Timeline of Cambridge

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Cambridge, England.

Prior to 16th century

* 973 – Market active
* –50 – St Bene't's Church built
* 1068 – Cambridge Castle erected
* 1101 – Town incorporated
* – Holy Sepulchre church built
* 1144 – Cambridge is sacked by Geoffrey de MandevilleAlison Taylor, "Cambridge, the hidden history", (Tempus: 1999)
* 1154 – Cambridge fair active
* 1200 – Charter granted
* 1209 – University of Cambridge established by scholars from Oxford
* 1211 – Stourbridge fair first recorded
* 1213 – Hervey FitzEustace, first recorded mayor
* c. 1215 – Richard of Wetheringsett, first Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
* 1231 – The University is recognised by a writ of authority over its townspeople from Henry III
* 1233 – A letter from Pope Gregory IX grants privileges to the University's scholars
* 1261 – Cambridge academics attempt to set up a university of Northampton, suppressed by the Crown in 1265
* 1266 – Raided by Barons who had been disinherited after the Battle of Evesham, and the murder of the Jews in the town
* 1275 – Expulsion of the town's Jews by Queen Dowager Eleanor of Provence
* 1284 – University's Peterhouse college founded
* 1326 – Clare College founded
* 1347 – Pembroke College founded
* 1348 – Gonville & Caius College founded
* 1350 – Trinity Hall college founded
* 1352 – Corpus Christi College founded
* 1381 – Disorder during the Peasants' Revolt
* 1416 – University Library exists by this date
* 1441 – King's College founded
* 1446 – Foundation stone of King's College Chapel laid
* 1448 – Queens' College founded
* 1473 – St. Catherine College founded
* 1496 – Jesus College founded

16th-18th centuries

* 1505 – Christ's College founded
* 1511 – St John's College established
* 1515 – King's College Chapel fan vault completed
* 1521 – John Siberch is active as a printer, the earliest known here
* 1525 – Robert Barnes gives probably the first openly evangelical sermon in an English church, at St Edward King and Martyr
* 1534 – University Press granted a royal charter
* 1542 – Magdalene College founded
* 1546 – Trinity College founded
* 1556 – John Hullier burned as a Protestant on Jesus Green
* 1584 – Emmanuel College founded
* 1595 – Sidney Sussex College founded
* 1615 – Perse School founded
* 1638 – Cambridge, Massachusetts named
* 1640 – Oliver Cromwell elected Member of Parliament for Cambridge
* 1667 – Eagle and Child pub in business
* 1695 – Wren Library at Trinity College completed
* 1730 – University's Senate House completed
* 1744 – ''Cambridge Journal and Weekly Flying Post'' begins publication
* 1747 – Shire-hall built
* 1749 – Mathematical Bridge built at Queens' College
* 1762 – ''Cambridge Chronicle'' newspaper begins publication
* 1766 – Addenbrooke's Hospital founded
* 1784 – Society for Promoting Useful Knowledge established
* 1793
** '' Cambridge Intelligencer'' newspaper begins publication
** Cambridge Quarters composed for new clock of the Church of St Mary the Great

19th century

* 1800 – Downing College founded
* 1816 – Fitzwilliam Museum founded
* 1817 – Cambridge Town Club (cricket club) formed
* 1828
** Bull Hotel in business
** Cambridge University Boat Club founded
* 1829 – The Boat Race, rowed against Oxford, begins (annual from 1856)
* 1831 – Bridge of Sighs built over the Cam at St John's College
* 1833 – The Pitt Building built in honour of William Pitt the Younger, an undergraduate of Pembroke College and Prime Minister, to house the printing and publishing offices of Cambridge University Press
* 1833 – Anatomy theatre attacked by a mob
* 1839 – ''Cambridge Advertiser'' newspaper begins publication
* 1840 – Cambridge Antiquarian Society founded
* 1841 – Cambridge's first post-reformation Roman Catholic church opens as St Andrew's Church
* 1845 – Eastern Counties Railway begins operating to Cambridge railway station
* 1848 – Mill Road Cemetery established
* 1858 – Cambridge School of Art founded
* 1854 – Deighton, Bell & Co. booksellers in business
* 1869 – Girton College for women founded
* 1871 – Newnham College for women founded
* 1874 – Cavendish Laboratory completed
* 1876 – W. Heffer bookseller begins business as a stationer
* 1880
** Cambridge Street Tramways begin operation
** St Radegund pub built on part of the site of the Garrick Hotel
* 1881 – Ridley Hall and Westcott House theological colleges founded
* 1883 – Footlights student amateur dramatic club founded
* 1884 – Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology founded
* 1888 – ''Cambridge Daily News'' begins publication
* 1890
** Our Lady and the English Martyrs Church consecrated
** Victoria Avenue Bridge built
* 1894 – Homerton College, a Congregationalist teacher training college, moves to Cambridge
* 1896 – Pye Ltd established as scientific instrument makers by W. G. Pye
* 1897 – Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria
* 1899 – Westminster College, a Presbyterian theological college, moves to Cambridge

20th century

* 1901 – Population: 38,379
*1908 – Cambridge Town F.C. formed
* 1912
** Cambridge United F.C. established as Abbey United
** University's Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences opens
* 1914 – Cambridge Street Tramways cease operation
* 1918 – First Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols held at King's College
* c 1921 – Fitzbillies bakery opened by Ernest and Arthur Mason in Trumpington Street
* 1922 – War Memorial unveiled
* 1923 – Jesus Green Swimming Pool opens
* 1928 – Cambridge Preservation Society founded
* 1934 – New University Library completed
* 1938 – Cambridge Airport opens
* 1939 – London educational institutions evacuated to Cambridge: Queen Mary College to King's College (until 1945); London Hospital Medical College (until 1943) and The Bartlett (until 1945) to St Catharine's College; SOAS to Christ's College; London School of Economics to Peterhouse (until 1945); Bedford College to Newnham College (until 1944); and Barts to Queens' College (until 1946)
* 1948 – First women admitted to study for full academic degrees in the University but have no associated privileges
* 1949
** University's Cambridge Bibliographical Society founded
** University of Cambridge's Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator begins operating
*1951 – City charter granted
* 1954 – Murray Edwards College for women founded as New Hall
* 1956 – Kettle's Yard established by Jim Ede
* 1957 – Twinned with Heidelberg
* 1958 – Churchill College established
* 1960 – Cambridge Consultants founded
* 1964
** Darwin College for graduates founded
** Cambridge Folk Festival begins
* 1965
** Lucy Cavendish College for mature women founded
** Wolfson College for mature students founded as University College
* 1966
** Clare Hall for graduates established
** Fitzwilliam College chartered as a college
* 1970
** February: Garden House riot
** Heffer's open a flagship bookshop in Trinity Street
* 1972
** Three previously all-male colleges of the University admit women undergraduates
** Cambridge Theological Federation formed
*1974
**First Strawberry Fair held
**First Cambridge Beer Festival held
* 1975 – University's Cambridge Science Park founded
* 1976
** Sancton Wood School founded
** First Andy's Records store opened in Mill Road
* 1977 – Robinson College founded
* 1989 – Cambridge Fun Run (footrace) begins
* 1990
** Royal Greenwich Observatory relocated to Cambridge from Herstmonceux Castle
** ARM Holdings established as Advanced RISC Machines Ltd
* 1992 – Anglia Ruskin University is established as a public university
* 1998 – Abcam established

21st century

* 2003 – University's Centre for Mathematical Sciences completed in West Cambridge
* 2006
** Local Plan 2006 (town planning) adopted
** Cambridge International School established
* 2007 – The Centre for Computing History is established
* 2009 – Anne Jarvis becomes first woman University Librarian of the University of Cambridge
* 2010 – Homerton College chartered as a full college of the University of Cambridge
* 2011 – Phase One of the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway opens
* 2013 – North West Cambridge development planned
* 2016 – New global headquarters for AstraZeneca projected for completion
* 2017 – Cambridge North railway station opens
* 2019 – Sonita Alleyne becomes the first black woman elected as head of an Oxbridge college, Master of Jesus

See also

* History of Cambridge
* History of University of Cambridge
* History of Cambridgeshire

References

Further reading

''Cambridge'' by M.A.R. Tuker in multiple formats at gutenberg.org
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* Wilkinson, Patrick, (1981) ''Le Keux's Engravings of Victorian Cambridge'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)

External links

* . Includes digitized directories of Cambridge, various dates
* Digital Public Library of America
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