Timeline of York

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of York, North Yorkshire in northern England.

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1st-4th centuries

5th-10th centuries

  • 625 – 21 July?: Paulinus is consecrated as first Bishop of York.
  • 627 – Paulinus establishes the first (temporary wooden) York Minster for the baptism of King Edwin of Northumbria; and also St Peter's School.
  • 637 – Stone-built predecessor of York Minster dedicated to St Peter completed.
  • 735 – Bishop Ecgbert is elevated to become first Archbishop of York.[2] He establishes a library and school.
  • 741 – Minster destroyed by fire; subsequently rebuilt on a larger scale.
  • 866 – November: The "Great Heathen Army" of Vikings led by Ivar the Boneless capture York.
  • 867 – 21 March: Danes defeat a Northumbrian counterattack against York, killing their kings Osberht and Ælla and installing a puppet ruler, Ecgberht.[2]
  • 876 – Danes capture southern Northumbria and found the Kingdom of York[2] perhaps under Halfdan Ragnarsson.
  • c. 897 – Mint re-established in the city.
  • c. 919 – The Norse–Gael leader Ragnall ua Ímair captures York.[3]
  • 927 – Æthelstan, King of the Anglo-Saxons, expels Gofraid ua Ímair from York.[4]
  • 939 – The Norse-Gael King of Dublin Olaf III Guthfrithsson captures York.[2]
  • 944 – King Edmund I of England takes York from the Vikings.[5]
  • 947 – Eric Bloodaxe becomes king of Northumbria for the first time at the invitation of Wulfstan I, Archbishop of York.[2]
  • 954 – Eric Bloodaxe is deposed and subsequently killed.

11th–14th centuries

  • 1065 – 3 October: Northumbrian rebels capture York, outlaw Harold Godwinson's brother Tostig and choose Morcar of Northumbria as their new earl.[2]
  • 1068 – Morcar leads a revolt in Northumbria, but William the Conqueror defeats the rebels at York[5] and builds a wooden motte-and-bailey castle probably on the later site of York Castle.
  • 1069 – c. 28 January: Northumbrian rebels attack York.[2]
  • Winter of 1069–1070 – Harrying of the North: William quells rebellions in the North of England brutally[6] and builds a second motte-and-bailey castle, probably that on Baile Hill.
  • 1070 – 23 May: The first Norman Archbishop, Thomas of Bayeux, is appointed and begins rebuilding of York Minster.[2]
  • 1088 – January/February: St Mary's Abbey re-established.
  • 1126 – Archbishoprics of Canterbury and York declared equal.[2]
  • 1137 – 4 June: York Minster and city are severely damaged by a fire, but the Minster is soon rebuilt; St Peter's Hospital is replaced by St Leonard's.
  • 1154 – Ouse Bridge collapses under the weight of a crowd gathered to greet Archbishop William of York on his return from exile. On 8 June William dies, apparently poisoned at Mass.
  • 1182 – Charter granted to citizens.
  • 1190 – 16 March: A mob besieges 150 Jews (including their leader Josce) in Clifford's Tower of York Castle, allowing to be killed by fire those who do not commit suicide.[2]
  • 1212 – 9 July: Royal charter granted allowing citizens to collect their own taxes and appoint a mayor (first known 1217).
  • 1220 – Re-building of York Minster in Gothic style begins under Archbishop Walter de Gray (dies 1255), starting with the south transept (completed about 1240).
  • 1228 – Christmas: During a visit by King Henry III, a gale destroys the wooden keep at York Castle.
  • 1237 – 25 September: Treaty of York signed between Henry III of England and his brother-in-law Alexander II of Scotland.
  • 1244 – Henry III orders rebuilding of the castle in stone, work which is completed about 1272.
  • c. 1260 – In York Minster
    • Construction of the north transept is completed and the "Five Sisters" window (in grisaille) installed.
    • Construction of the octagonal chapter house in the Decorated style (completed by 1296) begins.
  • 1291 – Construction of the nave of York Minster begins.[5]
  • 1298–1304 – King Edward houses the national Exchequer (at the castle) and Chancery (at the abbey) in York.[7]
  • 1316 – Lady Row built in Goodramgate.
  • 1319 – 20 September: First War of Scottish Independence: Scottish victory at the Battle of Myton over defenders from York.[2] Many priests and the mayor of York are killed.
  • 1328 – King Edward marries Philippa of Hainault in the Minster. A tournament is held in their honour.
  • 1335 – Parliament meets in York; subsequently it will normally meet at Westminster (London).
  • 1337 – c. 8 July: Death of William of Hatfield, second son of Edward III and Queen Philippa, at only a few months old; he is buried in the Minster.
  • 1344 – Mint established at the castle.
  • 1349 – May: Black Death reaches York.[2] 50% of the population die.
  • 1350s – Construction of the nave of York Minster completed. The great west window becomes known as the "Heart of Yorkshire".
  • 1357 – Merchant Adventurers' Hall construction begins.[8]
  • 1361 – Construction of the choir of York Minster in Perpendicular style begins.
  • 1376 – Corpus Christi (feast): Earliest record of York Mystery Plays, although they probably originate from the 1340s.
  • 1381 – Summer: Peasants’ Revolt. Unrest in York lasts for a year.
  • 1389 – Office of mayor raised to Lord Mayor of York, second in precedence only to the Lord Mayor of London.
  • 1396 – King Richard II grants a charter to the city making it a county corporate.

15th–16th centuries

17th century

  • 1616 – June: First waterworks and piped water supply.
  • 1617 – King James I visits.
  • 1633 – King Charles I visits.
  • 1642 – 19 March–3 July: Charles I holds court at York. The Great Seal of the Realm is sent to him here on 17 May.[10]
  • 1644
  • 1653 – 18 April: London–York stagecoach first recorded.
  • 1673 – 18 April: Viscount Fairfax throws a party to mark his remodelling of Fairfax House.
  • 1674 – Friends meeting house in Friargate first built.
  • 1676 – Highwayman John Nevison rides from Kent to York in a day to establish an alibi.[11]
  • 1677 – York Waterworks re-established.
  • 1679 – 7 August: Nicholas Postgate is hanged, drawn and quartered on the Knavesmire for being a Roman Catholic priest.
  • 1684 – 23 April: A gunpowder explosion guts Clifford's Tower at York Castle, leading to the city being abandoned as a military garrison.
  • 1686 – 5 November: Bar Convent established, making it the oldest surviving active Catholic convent in England.[12]
  • 1694 – First corporation fire engine purchased.
  • 1695 – Grays, solicitors, established.

18th century

19th century

20th century

21st century

Births

  • c. 735 – Alcuin, scholar (died 804 in Tours)
  • Before 1190 – Aaron of York, financier and chief rabbi of England (died after 1253)
  • 1556 – Margaret Clitherow, Catholic saint (martyred 1586)
  • 1564 – 20 March: Thomas Morton, bishop of Durham (died 1659)
  • 1570 – 13 April: Guy Fawkes, Catholic conspirator (executed 1606)
  • 1586 – 5 April: Christopher Levett, sea captain and New England settler (died 1630 at sea)
  • c. 1612 – John Hingston, organist and composer (died 1683)
  • 1624 – Matthew Poole, Nonconformist theologian (died 1679 in Amsterdam)
  • 1647 – Francis Place, gentleman draughtsman (died 1728)
  • 1755 – 6 July: John Flaxman, sculptor (died 1826)
  • 1784 – 31 July: Samuel Tuke, philanthropist and mental health reformer (died 1857)
  • 1787 – 10 March: William Etty, painter of nudes (died 1849)
  • 1799 – May: George Hennet, railway contractor (died 1857)
  • 1800 – 17 June: William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, astronomer (died 1867 in Ireland)
  • 1803 – 26 October: Joseph Hansom, architect and patentee of the Hansom cab (died 1882)
  • 1809 – Mary Ellen Best, domestic watercolourist (died 1891 in Darmstadt)
  • 1813 – 15 March: John Snow, physician, epidemiologist and pioneer of anaesthesia (died 1858 in London)
  • 1836 – 24 May: Joseph Rowntree, chocolate manufacturer and philanthropist (died 1925)
  • 1841 – 4 September: Albert Joseph Moore, figure painter (died 1893)
  • 1851 – 19 June: Silvanus P. Thompson, physicist, pioneer of calculus and electricity (died 1916)
  • 1871 – 7 July: Seebohm Rowntree, chocolate manufacturer and social reformer (died 1954)
  • 1881 – 20 September: Will Ashton (Sir John Ashton), landscape painter and gallery director (died 1963 in Australia)
  • 1907 – 21 February: W. H. Auden, poet (died 1973 in Austria)
  • 1912 – 6 February: Christopher Hill, Marxist historian (died 2003)
  • 1917 – 6 March: Frankie Howerd, comic actor (died 1992)
  • 1933 – 3 November: John Barry, film composer (died 2011 in the United States)
  • 1934 – 9 December: Judi Dench, actress
  • 1942
  • 1943 – 9 May: Vince Cable, politician
  • 1992 – 2 October: Lucy Staniforth, footballer

See also

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