4004BC onwards |
Putting Malmesbury's history into context. Events shown in black are international events. Those shown in blue are of national significance and those in red relate specifically to Malmesbury.
Before Christ |
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23 10 4004 |
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The day the world began – according to Archbishop Ussher |
c3500 |
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Invention of the wheel |
c3000 |
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Stonehenge begun |
c2590 |
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Great pyramid built in Egypt |
c2500 |
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Iron Age fort at Malmesbury |
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Archbishop Ussher
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1184 |
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Fall of Troy |
753 |
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Foundation of Rome |
486 |
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Birth of Buddha |
c 5 |
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Birth of Christ |
43 |
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England invaded by Romans |
476 |
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Fall of Rome |
596 |
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St Augustus brings Christianity to England |
c570 |
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Birth of Muhammad |
c650 |
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Maildulph establishes his hermitage |
675 |
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Foundation of the Abbey |
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The Fall of Troy |
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709 |
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Death of Aldhelm |
896 |
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First record of Sherston as Scorranstone |
937 |
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Athelstan first king of all England |
1066 |
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Norman conquest |
1095 |
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William of Malmesbury born |
1139 |
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Malmesbury taken in war between Stephen and Matilda |
1187 |
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Muslims capture Jerusalem |
1206 |
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Genghis Khan and his hordes move out of Mongolia |
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St Aldhelm 639 - 709, Abbot of Malmesbury,
Bishop of Sherborne
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1215 |
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Magna Carta signed at Runnymede |
1258 |
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Salisbury cathedral finished |
1284 |
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Running water in Malmesbury Abbey lavatorium |
1295 |
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Model parliament; Malmesbury has 2 members |
1348 |
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Black death reaches England |
1415 |
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Battle of Agincourt - England won |
1492 |
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Columbus discovers America |
1539 |
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Dissolution of Malmesbury abbey |
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Magna Carta |
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1588 |
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Thomas Hobbes born |
1588 |
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Spanish Armada |
1603 |
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Death of Elizabeth I |
1605 |
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Gunpowder plot |
1643 |
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Malmesbury changes hands 6 times in Civil War |
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Thomas Hobbes |
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1651 |
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Thomas Hobbes publishes Leviathan |
1666 |
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Great fire of London |
1679 |
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Thomas Hobbes died |
1687 |
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Foundation of physics today; Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica |
1746 |
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Battle of Culloden. Last battle on British soil |
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Isaac Newton
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1681 |
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Dodo becomes extinct |
1690 |
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William III gives charter to Malmesbury |
1706 |
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Cooke discovers Australia |
1783 |
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American revolution - We lost |
1800 |
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James Harris made first Earl of Malmesbury |
1801 |
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Act of Union. United Kingdom formed |
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Dodo no more! |
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1805 |
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Battle of Trafalgar - We won |
1807 |
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Slave trade abolished |
1815 |
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Battle of Waterloo - We won |
1837 |
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Queen Victoria ascends throne |
1851 |
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Great Exhibition |
1877 |
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Malmesbury Railway line opened |
1884 |
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Malmesbury loses their M.P. |
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Battle of Trafalgar |
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1905 |
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Einstein’s theory of relativity E = mc² |
1914 |
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Start of World War I |
1919 |
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Women get the vote |
1939 |
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Start of World War II |
1953 |
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Queen Elizabeth II crowned |
1962 |
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Last train to Malmesbury (freight only) |
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Albert Einstein |
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1969 |
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Moon landing |
1972 |
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Malmesbury loses independent Borough Status |
1993 |
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Dyson comes to Malmesbury |
2001 |
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Queen Elizabeth and Duke of Edinburgh visit Malmesbury |
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Buzz Aldrin's first steps on the moon |
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