577 – Battle of Deorham: Bath is captured by the Saxons[3] and, being north of the River Avon, then falls within the Saxon petty-kingdom of the Hwicce.
973 – 11 May (Whitsunday): Edgar, King of England 959–975, is crowned and anointed with his wife Ælfthryth at Bath Abbey by Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury.[5] The Church of St Swithin, Walcot, is founded at about this date.
1676 – Dr. Thomas Guidott publishes A discourse of Bathe, and the hot waters there. Also, Some Enquiries into the Nature of the water, the first published account of the medicinal properties of the city's water.
25 December: St Mary the Virgin opened near Queen Square as the city's first proprietary chapel (foundation stone laid 25 March 1732; designed by John Wood, the Elder).[13]
1735
Construction of New Bridge to carry the Bristol Road over the Avon begins.
1767–1768 – Brock Street built to the design of John Wood, the Younger.
1768 – The Theatre Royal, Bath (Old Orchard Street Theatre) and Theatre Royal, Norwich, assume these titles having been granted Royal Patents, making them officially England's only legal provincial theatres.[29]
January: Jane Austen becomes resident in Bath when her father retires here; she will remain until summer 1806, living mostly in the newly built Sydney Place.
1 May: Kennet and Avon Canal opens from Bath to Devizes[48] (completion of the locks at the latter place at the end of 1810 creates inland water communication to London).[49]
1 January: Local government reformed under terms of the Municipal Corporations Act 1835; city corporation is obliged to surrender control over Abbey appointments.
28 March: Bath Poor Law Union formed and begins construction of a new workhouse at Combe Down.
New douche and massage baths, incorporating parts of the Queen's Bath and of the 1786 New Private Baths, and including an arch over York Street, completed to the design of C. E. Davis.
Kilowatt House on Claverton Down, a unique example of modernist architecture in the city, is completed to the design of Mollie Taylor as a residence for electrical engineer Anthony Greenhill.[6]
3 September: On the outbreak of World War II, departments of the Admiralty begin evacuation to Bath.
1942 – 25–27 April: Bath Blitz: Three German aerial bombing raids as part of the "Baedeker Blitz" kill 417; among the buildings destroyed or badly damaged are the newly restored Assembly Rooms, St Andrew's Church and All Saints Chapel.[66]
City centre in 1958, still with signs of the Bath Blitz
1944 – March–November: John Betjeman is assigned to a wartime job working on publicity for the Admiralty at the requisitioned Empire Hotel.[67]
1945 – Town planner Patrick Abercrombie produces A Plan for Bath for post-war reconstruction.[68]
Construction of Bath Western Riverside residential development on former Stothert & Pitt crane factory site begins.
2015
9 February: A child and three adults are killed and four others seriously injured when a poorly maintained tipper truck runs away down Lansdown Lane into Weston.[77]
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