1807 – Robert Montgomery, poet (d. 1855) * 1808 – 15 July: Henry Cole, civil servant and inventor (d. 1882) * 1810 – 2 April:
Edward Vansittart Neale Edward Vansittart Neale (1810–1892) was an English barrister, cooperator, and Christian socialist. Biography Neale was born on 2 April 1810 in Bath, one of the eight children of Edward Vansittart Neale (formerly Vansittart), Rector of T ...
, Christian socialist (d. 1892) * 1816 – 17 March: Abraham Marchant, Mormon leader (d. 1881) * 1820 – 22 June: Charles Lowder, Anglo-Catholic priest (d. 1880) * 1835 – 2 April: William Eden Nesfield, domestic revival architect (d. 1888) * 1840 – 29 July: James Dredge, the younger, civil engineering journalist (d. 1906) * 1846 – 26 October: C. P. Scott, newspaper editor (d. 1932) * 1881 – 7 July: Sidney Horstmann, engineer and businessman (d. 1962) * 1888 – 15 June:
Martin D'Arcy Martin Cyril D'Arcy (15 June 1888 – 20 November 1976) was a Roman Catholic priest, philosopher of love, and a correspondent, friend, and adviser of a range of literary and artistic figures including Evelyn Waugh, Dorothy L. Sayers, W. H. Aude ...
, Catholic intellectual (d. 1976) * 1898 – 17 June: Harry Patch, supercentenarian and last surviving combat soldier of World War I (d. 2009) * 1901 – 29 September: Caryll Houselander, Catholic lay mystic (d. 1954) * 1903 – 17 October: G. E. Trevelyan, novelist (d. 1941) * 1935 – 24 March: Mary Berry, food writer and presenter * 1943 – 3 April: Jonathan Lynn, stage and screen director, producer, writer and actor * 1945 – 17 December: Jacqueline Wilson, née Aitken, children's fiction writer * 1947 – 4 October: Ann Widdecombe, politician * 1964 – 24 February:
Bill Bailey Mark Robert Bailey (born 13 January 1965), known professionally as Bill Bailey, is an English musician, comedian and actor. He is known for his role as Manny in the sitcom ''Black Books'' and his appearances on the panel shows ''Never Mind the ...
, comedian and musician * 1973 ** 11 April: Kris Marshall, actor ** 14 May: Indira Varma, actress * 1974 – 18 January:
Princess Claire of Belgium Princess Claire of Belgium (born Claire Louise Coombs on 18 January 1974) is a British-Belgian land surveyor. She has been married to Prince Laurent since 2003 and is the sister-in-law of King Philippe of Belgium. Family She is the daughter ...
, née Coombs, princess consort


See also

* History of Bath, Somerset * Timeline of Somerset history *
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of other cities in South West England: Bristol,
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,
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