Timeline of Cambridge

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

Prior to 16th century

973 – Market active
–50 – St Bene't's Church built
1068 – Cambridge Castle erected
1101 – Town incorporated
– Holy Sepulchre church built
1144 – Cambridge is sacked by Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex
1154 – Cambridge fair active
1200 – Charter granted
1209 – University of Cambridge established by scholars from Oxford
1211 – Stourbridge fair first recorded
1213 – Hervey FitzEustace, first recorded mayor
c. 1215 – Richard of Wetheringsett, first Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
1231 – The University is recognised by a writ of authority over its townspeople from Henry III
1233 – A letter from Pope Gregory IX grants privileges to the University's scholars
1261 – Cambridge academics attempt to set up a university of 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
1275 – Expulsion of the town's Jews by Queen Dowager Eleanor of Provence
1284 – University's Peterhouse college founded
1326 – Clare College founded
1347 – Pembroke College founded
1348 – Gonville and Caius College founded
1350 – Trinity Hall college founded
1352 – Corpus Christi College founded
1381 – Disorder during the Peasants' Revolt
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
1614 – Hobson's Conduit completed
1615 – Perse School founded
1638 – Cambridge, Massachusetts named
1640
* Clare College Bridge completed
* Oliver Cromwell elected Member of Parliament for Cambridge
1643 – Some bridges pulled down by Cromwell's forces
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 first 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
1815 – Cambridge Union founded as a student debating society
1816 – Fitzwilliam Museum founded
1817 – Cambridge Town Club formed
1828
* Bull Hotel in business
* Cambridge University Boat Club founded
1829 – The Boat Race, rowed against Oxford, begins
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
1853 – Cambridge Water Company authorised by Cambridge University and Town Waterworks Act
1854 – Deighton, Bell & Co. booksellers in business
1855–6 – Following provision of a piped water supply, the Hobson's Conduit fountain from the market place is moved to form a memorial
1858 – Cambridge School of Art founded
1869 – Girton College for women founded
1871
* Newnham College for women founded
* Universities Tests Act removes restrictions which have previously limited access to the ancient universities to members of the Church of England
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 Bridge opened to improve access to the city from Chesterton
1894 – Homerton College, a Congregationalist teacher training college, moves to Cambridge
1895 – Roman Catholics are permitted by their hierarchy to attend the ancient universities
1896
* St Edmund's House is established primarily as a hall of residence for Catholic students, utilising the former premises of Ayerst Hostel
* 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
1926 – Fen Causeway officially opened
1928 – Cambridge Preservation Society founded
1934 – New University Library completed
1938 – Cambridge Airport opens
1939 – London educational institutions evacuated to Cambridge: Queen Mary College to King's College ; London Hospital Medical College and The Bartlett to St Catharine's College; SOAS to Christ's College; London School of Economics to Peterhouse ; Bedford College to Newnham College ; and Barts to Queens' College
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
1953 – Francis Crick and James D. Watson from the Cavendish Laboratory enter The Eagle, Cambridge, for a pub lunch announcing "We have discovered the secret of life"
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
1958–9 – Silver Street Bridge built
1960
* Garret Hostel Bridge built
* Cambridge Consultants founded
1962 – Addenbrooke's Hospital begins to move from Trumpington Street to its south Cambridge site
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
1971 – Elizabeth Way Bridge opened
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
1984 – Addenbrooke's Hospital treats its last patient at its Trumpington Street site
1986 – St Edmund's House is renamed St Edmund's College
1989 – Cambridge Fun Run 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
* St Edmund's College is granted a royal charter confirming its full collegiate status

21st century

2003 – University's Centre for Mathematical Sciences completed in West Cambridge
2006
* Local Plan 2006 adopted
* Cambridge International School established
2007 – The Centre for Computing History is established
2008
* New Hall renamed Murray Edwards College
* Riverside Bridge opens
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 on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus
2017 – Cambridge North railway station opens
2019
* Sonita Alleyne becomes the first black woman elected as head of an Oxbridge college, Master of Jesus
* The Royal Papworth Hospital relocates to the Cambridge Biomedical Campus

Published in the 19th century

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1850s-1890s

Published in the 20th century

;1900s-1940s

Barwell, Noel, , Blackie & Son Limited

1950s-1990s

Wilkinson, Patrick, ''Le Keux's Engravings of Victorian Cambridge''