Timeline of Cambridge facts for kids
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Cambridge, England.
Prior to 16th century
- 973 – Market active
- c. 1000–50 – St Bene't's Church built
- 1068 – Cambridge Castle erected
- 1101 – Town incorporated
- c.1130 – Holy Sepulchre church built
- 1144 – Cambridge is sacked by Geoffrey de Mandeville
- 1154 – Cambridge fair active
- 1200 – Charter granted
- 1209 – University of Cambridge established by scholars from Oxford
- 1211 – Stourbridge fair first recorded
- 1213 – Hervey FitzEustace, 1st recorded mayor
- 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
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