Timeline of Cambridge

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

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Prior to 16th century

• 973 CE – Market active.
• c.1000-50 – St Bene't's Church built.
• 1068 – Cambridge Castle erected.
• 1101 – Town incorporated.
• c.1130 – Holy Sepulchre church built.
• 1154 – Cambridge fair active.
• 1200 – Charter granted.
• 1209 – University of Cambridge established by scholars from Oxford.
• 1211 – Stourbridge fair first recorded.
• 1261 – Cambridge academics attempt to set up a university at Northampton, suppressed by the Crown in 1265.
• 1284 – University's Peterhouse college founded.
• 1293 – Michael Pylet appointed mayor.
• 1326 – University's Clare College founded.
• 1347 – University's Pembroke College founded.
• 1348 – University's Gonville & Caius College founded.
• 1350 – University's Trinity Hall College founded.
• 1352 – University's Corpus Christi College founded.
• 1416 – University Library exists by this date.
• 1441 – University's King's College founded.
• 1446 – Foundation stone of King's College Chapel laid.
• 1448 – University's Queens' College founded.
• 1473 – University's St. Catherine College founded.
• 1496 – University's Jesus College founded.

16th-18th centuries

Map of Cambridge, 1574

Map of Cambridge, 1688

View of Cambridge, 1743

• 1505 – University's Christ's College founded.
• 1511 – University's St John's College established.
• 1515 – King's College Chapel fan vault completed.
• 1534 – University Press granted a royal charter.
• 1542 – University's Magdalene College founded.
• 1545 – University's Trinity College founded.
• 1584 – University's Emmanuel College founded.
• 1595 – University's Sidney Sussex College founded.
• 1615 – Perse School founded.
• 1630 – Plague.
• 1638 – Cambridge, Massachusetts named.
• 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 – University's Downing College founded.
• 1816 – University's 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 – Anatomy theatre attacked by a mob.
• 1839 – Cambridge Advertiser newspaper begins publication.
• 1840 – Cambridge Antiquarian Society founded.
• 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 – University's Girton College for women founded.
• 1871 – University's Newnham College for women founded.
• 1874 – University's Cavendish Laboratory completed.
• 1876 – W. Heffer bookseller begins business.
• 1880 – Cambridge Street Tramways begin operation.
• 1881 – Ridley Hall and Westcott House theological colleges founded.
• 1883 – Footlights student amateur dramatic club founded.
• 1884 – University's Museum of General and Local Archaeology founded.
• 1888 – Cambridge Daily News begins publication.
• 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.
• 1899 – Westminster College, a Presbyterian theological college, moves to Cambridge.

20th century

• 1901 – Population: 38,379.
• 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.
• 1922 – War Memorial unveiled.
• 1928 – Cambridge Preservation Society founded.
• 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.
• 1949
  • University's Cambridge Bibliographical Society founded.
  • University of Cambridge's Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator begins operating.
• 1954 – University's Murray Edwards College for women founded as New Hall.
• 1956 – Kettle's Yard established by Jim Ede.
• 1957 – Twinned with Heidelberg.
• 1958 – University's Churchill College established.
• 1960 – Cambridge Consultants founded.
• 1964
  • University's Darwin College for graduates founded.
  • Cambridge Folk Festival begins.
• 1965
  • University's Lucy Cavendish College for mature women founded.
  • University's Wolfson College for mature students founded as University College.
• 1966
  • University's Clare Hall for graduates established.
  • University's Fitzwilliam College chartered as a college.
• 1970 – February: Garden House riot.
• 1972
  • Three previously all-male colleges of the University admit women undergraduates.
  • Cambridge Theological Federation formed.
• 1975 – University's Cambridge Science Park founded.
• 1976 – Sancton Wood School founded.
• 1977 – University's Robinson College founded.
• 1989 – Cambridge Fun Run (footrace) begins.
• 1990 – Royal Greenwich Observatory relocated to Cambridge from Greenwich.
• c.1997 – 82 Akeman Street Community Room opens.

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 - Centre for Computing History established.
• 2010 – Homerton College chartered as a full college of the University.
• 2011 – Population: 123,867 (including 24,488 students).
• 2013 - University's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk founded.

See also

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

Further reading

• Cambridge by M.A.R. Tuker in multiple formats at gutenberg.org

Published in the 19th century

1800s-1840s

• • v.2
  • v.3
  • v.5, 1850-1856
• + v.2

Published in the 20th century

1900s-1940s

1950s-1990s

External links

• . Includes digitized directories of Cambridge, various dates
• Digital Public Library of America. Works related to Cambridge, various dates