Timeline of Cambridge

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

Prior to 16th century

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• 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 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.^[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]
• c 1921 – Fitzbillies bakery opened by Ernest and Arthur Mason in Trumpington Street.
• 1922 – War Memorial unveiled.^[20]
• 1923 - Jesus Green Swimming Pool opens.
• 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.
  • 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.^[24]
• 1975 – University's Cambridge Science Park founded.^[6]
• 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.^[25]
• 1998 – Abcam established.

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 - 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.

See also

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

References

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, eds. (1959), "City and University of Cambridge", History of the County of Cambridgeshire, Victoria County History, University of London, Institute of Historical Research, 3  CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
• Jeremy C. Mitchell & 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

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cambridge.

• "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

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