Timeline of Exeter
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Prior to 16th century
- 250 BC – Goods traded with Roman coins
- 45 CE – Romans in power (approximate date).[1]
- 55 – Roman fort established in Isca Dumnoniorum (approximate date).
- 380 – Roman occupation ends (approximate date).[2]
- 600 – Saxons arrive (approximate date).[2]
- 868 – Monastery founded by Ethelred.[3]
- 876 – Danes occupy town.[4]
- 893 – Town besieged by Danes again.
- 900 – Market active.[5]
- 927 – Athelstan evicts the Cornish from Exeter (and perhaps the rest of Devon), according to William of Malmesbury, writing around 1120.[6]
- 932 – Monastery founded by Athelstan.[3]
- 1003 – Exeter sacked by forces of Sweyn of Denmark.[3]
- 1048 – Episcopal see relocated to Exeter from Crediton.[4]
- 1050 – Leofric becomes bishop of Exeter.[7][8]
- 1067 – Exeter besieged by forces of William the Conqueror.[7]
- 1068 – Rougemont Castle built (approximate date).
- 1087 – Benedictine Priory of St Nicholas founded.
- 1130 – Exeter fair active.[5]
- 1136 – Exeter besieged by forces of Stephen, King of England.[1]
- 1190 – Old Exe Bridge construction began.
- 1207 – Mayor in office.
- 1214 – Old Exe Bridge construction finished (approximate).
- 1236 – Nunnery founded.[7]
- 1348 – Order of Brothelyngham, an anti-religious group, active in the city.
- 1400 – Exeter Cathedral built (approximate date).
- 1466 – Tailors' trade gild incorporated.[9]
- 1468/70 – Exeter Guildhall current building constructed.[9]
- 1482 – Tailors' trade gild dissolved on the petition of the burgesses.[9]
- 1490 – Company of Weavers and Fullers incorporated.[10]
- 1497 – City besieged by forces of Perkin Warbeck.[4]
16th–18th centuries
- 1536
- City becomes a county corporate.[7]
- Monastery disbanded.[1]
- 1556 – Society of Merchant Adventurers incorporated.[11]
- 1564 – Exeter Ship Canal construction begins.[1]
- 1593 – Guildhall rebuilt.[7]
- 1595 – Michael Harte bookseller in business.[12]
- 1612 – Northernhay Gardens laid out.
- 1633 – Exeter Free Grammar School opens.
- 1643 – September: City taken by forces of Charles I of England.[7]
- 1646 – April: Parliamentarians in power.[7]
- 1664 – St Stephen's Church built.
- 1681 – Custom House built on the Quay.
- 1688 – November: William III of England visits city.[3]
- 1696 – Mint established.[3]
- 1714 – Exeter Mercury newspaper begins publication.[13]
- 1743 – Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital opened.[9]
- 1760 – George's Meeting (Unitarian) built.
- 1763 – Trewman's Exeter Flying Post newspaper in publication.
- 1764 – Exeter Synagogue consecrated.
- 1778 – Bridge rebuilt.
- 1783 – Gilbert Dyer's circulating library in business.[12][14]
- 1792 – Exeter Gazette newspaper begins publication.[13]
19th century
- 1813
- Devon and Exeter Institution founded.[3]
- Exeter Western Luminary begins publication.[15]
- 1814
- Iron Footbridge built.
- Exeter Medical Library founded.
- 1821 – Besley's Exeter News begins publication.[13]
- 1823 – Cholera epidemic.[1]
- 1825
- Mechanics' Institution opens.[7]
- Chichester Place laid out.
- 1832 – Veitch plant nursery in business.[16]
- 1835 – Athenaeum instituted.[3]
- 1837 – Catacombs built.
- 1840 – Exeter Diocesan Training College opens.
- 1842 – Church of St Andrew built.
- 1844 – Bristol and Exeter Railway begins operating to Exeter St Davids railway station.[7]
- 1847 – Polytechnic Institution founded.[3]
- 1848 – South Devon Railway begins operating from Exeter St Davids station.[3]
- 1852 – Exeter and South Devon Volunteers formed.
- 1853 – Prison built.
- 1854 – School of Art founded.
- 1860 – London and South Western Railway begins operating to Exeter Queen Street station.
- 1862 – Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art established.[17]
- 1867 – November: Economic unrest.[7]
- 1870 – Royal Albert Memorial Museum established.
- 1882 – Horse-drawn tram begins operating.
- 1884 – 18 November: Sacred Heart Church opened.
- 1887 – 5 September: Theatre Royal burns down with 186 fatalities.[7]
- 1889
- Theatre Royal rebuilt.
- Devon and Exeter Medico-Chirurgical Society founded.[18]
- 1896 – City of Exeter Electricity Company formed.
20th century
- 1901 – Population: 47,185.[9]
- 1904 – Express & Echo newspaper begins publication.[19]
- 1905
- 29 March: Rebuilt Exe Bridge opened.
- 4 April: Exeter Corporation Tramways begins operating its electric system.
- Approximate date: Devon and Cornwall Record Society established.[20]
- 1907 – Sidwell Street Methodist Church completed, a pioneering example of reinforced concrete construction by French engineer Paul Cottancin.
- 1910 – Empire Electric Palace opens.[21]
- 1911 – Exeter Pictorial Record Society active.[22]
- 1914 – 7 October: First of five war emergency hospitals in requisitioned buildings in the city opens to casualties, staffed by Voluntary Aid Detachment nurses.[23]
- 1916 – December: Deller's Café opens in Bedford Street.[23]
- 1937
- Odeon Exeter cinema opens.[21]
- Exeter Airport opens.
- 1942 – May: "Baedeker Blitz": Aerial bombing by the German Luftwaffe devastates the city centre.[1]
- 1949 – 21 October: Official inauguration of construction of Princesshay, Britain's first pedestrianised shopping precinct, as part of the postwar city centre reconstruction.[24]
- 1955 – University of Exeter chartered.
- 1960 – October: Flood.
- 1963 – November: Exeter & Devon Crematorium opened.
- 1964 – Devon County Hall built.
- 1966 – 1 April: City boundaries extended to include Alphington, Pinhoe and Topsham.
- 1967 – Northcott Theatre opens.
- 1970 – Exeter College established.
- 1972 – Barnfield Theatre established.
- 1974 – Spacex (art gallery) established.
- 1977 – M5 motorway opens.[1]
- 1997 – Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture opens at University of Exeter.
21st century
- 2007 – Princesshay rebuilt.
- 2008 – 22 May: Attempted bombing in Princesshay.
- 2011 – Population: 117,773.
- 2017 – Exeter Chiefs rugby union team win the Aviva Premiership.
- 2021 – World War II bomb detonation.
See also
- Exeter history
- Timelines of other cities in South West England: Bath, Bristol, Plymouth
