Timeline of Cambridge facts for kids

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

Prior to 16th century

• 973 – Market active
• c. 1000–50 – St Bene't's Church built
• 1068 – Cambridge Castle erected
• 1101 – Town incorporated
• c.1130 – Holy Sepulchre church built
• 1144 – Cambridge is sacked by Geoffrey de Mandeville
• 1154 – Cambridge fair active
• 1200 – Charter granted
• 1209 – University of Cambridge established by scholars from Oxford
• 1211 – Stourbridge fair first recorded
• 1213 – Hervey FitzEustace, 1st recorded mayor
• 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 & 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

Map of Cambridge, 1574

Map of Cambridge, 1688

• 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
• 1615 – Perse School founded
• 1638 – Cambridge, Massachusetts named
• 1640 – Oliver Cromwell elected Member of Parliament for Cambridge
• 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 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
• 1816 – 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 (annual from 1856)
• 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
• 1858 – Cambridge School of Art founded
• 1854 – Deighton, Bell & Co. booksellers in business
• 1869 – Girton College for women founded
• 1871 – Newnham College for women founded
• 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 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
• 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
• 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 (until 1945); London Hospital Medical College (until 1943) and The Bartlett (until 1945) to St Catharine's College; SOAS to Christ's College; London School of Economics to Peterhouse (until 1945); Bedford College to Newnham College (until 1944); and Barts to Queens' College (until 1946)
• 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
• 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
• 1960 – Cambridge Consultants founded
• 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
• 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
• 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 public university
• 1998 – Abcam established

21st century

• 2003 – University's Centre for Mathematical Sciences completed in West Cambridge
• 2006
  • Local Plan 2006 (town planning) adopted
  • Cambridge International School established
• 2007 – The Centre for Computing History is established
• 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
• 2017 – Cambridge North railway station opens
• 2019 – Sonita Alleyne becomes the first black woman elected as head of an Oxbridge college, Master of Jesus

See also

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