Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem team
[timeline]
timeline
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Tony Robinson, in front of the Nottingham timeline |
| 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). |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 1776-82 | American Revolution. | ||
| 1776 | Last great ball held at the castle. |
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| 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. |
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| 1936 | Edward VIII (January) | ||
| George VI (December) | |||
| 1939-45 | World War II. | ||
| 1950-1 | Korean War. | ||
| 1952 | Elizabeth II | ||
| 1960s/70s | |||
| 1982 | Falkland War. |
