Timeline of Bath, Somerset
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Bath, Somerset, England.
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1st to 5th centuries
- c. 60s - first Roman temple structures built, around the hot water springs.
- 3rd century - by this time, Bath's defensive walls are built.
6th to 10th centuries
- 577 - the Battle of Deorham: Bath is captured by the West Saxons.[1] and, being north of the River Avon, then falls within the Saxon petty-kingdom of the Hwicce.
- 628 - following the Battle of Cirencester, the Hwicce come under the rule of the kingdom of Mercia.
- 878 - Bath becomes a royal borough (burh) of Alfred the Great, in his kingdom of Wessex (and also in the county of Somerset).[1]
- c. 900 – market active.[2]
- 973 – Edgar crowned King of England at Bath Abbey.[3]
11th to 17th centuries
- 1102 – Bath fair active.[2]
- 1174 – St John's Hospital founded (approximate date).
- 1553 – Grammar school founded.[4]
- 1590 – Bath chartered.[5]
- 1616 – Abbey Church consecrated.[6]
- 1625 – Guildhall rebuilt.[7]
- 1643 – 5 July: Battle of Lansdowne fought near town.
18th century
- 1704 – Pump-room built.[8]
- 1705 – Theatre built.[7]
- 1717 – Green Street developed (approximate date).[9]
- 1721 – Blue coat school founded.[4]
- 1724 – James Leake (bookseller) in business.[10][11]
- 1727
- Lansdown Tower erected.
- River Avon made navigable to Bristol
- 1728 – St John's Hospital building constructed.[4]
- 1734
- 1738
- Royal visit.[5]
- Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases (The Min) founded[12]
- 1742
- Ralph Allen elected mayor.
- William Frederick (bookseller) in business.[10]
- Prior Park (residence) built.[9]
- 1750 Old Orchard Street Theatre opens[13]
- 1755
- Bath Advertiser newspaper begins publication.[14]
- Roman Bath rediscovered.[15][16]
- 1760 – Gay Street developed.[17]
- 1768 – King's Circus built.
- 1770 – Pulteney Bridge constructed (approximate date).[17]
- 1771 – Assembly Rooms built.[4]
- 1774 – Royal Crescent buildings constructed.
- 1777 – Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture, Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce founded.[18]
- 1778 – Guildhall built.
- 1779 – Philosophical Society founded.[19]
- 1780
- Roman Great Bath rediscovered.[16]
- 13 June: Anti-Catholic unrest.[15]
- Oxford Row built (approximate date).[9]
- 1790 – Bath Improvement Act passed by Parliament.[9]
- 1792 – Lansdown Course races begin.[20]
- 1795 – Harmonic Society formed.[21]
- 1797 – Grand Pump Room built.[4]
- 1798
- Sydney Gardens open.[21]
- Christ Church dedicated.
- 1799 – Philosophical society established.[4]
19th century
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- 1800
- 1805
- Penitentiary established.[4]
- Theatre Royal[4] and Barker's Picture Gallery open.[24]
- 1810 –
- Lancasterian Free School established.[24]
- Kennet and Avon Canal completed [25]
- 1815 – Cleveland Pools opened[26]
- 1817 – Atkinson & Tucker (booksellers) in business.[22]
- 1819 – Masonic Hall dedicated.[24]
- 1824 – Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution founded[27]
- 1825 – Mechanics Institute opens.[21]
- 1827
- Partis College built.[9]
- Cleveland Bridge opened[28]
- 1830
- Victoria Park opens.
- Prior Park College established.
- 1832 – Sydney Buildings constructed.[9]
- 1837 – Victoria Column erected.[29]
- 1847 – Commercial Reading Room and Tottenham Library founded.[21]
- 1852 – Bath School of Art founded.
- 1855 – Bath Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, and Bath Quartet Society[20] established.
- 1869 – Midland Railway's Mangotsfield and Bath Branch Line begins operating.
- 1874 – Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway begins operating.
- 1878 – Bath College opens.[20]
- 1880 – Tram begins operating.
- 1881 – Population: 52,557.[30]
- 1882 – Holburne Museum of Art established.
- 1888 – Bath Photographic Society formed.[31]
- 1889 – Bath becomes a county borough.
- 1896 – Bath Municipal Technical College and Bath City Secondary School established.
20th century
- 1900 – Victoria Art Gallery & Reference Library opens.[6][22]
- 1901
- Empire Hotel in business.[32]
- Population: 49,839.[5]
- 1904 – Electric tram begins operating.
- 1929 – Church of Our Lady & St Alphege built.
- 1932 – Royal United Hospital opens on Combe Park site.[33]
- 1934 – Bath Preservation Trust founded.
- 1942 – 25–26 April: Aerial bombing by German forces.
- 1946 – City of Bath Bach Choir founded.
- 1948 – Bath Assembly (music festival) begins.
- 1963 – Museum of Costume founded.
- 1966 – University of Bath established.
- 1970 – June: Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music held.
- 1971 – Population: 84,670.[34]
- 1974 – Bath becomes part of Avon non-metropolitan county.
- 1975 – Bath College of Higher Education established.
- 1981 – Bath Fringe Festival and Bath Half Marathon begin.
- 1986 – Bristol and Bath Railway Path laid out.
- 1991 – Population: 78,689.[34]
- 1993 – Museum of East Asian Art opens.
- 1995 – Bath Literature Festival begins.
- 1996 – City becomes part of the Bath and North East Somerset non-metropolitan district.
- 1997 – Ustinov Studio (theatre) built.
21st century
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- 2002 – Bath Times newspaper begins publication.[14]
- 2005 – The Egg (Theatre) opens.
- 2006 – Thermae Bath Spa facility opens.
- 2007 – Bath Festival of Children's Literature begins.[35]
- 2009 – Bath bus station and SouthGate shopping centre open.
- 2011 – October: Occupy Bath begins.
See also
References
- ^ a b Mayor of Bath Saxon Bath
- ^ a b Samantha Letters (2005), "Somerset", Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516, Institute of Historical Research, Centre for Metropolitan History
- ^ "Vikings and Anglo-Saxons". British History Timeline. BBC. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Samuel Tymms (1832). "Somersetshire". Western Circuit. The Family Topographer: Being a Compendious Account of the ... Counties of England. Vol. 2. London: J.B. Nichols and Son. OCLC 2127940.
{{cite book}}: External link in|author=and|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ a b c d "Bath", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ a b "Bath", Great Britain (7th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1910
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - ^ a b c John Wood (1765). Description of Bath (2nd ed.). London: W. Bathoe.
- ^ George Henry Townsend (1867), "Bath", A Manual of Dates (2nd ed.), London: Frederick Warne & Co.
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - ^ a b c d e f R.E.M. Peach (1893). Street-Lore of Bath. London: Simpkin, Marshall.
- ^ a b Ian Maxted (2006), "Somerset", British Book Trades: Topographical Listings, Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History, retrieved 12 September 2013
- ^ Paul Kaufman (1967). "The Community Library: A Chapter in English Social History". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 57. JSTOR 1006043.
- ^ "Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases". Bath Heritage. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
- ^ "Masonic Hall formerly Theatre". Images of England. English Heritage. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
- ^ a b "Bath (England) Newspapers". Main Catalogue. British Library. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
- ^ a b William Toone (1835). Chronological Historian ... of Great Britain (2nd ed.). London: J. Dowding.
{{cite book}}: External link in|author= - ^ a b William Page, ed. (1906), "Romano-British Somerset: Part 2, Bath", History of the County of Somerset, Victoria County History, vol. 1, University of London, Institute of Historical Research
- ^ a b Mowbray Aston Green (1904), Eighteenth Century Architecture of Bath, Bath: G. Gregory, OCLC 1718577
- ^ Rules and orders of the Society Instituted at Bath, for the Encouragement of Agriculture, Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. 1777. OCLC 85861288.
- ^ H. Torrens (1990), "The Four Bath Philosophical Societies, 1779–1959", Proceedings of the 12th Congress of the British Society for the History of Medicine, Bath
- ^ a b c Handy Guide to Bath, Bath: Jolly & Son, 1900, OCLC 12987834
- ^ a b c d G.N. Wright (1864), Historic Guide to Bath, Bath: R.E. Peach, printer
- ^ a b c James Clegg, ed. (1906), International Directory of Booksellers and Bibliophile's Manual
- ^ Roth, Cecil. "Bath." Encyclopaedia Judaica. Ed. Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik. 2nd ed. Vol. 3. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007. 210. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 1 Oct. 2013
- ^ a b c Annals of Bath, from the year 1800 to the passing of the new municipal act, Bath: Printed by Mary Meyler and Son, 1838, OCLC 5258530
- ^ Allsop, Niall (1987). The Kennet & Avon Canal. Bath, UK: Millstream Books. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-948975-15-8.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - ^ Historic England. "Cleveland Baths (Grade II*) (1396146)". National Heritage List for England.
- ^ "History". Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
- ^ "Cleveland Bridge". Images of England. Retrieved 2007-10-30.
- ^ S.D. Major (1879). Notabilia of Bath. Bath: E.R. Blackett.
- ^ "Bath", Handbook for Travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire (4th ed.), London: John Murray, 1882
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - ^ "Photographic Societies of the British Isles and Colonies", International Annual of Anthony's Photographic Bulletin, New York: E. & H. T. Anthony & Company, 1891
- ^ "Small Talk of the Week", The Sketch, 18 December 1901
- ^ "A Potted History of the RUH". Royal United Hospital. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
- ^ a b "Population Statistics". Bath and North East Somerset District Council. Archived from the original on 13 May 2012. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
- ^
"Bath Festival of Children's Literature". Archived from the original on 11 October 2007. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
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Further reading
Published in the 18th century
- New Bath Guide, or, Useful Pocket-Companion. Bath: Printed by C. Pope, for W. Taylor. c. 1765.
- New Bath Guide, or, Useful Pocket-Companion (New ed.). Bath: Printed by R. Cruttwell for W. Taylor. 1789.
- Christopher Anstey (1766), New Bath Guide: or, Memoirs of the Blunderhead Family (3rd ed.), London: J. Dodsley (satirical poem)
- Daniel Defoe; Samuel Richardson (1778), "(Bath)", A Tour Through the Island of Great Britain (8th ed.), London: J.F. and C. Rivington
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - Philip Thicknesse (1778), New Prose Bath Guide, for the Year 1778, London: Printed for the author
- John Collinson (1791), "Bath", History and Antiqutities of the County of Somerset, vol. 1, Bath: Printed by R. Cruttwell
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - New Bath Directory, for the Year, 1792. Bath: W. Gye.
- Archibald Robertson (1792), "Modern Bath", Topographical Survey of the Great Road from London to Bath and Bristol, London, OCLC 1633468
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Published in the 19th century
1800s-1840s
- Richard Warner (1801). History of Bath. Bath. OCLC 5837002.
- John Claude Nattes (1806). Bath, illustrated by a series of views. London: W. Miller and W. Sheppard. OCLC 32851779.
- Joseph Nightingale (1813), "Bath", Beauties of England and Wales, vol. 13, London: J. Harris
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - Historic and Local New Bath Guide (4th ed.). Bath: C. Duffield. c. 1815.
- Pierce Egan (1819), Walks Through Bath, Bath: Meyler and Son
- James Dugdale (1819), "Somersetshire: Bath", New British Traveller, vol. 4, London: J. Robins and Co.
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - Gye's Bath Directory. Bath: W. Gye. 1819.
- Robert Watt (1824). "Bath". Bibliotheca Britannica. Vol. 3. Edinburgh: A. Constable. OCLC 961753.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - David Brewster, ed. (1830). "Bath". Edinburgh Encyclopædia. Edinburgh: William Blackwood.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - "Bath", Great Western Railway Guide, London: James Wyld, 1839, OCLC 12922212
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - Thomas Bartlett (1841). "Bath". New Tablet of Memory; or, Chronicle of Remarkable Events. London: Thomas Kelly.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - "Bath", Mogg's Great Western Railway and Windsor, Bath, and Bristol Guide, London: Edward Mogg, 1841
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - Hunt & Co.'s Directory & Court Guide for the Cities of Bath, Bristol, & Wells. 1848.
1850s-1890s
- "Bath". Bradshaw's Descriptive Railway Hand-Book of Great Britain and Ireland. London: W.J. Adams. 1860.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - John Earle (1864), A guide to the knowledge of Bath, ancient and modern, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green
- "Bath (Somerset)". Where Shall We Go?: A Guide to the Healthiest and Most Beautiful Watering Places in the British Islands (4th ed.). Edinburgh: A. and C. Black. 1866.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - William Henry Overall, ed. (1870), "Bath, Somerset", Dictionary of Chronology, London: William Tegg, OCLC 2613202
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - "Some Literary Ramblings about Bath: 3", Cornhill Magazine, vol. 28, July 1873
- James Tunstall (1876), Rambles about Bath and its neighbourhood (6th ed.), London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., OCLC 12987741
- John Parker Anderson (1881), "Somersetshire: Bath", Book of British Topography: a Classified Catalogue of the Topographical Works in the Library of the British Museum Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, London: W. Satchell
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - R.E.M. Peach (1883–1884), Historic houses in Bath, and their associations, London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., OCLC 5463468 v.2
- Concise Guide to Bath. Bath: R.B. Cater. 1885.
- R.E.M. Peach (1888). Bath, Old and New. London.
{{cite book}}: External link in|author= - British Association for the Advancement of Science (1888), J.W. Morris (ed.), Handbook to Bath, Bath: I. Pitman and Sons
- J.G. Douglas Kerr (1898), Popular Guide to the Use of the Bath Waters (12th ed.), Bath: Bath Herald
- Bijou Guide to Bath, Bath: Tylee & Co., 1890, OCLC 12987828
- Charles Gross (1897). "Bath". Bibliography of British Municipal History. New York: Longmans, Green, and Co.
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Published in the 20th century
- Emanuel Green (1902), Bibliotheca Somersetensis, vol. 1: Bath Books, Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, OCLC 7080200
- G.K. Fortescue, ed. (1902). "Bath". Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years 1881–1900. London.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=and|editor=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: editors list (link) - William Tyte (1903), Bath in the Eighteenth Century, Bath: Chronicle Office
- Robert Donald, ed. (1908). "Bath". Municipal Year Book of the United Kingdom for 1908. London: Edward Lloyd.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - Adam Fergusson (1973). The Sack of Bath: a record and an indictment. Compton Russell. ISBN 9780859550024.
- Larry R. Ford (1978). "Continuity and Change in Historic Cities: Bath, Chester, and Norwich". Geographical Review. 68. JSTOR 215046.
- R.S. Neale (1981). Bath 1680-1850: a social history. Routledge & Kegan Paul. ISBN 9780710006394.
Published in the 21st century
- Peter Borsay (2000). Image of Georgian Bath, 1700–2000. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198202652.
- Peter Borsay (2006). "Myth, Memory, and Place: Monmouth and Bath 1750–1900". Journal of Social History. 39. JSTOR 3790298.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bath, Somerset.
- "Somerset", Historical Directories, UK: University of Leicester. Includes Bath directories, various dates.
- "Libraries and Archives: Local studies". Bath & North East Somerset Council.
- List of Mayors of Bath, 1230-
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