Timeline of Norwich
History of Norwich, Norfolk, England
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Prior to 12th century
- 900–950 AD – Anglo-Scandinavian ditch and bank constructed to north of River Wensum.[1]
- 924 AD – Market active.[2]
- 1004 – Norwich sacked by Danes.[3]
- c. 1067 – Norwich Castle construction begins.
- c. 1070 – St Peter Mancroft church established by Ralph de Gael.[4]
- 1086 – 23 to 30 churches, 43 chapels and 8,000 citizens recorded in Domesday Book.[5]
- 1094 – Seat of East Anglian bishopric relocated to Norwich from Thetford.[6][7]
- 1096 – Norwich School established.
12th–13th centuries
- 1100
- Bishop's Palace built (approximate date).[citation needed]
- St George Colegate church built (approximate date).[8]
- 1101 – Norwich Cathedral dedicated.[6]
- 1106 – Norwich fair active.[2]
- 1110–20 – Bridge of St Martins built.[9]
- 1100 – St Leonard's Priory built on Mousehold Heath.[10]
- 1122 – King Henry I visits town.[11]
- 1144 – William of Norwich murdered.[citation needed]
- 1145 – Norwich Cathedral completed.[citation needed]
- 1158 – Henry II grants the burgesses a charter.[6]
- 1190 – Antisemitic massacre, Chapelfield well mass grave created.[12]
- 1194 – Richard I grants the burgesses a fuller charter.[6]
- 1216 – Dauphin Louis takes Norwich Castle.[13]
- 1248 – Chapel and Hospice of St Mary's in the Field founded.[citation needed]
- 1249 – Giles's Hospital founded.[10]
- 1258 – Penitential Friars settle in the city.[14]
- 1266 – "Disinherited Barons sack city."[11]
- 1272 – Riot.[11]
- 1294 – City walls construction begins.[15]
- 1295 – Bishop Bridge built.[16]
- 1298 – Norwich represented in parliament by two members.[6]
14th–15th centuries
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- 1341 – Norwich Market ceded to city.[citation needed]
- 1342 – City walls built.[6]
- 1349
- 1383 – Queen Anne of Bohemia visits Norwich.[11]
- 1384 – Cloth Seld established.[11]
- 1385
- Guild of Saint George founded (approximate date).[17]
- Guild Day ceremony established.[18]
- 1404 – Charter defines the city and county of Norwich.[19]
- 1411 – Market Cross built.[11]
- 1413 – Norwich Guildhall completed.[citation needed]
- 1414 – Fire.[13]
- 1430 – Great Hall built.
- 1443 – Gladman's Procession.[20][21]
- 1455 – St Peter Mancroft church consecrated.
- 1472 – St Laurence's Church built.
16th century
- 1507 – Two fires on 25 April and 4 June destroy ~40% of Norwich housing,[22] over 700 dwellings.[23]
- 1510 – Church of St John Maddermarket rebuilt.
- 1520 – Population: up to 11,000.[23]
- 1521 – Coslany Bridge rebuilt.[16]
- 1532 – Group of women punished for selling grain below the set rate at Norwich Market.[24]
- 1534 – Norwich is the first English city to receive a Rebuilding Statute from parliament.[22]
- 1541 – Norwich Sanctuary Map created.[25]
- 1543 – Hatters company formed.[26]
- 1544–1545 – Plague outbreak.[27]
- 1549
- Kett's Rebellion.[28]
- Norwich is the first English provincial town to initiate compulsory payments to finance poor relief.[29]
- 1554 – Russell company of weavers founded.[30]
- 1555–56 – Plague outbreak and influenza epidemic.[27]
- 1556 – Charter confirms the city boundaries, including the parishes of Carrow, Lakenham, Eaton, Earlham, and Heigham plus Mousehold Heath and Thorpe Wood.[19]
- 1558 – The Cuningham Prospect, a perspective plan of the city, created.[31]
- 1561 – Exports of Norwich worsteds from Great Yarmouth drops to 38 in a year.[32]
- 1565 – Strangers (Dutch and Walloons) arrive in Norwich and French Church established.[33][34]
- 1567
- Duke's Palace completed.[35]
- Anthonie de Solempne sets up first printing press.[36]
- 1570 – Census of the Poor.[37]
- 1571 – 3,925 Strangers recorded in Norwich.[38]
- 1573 – Fye Bridge rebuilt.[39][16]
- 1576 – Almost 5,000 Strangers recorded in Norwich.[38]
- 1578 – Queen Elizabeth I visits Norwich as the destination of her yearly Progress.[40]
- 1579–80 – Bubonic plague kills over 5,000 people, possibly up to 40% of the population.[27]
- 1584–5 – Bubonic plague outbreak kills at least 3,500 people.[27]
- 15 June 1583 – The Norwich Affray interrupts a performance by the Queen's Men, resulting in murder.[41]
- 1589 – Blackfriars Bridge rebuilt.[42]
- 1589–92 – Bubonic plague outbreak kills at least 3,500 people.[27]
- 1591 – Whitefriars Bridge rebuilt[9]
17th century
- 1603–4 – Bubonic plague outbreak kills almost 3,500 people.[27]
- 1608 – Norwich Public Library established.[43]
- 1615 – Peter Gleane becomes mayor.[44]
- 1621 – George Birch becomes mayor.[44]
- 1625–6 – Bubonic plague outbreak kills almost 3,500 people.[27]
- 1635 – Matthew Wren appointed Bishop of Norwich.[45]
- 1636–8 – Bubonic plague outbreak.[27]
- 1648 – The Great Blow explosion occurs after a riot, destroying 40 buildings.[46]
- 1660
- January – 14 Norwich aldermen and 25 common councillors sign the Norfolk Address to General Monck, expressing desire for a free parliament.[47]
- 24 May – Official thanksgiving held to celebrate the 10 May Restoration of Charles II.[47]
- 20 September – Norwich soldiery disbanded.[48]
- 1652 – William Barnham becomes mayor.[44]
- 1663
- My Lord's Garden, Norwich's earliest known commercial garden, laid out.[49]
- William Oliver bookseller in business.[50]
- 1666 – Final bubonic plague outbreak kills 2,500 people in a year.[27]
- 1671 – King Charles II visits Norwich.
- 1675 – George Rose bookseller in business.[51]
- 1681 – Duke's Palace rebuilt.[52]
- 1687 – Doughty's Hospital established.[53]
- 1693 – Population: 28,881.[54][55]
- 1697 – New Mint established.[11]
18th century
- 1701
- Norwich Post begins publication as Britain's first provincial newspaper.[56]
- Oil lamps come into use in Norwich.[57]
- 1706 – Norwich Gazette (later Norfolk Chronicle) and Norwich Postman (later Norwich Mercury) newspapers begin publication.[56]
- 1711 – Duke's Palace ordered for demolition.[58]
- 1724 – Maid's Head Lodge constituted, the first Masonic lodge in Norfolk.[59]
- 1731 – White Swan Playhouse active (approximate date).[60][61]
- 1741–1745 – Reverend Francis Blomefield publishes his History of the City and County of Norwich in instalments.[62]
- 1745 – Temporary triumphal arch built to commemorate the defeat of the Jacobite rising.[57]
- October 1746 – Public celebrations of the defeat of the Jacobite rebellion.[63]
- 1747 – Local epidemic, likely smallpox.[64]
- 1754 – Assembly House built.[65][57]
- 1756 – Octagon Chapel completed.[57]
- 1757 – Theatre built.[55][60]
- 1758 – New Theatre built.[57]
- 1762 – Hills and Underwood distillery in business.[66]
- 1763 – Richard Beatniffe bookseller in business.[51]
- 1770 – Gurney's Bank established.
- 1771 or 1772 – Norfolk and Norwich Hospital founded.[57][67]
- 1775 – The Scots' Society (renamed Universal Society of Goodwill in 1784) founded on Saint Andrew's Day by Scottish expatriates.[68]
- 1784
- Blackfriars Bridge rebuilt.[69]
- Norfolk and Norwich Subscription Library established.[70]
- 1785
- First manned flight over Norwich by James Decker in a hot air balloon, launched from Ranelagh Gardens.[71]
- 22 July – Major John Money is launched in a balloon from Ranelagh Gardens and before being ditched in the North Sea.[71]
- 18 October – Society of United Friars founded at Crown Court, Elm Hill.[59]
- William Stevenson bookseller in business.[51]
- 1786
- 1792 – Hudson & Harvey bank established.[74]
- April 1795 – Norwich Patriotic Society founded to agitate for parliamentary reform.[75]
- 1797 – Norwich Norwich Loyal Military Association formed.[75]
- 1800 – Fish's Musical Circulating Library in business.[76]
19th century
- 1803 – Norwich Society of Artists meets for the first time.[77][68]
- 1804 – St Miles Bridge built.[78]
- 1811 – Foundry Bridge built.[16]
- 1815 – Riots against the Corn Laws; Norfolk MP Thomas Coke is pelted with stones.[79]
- 4 April 1817 – The PS Telegraph explodes after setting off from Foundry Bridge, killing 10 and injuring five.[80]
- 1819 – Rosary Cemetery established.
- 1820 – Steward, Patterson & Stewards brewery in business.[81]
- 1821 – Population: 50,288.[55]
- 1822
- 1823
- J. & J. Colman in business.[82]
- Jarrolds relocates to Norwich.[83]
- 1824
- Norfolk and Norwich Festival begins.[55][84][49]
- Norfolk and Norwich Museum, and Norfolk and Norwich United Medical Book Society established.[55]
- 1826 – Theatre rebuilt.[55]
- 1827 – Norwich City Gaol built in Heigham Hamlet.[85]
- 1829
- 1831 – Canal and harbour open.[3]
- 1833
- Norwich Yarn Company in business.[86]
- Carrow Bridge rebuilt.[16]
- 1835
- Town Council elected per Municipal Corporations Act 1835.[55]
- Guild Day ceremony formally abolished.[18]
- 1837 – Bullard & Watts brewery in business.
- 1839 – St James Mill built.
- 1844
- Yarmouth and Norwich Railway begins operating.[55]
- Foundry Bridge rebuilt.[87]
- 1845
- 1847 – Chamber of Commerce established.[55]
- 1849
- January – Jenny Lind performs two charity concerts at St Andrew's Hall.[49]
- Norwich Victoria railway station opens.
- 1851 – Board of Health established.[55]
- 1854 – Jenny Lind Infirmary for Sick Children opens, the second children's hospital in the country.[89]
- 1856 – Young Men's Christian Association chapter established.[55]
- 1857
- 1861 – Population: 75,025.[55]
- 1866 – Chapel Field Road drill hall opened.[90]
- 1869 – Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society founded.[91]
- 1874 – 10 September: Thorpe rail accident occurs near town.
- 1875 – Norwich High School for Girls founded.[65]
- 1878 – Harry Bullard becomes mayor.[44]
- 1880 – Chapelfield Gardens open.
- 1882
- St Crispin's Bridge built.[69]
- Norwich City railway station opens.[69]
- 1886 – Foundry Bridge rebuilt again.[87]
- 1887 – HM Prison Norwich established.
- 1888 – Norfolk and Norwich Photographic Society established.[92]
- 1891 – City College Norwich founded.
- 1897
- Labour strike.[3]
- Royal Hotel in business.
- 1900 – Norwich Electric Tramways begin operating.
20th century
- 1901 – Population: 111,733.[6]
- 1902 – Norwich City Football Club founded, inheriting the song "On the Ball, City".
- 1903 – Grand Opera House opens.[93]
- 1909 – Sewell Park opens.
- 1910 – St John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church built, now cathedral
- 1911 – Picture House (cinema) opens.[93]
- 1921 – Maddermarket Theatre founded.
- 1923 – First woman Lord Mayor.
- 1924 – Heigham Park opens.[94]
- 1925
- Wensum Park opened [95][96]
- The Ferry Boat Inn in business.
- Whitefriars Bridge rebuilt again.[9]
- 1928 – Eaton Park opens.[97]
- 1929 – Sloughbottom Park and Mile Cross Gardens open.
- 1933
- Waterloo Park opens.
- Fye Bridge rebuilt again.[39]
- St Peter Hungate church repurposed as a museum, becoming the first church building to be given permanent secular use since the Reformation.[98]
- 1938 – City Hall built.
- 1942 – April: Aerial bombing by German forces.
- 1963 – University of East Anglia established.
- 1973 – Colman's Mustard Shop opens.
- 1974
- Norfolk Tower built.
- Norwich Historic Churches Trust established.[98]
- Norwich and Great Yarmouth lose their status as county boroughs and become districts.[97]
- 1976 – Norwich Buddhist Centre established.
- 1977 – Norwich Arts Centre opens.
- 1978 – Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts and Norwich Cinema City open.
- 1979 – Norwich Puppet Theatre founded.
- 1980 – Sewell Barn Theatre opens.
- 1982 – City of Norwich Aviation Museum active (approximate date).
- 1988 – Norwich Airport terminal opens.
- 1992 – Norwich Research Park launched.
- 1994 – Norwich Central Library fire destroys over 100,000 books.[99]
- 1995 – Norwich Playhouse opens.
21st century
- 2001
- Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital founded.
- The Forum built.
- 2004 – Norwich Heritage Economic and Regeneration Trust (HEART) established.[100]
- 2005 – Delia Smith makes "Let's be 'avin' you!" speech at Carrow Road.[101]
- 2006 – 99.9 Radio Norwich begins broadcasting.[citation needed]
- 2007 – Theatre Royal building refurbished.[citation needed]
- 2009
- Norwich Film Festival begins.[citation needed]
- 25 July – First Norwich Pride parade.[102]
- 2018 – Colman's announces transfer of most of its mustard production away from Norwich.[103]
- 2020 – COVID-19 pandemic.
