Timeline of Sussex History
This is a timeline of Sussex history. To read about the background to these events, see History of Sussex. See also the list of monarchs of Sussex.
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1st century
Year | Date | Event | Reference |
43 | | Romans land on Sussex coast as part of the Roman conquest of Britain; kingdom created for Cogidubnus that includes much of what is to become Sussex. |
[1] |
c.80 | | Kingdom of Regnenses or Regni, becomes a Roman civitas with its capital at what is now Chichester. |
[1] |
2nd century
Year | Date | Event | Reference |
c.150 | | Ptolemy's Geography mentions several places in what we to become Sussex including Magnus Portus, Noeomagus (Noviomagus Reginorum), Novus Portus and the Flavius Trisantona (River Arun). |
[2] |
3rd century
Roman masonry in the walls of Anderitum
5th century
6th century
7th century
8th century
9th century
Tombstone of Æthelwulf of Wessex, buried in 858 at Steyning
Year | Date | Event | Reference |
c.827 | | Sussex annexed by Kingdom of Wessex | [22] |
828 | | Historia Brittonum is written, which refers to the "Night of the Long Knives" in which Sussex is ceded by sub-Roman authorities to Saxons. |
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839 | | Æthelstan becomes "King of the Dwellers in Kent, of the East Saxons, of the South Saxons and of Surrey" on the authority of his father, Æthelwulf of Wessex. |
[23] |
858 | | Æthelwulf of Wessex buried at Steyning. |
[24] |
860 | | Æthelberht of Wessex becomes king of Wessex. Sussex, together with Essex, Kent and Surrey, is fully subsumed as part of this kingdom. |
[25][26] |
885 | | King Alfred meets his biographer, Asser, for the first time at Alfred's royal estate at Dean in Sussex. |
[27] |
10th century
11th century
Scene from the
Bayeux Tapestry depicting the death of King Harold at the Battle of Hastings
12th century
The coat of arms of
Hastings, shows a motif that features widely in the heraldry of the
Cinque Ports
13th century
A medieval wall painting of St Richard of Chichester
14th century
Bodiam Castle was constructed in 1385
15th century
16th century
Depiction of martyrdom of Richard Woodman and nine others who were burned in Lewes
17th century
Steel engraving of scene from Battle of Beachy Head
18th century
Henry Pelham, who became the British Prime Minister in 1743
19th century
Brighton's Chain Pier, Sussex's earliest pier, was built in 1823. Painting by
John Constable c.1824
The Skeleton Army rioting in Worthing in 1884
Year | Date | Event | Reference |
1801 | 27 November | Prince Augustus Frederick becomes Duke of Sussex | [87] |
1804 | 3 June | Birth of Richard Cobden, statesman and co-founder of the Anti-Corn Law League | [88][89] |
1804 | | Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond, gets royal permission for the title 'Sussex' to be transferred from the 25th Regiment of Foot to the 35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment of Foot. This regiment was replaced by the Royal Sussex Regiment 180 years later in 1881. |
[90] |
1813 | | Ashburnham blast furnace is closed, the last in the Weald as iron production is produced more cheaply in the Midlands and the north of England using coke. |
[91] |
1822 | | Gideon Mantell discovers dinosaur teeth in Tilgate Forest that he later names as a new genus of dinosaur found 'iguanadon', the second named genus of dinosaur. |
|
1823 | | Sussex's first pier, the Chain Pier, is built in Brighton. |
[92] |
1828 | 11 June | Sussex County Hospital (now Royal Sussex County Hospital) opens in Brighton |
[93] |
1830 | | Captain Swing riots take place across Sussex and England. |
[94] |
1832 | | The Petworth Emigration Scheme is set up by the Earl of Egremont. Over the next five years around 1,800 working class people from Sussex and neighbouring counties emigrate to Upper Canada to escape poverty. |
[95] |
1836 | 27 December | Lewes avalanche kills 8 people. |
[96] |
1837 | 27 March | Death of Maria Fitzherbert, longtime companion of the future King George IV of the United Kingdom at her home in Steine House, Brighton. |
[97] |
1839 | 1 March | Sussex County Cricket Club formed, the first county cricket club. |
[98] |
1840 | 11 May | The first railway line in Sussex, from Brighton to Shoreham opens. |
[99] |
1853 | | Lewes Prison, the local prison for male prisoners in Sussex, is opened. |
[100] |
1861 | 25 August | Clayton Tunnel rail crash results in 23 deaths. |
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1865 | | The County of Sussex Act 1865 confirms the sub-division of Sussex into east and west areas for purposes of administration. |
[101] |
1884 | | Skeleton Army riots in Worthing |
[102] |
1889 | | County Councils were established for Sussex's eastern and western divisions. |
|
1893 | | An outbreak of typhoid fever in Worthing results in 188 fatalities. |
[103] |
1896 | | The National Trust acquires its first property, Alfriston Clergy House in Alfriston. |
[104] |
20th century
Danny House in Hurstpierpoint, where the terms of the armistice to be offered to Germany were agreed in 1918
21st century
The South Downs was designated a national park on 1 April 2010
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