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

Contents

Prior to 16th century

  • 973 CE – Market active.
  • c.1000-50 – St Bene't's Church built.
  • 1068 – Cambridge Castle erected.
  • 1101 – Town incorporated.
  • c.1130 – Holy Sepulchre church built.
  • 1154 – Cambridge fair active.
  • 1200 – Charter granted.
  • 1209 – University of Cambridge established by scholars from Oxford.
  • 1211 – Stourbridge fair first recorded.
  • 1261 – Cambridge academics attempt to set up a university at Northampton, suppressed by the Crown in 1265.
  • 1284 – University's Peterhouse college founded.
  • 1293 – Michael Pylet appointed mayor.
  • 1326 – University's Clare College founded.
  • 1347 – University's Pembroke College founded.
  • 1348 – University's Gonville & Caius College founded.
  • 1350 – University's Trinity Hall College founded.
  • 1352 – University's Corpus Christi College founded.
  • 1416 – University Library exists by this date.
  • 1441 – University's King's College founded.
  • 1446 – Foundation stone of King's College Chapel laid.
  • 1448 – University's Queens' College founded.
  • 1473 – University's St. Catherine College founded.
  • 1496 – University's Jesus College founded.

    • 16th-18th centuries

  • 1505 – University's Christ's College founded.
  • 1511 – University's 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.
  • 1534 – University Press granted a royal charter.
  • 1542 – University's Magdalene College founded.
  • 1545 – University's Trinity College founded.
  • 1584 – University's Emmanuel College founded.
  • 1595 – University's Sidney Sussex College founded.
  • 1615 – Perse School founded.
  • 1630 – Plague.
  • 1638 – Cambridge, Massachusetts named.
  • 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 – University's Downing College founded.
  • 1816 – University's 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 – Anatomy theatre attacked by a mob.
  • 1839 – Cambridge Advertiser newspaper begins publication.
  • 1840 – Cambridge Antiquarian Society founded.
  • 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 – University's Girton College for women founded.
  • 1871 – University's Newnham College for women founded.
  • 1874 – University's Cavendish Laboratory completed.
  • 1876 – W. Heffer bookseller begins business as a stationer.
  • 1880 – Cambridge Street Tramways begin operation.
  • 1881 – Ridley Hall and Westcott House theological colleges founded.
  • 1883 – Footlights student amateur dramatic club founded.
  • 1884 – University's Museum of General and Local Archaeology founded.
  • 1888 – Cambridge Daily News begins publication.
  • 1890 – 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1954 – University's Murray Edwards College for women founded as New Hall.
  • 1956 – Kettle's Yard established by Jim Ede.
  • 1957 – Twinned with Heidelberg.
  • 1958 – University's Churchill College established.
  • 1960 – Cambridge Consultants founded.
  • 1964
  • University's Darwin College for graduates founded.
  • Cambridge Folk Festival begins.
  • 1965
  • University's Lucy Cavendish College for mature women founded.
  • University's Wolfson College for mature students founded as University College.
  • 1966
  • University's Clare Hall for graduates established.
  • University's 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.
  • 1975 – University's Cambridge Science Park founded.
  • 1976
  • Sancton Wood School founded.
  • First Andys Records store opened in Mill Road.
  • 1977 – University's 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 UK Public University.
  • c.1997 – 82 Akeman Street Community Room opens.
  • 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.
  • 2010 – Homerton College chartered as a full college of the University.
  • 2011 – Population: 123,867 (including 24,488 students).
  • 2013 – University's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk founded.
  • 2016 – New global headquarters for AstraZeneca projected for completion.

    • References

    Timeline of Cambridge Wikipedia
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