Timeline of Norwich

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Norwich, Norfolk, England.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Prior to 12th century

• 924 AD – Market active. ^[1]
• 1004 – Norwich sacked by Danes. ^[2]
• 1067 – Norwich Castle construction begins (approximate date).
• 1094 – Seat of East Anglian bishopric relocated to Norwich from Thetford. ^[3]
• 1096 – Norwich School established.

12th–13th centuries

• 1100 – Bishop's Palace built (approximate date).
• 1101 – Norwich Cathedral dedicated. ^[3]
• 1106 – Norwich fair active. ^[1]
• 1100 – St. Leonard's priory built on Mousehold Heath. ^[4]
• 1122 – King Henry I visits town. ^[5]
• 1144 – A young apprentice, William of Norwich, is murdered.
• 1145 – Norwich Cathedral completed.
• 1158 - Henry II. grants the burgesses a charter. ^[3]
• 1190 - Antisemitic massacre ^[6]
• 1194 - Richard I. grants them a fuller charter. ^[3]
• 1216 – Dauphin Louis takes Norwich Castle. ^[7]
• 1248 – Chapel and Hospice of St Mary's in the Field founded.
• 1249 – St. Giles's Hospital founded. ^[4]
• 1266 – "Disinherited Barons sack city." ^[5]
• 1272 – Norwich riot. ^[5]
• 1295 – Bishops Bridge built. ^[8]
• 1298 - Norwich represented in parliament by two members. ^[3]

14th–15th centuries

Norwich c. 1300.

• 1341 – Norwich Market ceded to city.
• 1342 – City walls built. ^[3]
• 1348 – Plague/ Black Death. ^[2]
• 1383 – Queen Anne of Bohemia visits Norwich. ^[5]
• 1384 – Cloth Seld established. ^[5]
• 1385 – Guild of Saint George founded (approximate date). ^[9]
• 1404 – Norwich incorporated.
• 1411 – Market Cross built. ^[5]
• 1413 – Norwich Guildhall built.
• 1414 – Fire. ^[7]
• 1430 – Great Hall built.
• 1443 – Gladman's insurrection. ^[5]
• 1455 – St Peter Mancroft church consecrated.
• 1472 – St Laurence's Church built.

16th century

• 1505 – Fire. ^[2]
• 1510 – Church of St John Maddermarket rebuilt.
• 1521 – Coslany bridge rebuilt. ^[8]
• 1543 – Hatters company formed. ^[10]
• 1549 – Kett's Rebellion. ^[11]
• 1554 – Russell company of weavers founded. ^[12]
• 1558 – Cunninghams map of city created. ^[5]
• 1565 - Walloons arrive in Norwich and French Church established. ^[13]
• 1567 – Anthony de Solempne sets up printing press. ^[14]
• 1573 – Fye bridge rebuilt. ^[8]
• 1578 – Queen Elizabeth I visits city. ^[5]
• 1586 – Blackfriars Bridge rebuilt. ^[8]
• 1591 – Whitefriars Bridge rebuilt ^[8]

17th century

• 1602 – Plague/Black Death. ^[5]
• 1608 – Norwich Public Library established. ^[15]
• 1615 – Peter Gleane becomes mayor. ^[16]
• 1621 – George Birch becomes mayor. ^[16]
• 1652 – William Barnham becomes mayor. ^[16]
• 1663 – William Oliver bookseller in business. ^[17]
• 1648 – The Great Blow explosion occurs after a riot, destroying 40 buildings. ^[18]
• 1671 – King Charles II visits Norwich
• 1675 – George Rose bookseller in business. ^[19]
• 1687 – Doughty's Hospital established. ^[3]
• – St Augustine's Church tower rebuilt.
• 1693 – Population: 28,881. ^[20]
• 1697 – New Mint established. ^[5]

18th century

• 1701 – Norwich Post newspaper begins publication. ^[5]
• 1727 – Norwich Mercury newspaper begins publication. ^[21]
• 1731 – White Swan Playhouse active (approximate date). ^{[22] [23]}
• 1754 – Assembly House built. ^[24]
• 1756 – Octagon Chapel built.
• 1757 – Theatre built. ^{[20] [22]}
• 1761 – Norfolk Chronicle newspaper begins publication. ^[25]
• 1762 – Hills and Underwood distillery in business. ^[26]
• 1763 – Richard Beatniffe bookseller in business. ^[19]
• 1770 – Gurney's Bank established.
• 1771 – Norfolk and Norwich Hospital founded.
• 1784 – Norfolk and Norwich Subscription Library established. ^[27]
• 1785 – William Stevenson bookseller in business. ^[19]
• 1786 – Norfolk And Norwich Benevolent Medical Society founded. ^[28]
• 1792 – Hudson & Harvey bank established. ^[29]
• 1800 – Fish's Musical Circulating Library in business. ^[30]

19th century

• 1803 – Norwich Society of Artists active. ^[31]
• 1811 – Foundry Bridge constructed. ^[8]
• 1819 – Rosary Cemetery established.
• 1820 – Steward, Patterson & Stewards brewery in business. ^[32]
• 1821 – Population: 50,288. ^[20]
• 1822
  • Norfolk and Norwich Literary Institution established. ^[20]
  • Duke's Palace Bridge built. ^[8]
• 1823
  • J. & J. Colman in business. ^[33]
  • Jarrolds relocates to Norwich. ^[34]
• 1824
  • Norfolk and Norwich Festival begins. ^{[20] [35]}
  • Norfolk and Norwich Museum, and Norfolk and Norwich United Medical Book Society established. ^[20]
• 1826 – Theatre rebuilt. ^[20]
• 1829
  • City gaol built. ^[4]
  • Norfolk and Norwich Horticultural Society established. ^[20]
• 1831 – Canal and harbour open. ^[2]
• 1833
  • Norwich Yarn Company in business. ^[36]
  • Carrow Bridge rebuilt. ^[8]
• 1835 – Town Council elected per Municipal Corporations Act 1835. ^[20]
• 1837 – Bullard & Watts brewery in business.
• 1839 – St James Mill built.
• 1844 – Yarmouth-Norwich railway begins operating. ^[20]
• 1845
  • Norfolk News begins publication. ^[21]
  • Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society established. ^[20]
• 1847 – Chamber of Commerce established. ^[20]
• 1849 – Norwich Victoria railway station opens.
• 1851 – Board of Health established. ^[20]
• 1856 – Young Men's Christian Association chapter established. ^[20]
• 1857
  • Free Library building opens. ^[15]
  • Norfolk and Norwich Anglers' Society formed. ^[20]
• 1861 – Population: 75,025. ^[20]
• 1866 – Chapel Field Road drill hall opened. ^[37]
• 1869 – Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society founded. ^[38]
• 1874 – 10 September: Thorpe rail accident occurs near town.
• 1875 – Norwich High School for Girls founded. ^[24]
• 1878 – Harry Bullard becomes mayor. ^[16]
• 1880 – Chapelfield Gardens open.
• 1882 – Norwich City railway station opens.
• 1887 – HM Prison Norwich established.
• 1888 – Norfolk and Norwich Photographic Society established. ^[39]
• 1891 – City College Norwich founded.
• 1897
  • Labour strike. ^[2]
  • Royal Hotel in business.
• 1900 – Norwich Electric Tramways begin operating.

20th century

• 1901 – Population: 111,733. ^[3]
• 1902 – Norwich City Football Club founded, inheriting the song "On the Ball, City".
• 1903 – Grand Opera House opens. ^[40]
• 1909 – Sewell Park opens.
• 1910 – St John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church, Norwich built, now St John the Baptist Cathedral, Norwich
• 1911 – Picture House (cinema) opens. ^[40]
• 1921 – Maddermarket Theatre founded.
• 1923 – First lady Lord Mayor.
• 1924 – Heigham Park opens.
• 1925
  • Wensum Park opened ^{[41] [42]}
  • The Ferry Boat Inn in business.
• 1928 – Eaton Park opens.
• 1929 – Sloughbottom Park and Mile Cross Gardens open.
• 1933 – Waterloo Park opens.
• 1938 – City Hall built.
• 1942 – April: Aerial bombing by German forces.
• 1963 – University of East Anglia established.
• 1973 – Colman's Mustard Shop opens.
• 1974 – Norfolk Tower built.
• 1976 – Norwich Buddhist Centre established.
• 1977 – Norwich Arts Centre opens.
• 1978 – Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts and Norwich Cinema City open.
• 1979 – Norwich Puppet Theatre founded.
• 1980 – Sewell Barn Theatre opens.
• 1982 – City of Norwich Aviation Museum active (approximate date).
• 1988 – Norwich Airport terminal opens.
• 1992 – Norwich Research Park launched.
• 1995 – Norwich Playhouse opens.

21st century

• 2001
  • Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital founded.
  • The Forum built.
• 2004 – Norwich HEART heritage organisation established. ^[43]
• 2005 – Delia Smith made her iconic "Let's be 'avin' you!" speech at Carrow Road. ^[44]
• 2006 – 99.9 Radio Norwich begins broadcasting.
• 2007 – Theatre Royal building refurbished.
• 2009 – Norwich Film Festival begins.
• 2018 – Colman's announces transfer of most of its mustard production away from Norwich in 2018-2019
• 2020 - Covid 19 pandemic happens

See also

• History of Norwich
• History of Norfolk

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9. Muriel C. McClendon (1994). ""Against God's Word": Government, Religion and the Crisis of Authority in Early Reformation Norwich". Sixteenth Century Journal. 25 (2): 353–369. doi:10.2307/2542886. JSTOR   2542886.
10. J.F. Pound (1966). "The Social and Trade Structure of Norwich 1525–1575". Past & Present (34): 49–69. doi:10.1093/past/34.1.49. JSTOR   650054.
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16. Hamon Le Strange (1890). Norfolk official lists.
17. Henry Robert Plomer (1922), "Norwich", Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, Oxford: Bibliographical Society
18. Hopper, Andrew (20 March 2018). "'The Great Blow' and the Politics of Popular Royalism in Civil War Norwich" . The English Historical Review . 133 (560): 32–64. doi:10.1093/ehr/cey070. ISSN   0013-8266.
19. Trevor Fawcett (1972). "18th Century Norfolk Booksellers". Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society. 6. JSTOR   41154511.
20. "Norwich", History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk, and the City and County of the City of Norwich, Sheffield: William White, 1864
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22. "Detailed History of Norwich Theatre Royal". Norwich Theatre Royal. Retrieved 15 September 2013.
23. Sybil Rosenfeld (1936). "The Players in Norwich, 1710–1750". Review of English Studies. 12 (47): 285–304. JSTOR   509826.
24. Handbook to the City of Norwich. Norwich: Jarrold & Sons. 1883.
25. "Norwich". Newspaper Press Directory. London: Charles Mitchell. 1847.
26. "Norwich". Official Guide to the Great Eastern Railway. London: Cassell & Company. 1893.
27. Paul Kaufman (1967). "The Community Library: A Chapter in English Social History". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 57 (7): 1–67. doi:10.2307/1006043. JSTOR   1006043.
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Further reading

Published in the 17th–18th centuries

• John Ogilby (1699), "(Norwich)", Traveller's Guide, or, a Most Exact Description of the Roads of England, London: Abel Swall
• Compleat History of the Famous City of Norwich. Norwich: William Chase. 1728.
• Daniel Defoe; Samuel Richardson (1778), "Norfolk: Norwich", A Tour Through the Island of Great Britain (8th ed.), London: J.F. and C. Rivingdon (Defoe visited circa 1723)
• Charles Parkin (1783). History and Antiquities of the City of Norwich. Lynn: J. Robson.

Published in the 19th century

1800s–1840s

• John Evans; John Britton (1810), "Norfolk: Norwich", Beauties of England and Wales, vol. 11, London: Vernon, Hood & Sharpe, hdl:2027/yale.39002040781966
• Philip Browne (1814), History of Norwich, Norwich: Printed by Bacon, Kinnebrook, and Co., OL   7069999M
• "(Norwich)". Excursions in the County of Norfolk. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. 1818.
• James Dugdale (1819), "Norfolk: Norwich", New British Traveller, vol. 3, London: J. Robins and Co.
• "Norwich". Rees's Cyclopædia. 1819.
• Topographical and historical account of the city and county of Norwich. Norwich: John Stacy. 1819.
• Norfolk and Norwich Remembrancer and Vade-mecum (2nd ed.). Norwich: Matchett and Stevenson. 1822.
• Robert Watt (1824). "Norwich". Bibliotheca Britannica. Vol. 4. Edinburgh: A. Constable. hdl:2027/mdp.39076005081505. OCLC   961753.
• "Norwich", Cities and Principal Towns of the World, Cabinet Cyclopaedia, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1830, OCLC   2665202
• David Brewster, ed. (1832). "Norwich". Edinburgh Encyclopædia. Philadelphia: Joseph and Edward Parker. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t2x352b0z.
• History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk, and the City and County of the City of Norwich .., Sheffield: William White, 1836
  • History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk, and the City and County of the City of Norwich .., Sheffield: William White, 1845, OCLC   2011287, OL   20507450M
• "Norwich". Penny Cyclopaedia. 1840.
• Samuel Woodward (1842), The Norfolk topographer's manual, London: Nichols & Son, OL   13943146M (includes Norwich)

1850s–1890s

• "Norwich". Slater's Royal National and Commercial Directory and Topography of ... Norfolk. Isaac Slater. 1852.
• Susan Swain Madders (1853), Rambles in an old city, London, OL   23528980M (describes Norwich)
• J. Willoughby Rosse (1859). "Norwich". Index of Dates ... Facts in the Chronology and History of the World. London: H.G. Bohn. hdl:2027/hvd.32044098621048 – via Hathi Trust.
• George Measom (1865), "Norwich", Official Illustrated Guide to the Great Eastern Railway, London: C. Griffin and Co.
• Charles Knight, ed. (1867). "Norwich". Geography. London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co. hdl:2027/nyp.33433000064802.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
• George Henry Townsend (1867), "Norwich", A Manual of Dates (2nd ed.), London: Frederick Warne & Co.
• A.D. Bayne (1869), A comprehensive history of Norwich, London: Jarrold and Sons, OCLC   2097366, OL   6459663M
• "Norwich", Handbook for Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire (2nd ed.), London: J. Murray, 1875, OCLC   2094145
• "Norfolk: Norwich". Post Office Directory of the Counties of Cambridge, Norfolk and Suffolk. London: Kelly and Co. 1879.
  • 1865 ed.
  • 1875 ed.
  • 1883 ed.
• Walter Rye (1879). "Description of Norwich". Tourist's Guide to the County of Norfolk. London: Edward Stanford.
• C.S. Ward (1886), "Norwich", The Eastern Counties, Thorough Guides (2nd ed.), London: Dulau & Co.
• Calendar of the Freemen of Norwich from 1307 to 1603, London: E. Stock, 1888, OL   7247463M
• William Hudson (1891), The Wards of the City of Norwich: Their Origin and History, Jarrold and Sons
• William Hudson (1896), How the city of Norwich grew into shape, Norwich: Agas H. Goose
• Charles Gross (1897). "Norwich". Bibliography of British Municipal History. New York: Longmans, Green, and Co.
• James Hooper (1900), Jarrold's Official Guide to Norwich, London: Jarrold and Sons, OL   24139393M

Published in the 20th century

• J.G. Bartholomew (1904), "Norwich", Survey Gazetteer of the British Isles, London: G. Newnes
• Corporation, Norwich (England) (1906). Records of the City of Norwich. Jarrold & sons, Limited.
• W. Hudson (1908). "Municipal Norwich". In Hugh John Dukinfield Astley (ed.). Memorials of Old Norfolk. London: Bemrose and Sons.
• "Norwich", Great Britain (7th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1910, hdl:2027/mdp.39015010546516
• C. B Hawkins (1910), Norwich, a social study, P.L. Warner, OL   7053401M
• Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Norwich (England)"  . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 819–820.
• E. A. Kent, The Mayors of Norwich, 1403 to 1835 (Norwich, 1938)
• M.F. Lloyd Prichard (1951). "The Decline of Norwich". Economic History Review. 3 (3): 371–377. doi:10.2307/2599994. JSTOR   2599994.
• Gerald Dix (1975). "Norwich: A Fine Old City". Town Planning Review. 46 (4): 417–434. doi:10.3828/tpr.46.4.271878q888g33175. JSTOR   40103149.
• David Stoker (1981). "Norwich book trades before 1800". Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society. 8 (1): 79–125. JSTOR   41154599.
• Barry M. Doyle (1995). "Urban Liberalism and the 'Lost Generation': Politics and Middle Class Culture in Norwich, 1900–1935" (PDF). Historical Journal. 38 (3): 617–634. doi:10.1017/S0018246X00020008. JSTOR   2640005. S2CID   145683964.

Published in the 21st century

• Carole Rawcliffe and Richard Wilson, eds., Norwich since 1550: a fine city (London: Hambledon and London, 2004)
• Muriel C. McClendon (2016). "Reimagining a Community: Worker Protest and Illicit Artisans in Early Seventeenth-Century Norwich". Journal of Urban History . 42.
• Fiona Williamson (2017). "When 'Comoners Were Made Slaves by the Magistrates': The 1627 Election and Political Culture in Norwich". Journal of Urban History. 43.

External links

• "A History of Norwich". Ken Ward. 2004.
• Digital Public Library of America. Works related to Norwich, various dates

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