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Timeline of Norwich

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Norwich, Norfolk, England.

Prior to 12th century

12th–13th centuries

14th–15th centuries

  • 1341 – Norwich Market ceded to city.
  • 1342 – City walls built.
  • 1349
  • Population: ~25,000.
  • Plague.
  • 1383 – Queen Anne of Bohemia visits Norwich.
  • 1384 – Cloth Seld established.
  • 1385
  • Guild of Saint George founded (approximate date).
  • Guild Day ceremony established.
  • 1404 – Norwich incorporated.
  • 1411 – Market Cross built.
  • 1413 – Norwich Guildhall completed.
  • 1414 – Fire.
  • 1430 – Great Hall built.
  • 1443 – Gladman's Insurrection.
  • 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.
  • 1510 – Church of St John Maddermarket rebuilt.
  • 1521 – Coslany Bridge rebuilt.
  • 1532 – Group of women punished for selling grain below the set rate at Norwich Market.
  • 1534 – Norwich is the first English city to receive a Rebuilding Statute from parliament.
  • 1543 – Hatters company formed.
  • 1541 – Norwich Sanctuary Map created.
  • 1544–1545 – Plague outbreak.
  • 1549
  • Kett's Rebellion.
  • Norwich is the first English provincial town to initiate compulsory payments to finance poor relief.
  • 1554 – Russell company of weavers founded.
  • 1555–56 – Plague outbreak and influenza epidemic.
  • 1558 – The Cuningham Prospect, a perspective plan of the city, created.
  • 1565 – Walloons arrive in Norwich and French Church established.
  • 1567
  • Duke's Palace completed.
  • Anthonie de Solempne sets up first printing press.
  • 1570 – Census of the Poor.
  • 1573 – Fye Bridge rebuilt.
  • 1578 – Queen Elizabeth I visits city.
  • 1579–80 – Bubonic plague kills over 5,000 people, possibly up to 40% of the population.
  • 1584–5 – Bubonic plague outbreak kills at least 3,500 people.
  • 1589 – Blackfriars Bridge rebuilt.
  • 1589–92 – Bubonic plague outbreak kills at least 3,500 people.
  • 1591 – Whitefriars Bridge rebuilt

17th century

  • 1603–4 – Bubonic plague outbreak kills almost 3,500 people.
  • 1608 – Norwich Public Library established.
  • 1615 – Peter Gleane becomes mayor.
  • 1621 – George Birch becomes mayor.
  • 1625–6 – Bubonic plague outbreak kills almost 3,500 people.
  • 1635 – Matthew Wren appointed Bishop of Norwich.
  • 1636–8 – Bubonic plague outbreak.
  • 1652 – William Barnham becomes mayor.
  • 1663
  • My Lord's Garden, the earliest known commercial garden in Norwich, laid out by Lord Henry Howard between King Street and the River Wensum.
  • William Oliver bookseller in business.
  • 1648 – The Great Blow explosion occurs after a riot, destroying 40 buildings.
  • 1666 – Final bubonic plague outbreak kills 2,500 people in a year.
  • 1671 – King Charles II visits Norwich.
  • 1675 – George Rose bookseller in business.
  • 1681 – Duke's Palace rebuilt.
  • 1687 – Doughty's Hospital established.
  • 1693 – Population: 28,881.
  • 1697 – New Mint established.

18th century

  • 1701 – Norwich Post begins publication as Britain's first provincial newspaper.
  • 1706 – Norwich Gazette (later Norfolk Chronicle) and Norwich Postman (later Norwich Mercury) newspapers begin publication.
  • 1711 – Duke's Palace ordered for demolition.
  • 1724 – Maid's Head Lodge constituted, the first Masonic lodge in Norfolk.
  • 1731 – White Swan Playhouse active (approximate date).
  • 1741–1745 – Reverend Francis Blomefield publishes his History of the City and County of Norwich in instalments.
  • 1745 – Temporary triumphal arch built to commemorate the defeat of the Jacobite rising.
  • 1754 – Assembly House built.
  • 1756 – Octagon Chapel completed.
  • 1757 – Theatre built.
  • 1762 – Hills and Underwood distillery in business.
  • 1763 – Richard Beatniffe bookseller in business.
  • 1770 – Gurney's Bank established.
  • 1771 or 1772 – Norfolk and Norwich Hospital founded.
  • 1775 – The Scots' Society (renamed Universal Society of Goodwill in 1784) founded on Saint Andrew's Day by Scottish expatriates.
  • 1784
  • Blackfriars Bridge rebuilt.
  • Norfolk and Norwich Subscription Library established.
  • 1785
  • First manned flight over Norwich by James Decker in a hot air balloon, launched from Ranelagh Gardens.
  • 22 July – Major John Money is launched in a balloon from Ranelagh Gardens and before being ditched in the North Sea.
  • 18 October – Society of United Friars founded at Crown Court, Elm Hill.
  • William Stevenson bookseller in business.
  • 1786
  • Population: 41,000.
  • Norfolk And Norwich Benevolent Medical Society founded.
  • 1792 – Hudson & Harvey bank established.
  • April 1795 – Norwich Patriotic Society founded to agitate for parliamentary reform.
  • 1797 – Norwich Norwich Loyal Military Association formed.
  • 1800 – Fish's Musical Circulating Library in business.

19th century

20th century

21st century

See also

References

Attribution

Further reading

Published in the 17th–18th centuries

  • (Defoe visited circa 1723)

Published in the 19th century

1800s–1840s

  • (includes Norwich)

1850s–1890s

Published in the 20th century

  • E. A. Kent, The Mayors of Norwich, 1403 to 1835 (Norwich, 1938)

Published in the 21st century

  • Carole Rawcliffe and Richard Wilson, eds., Norwich since 1550: a fine city (London: Hambledon and London, 2004)

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