Timeline of Cambridge

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

Prior to 16th century

 * 973 – Market active
 * c. 1000–50 – St Bene't's Church built
 * 1068 – Cambridge Castle erected
 * 1101 – Town incorporated
 * c. 1130 – Holy Sepulchre church built
 * 1144 – Cambridge is sacked by Geoffrey de Mandeville
 * 1154 – Cambridge fair active
 * 1200 – Charter granted
 * 1209 – University of Cambridge established by scholars from Oxford
 * 1211 – Stourbridge fair first recorded
 * 1213 – Hervey FitzEustace, first recorded mayor
 * c. 1215 – Richard of Wetheringsett, first Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
 * 1231 – The University is recognised by a writ of authority over its townspeople from Henry III
 * 1233 – A letter from Pope Gregory IX grants privileges to the University's scholars
 * 1261 – Cambridge academics attempt to set up a university of Northampton, suppressed by the Crown in 1265
 * 1266 – Raided by Barons who had been disinherited after the Battle of Evesham, and the murder of the Jews in the town
 * 1275 – Expulsion of the town's Jews by Queen Dowager Eleanor of Provence
 * 1284 – University's Peterhouse college founded
 * 1326 – Clare College founded
 * 1347 – Pembroke College founded
 * 1348 – Gonville & Caius College founded
 * 1350 – Trinity Hall college founded
 * 1352 – Corpus Christi College founded
 * 1381 – Disorder during the Peasants' Revolt
 * 1416 – University Library exists by this date
 * 1441 – King's College founded
 * 1446 – Foundation stone of King's College Chapel laid
 * 1448 – Queens' College founded
 * 1473 – St. Catherine College founded
 * 1496 – Jesus College founded

16th-18th centuries

 * 1505 – Christ's College founded
 * 1511 – St John's College established
 * 1515 – King's College Chapel fan vault completed
 * 1521 – John Siberch is active as a printer, the earliest known here
 * 1525 – Robert Barnes gives probably the first openly evangelical sermon in an English church, at St Edward King and Martyr
 * 1534 – University Press granted a royal charter
 * 1542 – Magdalene College founded
 * 1546 – Trinity College founded
 * 1556 – John Hullier burned as a Protestant on Jesus Green
 * 1584 – Emmanuel College founded
 * 1595 – Sidney Sussex College founded
 * 1615 – Perse School founded
 * 1638 – Cambridge, Massachusetts named
 * 1640 – Oliver Cromwell elected Member of Parliament for Cambridge
 * 1667 – Eagle and Child pub in business
 * 1695 – Wren Library at Trinity College completed
 * 1730 – University's Senate House completed
 * 1744 – Cambridge Journal and Weekly Flying Post begins publication
 * 1747 – Shire-hall built
 * 1749 – Mathematical Bridge built at Queens' College
 * 1762 – Cambridge Chronicle newspaper begins publication
 * 1766 – Addenbrooke's Hospital founded
 * 1784 – Society for Promoting Useful Knowledge established
 * 1793
 * Cambridge Intelligencer newspaper begins publication
 * Cambridge Quarters composed for new clock of the Church of St Mary the Great

19th century

 * 1800 – Downing College founded
 * 1816 – Fitzwilliam Museum founded
 * 1817 – Cambridge Town Club (cricket club) formed
 * 1828
 * Bull Hotel in business
 * Cambridge University Boat Club founded
 * 1829 – The Boat Race, rowed against Oxford, begins (annual from 1856)
 * 1831 – Bridge of Sighs built over the Cam at St John's College
 * 1833 – The Pitt Building built in honour of William Pitt the Younger, an undergraduate of Pembroke College and Prime Minister, to house the printing and publishing offices of Cambridge University Press
 * 1833 – Anatomy theatre attacked by a mob
 * 1839 – Cambridge Advertiser newspaper begins publication
 * 1840 – Cambridge Antiquarian Society founded
 * 1841 – Cambridge's first post-reformation Roman Catholic church opens as St Andrew's Church
 * 1845 – Eastern Counties Railway begins operating to Cambridge railway station
 * 1848 – Mill Road Cemetery established
 * 1858 – Cambridge School of Art founded
 * 1854 – Deighton, Bell & Co. booksellers in business
 * 1869 – Girton College for women founded
 * 1871 – Newnham College for women founded
 * 1874 – Cavendish Laboratory completed
 * 1876 – W. Heffer bookseller begins business as a stationer
 * 1880
 * Cambridge Street Tramways begin operation
 * St Radegund pub built on part of the site of the Garrick Hotel
 * 1881 – Ridley Hall and Westcott House theological colleges founded
 * 1883 – Footlights student amateur dramatic club founded
 * 1884 – Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology founded
 * 1888 – Cambridge Daily News begins publication
 * 1890
 * Our Lady and the English Martyrs Church consecrated
 * Victoria Avenue Bridge built
 * 1894 – Homerton College, a Congregationalist teacher training college, moves to Cambridge
 * 1896 – Pye Ltd established as scientific instrument makers by W. G. Pye
 * 1897 – Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria
 * 1899 – Westminster College, a Presbyterian theological college, moves to Cambridge

20th century

 * 1901 – Population: 38,379
 * 1908 – Cambridge Town F.C. formed
 * 1912
 * Cambridge United F.C. established as Abbey United
 * University's Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences opens
 * 1914 – Cambridge Street Tramways cease operation
 * 1918 – First Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols held at King's College
 * c 1921 – Fitzbillies bakery opened by Ernest and Arthur Mason in Trumpington Street
 * 1922 – War Memorial unveiled
 * 1923 – Jesus Green Swimming Pool opens
 * 1928 – Cambridge Preservation Society founded
 * 1934 – New University Library completed
 * 1938 – Cambridge Airport opens
 * 1939 – London educational institutions evacuated to Cambridge: Queen Mary College to King's College (until 1945); London Hospital Medical College (until 1943) and The Bartlett (until 1945) to St Catharine's College; SOAS to Christ's College; London School of Economics to Peterhouse (until 1945); Bedford College to Newnham College (until 1944); and Barts to Queens' College (until 1946)
 * 1948 – First women admitted to study for full academic degrees in the University but have no associated privileges
 * 1949
 * University's Cambridge Bibliographical Society founded
 * University of Cambridge's Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator begins operating
 * 1951 – City charter granted
 * 1954 – Murray Edwards College for women founded as New Hall
 * 1956 – Kettle's Yard established by Jim Ede
 * 1957 – Twinned with Heidelberg
 * 1958 – Churchill College established
 * 1960 – Cambridge Consultants founded
 * 1964
 * Darwin College for graduates founded
 * Cambridge Folk Festival begins
 * 1965
 * Lucy Cavendish College for mature women founded
 * Wolfson College for mature students founded as University College
 * 1966
 * Clare Hall for graduates established
 * Fitzwilliam College chartered as a college
 * 1970
 * February: Garden House riot
 * Heffer's open a flagship bookshop in Trinity Street
 * 1972
 * Three previously all-male colleges of the University admit women undergraduates
 * Cambridge Theological Federation formed
 * 1974
 * First Strawberry Fair held
 * First Cambridge Beer Festival held
 * 1975 – University's Cambridge Science Park founded
 * 1976
 * Sancton Wood School founded
 * First Andy's Records store opened in Mill Road
 * 1977 – Robinson College founded
 * 1989 – Cambridge Fun Run (footrace) begins
 * 1990
 * Royal Greenwich Observatory relocated to Cambridge from Herstmonceux Castle
 * ARM Holdings established as Advanced RISC Machines Ltd
 * 1992 – Anglia Ruskin University is established as a public university
 * 1998 – Abcam established

21st century

 * 2003 – University's Centre for Mathematical Sciences completed in West Cambridge
 * 2006
 * Local Plan 2006 (town planning) adopted
 * Cambridge International School established
 * 2007 – The Centre for Computing History is established
 * 2009 – Anne Jarvis becomes first woman University Librarian of the University of Cambridge
 * 2010 – Homerton College chartered as a full college of the University of Cambridge
 * 2011 – Phase One of the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway opens
 * 2013 – North West Cambridge development planned
 * 2016 – New global headquarters for AstraZeneca projected for completion
 * 2017 – Cambridge North railway station opens
 * 2019 – Sonita Alleyne becomes the first black woman elected as head of an Oxbridge college, Master of Jesus

1800s-1840s

 * v.2
 * v.3
 * v.5, 1850-1856
 * + v.2
 * v.2
 * v.3
 * v.5, 1850-1856
 * + v.2

Published in the 20th century

 * 1900s-1940s

1950s-1990s
 * Wilkinson, Patrick, (1981) Le Keux's Engravings of Victorian Cambridge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) ISBN 9780521303507
 * Wilkinson, Patrick, (1981) Le Keux's Engravings of Victorian Cambridge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) ISBN 9780521303507
 * Wilkinson, Patrick, (1981) Le Keux's Engravings of Victorian Cambridge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) ISBN 9780521303507
 * Wilkinson, Patrick, (1981) Le Keux's Engravings of Victorian Cambridge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) ISBN 9780521303507
 * Wilkinson, Patrick, (1981) Le Keux's Engravings of Victorian Cambridge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) ISBN 9780521303507
 * Wilkinson, Patrick, (1981) Le Keux's Engravings of Victorian Cambridge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) ISBN 9780521303507
 * Wilkinson, Patrick, (1981) Le Keux's Engravings of Victorian Cambridge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) ISBN 9780521303507
 * Wilkinson, Patrick, (1981) Le Keux's Engravings of Victorian Cambridge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) ISBN 9780521303507
 * Wilkinson, Patrick, (1981) Le Keux's Engravings of Victorian Cambridge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) ISBN 9780521303507