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Timeline

Putting Malmesbury’s history into context, events shown with a blue icon are of national significance, those with a red icon relate specifically to Malmesbury and the rest have international relevance.

c3500BC

The invention of the wheel

Stonehenge stone circle started

c2600
c2590

Great pyramid built in Egypt

Fall of Troy

c1180
c800

Iron Age fort at Malmesbury

Foundation of Rome

753
c563

Birth of Buddha

Birth of Christ

c5AD
43

England invaded by Romans

Fall of Rome

476
596

St Augustine brings Christianity to England

Birth of Muhammad

c570
c650

Maildulph establishes his hermitage

Foundation of the Abbey

675
709

Death of Aldhelm 639 – 709, Abbot of Malmesbury, Bishop of Sherborne

Alfred builds burhs, including Malmesbury

c880
937

Athelstan first king of all England

Norman conquest

1066
1095

William of Malmesbury born

Malmesbury taken in war between Stephen and Matilda

1139
1187

Muslims capture Jerusalem

Genghis Khan and his hordes move out of Mongolia

1206
1215

Magna Carta signed at Runnymede

Salisbury Cathedral finished

1258
1284

Running water in Malmesbury Abbey lavatorium

Model parliament; Malmesbury has 2 members

1295
1348

Black death reaches England

Battle of Agincourt

1415
1492

Columbus discovers America

Dissolution of Malmesbury Abbey

1539
1588

Thomas Hobbes born

Spanish Armada

1588
1603

Death of Elizabeth I

Gunpowder plot

1605
1643

Malmesbury changes hands 6 times in Civil War

Thomas Hobbes publishes Leviathan

1651
1666

Great Fire of London

Thomas Hobbes died

1679
1687

Foundation of physics today;
Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica

Battle of Culloden.  Last battle on British soil

1746
1681

Dodo becomes extinct

William III gives charter to Malmesbury

1690
1706

Cooke discovers Australia

American revolution

1776
1800

James Harris made first Earl of Malmesbury

Act of Union. United Kingdom formed

1801
1805

Battle of Trafalgar

Slave trade abolished

1807
1815

Battle of Waterloo

Queen Victoria ascends the throne

1837
1851

Great Exhibition

Malmesbury Railway line opened

1877
1884

Malmesbury loses their M.P.

Einstein’s theory of relativity E = mc²

1905
1914

Start of World War I

Women get the vote

1919
1939

Start of World War II

Queen Elizabeth II crowned

1953
1962

Last train to Malmesbury (freight only)

Moon landing

1969
1972

Malmesbury loses independent Borough Status

Dyson comes to Malmesbury

1993
2001

Queen Elizabeth and Duke of Edinburgh visit Malmesbury

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