Timeline of Nottingham

Prior to 17th century

• 410 – After the Roman withdrawal from Britain, the site is covered by the Brythonic Kingdom of Elmet
• 530 – Flooding of the low land extending from the Leen river to the River Trent. The first record dates back to 530 AD.
• 600 – An Anglian tribe, the Snotingas, found the settlements of modern Nottingham and Sneinton.
• 867 – The Great Heathen Army winters at the town after being driven from York by the Kingdom of Northumbria.
• 868 – King of Wessex, Aethelred I, and his brother arrive at Nottingham with their armies following a request from their brother-in-law Burgred of Mercia. After negotiations the Danes returned North.
• 893 – In "The Life of King Alfred", Asser, a Welsh monk and cleric records the settlement as "Tig Guocabauc" in Old Brythonic. This translates as "cavey dwelling", probably in reference to the innumerable ancient cave houses dug out of the sandstone bedrock which the city stands on. His use of the old Brythonic language suggests that the settlement could likely have been named as such by the Celtic Britons who inhabited the area prior to the Anglo-Saxon invasion.
• 918
• * Edward the Elder retakes Nottingham
• * Market active.
• 920 – Edward the Elder built fortifications on the south bank of the Trent along with a wooden bridge in an attempt to prevent access by the Danes.
• 924 – The town was further fortified on its south side but this did not prevent its recapture by the Danes shortly afterwards.
• 941 – The town was retaken from the Danes by Saxons under Edmund.
• 1013 – The town submitted to Sweyn Forkbeard.
• 1067 – The first wooden motte and bailey Nottingham Castle built by William Peverel on Castle Rock, in the new French borough.
• 1086 – "Snotingeham" is referenced in Domesday Book.
• 1102 – Lenton Priory is founded by William Peverel.
• 1140 – During the Anarchy between King Stephen and the Empress Matilda, Nottingham was captured and burnt by Ralph Paganell. Though he failed to take the castle, hundreds of civilians were slaughtered, many sheltered at St Peter's Church, Nottingham and were massacred.
• 1153 – Fire destroyed much of the city including St. Peter's church.
• 1155 – Nottingham is granted a charter.
• 1156
• * Town wall rebuilt.
• * Trent Bridge is rebuilt in stone, replacing the original Norman structure. This Bridge was known as the "Heth Beth" bridge and would act as the link between north and south of the river for the next 700 years.
• 1174 – Nottingham was seized during the barons rebellion against Henry II.
• 1178 – Henry II spent Christmas at Nottingham Castle.
• 1180 – the Forty year rebuild of St. Peter's church began.
• 1189 – Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem public house is purportedly founded, although this date is disputed.
• 1194 – On returning from the Third Crusade and his imprisonment by Leopold of Austria, Richard the Lionheart recaptures the Castle from supporters of his brother, King John I, after a bloody three day siege. Parliament is held here in the same year.
• 1212 – King John I spends Christmas at Nottingham. He made major upgrades including adding a stone built Keep within the existing Shell Keep. In the same year he ordered 28 Welsh hostages to be hung from the battlements as their fathers had rebelled against him.
• 1224 – Nottingham Greyfriars founded their Franciscan friary on a site that is now occupied by the Broadmarsh Shopping Centre.
• 1232 – St Mary's hospital founded.
• 1240 – Ye Olde Salutation Inn is purportedly founded, although this date is disputed.
• 1252 – Henry III ordered the Outer Bailey of the castle, the defences of which still consisted of a timber palisade, to be rebuilt in stone and the twin-drum gatehouse was probably started at this time.
• 1260 – Construction starts on a new town wall, built with local sandstone. It stood 26 ft high and took 60 years to build. It later fell into disuse and was much demolished by 1540.
• 1264
• * During the Second Barons' War, rebels attacked the Jewish community of Nottingham.
• * The barons who had rebelled against Henry III and taken possession of Nottingham Castle under Simon de Monfort were expelled from it.
• 1271 – Nottingham Whitefriars Carmelite Monastery is established by Reginald de Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Wilton on the site of what is now The Bell Inn, Nottingham.
• 1284
• * Nottingham Goose Fair begins.
• * First mention of a Mayor of Nottingham, created under a charter granted by Edward I.
• 1295 – Nottingham returned two members to parliament.
• 1330 – "Young king Edward III and a group of conspirators crept through a secret tunnel into the city's castle and took prisoner Roger de Mortimer, a nobleman who had until then effectively been England's ruler."
• 1336 – A Parliament held at Nottingham, in September, voted to raise money for a war with France through taxes.
• 1346 – David II of Scotland is held prisoner in the caves under the castle.
• 1349 – The Black Death claims the lives of approximately 60% of the population.
• 1365 – Edward III improved the castle with a new tower on the west side of the Middle Bailey and a new prison under the High Tower.
• 1376 – Peter de la Mare, speaker of the House of Commons, was confined in Nottingham Castle for having "taken unwarrantable liberties with the name of Alice Perrers, mistress of the king".
• 1386 – Richard II held a Parliament in Nottingham.
• 1392
• * Plumptre Hospital founded.
• * Richard II held the Lord Mayor of London with Aldermen and Sheriffs in the castle.
• 1394 – Richard II held a Parliament in Nottingham.
• 1397 – Richard II held a Parliament in Nottingham.
• 1403 – Nottingham Castle becomes the main residence of Joan of Navarre, Queen of England.
• 1449 – Nottingham was granted its main charter which allowed the town to run its own affairs, and consequently it gained its first Sheriff of Nottingham. Both market and Town Hall functions were well established at Weekday Cross. Because it stood at the top of steep lanes, of which only Garners Hill remains, the building was called Mont Hall. This gave the name "Mont Hall Ward" to one of the seven new City Wards at this time controlled by Aldermen.
• 1460 – Edward IV was proclaimed king at Nottingham.
• 1470 – Edward IV visited Nottingham.
• 1474 – St Mary's Church built.
• 1476 – Royal Lodges built at the castle.
• 1483 – Ye Flying Horse Inn was established.
• 1485 – Richard III marched from Nottingham to the Battle of Bosworth Field.
• 1487 – Henry VII marched from Nottingham to the Battle of Stoke Field.
• 1511 – Henry VIII orders new tapestries for the castle, in time for his visit in August.
• 1513 – Free grammar school founded.
• 1523 – Henry VIII visited Nottingham.
• 1538 – Lenton Priory was dissolved. The Prior, Nicholas Heath, 8 of his monks and 4 labourers are trialed for treason and executed. They are hung, drawn and quartered and their body parts displayed outside the priory.
• 1539
• *Nottingham Whitefriars Carmelite Friary and Greyfriars, Nottingham Franciscan Friary surrender during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
• *Bell alehouse active.
• 1570 – Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland became constable of Nottingham Castle, and steward, keeper, warden, and chief justice of Sherwood Forest; later he was feodary of the duchy of Lancaster for the counties of Nottingham and Derby and lord-lieutenant of Nottinghamshire
• 1588 – Wollaton Hall built.

  17th–18th centuries

• 1623 – The castle was sold to John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland who plundered building materials from the site.
• 1642 – 22 August: Charles I raises royal standard at Castle Hill, also known as Derry Mount. The castle is soon after taken by Parliamentarians.
• 1643 – Royalists of Newark attack and fail to capture Nottingham.
• 1644 – Royalists fail second attempt to capture Nottingham Castle but do however occupy the town itself.
• 1646 – Bubonic plague.
• 1650s – Smith's Bank established.
• 1651 – Nottingham Castle is destroyed using gunpowder to prevent it from being used as a Royalist fortification.
• 1654 – Establishment of Presbyterian classis in Nottingham by John Whitlock and William Reynolds, formerly of St Mary's, and John Barrett, formerly of St Peter's, Nottingham.
• 1660 – Presbyterian classis shut down on restoration of the monarch.
• 1662 – Ejection of Presbyterian ministers from their livings. Nottingham ministers move to Mansfield and begin to hold meetings
• 1667 – Outbreak of plague.
• 1674 – The Duke of Newcastle bought the site where the castle had been destroyed. A mansion was built on the site.
• 1678 – St Nicholas' Church built.
• 1683 – A major flooding event on the north side of the River Trent. The embankment was washed away as well as the northern section of the Heth Beth Bridge.
• 1693 – Nottingham Waterworks Company established.
• 1723 – Bluecoat school built.
• 1726 – Nottingham Exchange built.
• 1732 – Richard Arkwright the inventor was born.
• 1741 – Nottingham Journal newspaper begins publication.
• 1743 – Chapel Bar, the last remaining medieval city gate was demolished for the widening of the road.
• 1752 – Bromley House built.
• 1760 – Theatre built in St. Mary's-gate.
• 1766 – High cheese prices result in severe Food Riots. One person is shot dead by the military. The events become known as the 'Great Cheese Riot'.
• 1767 – The introduction of the 'spinning jenny', enabling a single worker to spin a multitude of threads, causes riots as workers fear for their livelihoods. The prototype and a number of machines are destroyed.
• 1769 – The industrialist Richard Arkwright set up his first spinning mill in Nottingham.
• 1770 – The old County Hall building in High Pavement was built, during the reign of George III.
• 1779 – The rejection of a bill to regulate the framework knitters' trade triggers serious riots. Over five days, workers from town and county damage hosiers' houses and break frames. The promise of negotiations ends the riots, but the hosiers' subsequent refusal to compromise leads to further direct action, only quelled after a large scale mobilisation of troops and special constables.
• 1780
• * Nottinghamshire Gazette newspaper begins publication.
• * During celebrations staged for the king's birthday, armed military officers and locals clash on Market Square, leaving a number of people severely injured.
• 1781 – Nottingham General Hospital founded.
• 1783
• * Trent Navigation Company was established.
• * A drop in the rates of pay causes a riot by framework knitters. Over two days, hosiers' windows are smashed etc. Military repeatedly attack the rioters and although the crowds resist fiercely, they are finally subdued by the soldiers' swords and bullets. At least one person is killed, others severely wounded.
• 1788 – High prices trigger a Food Riot. 'Great quantities' of meat are taken.
• 1790 – J. & H. Bell booksellers in business.
• 1791 – A number of framework knitters from the county assemble and try to negotiate with a hosier. Though unprovoked, soldiers charge into the crowd of workers who fight back, reinforced by numerous town dwellers. A brutal engagement leaves a number of people injured.
• 1792 – High prices for meat trigger a Food Riot. Temporarily dispersed by military, rioters later reassemble, trash the Shambles and use the debris to create a huge bonfire in Market Square.
• 1793 – A number of persons suspected of being supporters of the French Revolution are attacked in a field near the town. The same royalists attack the mayor's home. One is shot dead, others injured.
• 1794 – Over the course of a few weeks, royalists attack suspected radicals and democrats, e.g. laying siege to a cotton mill where republicans sought refuge. Royalists round up their opponents and 'duck' them under pumps on Market Square and in the Leen, torturing and almost drowning many persons. At least one dies following this ordeal.
• 1795
• * There was great flooding as the River Trent broke its banks.
• * A Food Riot caused by high prices of meat is quelled by Yeomanry and Dragoons.
• * Another Food Riot occurs, this time due to the high price of wheat. Rioters go round bakers' shops, setting and enforcing what they deem appropriate prices.
• 1796
• * Nottingham Canal opens.
• * Suspicions that a baker is hoarding grain to raise the price cause yet another Food Riot. It is quelled by Yeomanry and Dragoons. The crowd is fired upon and one person wounded, others are arrested.
• * A heated election escalates into a riot. Following clashes with royalists, supporters of the radical candidate escort him out of town. A fierce fight in Chapel-bar ends as the royalists are routed.