Timeline of Bristol
Prior to 16th century
- 803 – St James' Priory founded.[1]
- 1009 – Market active.[2]
- 1140 – St Augustine's Abbey founded.[1]
- 1141 – February: Stephen, King of England imprisoned in Bristol Castle after the Battle of Lincoln.
- 1147 – Bristol fair active.[2]
- c.1220 – Bristol Cathedral construction begins.
- c.1223 – Grey friary founded.[1]
- c.1228 – Blackfriars Dominican priory established.
- 1290 – Jews expelled.[3]
- 1292 – Church of St Mary Redcliffe built.[4]
- 1295 – Parliamentary representation begins.
- 1373 – Bristol becomes a county corporate;[4] Redcliffe becomes part of Bristol.[5]
- c.1478–1479 – Ricart's Maiores Kalendar of Bristol started.[6]
- 1497 – May: Italian-born adventurer John Cabot sets sail on the ship Matthew (principally owned by Richard Amerike) looking for new lands to the west.[7]
- 1498 – May: Cabot sets sail on his second voyage to the Americas; he is never heard of again.[8]
16th–17th centuries
- 1504 – Chapel of the Three Kings of Cologne built.
- 1542 – See of Bristol established.[5]
- 1552 – Society of Merchant Venturers chartered.
- 1595 – Merchant Venturers' School founded.
- 1643 – July: Bristol in the English Civil War Bristol taken by forces of Prince Rupert.[4]
- 1644 – Fort at St. Michael's Hill rebuilt.[9]
- 1645 – September: Bristol taken by forces of Cromwell.[4]
- 1656 – Bristol Castle demolished.[10]
- c. 1670 – King William Ale House built as a refuge for poor women.
- 1691
- Bristol Corporation of the Poor founded.[9]
- Almshouse established at St. Michael's Hill.[9]
18th century
- 1701 – Merchants' hall built.[1]
- 1702 – Bristol Post-Boy newspaper begins publication.
- 1710 – Colston's Hospital founded.[4]
- 1709 – St James's Square laid out.[11]
- 1712 – Custom House built.[11]
- 1717 – William Cossley bookseller in business.[12]
- 1725 – Farley's Bristol News-Paper begins publication.[13]
- 1727 – Dowry Square laid out.[11]
- 1729 – Walter Churchman patents his invention for making chocolate.[14]
- 1737 – Bristol Royal Infirmary opens.
- 1738 – William Champion patents a process to distill zinc from calamine using charcoal in a smelter.
- 1739 – New Room (Methodist chapel) built.
- 1740 – Merchant Tailors' Guild Hall built.
- 1741 – King Square laid out.[11]
- 1743 – The Exchange built.[1]
- 1747 – Bristol becomes Britain's busiest slave trading port.[15]
- 1753 – Economic unrest.[4]
- c.1759 – Joseph Fry begins chocolate manufacture.
- 1766 – Theatre opens.[1]
- 1767 – Bristol Gazette newspaper begins publication.[16]
- 1768 – Bristol Bridge built.[1]
- 1770 – Bristol porcelain manufacture begins;[17][18] Bristol blue glass is also first produced at about this date.
- 1773 – Bristol Library Society founded.[19]
- 1779 – Stapelton Prison built to hold naval prisoners of war captured during the American Revolutionary War.
- 1786
- Infirmary opens.[1]
- Wills, Watkins & Co. open a tobacconists' shop which becomes W.D. & H.O. Wills.
- 1788 – John Wesley gives speech against slavery.[15]
- c.1790 – Berkeley Square laid out.
- 1791 – Christ Church with St Ewen and Equestrian Theatre[20] built.
- 1793 – 30 September: Bridge riot.
- 1793–1813 – Stapelton prison used for French prisoners of war during the Napoleonic Wars.[21]
- 1796 – John Harvey & Sons, importers of Harvey's Bristol Cream sherry, founded.[22]
- 1799 – Pneumatic Institution established.
19th century
- 1803 – Bristol Dock Company incorporated.[5]
- 1804 – Stapelton prison enlarged.
- 1809 – Docks built.[4]
- 1810 – Commercial Rooms built.[1]
- 1821
- Population: 52,889.[1]
- John Horwood hanged for the murder of Eliza Balsom.[23]
- 1823
- 1830 – New cattle market opens.
- 1830s – Clifton becomes part of city.[25]
- 1831 – October: Queen Square riots[15] – 4 rioters killed and 86 injured by cavalry charge in Queen Square.
- 1832
- 4 Queen Square rioters charged and hanged.
- Bristol Mechanics' Institution building opens.[24]
- Holy Trinity Church built.
- 1836 – Zoological Gardens open.[26]
- 1837 – Passage to St Vincent's Cave opens.[27]
- 1838 – Paddle steamer SS Great Western (launched 1837) begins travelling to the United States.[28]
- 1840
- Bath-Bristol section of Great Western Railway begins operating.
- Bristol and Clifton Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society instituted.[29]
- 1841 – London-Bristol railway completed.[4]
- 1842
- Synagogue opens in Park Row.[3]
- Buckingham Baptist Chapel built.
- 1843 – Iron steamship SS Great Britain launched.
- 1844 – Bristol Academy for the Promotion of Fine Arts founded.
- 1847 – Horfield Barracks completed.[30]
- 1850
- Bristol, West of England and South Wales Permanent Building Society formed.
- Pro-Cathedral of the Holy Apostles consecrated.
- Clifton Victoria Baths opened.
- 1854 – Bristol and Exeter Railway begins operating.
- 1858
- Western Daily Press newspaper begins publication.[16]
- Bristol General Hospital opens.[5]
- 1862
- Bristol Naturalists' Society established.
- Clifton College opens.[5]
- 1864
- Clifton Suspension Bridge opens.[4]
- Avonside Engine Company in business.
- 1865
- 1870 – Gloucestershire County Cricket Club formed.
- 1871 – Bristol Museum and Library established.[32]
- 1873 – Bristol Trades Council founded.[33]
- 1875 – Horse-drawn tram begins operating.
- 1876
- University College, Bristol opens.[4]
- The Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society founded.
- 1877 – Avonmouth dock opens.[4]
- 1884 – Clifton Antiquarian Club founded.
- 1887
- 1889
- Labour strike.[4]
- Bristol Choral Society founded.
- March: Flood.[4]
- 1892 – Labour strike.[4]
- 1893 – Brazil, Straker & Co in business.
- 1895 – Electric tram begins operating.
- 1898 – Cabot Tower built on Brandon Hill.[4]
20th century
- 1901
- 1904
- Shirehampton becomes part of city.
- Area of city: 17,004 acres.[5]
- 1905 – Bristol Kyrle Society founded.[36]
- 1906 – Bristol Tramways and Carriage Company introduces its first motor buses.
- 1908 – Royal Edward Dock opens at Avonmouth.[5]
- 1909 – University of Bristol founded.
- 1910 – British and Colonial Aeroplane Company in business.[37]
- 1912 – Bristol Hippodrome opens.
- 1914 – International Exhibition opens at the "White City", Ashton Gate, becoming a military depot soon after the outbreak of war.[38]
- 1916
- August: First tanks shipped to Franch from Avonmouth.
- 9 September: Bristol F.2 Fighter aircraft first flies.
- 1929 – Bristol Record Society founded.
- 1930 – Whitchurch Airport begins operating.
- 1932
- Bristol Evening Post newspaper begins publication.[16]
- 23 February: Old Market riot.
- 1933
- 1938 – Ritz Cinema opens.[39]
- 1940 – 2 November: Aerial bombing by German forces begins.
- 1941 – Bristol Tramways abandoned due to bombing.
- 1944 – 15 May: Aerial bombing by German forces ends.
- 1945 – Bristol Cars in business.
- 1946 – Bristol Old Vic theatre company and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School established.
- 1956 – 17 April: Chew Valley Lake (1,200 acres (4.9 km2)) in Somerset is inaugurated as a reservoir for the Bristol area by the Queen.
- 1958 – Bristol bus station opens.
- 1959 – Bristol Siddeley aero engine manufacturer in business.
- 1963 – 30 April: Bristol Bus Boycott.
- 1968 – World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association headquartered in city.
- 1969 – British prototype Concorde airliner first flies from Filton.
- 1970
- Radio repeater tower built at Purdown.[40]
- BBC Radio Bristol begins broadcasting.
- Bristol Polytechnic established.
- SS Great Britain returns to Bristol.
- 1973 – Clifton Cathedral (Roman Catholic) consecrated.
- 1974
- Bristol becomes part of the county of Avon
- Ashton Court Festival begins.
- Avonmouth Bridge opens in Shirehampton.
- 1977 – Gay Pride begins.[41]
- 1978
- Royal Portbury Dock opens.
- Castle Park laid out.
- Bristol Gay Centre founded.[41]
- 1980 – 2 April: St. Pauls riot.
- 1984
- 1 May: Old Profanity Showboat opens.
- Bristol Community Church organised.
- 1986 – Show of Strength Theatre Company formed.
- 1992
- 16 July: Hartcliffe riot.
- University of the West of England granted university status.
- 1996
- 1 April: County of Avon abolished; Bristol once again becomes both a city and a county.
- 24–27 May: First International Festival of the Sea held in and around the Harbour; replica 15th-century ship Matthew dedicated.
- City of Bristol College established by merger of Brunel College and South Bristol College.
- 1998 – Tobacco Factory Theatre established.
- 2000 – Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory theatre company founded.
21st century
- 2001 – Bristol Royal Hospital for Children building opens.
- 2003 – Plain Clothes Theatre Productions formed.
- 2004 – Bristol Shakespeare Festival begins.
- 2007 – Dot to Dot Festival begins.
- 2010 – Brunel Institute opens.[42]
- 2011
- 21 April: Stokes Croft Tesco riot.
- Bristol becomes a "city of sanctuary" for refugees.[43]
- 2012
- Redland Green School established.
- George Ferguson elected Mayor of Bristol.[44]
See also
- History of Bristol
- Timelines of other cities in South West England: Bath, Exeter, Plymouth
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- "Bristol (England) Newspapers". Main Catalogue. British Library. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
- F. Severne Mackenna (1947). Cookworthy's Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain. Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis.
- John Penderill-Church (1972). William Cookworthy 1705–1780: a study of the pioneer of true porcelain manufacture in England. Truro: Bradford Barton. ISBN 0851530958.
- Paul Kaufman (1967). "The Community Library: A Chapter in English Social History". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 57 (7): 1–67. doi:10.2307/1006043. JSTOR 1006043.
- John Latimer (1893), The Annals of Bristol in the Eighteenth Century, Printed for the author by Butler & Tanner, OCLC 2996647, OL 20503132M
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- "The original locality". University of Bristol. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
- "Bristol". Great Western Railway Guide. London: James Wyld. 1839. OCLC 12922212.
- Arrowsmith's Dictionary of Bristol (2nd ed.). Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith. 1906.
- John Ramsay McCulloch (1880), "Docks: Bristol Docks, Shipping &c.", in Hugh G. Reid (ed.), A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation, London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
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Further reading
Published in the 17th–18th centuries
- John Ogilby (1699), "(Bristol)", Traveller's Guide, or, A Most Exact Description of the Roads of England, London: Abel Swall
- Nathaniel Spencer (1772). "County of Somerset: (Bristol)". Complete English Traveller. London: J. Cooke.
- Daniel Defoe; Samuel Richardson (1778), "(Bristol)", A Tour Through the Island of Great Britain (8th ed.), London: J.F. and C. Rivingdon
- William Barrett (1789), History and antiquities of the city of Bristol, Bristol: Printed by W. Pine, OCLC 2435385, OL 6929248M
- Archibald Robertson (1792), "City of Bristol", Topographical Survey of the Great Road from London to Bath and Bristol, London, OCLC 1633468
- Mathew's New History of Bristol or Complete Guide. 1794.
Published in the 19th century
1800s–1820s
- "Bristol", Kearsley's Traveller's Entertaining Guide through Great Britain, London: George Kearsley, 1803
- Walley Chamberlain Oulton (1805), "Bristol", Traveller's Guide: Or, English Itinerary, 1, J. Cundee, OCLC 65847812
- "Bristol". Crosby's Complete Pocket Gazetteer of England and Wales. London: B. Crosby. 1807.
- Joseph Nightingale (1813), "Bristol", Beauties of England and Wales, 13, London: J. Harris,
Somersetshire
- John Corry (1816), History of Bristol, Bristol: W. Sheppard, OL 7115955M
- Bristol Memorialist, 1816
- James Dugdale (1819), "Somersetshire: Bristol", New British Traveller, 4, London: J. Robins and Co.
- Samuel Seyer (1821), Memoirs historical and topographical of Bristol and its neighbourhood, Bristol: Printed for the author by J. M. Gutch, OCLC 5739402, OL 6922479M v.2
- Chronological Outline of the History of Bristol, and the Stranger's Guide Through Its Streets and Neighbourhood. Bristol: John Evans. 1824.
- Robert Watt (1824). "Bristol". Bibliotheca Britannica. 3. Edinburgh: A. Constable. hdl:2027/nyp.33433089888832. OCLC 961753.
- Chilcott's New Guide to Bristol. 1826.
- John Evans (1828), New Guide, or, Picture of Bristol (4th ed.), Bristol, OCLC 45137262, OL 13521980M
1830s–1840s
- David Brewster, ed. (1830). "Bristol". Edinburgh Encyclopædia. Edinburgh: William Blackwood.
- James Dallaway (1834), Antiquities of Bristow in the middle centuries, Bristol: Mirror office, OCLC 4782585, OL 22848809M
- Mathew's Bristol Directory. Bristol. 1841.
- "Bristol", Mogg's Great Western Railway and Windsor, Bath, and Bristol Guide, London: Edward Mogg, 1841
- "Bristol and its Vicinity". Slater's National Commercial Directory of Ireland; including ... English Towns of Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, West Bromwich, Leeds, Sheffield and Bristol, and in Scotland, those of Glasgow and Paisley. Manchester: I. Slater. 1846.
- Charles Frederick Cliffe (1848), "Bristol", Book of South Wales, the Bristol Channel, Monmouthshire, and the Wye (2nd ed.), London: Hamilton, Adams
- And Co, Hunt E. (1848). Hunt & Co.'s Directory & Court Guide for the Cities of Bath, Bristol, & Wells.
- Samuel Lewis (1848), "Bristol", Topographical Dictionary of England (7th ed.), London: S. Lewis and Co.
1850s–1890s
- Chilcott, John (1851). Chilcott's Descriptive History of Bristol (9th ed.).
- "Bristol", Black's Picturesque Tourist and Road-book of England and Wales (3rd ed.), Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1853
- "Bristol". Bradshaw's Descriptive Railway Hand-Book of Great Britain and Ireland. London: W.J. Adams. 1860.
- George Bryce (1861). Popular History of Bristol. Bristol: W. Mack.
- Charles Knight, ed. (1867). "Bristol". Geography. English Cyclopaedia. London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co. hdl:2027/nyp.33433000064794.
- "Bristol", Handbook for Travellers in Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, and Herefordshire, London: J. Murray, 1872, OCLC 2167311
- Wright's Bristol Directory. Bristol. 1872.
- Bristol, Cardiff, Newport, and Swansea Commercial List. London: Estell and Co. 1876.
- 'Canynge' Concise Guide to Bristol and Suburbs, Bristol: Jefferies & Sons, 1878, OL 7075650M
- J. F. Nicholls (1881), Bristol Past and Present, Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, OCLC 2663342, OL 23385067M
- v.1: Civil history
- v.2: Ecclesiastical history
- v.3: Civil and Modern History
- John Parker Anderson (1881), "Gloucestershire: Bristol", Book of British Topography: a Classified Catalogue of the Topographical Works in the Library of the British Museum Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, London: W. Satchell
- "Bristol Trades Directory". Kelly's Directory of Somersetshire. 1883.
- Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, ed. (1883), Memoirs illustrative of the history and antiquities of Bristol
- William Clark Russell (1883). "Bristol". North-East Ports and Bristol Channel. Newcastle upon Tyne: A. Reid. hdl:2027/uc1.$b667579.
- How to See Bristol. Arrowsmith. 1885.
- Laurence Cowen (1893), Greater Bristol, London: Pelham Press
- Charles Gross (1897). "Bristol". Bibliography of British Municipal History. New York: Longmans, Green, and Co.
- Alfred B. Beaven (1899), Bristol lists: municipal and miscellaneous (Bristol Lists: Municipal and Miscellaneous ed.), Bristol: T. D. Taylor, Sons, and Hawkins, OCLC 5828470, OL 22862365M
- John Latimer (1900), Annals of Bristol in the seventeenth century, Bristol: William George's Sons, OCLC 2996673, OL 6902725M
Published in the 20th century
- G.K. Fortescue, ed. (1902). "Bristol". Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years 1881–1900. London. hdl:2027/uc1.b5107011.
- John Latimer (1902), Annals of Bristol in the Nineteenth Century (Concluded) 1887–1900, Bristol: W. George's Sons, OCLC 2996691, OL 6924827M
- Charles Wells, ed. (1902). Historic Bristol. Bristol. (articles reprinted from The Bristol Times and Mirror)
- Robert Donald, ed. (1908). "Bristol". Municipal Year Book of the United Kingdom for 1908. London: Edward Lloyd. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081995593.
- John Latimer (1908), Sixteenth-Century Bristol, Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, OL 14042310M
- "Bristol", Great Britain (7th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1910, hdl:2027/mdp.39015010546516
- "Bristol". List of Works Relating to British Genealogy and Local History. New York: New York Public Library. 1910.
- "Bristol". England. Blue Guides. London: Macmillan. 1920.
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