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The timeline of Cheshire history shows the significant events in the history of Cheshire.

1st century

 * 70: The Romans found the fortress and town of Deva Victrix, now Chester.

5th century

 * 410: Romans retreat from Britannia.

7th century

 * 616: Æthelfrith of Northumbria defeats a Welsh army at the Battle of Chester.

9th century

 * 875: St Werburgh's remains bought to Chester for protection
 * 894-5: King Alfred drives Danes from Chester.

10th century



 * 907: Church to St Werburgh founded by Æthelfleda.
 * 914: Eddisbury hill fort constructed.
 * 973: King Edgar of England visits Chester.

11th century

 * 1007:Eadric Streona becomes the King's ealdorman of Cheshire, Staffordshire and Shropshire.
 * 1069 - 1071: William I lead the Norman Conquest into Cheshire; beseiges Chester and kills Edwin, Earl of Mercia
 * 1070: Hugh d'Avranches is created as first Earl of Chester.
 * 1070: Chester Castle built.
 * 1070: Frodsham Castle built.
 * 1092: Monastery is founded on site of current Chester Cathedral by Hugh d'Avranches.

12th century

 * 1115: Norton Priory founded.
 * 1182: Cheshire land north of the Mersey become part of the new county of Lancashire

13th century

 * 1220s: Beeston Castle built.
 * 1237: 7th Earl of Chester, John, dies without a male heir in. King Henry IV passes the title to his son,  Prince Edward - later to become King Edward I
 * 1261: Macclesfield market created.
 * 1277: King Edward I lies foundation stone to Vale Royal Abbey.

14th century

 * 1364:Doddington Castle built.
 * 1397:The county has lands in the march of Wales added to its territory, and is promoted to the rank of principality.

16th century

 * 1536: Dissolution of Norton Priory.
 * 1538: Dissolution of Vale Royal Abbey by Thomas Holcroft.
 * 1541: St Werburgh's abbey becomes a cathedral of the Church of England known as Chester Cathedral by order of King Henry VIII.

17th century

 * 1642: The Bunbury Agreement, an attempt by local gentry to keep Cheshire neutral in the English Civil War, fails.
 * 13 March 1643: First Battle of Middlewich in English Civil War.
 * 1655: Cheshire under military rule and governed by Charles Worsley.
 * 1670: Smith-Barry family re-discover salt in Northwich and mining re-starts.

18th century

 * 1744: Charles Roe builds a watermill in Macclesfield and triggers start of the silk industry
 * 1777: Completion of the Trent and Mersey Canal.

19th century

 * 1837: Crewe railway station is built in fields near to Crewe Hall.
 * 1857: Cheshire Constabulary founded.
 * 21 May 1868: The first train crossed Runcorn Railway Bridge.
 * 1874: John Brunner and Ludwig Mond found Brunner Mond in Winnington near Northwich and start manufacturing soda ash.
 * 1889: Cheshire County Council founded.
 * 21 May 1894: Manchester Ship Canal officially opened by Queen Victoria.

20th century

 * 29 May 1905: Widnes-Runcorn Transporter Bridge officially opened by Sir John Brunner.
 * 1974: Cheshire boundaries changed by Local Government Act 1972.

21st century

 * 2009: Two unitary authorities of Cheshire West and Chester and Cheshire East replace Cheshire County Council and its districts.