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YEAR MONARCH HISTORICAL EVENTS NOTTINGHAM
55 BC
 
Julius Caesar invades Britain.
 
AD 43
 
Claudius invades Britain.
 
301
 
Diocletian fixes price of British beer (to twice price of Egyptian beer).
 
410
 
Romans abandon Britain.
 
868
 

 
Chronicler Asser tells how King Alfred subdued Northumbrians at Nottingham, saying it was formerly called Tigguo Cobauc, 'place of cavy dwellings'.
920
 

 
First bridge over the Trent.
927 Athelstan of Wessex
 

 
939 Edmund I
 

 
946 Eadred
 

 
955 Eadwig
 

 
959 Edgar I
 

 
975 Edward 'The Martyr'
 

 
978 Ethelred 'The Unready'
 

 
1013 Swein Forkbeard Danes conquer England.
 
1014 Ethelred 'The Unready'
 

 
1016 Edmund II
 

 

 
Ironsides (Apr)
 

 

 
Cnut (Nov)
 

 
1037 Harold I 'Harefoot'
 

 
1040 Harthacnut
 

 
1042 Edward 'The Confessor'
 

 
1066 Harold II Norman Conquest.
 

 
'Godwinson' (Jan)
 

 

 
William I of Normandy (Dec)
 

 
1068
 

 
William the Conqueror orders the construction of a castle on top of sandstone rock.
1087 William II 'Rufus'
 

 
1100 Henry I
 

 
1135 Stephen of Blois
 

 
1140
 

 
Earl of Gloucester burns the town but fails to capture the castle.
1153
 

 
Town burned again,
by Henry, Duke of Normandy
(later Henry II).
1154 Henry II
 

 
1155
 

 
First royal charter, allowing a market.
1170s
 

 
Henry II rebuilds town wall and Trent bridge.
1189 Richard I
 

 
1191
 

 
Prince John occupies castle while Richard I is imprisoned in Germany.
1194
 

 
After a siege, Richard retakes castle.
1199 John
 

 
1212
 

 
28 Welsh hostages hanged from the castle battlements by John.
1216 Henry III
 

 
1217
 

 
State papers refer to mills 'under rock of the Castle' -- earliest reference to settlement in Brewhouse Yard.
1230
 

 
Franciscan friary founded.
1250-5
 

 
Present outer wall of castle built.
1272 Edward I
 
Carmelite friary adjacent to site of The Bell founded.
1307 Edward I
 

 
1313
 

 
Mayor of Nottingham murdered.
1315
 

 
Burgesses of town besiege castle for eight days.
1319
 

 
Queen Isabella seeks refuge in castle after Scots attempt to kidnap her at York.
1327 Edward III
 

 
1330
 

 
Roger Mortimer captured by Edward III in castle.
1340-1453
 
Hundred Years' War.
 
1348-9
 
Black Death.
 
1374
 

 
Speaker of House of Commons imprisoned in castle.
1377 Richard II
 

 
1392
 

 
Mayor, aldermen and sheriffs of City of London imprisoned in castle.
1399 Henry IV
 

 
1413 Henry V
 

 
1422 Henry VI
 

 
1449
 

 
Nottingham granted county status; population 3,000.
1455-85
 
Wars of the Roses.
 
1461 Edward IV
 
Edward proclaims himself king at Nottingham.
1471
 
Battle of Tewkesbury.
 
1483 Edward V (April)
 

 

 
Richard III (June)
 

 
1485 Henry VII
 
Richard III sets off for battle of Bosworth Field from castle.
1509 Henry VIII
 

 
1536-9
 
Dissolution of the monasteries.
 
1547 Edward VI
 

 
1553 Jane (July)
 

 

 
Mary I (July)
 
1558 Elizabeth I
 

 
1588
 
Spanish Armada.
 
1603 James I
 
1605
 
Gunpowder Plot.
 
1610
 

 
First map of Nottingham. Brewhouse Yard sold.
1623
 

 
Castle sold to Earl of Rutland.
1625 Charles I (executed 1649)
 

 
1638
 

 
Robert Sherwin bequeaths his half share of The Bell to the poor of three parishes.
1641-6
 
English Civil War.
 
1642
 

 
Charles I raises his standard at the castle.
1649
 
England proclaimed a Commonwealth.
 
1651
 

 
Castle demolished.

 
LORD PROTECTORS
 

 
1653 Oliver Cromwell
 

 
1658 Richard Cromwell
 

 

 
MONARCHS
 

 
1660 Charles II Restoration.
 
1665-6
 
Great Plague.
 
1674-8
 

 
Castle rebuilt by Duke of Newcastle.
1677
 

 
Thoroton publishes Antiquities of Nottinghamshire.
1680-1740
 

 
Market Place takes on present form.
1685 James II Monmouth's Rebellion.
 
1689 William III & Mary II
 

 
1702 Anne
 
1714 George I
 

 
1727 George II
 

 
1745-7
 
Jacobite Rebellion.
 
1756-63
 
Seven Years' War.
 
1760 George III
 

 
1771
 

 
First major cricket match in town.
1776-82
 
American Revolution.
 
1776
 

 
Last great ball held
at the castle.
1785
 

 
First written reference to name 'Trip to Jerusalem'.
1801
 
General Enclosure Act.
 
1803-15
 
Napoleonic Wars.
 

 

 
Slave trade abolished.
 
1820 George IV
 

 
1823
 

 
Mechanisation of lace-making makes Nottingham greatest lace centre in the world.
1830 William IV
 
With population of 50,000, Nottingham is most crowded city in Europe.
1831
 

 
Rioting when it is thought that Reform Act will not be passed; castle gutted.
1837 Victoria
 

 
1845
 

 
Enclosures Act makes common land available for housing, thus relieving overcrowding.
1854-6
 
Crimean War.
 
1861-5
 
American Civil War.
 
1867
 
2nd Reform Act enfranchises virtually all men in towns & extends franchise in country but excludes poorer agricultural labourers.
 
1871
 

 
Castle bought by Corporation and restored.
1878
 

 
Castle opened as museum.
1884
 
3rd Reform Act: uniform male suffrage in town & country; some 2 million farm workers get vote.
 
1897
 

 
Nottingham made a city.
1899-1902
 
Boer War
 
1901 Edward VII
 

 
1910 George V
 

 
1914-18
 
World War I.
 
1918
 
Women win right to vote (at 30).
School-leaving age raised to 14.

 
1936 Edward VIII (January)
 

 

 
George VI (December)
 

 
1939-45
 
World War II.
 
1950-1
 
Korean War.
 
1952 Elizabeth II
 

 
1960s/70s
 

 

 
1982
 
Falkland War.