Timeline of Cambridge
The following is a timeline]cities in the United Kingdom|city of Cambridge, England.
Prior to 16th century
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- 973 AD – 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: 75
- 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 at 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.: 75
- 1275 - Expulsion of the town's Jews by Queen Dowager Eleanor of Provence.: 82
- 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.: 75
- 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.[citation needed]
- 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.
- 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.