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Timeline of Exeter

The following is a of the history of the city of Exeter, Devon, England.

Prior to 16th century

  • 250 BC – Goods traded with Roman coins
  • 45 CE – Romans in power (approximate date).
  • 55 – Roman fort established in Isca Dumnoniorum (approximate date).
  • 380 – Roman occupation ends (approximate date).
  • 600 – Saxons arrive (approximate date).
  • 868 – Monastery founded by Ethelred.
  • 876 – Danes occupy town.
  • 893 – Town besieged by Danes again.
  • 900 – Market active.
  • 927 – Athelstan evicts the Cornish from Exeter (and perhaps the rest of Devon), according to William of Malmesbury, writing around 1120.
  • 932 – Monastery founded by Athelstan.
  • 1003 – Exeter sacked by forces of Sweyn of Denmark.
  • 1048 – Episcopal see relocated to Exeter from Crediton.
  • 1050 – Leofric becomes bishop of Exeter.
  • 1067 – Exeter besieged by forces of William the Conqueror.
  • 1068 – Rougemont Castle built (approximate date).
  • 1087 – Benedictine Priory of St Nicholas founded.
  • 1130 – Exeter fair active.
  • 1136 – Exeter besieged by forces of Stephen, King of England.
  • 1190 – Old Exe Bridge construction began.
  • 1207 – Mayor in office.
  • 1214 – Old Exe Bridge construction finished (approximate).
  • 1236 – Nunnery founded.
  • 1348 – Order of Brothelyngham, an anti-religious group, active in the city.
  • 1400 – Exeter Cathedral built (approximate date).
  • 1466 – Tailors' trade gild incorporated.
  • 1468/70 – Exeter Guildhall current building constructed.
  • 1482 – Tailors' trade gild dissolved on the petition of the burgesses.
  • 1490 – Company of Weavers and Fullers incorporated.
  • 1497 – City besieged by forces of Perkin Warbeck.

16th–18th centuries

19th century

20th century

  • 1901 – Population: 47,185.
  • 1904 – Express & Echo newspaper begins publication.
  • 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.
  • 1907 – Sidwell Street Methodist Church completed, a pioneering example of reinforced concrete construction by French engineer Paul Cottancin.
  • 1910 – Empire Electric Palace opens.
  • 1911 – Exeter Pictorial Record Society active.
  • 1914 – 7 October: First of five war emergency hospitals in requisitioned buildings in the city opens to casualties, staffed by Voluntary Aid Detachment nurses.
  • 1916 – December: Deller's Café opens in Bedford Street.
  • 1937
  • Odeon Exeter cinema opens.
  • Exeter Airport opens.
  • 1942 – May: "Baedeker Blitz": Aerial bombing by the German Luftwaffe devastates the city centre.
  • 1949 – 21 October: Official inauguration of construction of Princesshay, Britain's first pedestrianised shopping precinct, as part of the postwar city centre reconstruction.
  • 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.
  • 1997 – Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture opens at University of Exeter.

21st century

See also

References

Bibliography

Published in 17th–18th centuries

Published in 19th century

1800s–1840s

1850s–1890s

Published in 20th century

  • W. G. Hoskins. Industry, Trade and People in Exeter, 1688–1800 (1935)
  • W. G. Hoskins. "Exeter" History Today (May 1951), Vol. 1 Issue 5, p28-37 online.
  • Aileen Fox. Roman Exeter (1952)

Published in 21st century

  • Tim Isaac and Chris Hallam Secret Exeter (2018)

External links

  • . Includes digitised directories of Exeter, various dates
  • Digital Public Library of America. Works related to Exeter, various dates