c3500BC
The invention of the wheel
c2600
NATIONAL HISTORY
Stonehenge stone circle started
c2590
Great pyramid built in Egypt
c1180
Fall of Troy
c800
MALMESBURY HISTORY
Iron Age fort at Malmesbury
753
Foundation of Rome
c563
Birth of Buddha
c5AD
Birth of Christ
43
NATIONAL HISTORY
England invaded by Romans
476
NATIONAL HISTORY
Fall of Rome
596
NATIONAL HISTORY
St Augustine brings Christianity to Anglo-Saxons
c570
Birth of Muhammad
c650
MALMESBURY HISTORY
Maildulph establishes his hermitage
675
MALMESBURY HISTORY
Foundation of the Abbey
709
MALMESBURY HISTORY
Death of Aldhelm 639 – 709, Abbot of Malmesbury, Bishop of Sherborne
c880
MALMESBURY HISTORY
Alfred builds burhs, including Malmesbury
924
NATIONAL HISTORY
Athelstan became King of the Anglo Saxons
939
MALMESBURY HISTORY
Athelstan King of All England died in Gloucester and buried in Malmesbury
c. 1010
MALMESBURY HISTORY
Eilmer’s flight from a tower of Malmesbury Abbey
1066
NATIONAL HISTORY
Norman conquest
1095
MALMESBURY HISTORY
William of Malmesbury born
1139
MALMESBURY HISTORY
Malmesbury attacked by future Henry II during the war of Anarchy between Stephen and Matilda
c. 1180
MALMESBURY HISTORY
Norman Abbey at Malmesbury completed
1187
Muslims capture Jerusalem
1206
Genghis Khan and his hordes move out of Mongolia
1215
NATIONAL HISTORY
Magna Carta signed at Runnymede
1258
NATIONAL HISTORY
Salisbury Cathedral finished
1284
MALMESBURY HISTORY
Running water in Malmesbury Abbey lavatorium
1295
MALMESBURY HISTORY
Model parliament; Malmesbury has 2 members
1348
NATIONAL HISTORY
Black death reaches England
1415
NATIONAL HISTORY
Battle of Agincourt
1492
Columbus discovers America
1539
MALMESBURY HISTORY
Dissolution of Malmesbury Abbey. William Stumpe buys Malmesbury Abbey from Henry VIII
1588
MALMESBURY HISTORY
Thomas Hobbes born
1588
NATIONAL HISTORY
Spanish Armada
1603
NATIONAL HISTORY
Death of Elizabeth I
1605
NATIONAL HISTORY
Gunpowder plot
1643
MALMESBURY HISTORY
Malmesbury changes hands 6 times in Civil War
1651
MALMESBURY HISTORY
Thomas Hobbes publishes Leviathan
1666
NATIONAL HISTORY
Great Fire of London
1679
Thomas Hobbes died
1681
Dodo becomes extinct
1687
Foundation of physics today;
Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica
1696
MALMESBURY HISTORY
William III gives charter to Malmesbury following first charter of incorporation granted by Charles I
1706
Cooke discovers Australia
1746
NATIONAL HISTORY
Battle of Culloden. Last battle on British soil
1776
American revolution
1800
MALMESBURY HISTORY
James Harris made first Earl of Malmesbury
1801
NATIONAL HISTORY
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland formed
1805
NATIONAL HISTORY
Battle of Trafalgar
1807
NATIONAL HISTORY
Slave trade abolished
1815
NATIONAL HISTORY
Battle of Waterloo
1832
MALMESBURY HISTORY
Great Reform Act reduces Malmesbury’s MPs from two to one
1837
NATIONAL HISTORY
Queen Victoria ascends the throne
1851
NATIONAL HISTORY
Great Exhibition
1877
MALMESBURY HISTORY
Malmesbury Railway line opened
1884
MALMESBURY HISTORY
Third Reform Act resulting in Malmesbury losing its MP in 1886
1905
Einstein’s theory of relativity E = mc²
1914
Start of World War I
1919
NATIONAL HISTORY
Women get the vote
1939
Start of World War II
1953
NATIONAL HISTORY
Queen Elizabeth II crowned
1962
MALMESBURY HISTORY
Last train to Malmesbury (freight only)
1969
Moon landing
1972
MALMESBURY HISTORY
Malmesbury loses independent Borough Status
1993
MALMESBURY HISTORY
Dyson comes to Malmesbury
2001
MALMESBURY HISTORY
Queen Elizabeth and Duke of Edinburgh visit Malmesbury
2012
MALMESBURY HISTORY
Malmesbury Roman Coin Hoard found in a field in Milbourne, Malmesbury
8th September 2022
NATIONAL HISTORY
Death of Queen Elizabeth II
Charles III proclaimed King
2024
MALMESBURY HISTORY
1100th anniversary of Athelstan becoming King of Anglo Saxons
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.