Timeline of York explained
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of York, North Yorkshire in northern England.
1st-4th centuries
- 71 – Quintus Petillius Cerialis and the Roman Legio VIIII Hispana establish a fort (castra) above the River Ouse near its junction with the Foss. City walls probably begun; enlarged until 3rd century.
- 95–104 – Period of first recorded reference to the city as Eboracum.
- 107-108 – Last dateable reference to the presence of Legio VIIII Hispana at Eboracum.[1]
- 119 – Legio VI Victrix arrive in Eboracum.
- 122 – Emperor Hadrian may have visited the city during his visit to the province.
- 190–212 – Period during which Claudius Hieronymianus is legatus of Legio VI Victrix based in Eboracum and establishes a temple to Serapis here.
- 208–211 – Septimius Severus and the Imperial family at Eboracum. Severus campaigns in the Roman invasion of Caledonia, but the city is used to overwinter.
- 211 – 4 February: Roman emperor Septimius Severus dies at Eboracum.
- c. 214 – Eboracum becomes the administrative centre of Britannia Inferior.
- 306 – 25 July: Constantine the Great is acclaimed as Roman emperor by the troops in Eboracum on the death here of his father Constantius Chlorus.
- 383 – Last substantial Roman presence in the north of England.
5th-10th centuries
11th–14th centuries
- 1055 - Siward, Earl of Northumbria dies and is buried in St Olave's Church.
- 1065 – 3 October: Northumbrian rebels capture York, outlaw Harold Godwinson's brother Tostig and choose Morcar of Northumbria as their new earl.[2]
- 1068 – Morcar leads a revolt in Northumbria, but William the Conqueror defeats the rebels at York[5] and builds a wooden motte-and-bailey castle probably on the later site of York Castle.
- 1069 – c. 28 January: Northumbrian rebels attack York.[2]
- Winter of 1069–1070 – Harrying of the North: William quells rebellions in the North of England brutally[6] and builds a second motte-and-bailey castle, probably that on Baile Hill.
- 1070 – 23 May: The first Norman Archbishop, Thomas of Bayeux, is appointed and begins rebuilding of York Minster.[2]
- 1088 – January/February: St Mary's Abbey re-established.
- 1126 – Archbishoprics of Canterbury and of York declared equal.[2]
- 1137 – 4 June: York Minster and city are severely damaged by a fire, but the Minster is soon rebuilt; St Peter's Hospital is replaced by St Leonard's.
- 1154 – Ouse Bridge collapses under the weight of a crowd gathered to greet Archbishop William of York on his return from exile. On 8 June William dies, apparently poisoned at Mass.
- 1182 – Charter granted to citizens.
- 1190 – 16 March: A mob besieges 150 Jews (including their leader Josce) in Clifford's Tower of York Castle, allowing to be killed by fire those who do not commit suicide.[2]
- 1212 – 9 July: Royal charter granted allowing citizens to collect their own taxes and appoint a mayor (first known 1217).
- 1220 – Re-building of York Minster in Gothic style begins under Archbishop Walter de Gray (dies 1255), starting with the south transept (completed about 1240).
- 1228 – Christmas: During a visit by King Henry III, a gale destroys the wooden keep at York Castle.
- 1237 – 25 September: Treaty of York signed between Henry III of England and his brother-in-law Alexander II of Scotland.
- 1244 – Henry III orders rebuilding of the castle in stone, work which is completed about 1272.
- c. 1260 – In York Minster
- 1291 – Construction of the nave of York Minster begins.[5]
- 1295 - The city returns two members to parliament.
- 1298–1304 – King Edward houses the national Exchequer (at the castle) and Chancery (at the abbey) in York.[7]
- 1316 – Lady Row built in Goodramgate.
- 1319 – 20 September: First War of Scottish Independence: Scottish victory at the Battle of Myton over defenders from York.[2] Many priests and the mayor of York are killed.
- 1322 - Great Raid of 1322 plagued the north of England with a Scottish victory at the Battle of Old Byland nearby. Suburbs of York was raided.
- 1328 – King Edward marries Philippa of Hainault in the Minster. A tournament is held in their honour.
- 1335 – Parliament meets in York; subsequently it will normally meet at Westminster (London).
- 1337 – c. 8 July: Death of William of Hatfield, second son of Edward III and Queen Philippa, at only a few months old; he is buried in the Minster.
- 1344 – Mint established at the castle.
- 1349 – May: Black Death reaches York.[2] 50% of the population die.
- 1350s – Construction of the nave of York Minster completed. The great west window becomes known as the "Heart of Yorkshire".
- 1357 – Merchant Adventurers' Hall construction begins.[8]
- 1361 – Construction of the lady chapel, presbytery and choir of York Minster in Perpendicular style begun, by Archbishop John of Thoresby.
- 1376 – Corpus Christi (feast): Earliest record of York Mystery Plays, although they probably originate from the 1340s.
- 1381 – Summer: Peasants’ Revolt. Unrest in York lasts for a year.
- 1389 – Office of mayor raised to Lord Mayor of York, second in precedence only to the Lord Mayor of London.
- 1396 – King Richard II grants a charter to the city making it a county corporate.
15th–16th centuries
- c. 1400 – Lantern tower of All Saints’ Church, Pavement, built.
- 1405 – 8 June: Following the collapse of a revolt in the north begun in April by the House of Percy in which they participated and trial by a special commission, Richard Scrope, Archbishop of York, and others are beheaded at York.[2]
- 1407 – York Minster’s central tower collapses due to poor foundations; it is rebuilt from 1420 in Perpendicular style.
- 1408 – York Minster east window, the world's largest expanse of medieval glass (begun c. 1405), is completed by glass painter John Thornton of Coventry.
- 1434 – Mulberry Hall built.
- c. 1450 – Choir of York Minster completed.
- 1453 – York Guildhall opens.
- 1460 – St William's College founded.
- 1464 – 1 June: Treaty of York signed between England and Scotland.
- 1471 – 14 March: Wars of the Roses: The deposed Edward IV of England lands with a small force at Ravenspur,[2] moving on speedily to secure York.
- 1472 – York Minster consecrated following completion of its west towers.
- 1476 – 13 March: Richard of Gloucester addresses civic officials within Bootham Bar proclaiming he is present to keep his brother the king's peace.[9]
- 1483 – 8 September: Edward of Middleham is invested as Prince of Wales[2] by his father the new king Richard III of England at the Archbishop's Palace.
- 1486 & 1487 – King Henry VII visits.
- c. 1500 – Rose window installed in York Minster commemorating the end of the Wars of the Roses in 1487.
- 1525–36 – New church of St Michael le Belfrey built (John Forman, master mason).
- 1536 – c. October: Pilgrimage of Grace occupies York.
- 1538 – Dissolution of the Monasteries: York Franciscan Friary dissolved.
- 1539 – Dissolution of the Monasteries: St Mary's Abbey and the adjacent St Leonard's Hospital are dissolved. King's Manor becomes the headquarter of the Council of the North.
- 1541 – King Henry VIII visits.
- 1569 – York Mystery Plays suppressed.
- 1586 – 25 March: Margaret Clitherow martyred by peine forte et dure for refusing to plead to a charge of harbouring Catholic priests.
- 1596 – 29 November: George Errington, William Gibson and William Knight martyred by hanging, drawing and quartering for professing their Catholic faith.
17th century
- 1616 – June: First waterworks and piped water supply.
- 1617 – King James I visits.
- 1633 – King Charles I visits.
- 1642 – 19 March–3 July: Charles I holds court at York. The Great Seal of the Realm is sent to him here on 17 May.[10]
- 1644
- 1653 – 18 April: London–York stagecoach first recorded.
- 1673 – 18 April: Viscount Fairfax throws a party to mark his remodelling of Fairfax House.
- 1674 – Friends meeting house in Friargate first built.
- 1676 – Highwayman John Nevison rides from Kent to York in a day to establish an alibi.[11]
- 1677 – York Waterworks re-established.
- 1679 – 7 August: Nicholas Postgate is hanged, drawn and quartered on the Knavesmire for being a Roman Catholic priest.
- 1684 – 23 April: A gunpowder explosion guts Clifford's Tower at York Castle, leading to the city being abandoned as a military garrison.
- 1686 – 5 November: Bar Convent established, making it the oldest surviving active Catholic convent in England.[12]
- 1694 – First corporation fire engine purchased.
- 1695 – Grays, solicitors, established.
18th century
19th century
- 1803–1842 – Manchester Academy is relocated to York in order to have the Unitarian Charles Wellbeloved as its head.
- 1811 – Quaker William Alexander opens a book and stationery shop in Castlegate, later taken over by the Sessions family of printers.
- 1812 – New stone Foss Bridge (designed by Peter Atkinson) completed.
- c. 1815 – George Hudson moves to York.
- 1821 – New Ouse Bridge (designed by Peter Atkinson) completed.
- 1822 – Joseph Rowntree opens a grocery shop, origin of the Rowntree's chocolate business.
- 1823
- September: Music festival held in the Cathedral.[14]
- York Gas Light Company incorporated, opening its works at Layerthorpe by March 1824.
- 1824 – 1 September: Yorkshire Fire & Life Insurance Company opens for business.[15]
- 1825 – Mary Tuke opens the Tuke family grocery shop, origin of the Rowntree's cocoa business.
- 1827 – Yorkshire Philosophical Society begins excavation of St Mary's Abbey, prior to construction of the Yorkshire Museum on part of the site.
- 1829 – 1–2 February: York Minster choir and nave roof are extensively damaged in a fire started by religious fanatic Jonathan Martin (who is subsequently acquitted of arson on the grounds of insanity).[16]
- 1830 – February: Yorkshire Museum (designed in the Greek Revival style by William Wilkins) opened by Yorkshire Philosophical Society in the grounds of St Mary's Abbey.
- 1832 – 2 June: 1829–51 cholera pandemic spreads to York.[17]
- 1833–36 – St Leonard's Place built.
- 1836
- First unified police force established.
- York Public Cemetery Company founded.
- First large bathhouse in the city built at the bottom of Marygate.
- 1837 – Walker Iron Foundry established.[18]
- 1839 – 29 May: York & North Midland Railway opens the city's first railway station.[19]
- 1840
- 1842 – First railway works constructed.[19]
- 1844 – York Gas Light Company and York Union Gas Light Company amalgamated.
- 1845 – York Penitentiary Society formed to provide a refuge for reformed prostitutes.
- 1846 – York New Waterworks Company formed.
- 1851–52 – Walker Iron Foundry supply forecourt railings for the British Museum in London.
- 1853 – York Drainage and Sanitary Improvement Act provides for the city corporation to purchase the River Foss and improve drainage.
- 1862 – Quaker Henry Isaac Rowntree buys out the chocolate and cocoa departments of the Tuke family confectioners, origin of the Rowntree's business.
- 1863 – 8 January: Lendal Bridge (designed by Thomas Page) opened.[21]
- 1868 – 31 October: New Corn Exchange opens for business.[22]
- 1877 – 25 June: North Eastern Railway opens new (modern-day) York railway station.[19]
- 1880
- 1881 – 10 March: Skeldergate Bridge opened.[24]
- 1882
- 1884 – North Eastern Railway begins production at York Carriage Works.[19] Holgate is incorporated into the city.
- 1888 - County borough was created.
- 1890 – Browns department store established.
- 1894 – August: Lendal Bridge freed of toll.
- 1895 – Major sewerage scheme opened.
- 1899 – Seebohm Rowntree undertakes his first York study of poverty.[25]
20th century
- 1900 – Corporation opens electricity generating works at Layerthorpe resulting in the opening of Foss Island Power Station.[26]
- 1901
- 1902–1904 – Construction of the model village of New Earswick.
- 1906 – 24 November: North Eastern Railway opens new headquarters offices.[19]
- 1908
- 23 November: New Picture Palace, the former Wesleyan Methodist New Street Hall, opened as the city's first permanent cinema.
- York City F.C. founded as an amateur Association football club.
- 1910 – 20 January: York Corporation Tramways inaugurates an electric service.
- 1911
- 13 July: A strike by millers leads to rioting.[27]
- Electric Cinema, Fossgate, opened, the city's first purpose-built cinema.[28]
- c.1912 – Piccadilly laid out.
- 1914 – 1 April: Skeldergate Bridge freed of toll.
- 1916 – 2 May: Zeppelin raid on York kills 9.
- 1922
- 1926
- 1935 – 16 November: York Corporation Tramways closed and replaced by motor bus services.
- 1937
- 1938 – 23 April: York Castle Museum opened.
- 1942
- 1948 – York: A Plan for Progress and Preservation published.
- 1951 – First York Festival, including a major revival of the York Mystery Plays.
- 1956 – Castle Mills Bridge opened.
- 1961 – 16 December: York Cold War Bunker opened.
- 1962 – 11 April: York Crematorium dedicated.[32]
- 1963
- 1967–1972 – York Minster foundations strengthened.
- 1968 – Viscount Esher publishes York: a study in conservation.
- 1969 – Rowntree's merged with Mackintosh's.
- 1970 – 25 October: Margaret Clitherow canonised as St Margaret of York.
- 1971
- Stonegate pedestrianised.
- York becomes an Army Saluting Station.
- 1973 – First regular ghost walk.
- 1975 – 27 September: The National Railway Museum is opened, the first national museum outside London.
- 1976–79 – York Archaeological Trust begins an excavation at a former sweet factory on the site of Scandinavian York (Jórvík) prior to construction of Coppergate Shopping Centre here.
- 1976
- 1982 – 31 May: Pope John Paul II visits the city as part of his visit to the United Kingdom; 200,000 people gather at York Racecourse on the Knavesmire for a liturgy.
- 1983 – 4 July: BBC Radio York begins permanent broadcasting.
- 1984
- 1987 – 11 December: The York Outer Ring Road is completed.
- 1988
- 1989
- 1992 – 4 July: Minster FM begins broadcasting.
- 1993 – Terry's taken over by Kraft Foods Inc.
- 1996 – The City of York becomes a unitary authority area which includes rural areas beyond the old city boundaries.
- 1997 – Last commercial traffic on the River Foss (newsprint from Goole for the Yorkshire Evening Press).
- 1998 – Monks Cross and McArthur Glen shopping centres and University science park open.
21st century
- 2000 – October–November – Severe flooding, chiefly from River Ouse.
- 2001 – 10 April: Millennium Bridge opens.
- 2007 – York sugar beet factory closes.[35]
- 2011 – The York Barbican reopens after several years of closure.[36]
- 2014
- 6 July: York hosts the start of Tour de France, Stage 2.
- Vangarde Shopping Park opens.
- 2015
- Easter: York Army Museum opens.
- December: Severe flooding, chiefly from the River Foss.
- 2021 – 16 February: York City F.C. play the opening match at York Community Stadium at Monks Cross.[37]
- 2023 – 3 August: Appointment of first rabbi to a Jewish congregation in York since 1190 is announced.[38]
Births
- c. 735 – Alcuin, scholar (died 804 in Tours)
- Before 1190 – Aaron of York, financier and chief rabbi of England (died after 1253)
- 1556 – Margaret Clitherow, Catholic saint (martyred 1586)
- 1564 – 20 March: Thomas Morton, bishop of Durham (died 1659)
- 1570 – 13 April: Guy Fawkes, Catholic conspirator (executed 1606)
- 1586 – 5 April: Christopher Levett, sea captain and New England settler (died 1630 at sea)
- c. 1612 – John Hingston, organist and composer (died 1683)
- 1624 – Matthew Poole, Nonconformist theologian (died 1679 in Amsterdam)
- 1647 – Francis Place, gentleman draughtsman (died 1728)
- 1755 – 6 July: John Flaxman, sculptor (died 1826)
- 1784 – 31 July: Samuel Tuke, philanthropist and mental health reformer (died 1857)
- 1787 – 10 March: William Etty, painter of nudes (died 1849)
- 1799 – May: George Hennet, railway contractor (died 1857)
- 1800 – 17 June: William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, astronomer (died 1867 in Ireland)
- 1803 – 26 October: Joseph Hansom, architect and patentee of the Hansom cab (died 1882)
- 1809 – Mary Ellen Best, domestic watercolourist (died 1891 in Darmstadt)
- 1813 – 15 March: John Snow, physician, epidemiologist and pioneer of anaesthesia (died 1858 in London)
- 1836 – 24 May: Joseph Rowntree, chocolate manufacturer and philanthropist (died 1925)
- 1841 – 4 September: Albert Joseph Moore, figure painter (died 1893)
- 1851 – 19 June: Silvanus P. Thompson, physicist, pioneer of calculus and electricity (died 1916)
- 1871 – 7 July: Seebohm Rowntree, chocolate manufacturer and social reformer (died 1954)
- 1881 – 20 September: Will Ashton (Sir John Ashton), landscape painter and gallery director (died 1963 in Australia)
- 1907 – 21 February: W. H. Auden, poet (died 1973 in Austria)
- 1912 – 6 February: Christopher Hill, Marxist historian (died 2003)
- 1917 – 6 March: Frankie Howerd, comic actor (died 1992)
- 1933 – 3 November: John Barry, film composer (died 2011 in the United States)
- 1934 – 9 December: Judi Dench, actress
- 1942
- 1943 – 9 May: Vince Cable, politician
- 1992 – 2 October: Lucy Staniforth, footballer
See also
Further reading
- Book: Drake, Francis. Francis Drake (antiquary). Eboracum: The History and Antiquities of the City of York, from its Original to the Present Time; together with the History of the Cathedral Church and the Lives of the Archbishops. 1736. York.
- Book: Buckley, Theodore Alois. Routledge, Warne & Routledge. London. Theodore Alois Buckley. Great Cities of the Middle Ages. 2nd. 1862. York. https://archive.org/stream/greatcitiesofmid00buck#page/271/mode/2up.
- York . 28 . 927 - 929 . 1910 . . 1.
- Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. (1962–81). An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York. London: H.M.S.O.
- Book: Tillott, P. M.. A History of the County of York: The City of York. Victoria County History. London. 1961.
- Book: Smyth, Alfred P.. Scandinavian York and Dublin: the history and archaeology of two related Viking kingdoms. 1975. Templekieran Press. Dublin. 9780716523659.
- Book: Pevsner. Nikolaus. Nikolaus Pevsner. Neave. David. Yorkshire: York and the East Riding. 1972. 2nd. 1995. Penguin Books. London. Pevsner Architectural Guides. 0-14-071061-2.
- Book: Hall, Richard. English Heritage Book of York. 1996. Batsford. London. 0-7134-7720-2.
- Book: Nuttgens, Patrick. Patrick Nuttgens. The History of York: from earliest times to the year 2000. Pickering. Blackthorn Press. 2001. 0-9535072-8-9.
- Book: Rees Jones, Sarah. York: The Making of a City. Oxford University Press. 2013. 9780198201946.
- Book: Palliser, D. M.. Medieval York, 600–1540. Oxford University Press. 2014. 9780199255849.
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- Poverty, A Study of Town Life. 1901.
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- News: No fairytale start for York City at the Community Stadium as Fylde win 3-1. 2021-02-16. 2022-01-19. York Press.
- News: Tim. Dale. York to get its first Rabbi in 800 years. BBC News. 2023-08-03. 2023-08-03.