Timeline of Cambridge

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

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Prior to 16th century

• 973 CE – Market active.^[1]
• c.1000-50 – St Bene't's Church built.
• 1068 – Cambridge Castle erected.
• 1101 – Town incorporated.^[2]
• c.1130 – Holy Sepulchre church built.
• 1154 – Cambridge fair active.^[1]
• 1200 – Charter granted.^[3]
• 1209 – University of Cambridge established by scholars from Oxford.^[4]
• 1211 – Stourbridge fair first recorded.
• 1261 – Cambridge academics attempt to set up a university at Northampton, suppressed by the Crown in 1265.^[5]
• 1284 – University's Peterhouse college founded.^[6]
• 1293 – Michael Pylet appointed mayor.^[7]
• 1326 – University's Clare College founded.^[8]
• 1347 – University's Pembroke College founded.^[6]
• 1348 – University's Gonville & Caius College founded.^[8]
• 1350 – University's Trinity Hall College founded.^[8]
• 1352 – University's Corpus Christi College founded.^[8]
• 1416 – University Library exists by this date.
• 1441 – University's King's College founded.^[8]
• 1446 – Foundation stone of King's College Chapel laid.
• 1448 – University's Queens' College founded.^[8]
• 1473 – University's St. Catherine College founded.^[8]
• 1496 – University's Jesus College founded.^[8]

16th-18th centuries

Map of Cambridge, 1574

Map of Cambridge, 1688

View of Cambridge, 1743

• 1505 – University's Christ's College founded.^[8]
• 1511 – University's St John's College established.^[6]
• 1515 – King's College Chapel fan vault completed.
• 1534 – University Press granted a royal charter.
• 1542 – University's Magdalene College founded.
• 1545 – University's Trinity College founded.^[6]
• 1584 – University's Emmanuel College founded.^[8]
• 1595 – University's Sidney Sussex College founded.^[8]
• 1615 – Perse School founded.
• 1630 – Plague.
• 1638 – Cambridge, Massachusetts named.^[9]
• 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.^[10]
• 1747 – Shire-hall built.^[2]
• 1749 – Mathematical Bridge built at Queens' College.
• 1762 – Cambridge Chronicle newspaper begins publication.^[11]
• 1766 – Addenbrooke's Hospital founded.
• 1784 – Society for Promoting Useful Knowledge established.^[12]
• 1793
  • Cambridge Intelligencer newspaper begins publication.^[10]
  • Cambridge Quarters composed for new clock of the Church of St Mary the Great.

19th century

• 1800 – University's Downing College founded.^[8]
• 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^[6] (annual from 1856).
• 1831 – Bridge of Sighs built over the Cam at St John's College.
• 1833 – Anatomy theatre attacked by a mob.^[13]
• 1839 – Cambridge Advertiser newspaper begins publication.^[14]
• 1840 – Cambridge Antiquarian Society founded.
• 1845 – Eastern Counties Railway begins operating to Cambridge railway station.^[3]
• 1848 – Mill Road Cemetery established.
• 1858 – Cambridge School of Art founded.
• 1854 – Deighton, Bell & Co. booksellers in business.^[15]
• 1869 – University's Girton College for women founded.^[6]
• 1871 – University's Newnham College for women founded.
• 1874 – University's Cavendish Laboratory completed.
• 1876 – W. Heffer bookseller begins business.
• 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.^[16]
• 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.^[17]
• 1899 – Westminster College, a Presbyterian theological college, moves to Cambridge.

20th century

• 1901 – Population: 38,379.^[18]
• 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.^[19]
• 1922 – War Memorial unveiled.^[20]
• 1928 – Cambridge Preservation Society founded.^[21]
• 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.^[22]
• 1949
  • University's Cambridge Bibliographical Society founded.^[23]
  • 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.
• 1972 – Cambridge Theological Federation formed.^[24]
• 1975 – University's Cambridge Science Park founded.^[6]
• 1976 – Sancton Wood School founded.
• 1977 – University's Robinson College founded.
• 1989 – Cambridge Fun Run (footrace) begins.
• 1990 – Royal Greenwich Observatory relocated to Cambridge from Greenwich.
• c.1997 – 82 Akeman Street Community Room opens.^[25]

21st century

• 2003 – University's Centre for Mathematical Sciences completed in West Cambridge.
• 2006
  • Local Plan 2006 (town planning) adopted.^[26][27]
  • Cambridge International School established.
• 2007 - Centre for Computing History 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.

See also

• History of Cambridge
• History of University of Cambridge
• History of Cambridgeshire

References

1. Samantha Letters (2005), "Cambridgeshire", Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516 (Institute of Historical Research, Centre for Metropolitan History)
2. Edmund Carter (1753). "Cambridge (town)". History of the County of Cambridge. Cambridge.
3. George Henry Townsend (1867), "Cambridge", A Manual of Dates (2nd ed.), London: Frederick Warne & Co.
4. "Middle Ages". British History Timeline. BBC. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
5. Lawrence, C. H. (1984). "The University in State and Church". In Aston, T. H.; Catto, J. I. ed. The History of the University of Oxford 1. Oxford University Press.
6. "Timeline: Cambridge through the Centuries". About the University. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
7. William White (1895). "List of the Mayors for the Town of Cambridge". Cambridge Visitor's Guide. Cambridge: Metcalfe & Co. 8th ed. of the 'Railway Traveller's Walk Through Cambridge'
8. A.W. Holland, ed. (1904), "Cambridge Colleges and Halls", Oxford & Cambridge Yearbook, 2: Cambridge, London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co.
9. "Cambridge", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York: Encyclopædia Britannica Co., 1910, OCLC 14782424
10. M.J. Murphy (1972). "Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society" 6. JSTOR 41154513.
11. Charles Henry Cooper (c. 1845), Annals of Cambridge, 4: 1688–1853, Cambridge: University Press
12. Paul Kaufman (1967). "The Community Library: A Chapter in English Social History". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 57. JSTOR 1006043.
13. Hurren, Elizabeth T. (2002-05-02). "Patients' rights: from Alder Hey to the Nuremberg Code". History & Policy. London; Cambridge. Retrieved 2014-10-31.
14. "Cambridge". Newspaper Press Directory. London: Charles Mitchell. 1847.
15. Jonathan R. Topham (1998). "Two Centuries of Cambridge Publishing and Bookselling: a Brief History of Deighton, Bell and Co., 1778–1998". Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 11. JSTOR 41154875.
16. "Cambridge (England) Newspapers". Main Catalogue. British Library. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
17. Elizabeth Hammerton and David Cannadine (1981). "Conflict and Consensus on a Ceremonial Occasion: The Diamond Jubilee in Cambridge in 1897". Historical Journal 24. JSTOR 2638907.
18. "Cambridge", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
19. Nine lessons and carols: History of the service, King's College Chapel, retrieved 2008-03-09.
20. K.S. Inglis (1992). "The Homecoming: The War Memorial Movement in Cambridge, England". Journal of Contemporary History 27. JSTOR 260943.
21. "Cambridge Past, Present & Future" (PDF). Cambridgeshire Association for Local History. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
22. "Fact sheet: Women at Cambridge: A Chronology". University of Cambridge. 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-13.
23. "Cambridge Bibliographical Society". Cambridge University Library. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
24. "Origins". Cambridge Theological Federation. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
25. "Community Centres". Cambridge City Council. Archived from the original on 11 May 2008. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
26. "How it could have been". Cambridgeshire: Local History. BBC. February 2009. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
27. "Local Plan 2006". Cambridge City Council. Archived from the original on 3 January 2009. Retrieved 5 September 2013.

Further reading

• Cambridge by M.A.R. Tuker in multiple formats at gutenberg.org
• Cantabrigia depicta. A concise and accurate description of the university and town of Cambridge, and its environs. Cambridge: W. Thurlbourn & J. Woodyer. 1763.

Published in the 19th century

1800s-1840s

• Robert Watt (1824). "Cambridge". Bibliotheca Britannica 3. Edinburgh: A. Constable. OCLC 961753.
• David Brewster, ed. (1830). "Cambridge". Edinburgh Encyclopædia. Edinburgh: William Blackwood.
• Cambridge Guide. Cambridge: J. & J.J. Deighton. 1837.
• Charles Henry Cooper (1842–1908), Annals of Cambridge, Cambridge: University Press
  • v.2
  • v.3
  • v.5, 1850-1856
• John Le Keux; Thomas Wright; Harry Longueville Jones (1847), Memorials of Cambridge, London: David Bogue + v.2
• Samuel Lewis (1848), "Cambridge", Topographical Dictionary of England (7th ed.), London: S. Lewis and Co.

1850s-1890s

• "Cambridge". Slater's Royal National and Commercial Directory and Topography of the Counties of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Norfolk, Oxfordshire, and Suffolk. London: Isaac Slater. 1850.
• Pictorial Guide to Cambridge. Cambridge: John Hatt. 1853.
• George Measom (1865), "Cambridge", Official Illustrated Guide to the Great Eastern Railway, London: C. Griffin and Co.
• New Cambridge guide. Cambridge: W. Metcalfe. 1868.
• "Cambridge", Handbook for Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire (2nd ed.), London: J. Murray, 1875
• Spalding's street and general directory of Cambridge, 1878
• John Parker Anderson (1881), "Cambridgeshire: Cambridge", Book of British Topography: a Classified Catalogue of the Topographical Works in the Library of the British Museum Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, London: W. Satchell
• George Murray Humphry (1890). Guide to Cambridge: the town, university and colleges. Cambridge: Spalding.
• Thomas Dinham Atkinson (1897), Cambridge described and illustrated, London: Macmillan
• Charles Gross (1897). "Cambridge". Bibliography of British Municipal History. New York: Longmans, Green, and Co.

Published in the 20th century

1900s-1940s

• Robert Donald, ed. (1907). "Cambridge". Municipal Year Book of the United Kingdom for 1907. London: Edward Lloyd.
• Arthur Gray (1908), The dual origin of the town of Cambridge, Cambridge: Cambridge Antiquarian Society, OCLC 14031217
• Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Cambridge", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
• John Willis Clark (1916), Concise Guide to the Town and University of Cambridge (5th ed.), Cambridge: Bowes and Bowes
• Mildred Anna Rosalie Tuker (1922), Cambridge, London: A. and C. Black
• Edward Godfrey Cox (1949). "Cambridge and Oxford". Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel. 3: Great Britain. Seattle: University of Washington – via Hathi Trust.

1950s-1990s

• J.P.C. Roach, ed. (1959), "City and University of Cambridge", History of the County of Cambridgeshire, Victoria County History (University of London, Institute of Historical Research) 3
• Jeremy C. Mitchell and James Cornford (1977). "The Political Demography of Cambridge 1832–1868". Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies 9. JSTOR 4048348.
• Nigel Goose (1980). "Household Size and Structure in Early-Stuart Cambridge". Social History 5. JSTOR 4285009.
• James E. Bradley (1984). "Religion and Reform at the Polls: Nonconformity in Cambridge Politics, 1774-1784". Journal of British Studies 23. JSTOR 175427.
• R.B. Dobson (1990–1992). "The Jews of Medieval Cambridge". Jewish Historical Studies 32. JSTOR 29779882.
• Nick Mansfield (1993). "Grads and Snobs: John Brown, Town and Gown in Early Nineteenth-Century Cambridge". History Workshop (35). JSTOR 4289213.
• "Daytrips from London: Cambridge". London. Let's Go. 1993. p. 225+.
• Nicola Morrison (1998). "The compact city: theory versus practice – the case of Cambridge". Netherlands Journal of Housing and the Built Environment 13. JSTOR 41107742.

External links

• "Cambridgeshire", Historical Directories (UK: University of Leicester). Includes digitized directories of Cambridge, various dates
• Digital Public Library of America. Works related to Cambridge, various dates

Coordinates: 52°12′18″N 0°07′08″E / 52.205°N 0.119°E