1. Prior to 16th century

2. 16th-18th centuries

3. 19th century

4. 20th century

5. 21st century

6. See also

7. References

8. Further reading
     Published in the 19th century   1800s-1840s   1850s-1890s   Published in the 20th century  

9. External links

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

Prior to 16th century

• 973 CE – Market active.^[1]
• c.1000-50 – St Bene't's Church built.
• 1068 – Cambridge Castle erected.
• 1101 – Town incorporated.^[2]
• c.1130 – Holy Sepulchre church built.
• 1154 – Cambridge fair active.^[1]
• 1200 – Charter granted.^[3]
• 1209 – University of Cambridge established by scholars from Oxford.^[4]
• 1211 – Stourbridge fair first recorded.
• 1213 - Hervey FitzEustace, 1st recorded mayor.^[5]
• 1261 – Cambridge academics attempt to set up a university at Northampton, suppressed by the Crown in 1265.^[6]
• 1284 – University's Peterhouse college founded.^[7]
• 1326 – Clare College founded.^[9]
• 1347 – Pembroke College founded.^[7]
• 1348 – Gonville & Caius College founded.^[9]
• 1350 – Trinity Hall College founded.^[9]
• 1352 – Corpus Christi College founded.^[9]
• 1416 – University Library exists by this date.
• 1441 – King's College founded.^[9]
• 1446 – Foundation stone of King's College Chapel laid.
• 1448 – Queens' College founded.^[9]
• 1473 – St. Catherine College founded.^[8]
• 1496 – Jesus College founded.^[8]

16th-18th centuries

• 1505 – Christ's College founded.^[8]
• 1511 – St John's College established.^[7]
• 1515 – King's College Chapel fan vault completed.
• 1521 – John Siberch is active as a printer, the earliest known here.^[9]
• 1534 – University Press granted a royal charter.
• 1542 – Magdalene College founded.
• 1546 – Trinity College founded.^[7]
• 1584 – Emmanuel College founded.^[8]
• 1595 – Sidney Sussex College founded.^[8]
• 1615 – Perse School founded.
• 1638 – Cambridge, Massachusetts named.^[10]
• 1640 – Oliver Cromwell elected Member of Parliament for Cambridge.^[11]
• 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.^[12]
• 1747 – Shire-hall built.^[2]
• 1749 – Mathematical Bridge built at Queens' College.
• 1762 – Cambridge Chronicle newspaper begins publication.^[13]
• 1766 – Addenbrooke's Hospital founded.
• 1784 – Society for Promoting Useful Knowledge established.^[14]
• 1793
  • Cambridge Intelligencer newspaper begins publication.^[12]
  • Cambridge Quarters composed for new clock of the Church of St Mary the Great.

19th century

• 1800 – Downing College founded.^[8]
• 1816 – Fitzwilliam Museum founded.
• 1817 – Cambridge Town Club (cricket club) formed.{{citation needed|date=September 2013}}
• 1828
  • Bull Hotel in business.
  • Cambridge University Boat Club founded.
• 1829 – The Boat Race, rowed against Oxford, begins^[7] (annual from 1856).
• 1831 – Bridge of Sighs built over the Cam at St John's College.
• 1833 – Anatomy theatre attacked by a mob.^[15]
• 1839 – Cambridge Advertiser newspaper begins publication.^[16]
• 1840 – Cambridge Antiquarian Society founded.
• 1845 – Eastern Counties Railway begins operating to Cambridge railway station.^[3]
• 1848 – Mill Road Cemetery established.
• 1858 – Cambridge School of Art founded.
• 1854 – Deighton, Bell & Co. booksellers in business.^[17]
• 1869 – Girton College for women founded.^[7]
• 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.
• 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.^[18]
• 1890 – 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.^[19]
• 1899 – Westminster College, a Presbyterian theological college, moves to Cambridge.

20th century

• 1901 – Population: 38,379.^[20]
• 1908 - Cambridge Town F.C. formed.^[21]
• 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.^[22]
• c 1921 – Fitzbillies bakery opened by Ernest and Arthur Mason in Trumpington Street.
• 1922 – War Memorial unveiled.^[23]
• 1923 - Jesus Green Swimming Pool opens.
• 1928 – Cambridge Preservation Society founded.^[24]
• 1934 – New University Library completed.
• 1938 – Cambridge Airport opens.
• 1948 – First women admitted to study for full academic degrees in the University but have no associated privileges.^[25]
• 1949
  • University's Cambridge Bibliographical Society founded.^[26]
  • University of Cambridge's Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator begins operating.
• 1951 - City charter granted.^[27]
• 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.^[28]
• 1974
  • First Strawberry Fair held.^[29]
  • First Cambridge Beer Festival held
• 1975 – University's Cambridge Science Park founded.^[7]
• 1976
  • Sancton Wood School founded.
  • First Andys 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.^[30][31]
  • 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.^[32]
• 2013 – North West Cambridge development planned.
• 2016 – New global headquarters for AstraZeneca projected for completion.
• 2017 – Cambridge North railway station opens.^[33]

See also

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

References

Further reading

• Cambridge by M.A.R. Tuker in multiple formats at gutenberg.org
• {{cite book |title=Cantabrigia depicta. A concise and accurate description of the university and town of Cambridge, and its environs |location=Cambridge |publisher= W. Thurlbourn & J. Woodyer |year= 1763 |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008680142 }}

Published in the 19th century

1800s-1840s

• {{cite book |chapter=Cambridge |chapterurl= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433089888832?urlappend=%3Bseq=244 |volume=3 |title=Bibliotheca Britannica |author= Robert Watt |location=Edinburgh |publisher= A. Constable |year= 1824 |oclc=961753 }}
• {{Cite book |publisher =William Blackwood |publication-date = 1830 |publication-place = Edinburgh |title = Edinburgh Encyclopædia |editor=David Brewster |chapter=Cambridge |chapterurl=https://archive.org/stream/edinburghencyclo05edinuoft#page/282/mode/2up }}
• {{cite book |title=Cambridge Guide |year=1837 |location=Cambridge |publisher=J. & J.J. Deighton |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eM0uAAAAMAAJ }}
• {{Citation |publisher = University Press |publication-place = Cambridge |title = Annals of Cambridge |url = http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7034095M/Annals_of_Cambridge |author = Charles Henry Cooper |publication-date = 1842–1908 }}
  • [https://archive.org/stream/annalsofcambridg02coopuoft#page/n3/mode/2up v.2]
  • [https://archive.org/stream/annalsofcambridg03coopuoft#page/n5/mode/2up v.3]
  • [https://archive.org/stream/annalsofcambridg05coopuoft#page/n7/mode/2up v.5], 1850-1856
• {{Citation |publisher = David Bogue |publication-place = London |author1=John Le Keux |author2 = Thomas Wright |author3=Harry Longueville Jones |url = http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7020615M/Memorials_of_Cambridge |title = Memorials of Cambridge |publication-date = 1847 }} + [https://archive.org/stream/memorialsofcambr02wriguoft#page/n9/mode/2up v.2]
• {{Citation |publisher = S. Lewis and Co. |publication-place = London |author = Samuel Lewis |title =Topographical Dictionary of England |publication-date = 1848 |edition=7th |chapter=Cambridge |chapterurl= https://archive.org/stream/topographicaldic00lewi1#page/479/mode/1up }}

1850s-1890s

• {{cite book |title=Slater's Royal National and Commercial Directory and Topography of the Counties of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Norfolk, Oxfordshire, and Suffolk |publisher= Isaac Slater |location=London |year=1850 |chapter= Cambridge |chapterurl= https://archive.org/stream/slatersroyalnati00slat#page/n95/mode/1up }}
• {{cite book |title=Pictorial Guide to Cambridge |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zs0HAAAAQAAJ |location=Cambridge |publisher=John Hatt |year=1853 }}
• {{Citation |publisher = C. Griffin and Co. |publication-place = London |author = George Measom |title = Official Illustrated Guide to the Great Eastern Railway |publication-date = 1865 |chapter=Cambridge |chapterurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=GAoHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA133 }}
• {{cite book |title=New Cambridge guide |year=1868 |publisher=W. Metcalfe |location=Cambridge |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=yOlZAAAAYAAJ }}
• {{Citation |publisher = J. Murray |publication-place = London |title = Handbook for Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire |edition=2nd |publication-date = 1875 |chapter=Cambridge |chapterurl=https://archive.org/stream/handbookforesse00firgoog#page/n421/mode/2up }}
• {{Citation |url = https://archive.org/stream/spaldingsstreet00unkngoog#page/n4/mode/2up |title = Spalding's street and general directory of Cambridge |publication-date = 1878 }}
• {{Citation |publisher = W. Satchell |publication-place = London |title = Book of British Topography: a Classified Catalogue of the Topographical Works in the Library of the British Museum Relating to Great Britain and Ireland |author = John Parker Anderson |publication-date = 1881 |chapter=Cambridgeshire: Cambridge |chapterurl= https://archive.org/stream/bookofbritishtop00andeuoft#page/59/mode/1up }}
• {{cite book |title=Guide to Cambridge: the town, university and colleges |author=George Murray Humphry |location= Cambridge |publisher= Spalding |year=1890 |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006155492 }}
• {{Citation |url = http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7049287M/Cambridge_described_and_illustrated |publisher = Macmillan |publication-date = 1897 |publication-place = London |title = Cambridge described and illustrated |author=Thomas Dinham Atkinson }}
• {{cite book |title=Bibliography of British Municipal History |year=1897 |location=New York |publisher=Longmans, Green, and Co. |author=Charles Gross |chapter=Cambridge |chapterurl=https://archive.org/stream/bibliographyofbr00grosiala#page/184/mode/2up }}

Published in the 20th century

1900s-1940s

• {{cite book |chapter=Cambridge |chapterurl= https://books.google.com/books?id=Br0ZAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA87 |title= Municipal Year Book of the United Kingdom for 1907 |editor=Robert Donald |location=London |publisher=Edward Lloyd |year=1907 }}
• {{Citation |publisher =Cambridge Antiquarian Society |publication-place = Cambridge |title = The dual origin of the town of Cambridge |url = http://openlibrary.org/books/OL14005338M/The_dual_origin_of_the_town_of_Cambridge |author = Arthur Gray |publication-date = 1908 |oclc = 14031217 }}
• {{Citation |publisher = Ward, Lock & Co. |publication-place = London |title = Haydn's Dictionary of Dates |author = Benjamin Vincent |edition = 25th |publication-date = 1910 |chapter=Cambridge |chapterurl =https://archive.org/stream/haydnsdictionary00hayd#page/234/mode/2up }}
• {{Citation |publisher = Bowes and Bowes |publication-place = Cambridge |title = Concise Guide to the Town and University of Cambridge |url = http://openlibrary.org/books/OL23290297M/A_concise_guide_to_the_town_and_University_of_Cambridge |author = John Willis Clark |edition=5th |publication-date = 1916 }}
• {{Citation |publisher = A. and C. Black |publication-place = London |author = Mildred Anna Rosalie Tuker |url = http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7159514M/Cambridge |title = Cambridge |publication-date = 1922 }}
• {{cite book |title= Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel |author=Edward Godfrey Cox |year=1949 |publisher= University of Washington|location= Seattle |via=Hathi Trust |volume=3: Great Britain |chapterurl= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015049531448?urlappend=%3Bseq=310 |chapter= Cambridge and Oxford }}

1950s-1990s

• {{citation |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=520 |editors=J.P.C. Roach |publisher=University of London, Institute of Historical Research |year=1959 |title= City and University of Cambridge |work=History of the County of Cambridgeshire |volume= 3 |series=Victoria County History }}
• {{cite journal |title=The Political Demography of Cambridge 1832–1868 |author1=Jeremy C. Mitchell |author2=James Cornford |lastauthoramp=yes |journal= Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies |volume= 9 |year=1977 |jstor=4048348 }}
• {{cite journal |title=Household Size and Structure in Early-Stuart Cambridge |author= Nigel Goose |journal=Social History |volume= 5 |year= 1980 |jstor=4285009 }}
• {{cite journal |title=Religion and Reform at the Polls: Nonconformity in Cambridge Politics, 1774-1784

• {{cite journal |title=The Jews of Medieval Cambridge |author=R.B. Dobson |journal= Jewish Historical Studies |volume= 32 |date=1990–1992 |jstor=29779882 }}
• {{cite journal |title=Grads and Snobs: John Brown, Town and Gown in Early Nineteenth-Century Cambridge

• {{cite book |title= London |series= Let's Go |year=1993 |ol= |chapter= Daytrips from London: Cambridge |chapterurl=https://archive.org/stream/letsgobudgetguid00jona#page/225/mode/1up |page=225+ }}
• {{cite journal |title=The compact city: theory versus practice – the case of Cambridge |author= Nicola Morrison |journal= Netherlands Journal of Housing and the Built Environment |volume= 13 |year=1998 |jstor=41107742 }}

External links

• {{citation |work=Historical Directories |publisher=University of Leicester |location=UK |title=Cambridgeshire |url=http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/findbylocation.asp }}. Includes digitized directories of Cambridge, various dates
• Digital Public Library of America. Works related to Cambridge, various dates

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