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Timeline

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 Anglo-Saxons

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
924

Athelstan became King of the Anglo Saxons

Malmesbury History

Athelstan King of All England died in Gloucester and buried in Malmesbury

939
c. 1010
Malmesbury History

Eilmer’s flight from a tower of Malmesbury Abbey

Norman conquest

1066
1095

William of Malmesbury born

Malmesbury attacked by future Henry II during the war of Anarchy between Stephen and Matilda

1139
c. 1180
Malmesbury History

Norman Abbey at Malmesbury completed

Muslims capture Jerusalem

1187
1206

Genghis Khan and his hordes move out of Mongolia

Magna Carta signed at Runnymede

1215
1258

Salisbury Cathedral finished

Running water in Malmesbury Abbey lavatorium

1284
1295

Model parliament; Malmesbury has 2 members

Black death reaches England

1348
1415

Battle of Agincourt

Columbus discovers America

1492
1539

Dissolution of Malmesbury Abbey. William Stumpe buys Malmesbury Abbey from Henry VIII

Thomas Hobbes born

1588
1588

Spanish Armada

Death of Elizabeth I

1603
1605

Gunpowder plot

Malmesbury changes hands 6 times in Civil War

1643
1651

Thomas Hobbes publishes Leviathan

Great Fire of London

1666
1679

Thomas Hobbes died

Dodo becomes extinct

1681
1687

Foundation of physics today;
Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica

William III gives charter to Malmesbury following first charter of incorporation granted by Charles I

1696
1706

Cooke discovers Australia

Battle of Culloden.  Last battle on British soil

1746
1776

American revolution

James Harris made first Earl of Malmesbury

1800
1801
National History

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland formed

Battle of Trafalgar

1805
1807
National History

Slave trade abolished

Battle of Waterloo

1815
1832
Malmesbury History

Great Reform Act reduces Malmesbury’s MPs from two to one

Queen Victoria ascends the throne

1837
1851

Great Exhibition

Malmesbury Railway line opened

1877
1884

Third Reform Act resulting in Malmesbury losing its MP in 1886

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

Malmesbury History

Malmesbury Roman Coin Hoard found in a field in Milbourne, Malmesbury

2012
8th September 2022
National History

Death of Queen Elizabeth II
Charles III proclaimed King

Malmesbury History

1100th anniversary of Athelstan becoming King of Anglo Saxons

2024

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.

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