Read all about it! Here is a timeline of noteworthy events in Bridlington’s history since 1113, when Bridlington Priory was founded, and how these compare with world events.
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| Year | World History | Bridlington History |
| 1113 | FOUNDATION OF BRIDLINGTON PRIORY | |
| 1114 | Matilda, daughter of Henry I, marries Holy Roman Emperor | |
| 1115 | Clairvaux Abbey founded by St Bernard | |
| 1116 | Modern book of stiched pages invented in China | |
| 1117 | Earliest use of compass in navigation | |
| 1118 | Thomas a Becket, future Abp, born | |
| 1119 | Severe earthquake in Gloucs. Knights Templar founded | |
| 1120 | White Ship disaster -Henry I’s heir William drowned | |
| 1121 | Peter Abelard, monk and poet, disgraced for love of Heloise | Prior Guicheman |
| 1122 | Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France and England, born | |
| 1123 | Church orders celibacy of clergy | |
| 1124 | Crusades: Tyre (holy Land) falls to crusaders | |
| 1125 | Crusaders defeat Turks | |
| 1126 | Alfonso VII crowned King of Castille and Leon | |
| 1127 | Constantinople becomes largest city in world | |
| 1128 | City of Bruges founded | |
| 1129 | Knights Templar approved by Pope | |
| 1130 | Civil War in Norway | |
| 1131 | Tintern Abbey founded | |
| 1132 | Fountains and Rievaulx (Cistercian) Abbeys founded | |
| 1133 | Durham Cathedral completed | |
| 1134 | Much of Chartres is destroyed by fire | |
| 1135 | King Stephen succeeds, ongoing struggle with cousin Mathilda | |
| 1136 | King Stephen ceded Cumberland to Scots | |
| 1137 | Ethiopian empire established | |
| 1138 | David, King of Scotland defeated by English | Prior Adelbold |
| 1139 | Portugal independent | |
| 1140 | Peter Abelard condemned as heretic | |
| 1141 | Civil War in England, Stephen v Mathilda | |
| 1142 | Peter Abelard | |
| 1143 | First translation of Koran into Latin | |
| 1144 | No information | |
| 1145 | Construction of Notre Dame, Paris, starts | |
| 1146 | Harvest fails - worst famine of century; St Bernard preaches 2nd crusade | |
| 1147 | Beginning of 2nd Crusade | |
| 1148 | 2nd Crusade reaches Jerusalem, fails at Damascus | |
| 1149 | End of 2nd crusade | |
| 1150 | University of Paris founded | |
| 1151 | Bolton Abbey (N Yorks) founded | |
| 1152 | Eleanor of Aquitaine, marries Henry (to be II) | |
| 1153 | End of Stephen-Matilda civil war; Mathilda’s son Henry heir to throne | |
| 1154 | Henry succeeds at 21 (Henry II). First and only English pope elected | |
| 1155 | Pope gives Henry ‘lordship’ over Ireland | |
| 1156 | City of Moscow founded | |
| 1157 | Henry grants charter to Lincoln | |
| 1158 | New sterling silver coinage introduced | |
| 1159 | Cardinals able to elect Pope | Prior Bernard |
| 1160 | Exchequer described in handbook | |
| 1161 | No information | Prior Robert the Scribe |
| 1162 | Thomas a Becket becomes Archbishop of Canterbury | |
| 1163 | Notre Dame - first stones laid | |
| 1164 | Start of dispute between Henry II and Thomas a Becket | |
| 1165 | No information | |
| 1166 | Birth of future King John | |
| 1167 | Oxford university official - English students must go there, not to Paris | |
| 1168 | No information | |
| 1169 | Normans invade Ireland | |
| 1170 | Murder of Thomas a Becket - on orders of King?? | |
| 1171 | ||
| 1172 | Henry II invades Ireland | |
| 1173 | Eleanor of Aquitaine rebels agains king | |
| 1174 | Saladin captures Damascus | |
| 1175 | High king of Ireland submits to Henry II | |
| 1176 | Carthusian order founded. First Welsh Eisteddfod | |
| 1177 | Byland Abbey founded | |
| 1178 | Meteor seen at Canterbury | |
| 1179 | Philip II crowned King of France | |
| 1180 | Devastating whirlwind damages Kyoto | |
| 1181 | Chinese and Japanese astronomers observed supernova | |
| 1182 | Jews expelled from Paris | |
| 1183 | Description of an early form of cricket | |
| 1184 | Fire at Glastonbury Abbey | |
| 1185 | date of Christmas fixed as Dec 25 | |
| 1186 | No information | |
| 1187 | Saladin captures Jerusalem from Crusaders | |
| 1188 | Newgate Prison built in London | |
| 1189 | Henry II dies, Richard I (lionheart) succeeds & leaves for 3rd Crusade | |
| 1190 | Massacre of Jews at York | Prior Hugh |
| 1191 | Saladin surrenders at Acre; Richard defeats Saladin | |
| 1192 | Ricahrd Lionheart captured on Crusade | |
| 1193 | Aztec civilisation begins in Mexico | |
| 1194 | Richard Lionheart ransomed, returns to England | |
| 1195 | No information | |
| 1196 | Pestilence and famine in England | |
| 1197 | Rain wrecks harvest, terrible famine | |
| 1198 | No information | |
| 1199 | Richard I died, John becomes king | Prior Helyas |
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| Year | World History | Bridlington History |
| 1200 | University of Paris gets royal charter. | Priory given right to hold an annual fair |
| 1201 | No information | |
| 1202 | Genghis Khan crushes Tartars | |
| 1203 | Fourth Crusade | |
| 1204 | Guernsey and Jersey decide to stay English as king John loses Frenc lands | |
| 1205 | Pope issues edict against Jews | |
| 1206 | Sugar first mentioned in English writing | |
| 1207 | Leeds gets first charter as market town | |
| 1208 | terrible fire in China | |
| 1209 | London Bridge completed. Cambridge University founded. King excommunicated | |
| 1210 | Epic poem Tristan written | |
| 1211 | Franciscan order founded. Oldest double-entry book-keeping | |
| 1212 | Fire of London, incl London Bridge. Children’s Crusade starts | |
| 1213 | King John submits to Pope | |
| 1214 | King in dispute with barons | |
| 1215 | Magna Carta sealed - barons assert power | |
| 1216 | King John dies. Succeeded by infant son,Henry III | |
| 1217 | No information | |
| 1218 | Fifth Crusade in Egypt | Prior Hubert |
| 1219 | Windmill introduced in China. Dominican order established | |
| 1220 | Trial by ordeal abolished | |
| 1221 | Mongols advancing through eastern Europe | |
| 1222 | No information | |
| 1223 | Louis VIII crowned King of France | |
| 1224 | Last Muslims expelled from Sicily and Malta. St Francis receives stigmata | |
| 1225 | Birth of Thomas Aquinas | |
| 1226 | Carmelite order founded | |
| 1227 | Zen Buddhism introduced into Japan | |
| 1228 | Francis of Assisi canonised (made a Saint) | |
| 1229 | Spanish kings fighting Moors | |
| 1230 | King Ferdinand of Spain unites Spain | |
| 1231 | No information | |
| 1232 | No information | |
| 1233 | Inquisition established | |
| 1234 | No information | |
| 1235 | Lancaster Royal Grammar School founded | |
| 1236 | Tournament at Tickhill turns into North v South battle | |
| 1237 | England-Scotland border agreed. Drought - harvest fails, famine | |
| 1238 | Mongols invade Russia, seize Moscow | |
| 1239 | Tower of Lincoln Catheddral collapses | |
| 1240 | Alexander Nevsky defeats Swedes | |
| 1241 | Mongols reach Hungary and Poland and then retreat | |
| 1242 | No information | |
| 1243 | No information | |
| 1244 | Moors in retreat in Spain | |
| 1245 | Westminster Abbey being rebuilt | |
| 1246 | Aristotle’s work translated into latin | |
| 1247 | Roger Bacon publishes formula for gunpowder | |
| 1248 | last Cathar ‘heretics’ massacred at Montsegur | |
| 1249 | Alexander III crowned King of Scots | |
| 1250 | great storm alters coastline of Kent. Moors finally expelled from Portugal | Prior John |
| 1251 | Earliest manuscript of ‘Proverbs of King Alfred’ written | |
| 1252 | Stockholm founded; Pope authorises use of torture on heretics | |
| 1253 | Mongol empire extends to Baghdad, Cairo, Korea | |
| 1254 | Horses of St Mark installed on basilica, Venice | |
| 1255 | Hundred Rolls’ - first census since Domesday Book | |
| 1256 | Pope founds order of Augustinian friars (not Brid priory) | |
| 1257 | Henry III introduces gold coins | |
| 1258 | Gigantic volcano erupts in central/S America upsetting world climate | |
| 1259 | Oxford Parlt’ Simon de Montfort forces concessions from Henry III | |
| 1260 | Chartres Cathedral dedicated. Dunkeld cathedral started | prior geoffrey de Nafferton |
| 1261 | No information | |
| 1262 | Henry III prepares to challenge barons | |
| 1263 | Balliol College Oxford founded | |
| 1264 | Civil war, Henry III captured. Kublai Khan takes Beijing | |
| 1265 | First English Parliament. Henry III defeats Simon de Montfort | |
| 1266 | France mints gold and silver coins | |
| 1267 | Henry III settles with barons. Roger Bacon completes his science work | |
| 1268 | First Venice carnival | |
| 1269 | jews in France obliged to wear yellow badge | |
| 1270 | Thomas Aquinas’ ‘Summa Theologica’ written | |
| 1271 | Marco Polo sets off from Venice to Kublai Khan’s China | |
| 1272 | Henry III dies, succeeded by Edward I | |
| 1273 | First recorded mention of cricket | |
| 1274 | Edward I finally crowned | |
| 1275 | Parliament passes significant body of law on good governance | |
| 1276 | Marco Polo visits Xanadu | |
| 1277 | Edward I defeating Prince Llewellyn in Wales | |
| 1278 | Credit contracts’ allowed, starting financial industry | |
| 1279 | Statute of Mortmain - King asserts rights over land | |
| 1280 | Edward I sets up Court of King’s Bench | |
| 1281 | No information | |
| 1282 | Final conquest of Wales by Edward I | |
| 1283 | Edward I introduces hanging, drawing and quartering re High Treason | |
| 1284 | Wales incorporated; castles being built (Caernarvon, Conwy, Harlech) | |
| 1285 | No information | |
| 1286 | Trouble brewing between England & Scotland, after death of Sc King | |
| 1287 | Huge storm, kills thousands in Netherlands & England | |
| 1288 | Oldest bronze gun in China | |
| 1289 | Francisacan friars beign missionary work in China | |
| 1290 | All Jews (about 16,000) ordered to leave England | |
| 1291 | End of last crusade and Christian kingdom of Jerusalem | Archbishop of York visits Bridlington |
| 1292 | Edward I appoints John Balliol as King of Scotland | |
| 1293 | Edward I buys Isle of Wight from Countess | |
| 1294 | Death of Kublai Khan | |
| 1295 | Scots form ‘Auld Alliance’ with France. Beaumaris castle started | Prior Gerard installed |
| 1296 | Edward I attacks and defeats scottish army | |
| 1297 | Scots defeat English at battle of Stirling Bridge | |
| 1298 | Edward I defeats Scots at battle of Falkirk | |
| 1299 | Kingstoune on Hull’ granted city status by Royal Charter |
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| Year | World History | Bridlington History |
| 1300 | Wenceslas becomes king of Poland | |
| 1301 | Edward (later Edward II) becomes first Prince of Wales | |
| 1302 | No information | |
| 1303 | Earthquake destroys lighthouse of Alexandria, Egypt | |
| 1304 | Edward I takes Stirling Castle | |
| 1305 | No information | |
| 1306 | Robert the Bruce becomes King of the Scots | |
| 1307 | Edward I dies; Edward II becomes king | |
| 1308 | William Tell shoots apple of his son’s head | |
| 1309 | Alnwick Castle bought by Percy family | |
| 1310 | French Knights Templar burned as heretics | |
| 1311 | Edward II in trouble with barons | |
| 1312 | Chinese using movable type for printing | |
| 1313 | Hereford: mappa mundi being completed | |
| 1314 | Battle of Bannockburn: Robert the Bruce defeats Edward II | |
| 1315 | Great Famine (1315-1317) | Prior Peter de Wynthorpe installed |
| 1316 | No information | |
| 1317 | Ebd of Great Famine | |
| 1318 | Disease hits cattle and sheep across Europe | |
| 1319 | Norway and Ssweden united under boy king | |
| 1320 | Scots reaffirm independence | Prior Robert de Scardeburg installed |
| 1321 | Famine in Europe | |
| 1322 | Robert the Bruce defeats Edward II at Byland | |
| 1323 | Thomas Aquinas canonised | |
| 1324 | Witch’ burned at stake | |
| 1325 | No information | |
| 1326 | Oxford (Oriel) and Cambridge (Clare) colleges founded | |
| 1327 | Edward II killed at Berkeley Castle; Edward III succeeds | |
| 1328 | Scottish independence recognised | |
| 1329 | Robert the Bruce dies; David II King of Scots | |
| 1330 | Edward the Black Prince born | |
| 1331 | No information | |
| 1332 | No information | |
| 1333 | Famine in China (6m dead) also in S Europe | Prior Peter de Langtoft installed |
| 1334 | Black death: first appearance in China | |
| 1335 | Slavery abolished in Sweden | |
| 1336 | English burn Aberdeen | |
| 1337 | Hundred years war (England/France) begins | |
| 1338 | No information | |
| 1339 | Kremlin built in Moscow | |
| 1340 | Edward III declared King of France | |
| 1341 | Queens Colleg Oxford founded | |
| 1342 | No information | Prior Peter de Appleby |
| 1343 | No information | |
| 1344 | Several banks in Florence go bust | |
| 1345 | Solar eclipse. Black death spreading towards Europe | |
| 1346 | Battle of Crecy: English defeat French in Northeren France | |
| 1347 | English take Calais | |
| 1348 | Black death: arrives in England. Order of Garter founded | |
| 1349 | Black death killing thousands in England; Jews blamed | |
| 1350 | Black death arrives in Scotland | |
| 1351 | Labour shortage because of Black Death | |
| 1352 | No information | |
| 1353 | Bocaccio’s Decameraon is finished | |
| 1354 | No information | |
| 1355 | St Scholastica’s Day riot in Oxford (town v gown) 100 died | |
| 1356 | Battle of Poitiers: English, under Black Prince, defeat French | Prior Peter de Coles |
| 1357 | First public display of Turin Shroud | |
| 1358 | No information | |
| 1359 | No information | |
| 1360 | French Raid in Sussex | |
| 1361 | No information | |
| 1362 | English replacing French as official language in Parliament | Prior John de Thwing |
| 1363 | No information | |
| 1364 | No information | |
| 1365 | No information | |
| 1366 | Stella Artois brewery founded in present-day Belgium | |
| 1367 | First royal library created in France | |
| 1368 | Work begins on great wall of China | |
| 1369 | French recapture most of Aquitaine | |
| 1370 | Steel crossbow introduced | |
| 1371 | First reference to playing cards (in Spain) | |
| 1372 | French regain control of English Channel | |
| 1373 | Julian of Norwich receives ‘Revelations of Divine Love’ | |
| 1374 | Chaucer (civil servant) honoured by king for poetry | |
| 1375 | English cede most French territory | |
| 1376 | Black Prince dies | |
| 1377 | Edward III dies; Richard II king at 10 (son of Black Prince) | |
| 1378 | John Wycliffe preaches reform | |
| 1379 | New College Oxford founded | |
| 1380 | No information | |
| 1381 | Peasants’ Revolt, Wat Tyler and Jack Straw storm Tower of London | |
| 1382 | Winchester College founded | |
| 1383 | Lowenbrau beer first brewed | |
| 1384 | John Wycliffe, condemned forheresy, dies | |
| 1385 | Bodiam Castle, Sussex, built | |
| 1386 | No information | |
| 1387 | Battle of Margate: 100 French ships destroyed | |
| 1388 | Battle of Otterburn - Scots win | Bayle built, right to crenellate |
| 1389 | Truce in 100 Years War, England/france | |
| 1390 | No information | |
| 1391 | Anti-Jewish riots in Spain, many massacred | |
| 1392 | No information | |
| 1393 | Toilet paper being produced for Ming Dynasty Court | |
| 1394 | Richard II gives Chaucer pension for life for service as diplomat etc | |
| 1395 | No information | |
| 1396 | Richard II marries daughter of the King of France | |
| 1397 | Chaucer produces Canterbury Tales | |
| 1398 | Richard exiles Henry Bolingbroke for 10 years | Prior John Qweldryg |
| 1399 | Richard II deposed; Henry IV lands at Ravenscar and defeats Richard |
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| Year | World History | Bridlington History |
| 1400 | Richard II dies at Pontefract Castle - probably murdered | |
| 1401 | Lollards (followers of Wycliffe) declared heretics - could be burned | |
| 1402 | Penal laws against the Welsh who were rebelling | |
| 1403 | Henry IV defeats Hotspur and rebel army | |
| 1404 | Owain Glendwyr al,lies with French against English | |
| 1405 | Archbishop of York and barons rebel agains Henry IV | |
| 1406 | Richard (Dick) Whittington becomes Lord Mayor of London | |
| 1407 | No information | |
| 1408 | No information | Prior John |
| 1409 | Welsh surrender Harlech to English | Prior Thomas |
| 1410 | Prague: astronomical clock built | |
| 1411 | University of St Andrew’s founded | |
| 1412 | Medici made official bankers to Papacy | |
| 1413 | Henry IV dies; Henry V become king | |
| 1414 | No information | |
| 1415 | Battle of Agincourt - archers defeat French knights | |
| 1416 | No information | |
| 1417 | Henry V using English (rather than French); first street lighting in London | |
| 1418 | Council of Constance ends | |
| 1419 | Portuguese discover and settle Madeira islands | |
| 1420 | Prior John de Gisburne | |
| 1421 | Terrible flood in Netherlands | |
| 1422 | henry V dies; Henry VI (aged 9 months) succeeds, with regents | |
| 1423 | Henry VI also ‘King of France’ | |
| 1424 | Doges palace in Venice completed | |
| 1425 | Beijing largest city in the world | |
| 1426 | No information | |
| 1427 | Gypsies (Romany) arriving in Germany | |
| 1428 | Joan of Arc appeals to French to defest English | |
| 1429 | Joan of Arc helps to break siege of Orleans, attack English | Prior Robert Warde |
| 1430 | Joan of Arc captured | |
| 1431 | Joan of Arc burned at stake | |
| 1432 | No information | |
| 1433 | Scots burn Alnwick | |
| 1434 | Portuguese deliver first cargo of African slaves to Lisbon | |
| 1435 | Jan van Eyck paints Arnolfini portrait | |
| 1436 | Brunelleschi’s ome at Florence Cathedral is dedicated | |
| 1437 | Edinburgh made capital of Scotland | |
| 1438 | No information | |
| 1439 | Gutenberg develops prinitng with moveable type | |
| 1440 | Etoin College founded by Henry VI | |
| 1441 | Kings College Cambridge founded by Henry VI | |
| 1442 | No information | |
| 1443 | No information | |
| 1444 | Portuguese explorers reach Senegal andn Gambia | Prior Robert Willy |
| 1445 | Portuguese explorers discover Cape Verde islands | |
| 1446 | Blarney stone set into tower of Blarney Castle Co Cork | |
| 1447 | Inquisition revived inSpain | |
| 1448 | End of long 10 year famine in China | |
| 1449 | French recapture Rouen fromEnglish | Bridlington Priory Choir School founded |
| 1450 | Jack Cade’s rebellion: Kentish men rebel against Henry VI | |
| 1451 | Spectacle lens invented for short sight | |
| 1452 | Major volcanic eruption in S Pacific cools whole eaerth | |
| 1453 | Turks capture Constantinople | |
| 1454 | End of 100 Years War; Gutenberg produces first dated, printed documents | |
| 1455 | Wars of Roses begins: York v lancaster, Henry VI captured | |
| 1456 | Haley’s comet appears | |
| 1457 | Henry Tudor (VII) born | |
| 1458 | Turks issue decree to save Acropolis after capturing Athens | |
| 1459 | York - Lancaster fighting continues | |
| 1460 | York - Lancaster fighting continues | |
| 1461 | Yorkists win bloody battle of Towton Edward IV becomes king | |
| 1462 | No information | Prior Peter Heliard |
| 1463 | Bosnia falls to Turks | |
| 1464 | Yorkists consolidate power | |
| 1465 | Deposed Henry VI imprisoned in Tower | |
| 1466 | French king introducces silk weaving | |
| 1467 | No information | |
| 1468 | No information | |
| 1469 | Wars of Roses: Yorkists defeated. Aragon & Castile linked by marriage | |
| 1470 | Henry VI released and resptred to throne | |
| 1471 | Portuguese explorers crossed equator | |
| 1472 | Leonardo da Vinci at work in Florence | Prior Robert de Bristwyk; Scarborough rectory given to Priory |
| 1473 | Caxton prints first book in English (in Bruges) | |
| 1474 | First modern patent system developed in Venice | |
| 1475 | Oldest recorded game of chess in Italy (played from 13C) | |
| 1476 | Caxton prints Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales | |
| 1477 | No information | |
| 1478 | Lorenzo de Medici sole ruler of Florence | |
| 1479 | Christopher Columbus in Portugal planning voyages | |
| 1480 | Ferdinand (Aragon) and Isabella (Castille) ruling Spain | |
| 1481 | No information | |
| 1482 | Present Englsih -Scottish border fixed, with Berwick in England | |
| 1483 | Princes in Tower Edward V and Richard III Duke of York | |
| 1484 | Wm Caxton prints Aesop’s Fables, in English | |
| 1485 | Battle of Bosworth Field- Richard III killed, Henry VII takes over | |
| 1486 | Henry VII married Elizabeth of York | |
| 1487 | Bartholomew Dias leaves Lisbon en route to Cape of Good Hope | |
| 1488 | Bartholomew Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope, enters Indain Ocean | |
| 1489 | First ‘gold sovereigns’ produced in England | |
| 1490 | No information | |
| 1491 | Comet comes closest ever to earth | |
| 1492 | Christopher Columbus reaches W Indies.Final defeat of Moors in Spain; | |
| 1493 | C Columbus leaves on 2nd voyage | |
| 1494 | First hurricane observed in W Indies | |
| 1495 | University of Aberdeen founded | |
| 1496 | Henry VII sends John Cabot to seek unknown lands | |
| 1497 | John Cabot lands in Newfoundland | |
| 1498 | Vasco da Gama reaches India | Prior Robert Danby |
| 1499 | Pretender Perkin Warbeck hanged after rebellion |
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| Year | World History | Bridlington History |
| 1500 | Portuguese discover Brazil | |
| 1501 | Michelangelo working on statue ‘David’ | |
| 1502 | First African slaves taken to New World | |
| 1503 | Leonardo da Vinci working on Mona Lisa. Thomas a Kempis, into English | |
| 1504 | Michelangelo’s ‘David’unveiled | |
| 1505 | Martin Luther enters monastery. | |
| 1506 | Death of Columbus | Prior John Ynglish |
| 1507 | New World map shows ‘America’ after Amerigo Vespucci | |
| 1508 | Michelangelo working on Sistine Chapel ceiling | |
| 1509 | Henry VII dies, succeeded by Henry VIII (17) who marries Catherine of Aragon | |
| 1510 | First pocket watch invented | |
| 1511 | Mary Rose’ (flagship) launched at Portsmouth | |
| 1512 | Sistine Chapel ceiling shown to public | |
| 1513 | Spanish explorer reaches US mainland (Florida) | |
| 1514 | Thomas Wlosey becomes Abp of York | |
| 1515 | Manchester Grammar School founded | |
| 1516 | Thomas More publishes ‘Utopia’; Erasmus - new Greek transln of NT | |
| 1517 | Luther posts his 95 theses - beginning of Reformation | |
| 1518 | No information | |
| 1519 | Magellan sets out to circumnavigate world | |
| 1520 | Field of Cloth of Gold’ Henry VII & Frances I (France) meet in peace | |
| 1521 | Luther before Emperor at ‘Diet of Worms’ - excommunicated | Prior William Browneflete |
| 1522 | Magellan’s ship returns after circumnavigation tho he is dead | |
| 1523 | Luther translates NT into German | |
| 1524 | Hampton Court Palace rebuilt by Wolsey; St George’s Windsor finished | |
| 1525 | William Tyndale translates NT into English | |
| 1526 | No information | |
| 1527 | Protestan reformation in Sweden | |
| 1528 | No information | |
| 1529 | Thos More replaces Wolsey (fails to resolve Henry’s marriage question) | |
| 1530 | Flood engulfs Rome | |
| 1531 | Henry VIII breaks with Rome to get marriage anulled | Prior William Wode |
| 1532 | Sir T More resigned as Ld Chancellor. Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’ | |
| 1533 | Henry VIII marries Ann Boleyn & is excomm’d; Elizabeth born | |
| 1534 | Act of Supremacy confirms Henry as head of CofE | John Leland visited Bridlington Priory |
| 1535 | Sir T More executed. Tyndale/Coverdale bible printed. Small monasteries go | |
| 1536 | Anne Boleyn executed. Pilgrimage of Grace, Yorkshire | |
| 1537 | 216 leaders of Pilgrimage of Grace imprisoned, executed | William Wode in tower, executed York |
| 1538 | Dissolution of Monasteries | Prior Robert - last Prior. Priory emptied; manor to Matthew Boynton |
| 1539 | Monasteries all now destroyed, lands seized | Priory tower and eastern half destroyed |
| 1540 | Henry VIII married Anne of Cleves (6 months) then Catherine Howard | |
| 1541 | Gerardus Mercator makes his first globe | |
| 1542 | Catherine Howard executed | |
| 1543 | Henry VIII married Catherine Parr. Copernicus ‘earth goes round sun’ | |
| 1544 | No information | |
| 1545 | Sinking of Mary Rose in Solent | |
| 1546 | Trinity Coll Cambridge and Christ Church Oxford founded by King | |
| 1547 | Henry VIII dies, succeeded by young Edward VI | |
| 1548 | Mary Queen of Scots (5) betrothed to King of France | |
| 1549 | First Book of Common Prayer published -rebellion | |
| 1550 | Jesuits established by Pope | |
| 1551 | Sweating sickness breaks out | |
| 1552 | 2nd (Protestant) BCP enforced. Leeds Grammar school founded | |
| 1553 | Edward Vi dies; Lady Jane Grey Q for 10 days; Mary Tudor succeeds | |
| 1554 | Mary marries Philip of Spain; RC bishops restored | |
| 1555 | First Protestants ‘martyrs’ burned at stake | |
| 1556 | Abp Thos Cranmer declared heretic, burned | |
| 1557 | Portuguese settle in Macau | |
| 1558 | Queen Mary dies, succeeded by Q Elizabeth | |
| 1559 | Elizabeth crowned, C of E re-established | |
| 1560 | Oldest surviving violin made; total eclipse of sun | |
| 1561 | John Knox preaching in Scotland - now Protestant | |
| 1562 | First English slave trading expedition, Africa to West Indies | |
| 1563 | Outbreak of bubonic plague in London | |
| 1564 | Wm Shakespeare born | |
| 1565 | Mary Q of Scots marries Darnley in Scotland | |
| 1566 | Completion of Exeter canal, firt in England | Q Elizabeth granted Manor of Bridlington to William Wood & others |
| 1567 | Mary Q of Scots defeated, imprisoned, forced to abdicate | |
| 1568 | Mary Q of Scots flees to England | |
| 1569 | First public lottery. In England | |
| 1570 | Pope excommunicates Q Elizabeth | |
| 1571 | Battle of Lepanto - European forces defeat Turks | |
| 1572 | RC plots against Elizabeth. Religious wars in France - Prots killed | |
| 1573 | Wars of Religion in France | |
| 1574 | last battle between England and Scotland | |
| 1575 | No information | |
| 1576 | Martin Frobisher searching for NW Passage (Canada) | |
| 1577 | Francis Drake sets out on round-the-world voyage | |
| 1578 | Francis Drake reaches Magellan Straits | |
| 1579 | Francis Drake lands in California, claims it for Q Elizabeth | |
| 1580 | Francis Drake home after circumnavigation. Earthquake in sea | |
| 1581 | Edmund Campion (Jesuit) executed for treason | |
| 1582 | William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway | |
| 1583 | Newfoundland claimed for England | |
| 1584 | Tsar Ivan the Terrible dies (Tsar since 1533) | |
| 1585 | Start of Anglo Spanish war. Chocolate introduced into Europe | |
| 1586 | Babingotn Plot (Mary Q of Scots): 14 executed | |
| 1587 | Mary Q of Scots executed at Fotheringay castle after another plot | |
| 1588 | Spanish armada defeated | Beacons first lit |
| 1589 | Glass lenses used for the first time in microscopes and telescopes | |
| 1590 | No information | |
| 1591 | No information | |
| 1592 | No information | |
| 1593 | No information | |
| 1594 | No information | |
| 1595 | First Shakespeare plays performed: Richard II & Romeo & Juliet | |
| 1596 | First WC in England. Famine and food riots because of poor weather | |
| 1597 | Dutch open up spice trade from Portuguese | |
| 1598 | Tycho Brahe & J Kepler working in astronomy. Religious Wars end | |
| 1599 | Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar performed, Globe Theater opens |
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| Year | World History | Bridlington History |
| 1600 | Scotland adopts Jan 1 as New Year’s Day | |
| 1601 | First performance of Hamlet | |
| 1602 | Famine in Russia | |
| 1603 | Q Elizabeth dies, succeeded by James VI of Scotland, I of England | |
| 1604 | Sikh holy scripture compiled (Guru Granth Sahib) | |
| 1605 | Gunpowder Plot - Guy Fawkes arrested | |
| 1606 | Guy Fawkes executed. Union jack adopted as national flag | |
| 1607 | Jamestown Virginia first permanent English settlement in Americal | |
| 1608 | Flintlock muzzleloader invented | |
| 1609 | Dutch East India Co imports TEA to Europe. 3 Blind mice published | |
| 1610 | Galileo observes moons of Jupiter with new telescope | |
| 1611 | King James Bible published | |
| 1612 | Pendle witches (Lancashire) hanged | |
| 1613 | Globe theatre destroyed by fire | |
| 1614 | John Napier invents logarithm | |
| 1615 | Don Quixote’ completed | |
| 1616 | British establish trade with India | |
| 1617 | Ben Johnson becones Poet Laureate | |
| 1618 | Walter Raleigh beheaded. Start of 30 Years War in Europe | |
| 1619 | Beginning of Slave trade to America | |
| 1620 | Mayflower arrives at Cape Cod ; Plymouth Colony established | |
| 1621 | Severe frost, Thames frozen. Fits Englsih botanical Garden -Oxford | |
| 1622 | Jamestown massacre - over 300 English settlers killed by Indians | Royal fleet in Bridlington Bay |
| 1623 | Shakespeare’s ‘first folio’ of 36 plays published | |
| 1624 | Franz Hals paints’ Laughing Cavalier’ | |
| 1625 | James I dies; succeeded by Charles I who marries Hnerietta Maria | |
| 1626 | King dissolves Parlt. St Peter’s Basilica, Rome consecrated | |
| 1627 | Gunpowder first used in mining | |
| 1628 | Oliver Cromwell becomes MP; King has to recall Parlt to get money | |
| 1629 | Parlt dissolved for 11 years. William Harvey - circulation of blood | |
| 1630 | Oliver Cromwell becomes MP; King has to recall Parlt to get money | Manor of Bridlington bought by 13 townsmen |
| 1631 | Taj Mahal started | |
| 1632 | Maryland founded by Royal Charter | |
| 1633 | In Rone Galileo condemned - had to recant heiocentric view | |
| 1634 | Oberammagau Passion Plays first performed | |
| 1635 | Acadamie Francaise founded in Paris | |
| 1636 | Harvard University founded | Town Deed passes government of Bridlington to Lords Feoffees |
| 1637 | Tulip mania in Holland collapses | Endowment of Bridlington Grammar School |
| 1638 | Total eclipse of moon | |
| 1639 | Charles I fighting Scottish covenanters | |
| 1640 | Long Parliament’ summoned | |
| 1641 | Opposition to Charles I growing | |
| 1642 | Start of Englsih Civil War; King besieges Hull. Battle of Edgehill | |
| 1643 | Louis XIV succeeds in France (5). Tasman sights N Zealand | |
| 1644 | Battle of Marston Moor - Parlt forces crush King | |
| 1645 | Abp William Laud executed. Oliver Cromwell CinC wins at Naseby | |
| 1646 | Parlt bans BCP. Charles in flight then captivity | |
| 1647 | Christmas banned by Puritans. War continues | |
| 1648 | Oliver Cromwell in London, 2nd Civil War | |
| 1649 | Charles I tried and executed | |
| 1650 | Charles II acceptedin Scotland. Oliver Cromwell conquering Ireland | |
| 1651 | Charles (II) escapes defeat at Worcester hides in oak tree | |
| 1652 | George Fox founds Quakers. Cape Town established by Dutch | |
| 1653 | Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector | |
| 1654 | End of first Anglo Dutch War. Louis XIV crowned inFrance | |
| 1655 | New style of govt established under Oliver Cromwell. C of E banned | |
| 1656 | Pedulum clock invented. Jews re-admitted to England | |
| 1657 | Oliver Cromwell refused crown. First English chocolate house | |
| 1658 | Oliver Cromwell dies, succeeded by son Richard. | |
| 1659 | Confusion in Parlt. First ever cheque written | |
| 1660 | Parlt declares Charles II king. Royal Society founded. | Five Quakers sent to York Castle |
| 1661 | Sam Pepys starts diary. Ch II crowned | Earl of Bridlington created |
| 1662 | Act of uniformity makes Book of Common Prayer mandatory | |
| 1663 | Theatre Royal Drury Lane opens. Severe frost | |
| 1664 | New Amsterdam (NY) captured. Royal marines founded | |
| 1665 | Plague begins in London - king leaves town. London Gazette starts | |
| 1666 | Great Fire of London (only 6 killed). Sir Isaac Newton at work | Fire in Bridlington (Old Town), much destruction |
| 1667 | Fisrt human blood transfusion | |
| 1668 | Moliere’s play The Miser performed. Sir I Newton: reflecting telescope | |
| 1669 | Samuel Pepys finishes diary. Mt Etna erupts. Stradivarius 1st violin | |
| 1670 | Secret treaty with France. | Trade tokens issued |
| 1671 | John Milton: Samson Agonistes | |
| 1672 | War declared on Dutch (by English and French) | |
| 1673 | Christopher Wren knighted - working on St Pauls & 51 other churches | |
| 1674 | End of Dutch war - England gets New York | |
| 1675 | Greenwich Observatory founded; Antarctica sighted by Englishman | |
| 1676 | Edmund Halley observes transit of Venus | |
| 1677 | Mary (II) marries William of Orange. Purcell becomes court musician | |
| 1678 | John Bunyan: Pilgrim’s Progress. First chrysanthemums in Europe | |
| 1679 | Habeas Corpus Act passed | |
| 1680 | Great comet first sighted. Comedie Francaise founded (Louis XIV) | |
| 1681 | Ch II gives Wm Penn charter to found Pennsylvania. Last dodo killed | |
| 1682 | Royal Chelsea Hospital founded. Louis xv moves court to Versailles | |
| 1683 | Thames freezes over: frost fair held. Ashmolean museum founded | |
| 1684 | Yr of scientific discoveries: Isaac Newton, Chris. Wren, Robert Hooke | |
| 1685 | Charles II dies: James II king. Monmouth rebellion defeated. JS Bach born | |
| 1686 | James II catholic: trouble brewing. Chipperfields Circus founded | |
| 1687 | Isaac Newton: Principia Mathematica (most famous work) | |
| 1688 | James II flees. Glorious Revolution Wm and Mary ‘save Eng. Prot.sm’ | |
| 1689 | Wm and Mary crowned joint sovereigns. East India Co founded | |
| 1690 | First recorded full peal (London). Clarinet invented | |
| 1691 | Henry Purcell’s King Arthur, libretto by John Dryden | |
| 1692 | Massacre of Glencoe (Campbell v MacDonald). Salem witch trials | |
| 1693 | Mount Etna erupts. Amish sect founded | |
| 1694 | B ank of England founded. Mary II dies (no heir) | |
| 1695 | Window tax imposed | |
| 1696 | Peter I Tsar of Russia | Harbour piers destroyed by storm |
| 1697 | St Pauls Cathedral opened. First proper cricket match Sussex | First Act to repair harbour piers |
| 1698 | Palace of Whitehall burned down. Eddystone lighthouse opened | Baptist church founded (Applegarth) |
| 1699 | First steam engine demonstrated. Dampier explores NW Australia |
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| Year | World History | Bridlington History |
| 1700 | Serious earthquake in sea off N America. | |
| 1701 | Act of Settlement to exclude Catholic monarchs | |
| 1702 | Wm III dies; Q. Anne succeeds (17 children all die) | |
| 1703 | St Petersburg founded.Great storm ravages S Coast | |
| 1704 | Battle of Blenheim - Duke of Marlborough defeats French | |
| 1705 | Construction of Blenheim Palace begins | |
| 1706 | Thos Twining opens first tearoom at 216 Strand, London - still there | |
| 1707 | Act of Union (England and Scotland). First turnpike roads | |
| 1708 | First Dresden porcelain produced | |
| 1709 | Abraham Darby makes cast iron using coke. Terrible winter, Jan-March | |
| 1710 | First Italian opera in England (Handel Rinaldo). First copyright laws | |
| 1711 | South Sea Co founded. First Mardi Gras celebration in America | |
| 1712 | First Newcomen steam engine working. ‘John Bull’ invented | |
| 1713 | Endof war of Spanish succession; England gets Newfoundland etc | |
| 1714 | Q Anne dies; George I first Hanoverian king | |
| 1715 | Total solar eclipse. First Jacobite rebellion, James Stuart | |
| 1716 | Pirate Blackbeard raids shippingin W Indies | |
| 1717 | Rift between King and Prince of Wales. ‘Water Music’ on Thames | |
| 1718 | First innoculation | |
| 1719 | Robinson Crusoe (Dan. Defoe) published | |
| 1720 | South Sea Bubble - stock market crash | |
| 1721 | Robert Walpole first Prime Minister. Brandenburg Concertos JSBach | |
| 1722 | Blenheim Palace completed | |
| 1723 | Vivaldi: Four Seasons | Wm Tangate ‘whipped from Baile to Saturday Market Cross |
| 1724 | First performance of St John Passsion (J S Bach) | |
| 1725 | Catherine Empress of Russia after death of Peter the Great | |
| 1726 | Jonathan Swift publishes Gulliver’s Travels. Voltaire exiled to England | |
| 1727 | St Matthew Passion (JSBach). George I dies; George II king | |
| 1728 | Orthodontic braces invented | |
| 1729 | Little Red Riding Hood first translated into English | |
| 1730 | Gentleman’sMagazine launched | |
| 1731 | Covent Garden Theatre (Royal Opera House) opened | |
| 1732 | Mass in B Minor (JSBach) | |
| 1733 | Perambulator inventedby Wm Kent for children of 3rd D of Devonshire | |
| 1734 | No information | |
| 1735 | Handel operas premered at CoventGarden | |
| 1736 | Bathing machine first used at Scarborough | |
| 1737 | Major earthquake and tsunami inRussia | |
| 1738 | John Wesley lauched methodist movement in Lincoln | |
| 1739 | Foundling hospital opened in London | |
| 1740 | Rule Brittania first performed | |
| 1741 | First European visits Alaska | |
| 1742 | Firat performance of Handel’s Messiah in Dublin | |
| 1743 | No information | |
| 1744 | Great comet - brightest ever | |
| 1745 | Bonny Prince Charlie leads 2nd Jacaobite rising | |
| 1746 | Battle ofCulloden: Bonny P Charlie defeated | |
| 1747 | Discovery: citrus fruits prevent scurvy. First VD clinic opened | |
| 1748 | Ruins of Pompeii discovered | Death of William Kent |
| 1749 | Beginnings of Industrial Revolution | |
| 1750 | Last year that New Year’s Day is on March 25 | |
| 1751 | Linnaeus produces botanical text book | |
| 1752 | Gt Britain changes from Julian to Gregorian caalendar | |
| 1753 | Full citizenship extended to Jews | |
| 1754 | MarriaGE Act for the first time sets clear rules | |
| 1755 | Sam. Johnson publishes Dictionary. Earthquake in Lisbon kills 60,000 | John ellis Harbour master. 4th Pier Act |
| 1756 | Seven Years War (with France) . Black Hole of Calcutta. Mozart born | |
| 1757 | Britain captures Calcutta. Battle of Plassey | 3 ships in Brid Bay taken by French |
| 1758 | Halley’s Comet reappears. 7 Yrs war continues | |
| 1759 | British Museum opens. British navy defeats French. Guinness founded | |
| 1760 | Geo. II dies, succeeded by Geo III (grandson) | French privateertook ships in Bay |
| 1761 | Ind. Revolution: Bredgewater Canal, M’cr, tranports coal | |
| 1762 | Rousseau publishes ‘Social Contract’ | |
| 1763 | End of 7 Yrs war.France cedes Canada to Britain | First fire engine in Brid. New bells at Priory |
| 1764 | Sugar Act, taxing American colonists | |
| 1765 | Stamp Act, more tax - Americans protest. James Watt - stram engine | |
| 1766 | Stamp Act repealed.Mozart ‘ going public’ as child performer (10) | |
| 1767 | Discoveryof Tahiti | |
| 1768 | First modern circus in London. English ships carrying over half of slaves | |
| 1769 | James Cook lands in New Zealand. Arkwright’s ‘Spinning Jenny’ | |
| 1770 | J. Banks with J Cook explores ‘Sydney’, Botany Bay, Barrier Reef | John Wesley preaches on Quay |
| 1771 | First town cricket match, Horsham. Major flood in Newcastle | |
| 1772 | First steps to abolish slavery in England. Encyclopaedia Britannica pub | |
| 1773 | Boston Tea Party: ‘English’ tea dumped. John Harrison wins longitude prize | |
| 1774 | Jo. Priestley dicovers oxygen. Birkenstock sandals invented | |
| 1775 | American Revoloution starts. Battles of Lexington & Concord | |
| 1776 | July 4 : US Declaration of Independence. First St Leger. Gibbon Vol I | |
| 1777 | Stars & Stripes adopted, fighting continues | |
| 1778 | French declare war on Britain | |
| 1779 | First iron bridge constructed | Battle of Flamborough head - Paul Jones victorious. Wesley visits Brid |
| 1780 | First Sunday paper in Britain. Population of Britain about 9 m | |
| 1781 | End fighting in US. W Herschel discovers Uranus | |
| 1782 | Mozart producing symphonies and quartets | |
| 1783 | Formal end of war of American Independence. Montgolfier’s balloon | Great storm washes piers away |
| 1784 | Britain gets first American cotton. Waterford glass founded | |
| 1785 | Times first published (‘Daily Register’). Channel crossed by balloon | Prince William Henry visited |
| 1786 | Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro in Vienna. Mont Blanc climbed | Light coach Brid to Hull |
| 1787 | Penal colony set up in Australia. Lords and MCC set up | |
| 1788 | Mozart:Don Giovanni & 3 symphonies. Extraordinary hail storm, France | |
| 1789 | French Revolution begins. Mutiny on The Bounty. US Thanksgiving. | |
| 1790 | Geo Washington President. Monasteries etc abolished in France | Wesley preached at Zion chapel |
| 1791 | French royal family held. Mozart: Magic Flute, Vienna | |
| 1792 | French monarchy abolished, Louis XVI on trial Guillotine started | Survey of Brid haqrbour |
| 1793 | Fr: Louis XVI guillotined. Catholicism banned. Metric system adopted | |
| 1794 | Nelson loses eye in battle. Oban distillery founded. | Quay defended by battery. Corps of Independed Volunteers founded |
| 1795 | Napoleon leads France to victory in Italy etc. | Meteorite falls in Wold Newton |
| 1796 | Ed Jenner gives first smallpox vaccine. Jane Austen first draft of P&P | |
| 1797 | Firt Top Hat shown. Bank of England produces first £1 & £2 notes | |
| 1798 | Napoleon in Egypt. Nelson wins battle of the Nile | First Daily Post |
| 1799 | Pitt introduces Income Tax (10%). Rosetta Stone found. | Complete street paving (Old Town) |
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| Year | World History | Bridlington History |
| 1800 | Napoleon invades Italy. US President moces into White House | |
| 1801 | UK of GB and Ireland. First census- 8.9m people in E & Wales | |
| 1802 | Wm Wordsworth: ‘Westminster Bridge’ Temporary peace with Napoleon | |
| 1803 | First practical steamboat, in Scotland. | Old Wesleyan chapel opened |
| 1804 | Royal Horticultural Soc founded; also Br & For Bible Soc. Napoleon Emp | |
| 1805 | Battle of Trafalgar - British victory. Nelson killed | Local celebration. Volunteer riot |
| 1806 | Britsih take over S Africa (Cape). Elgin marbles taken from Parthenon | Houses washed off. Flamborough lighthouse. First lifeboat launched |
| 1807 | Napoleon invades Russia. Slave trade abolished | Priory plate stolen |
| 1808 | Peninsular War, Spain. Brits under Wellington. Beethoven: symphonies | |
| 1809 | 2000 guineas race first run. Dartmoor prison opened | Local militia raised |
| 1810 | Beethoven composes Fur Elise | |
| 1811 | Geo III declared mad. PoW declared Prince Regent. Luddite uprising | Tidal spring discovered |
| 1812 | Napoleon enters Moscow, forced back. PM assassinated. War with US | |
| 1813 | Jane Austen: P & P published. Napoleon on the slide | |
| 1814 | Nap. Abdicates exiled to Elba. Geo Stevenson testing locomotive | |
| 1815 | Nap escapes from Elba, to Paris. Final campaign, battle of Waterloo | |
| 1816 | Davy lamp for miners tested | |
| 1817 | Elgin marbles shown in British Museum | National School founded |
| 1818 | Frankenstein published. Silent Night composed | Boys National School opened |
| 1819 | Burlington Arcade opens in London. Peterloo Massacre, Manchester | |
| 1820 | Geo IV king, end of regency. Naval captain land in Antarctica | |
| 1821 | Napoleion dies. | Bad fire in High st, 3 killed. Heavy gales, wrecks, loss of life |
| 1822 | Charles Babbage proposes computer. Rosetta Stone deciphered | Town lit with oil; Girls National School opened |
| 1823 | Wm Web Ellis ‘invents’ rugby football | Benj Milnes baths opened |
| 1824 | First fire brigade - in Edinburgh. RSPCA founded. Beethoven 9th sym | Second lifeboat launched |
| 1825 | Stockton-Darlington railway opened - world’s first. | |
| 1826 | Menai bridge to Anglesey opened. Beethoven late quartets | |
| 1827 | First modern striking match invented (England) and fountain pen (FR) | |
| 1828 | Duke of Wellington PM. Londoon Zoo opens | RNLI silver medal for schooner rescue |
| 1829 | Catholic emancipation. Met. Police founded. First Boat Race | Brig ‘Minerva’ lost |
| 1830 | Belgian independence. Wm IV succeeds Geo IV. ‘Book of Mormon’ pub | |
| 1831 | Ch Darwin sets out on the Beagle.LIverpool-Mcr Rlwy opens. | |
| 1832 | Great Reform Act, Parlt. Cholera in London | Lifeboat rescued 8 from ‘Earl of Stockton’ |
| 1833 | Britain takes ove Falkland Islands | Brid lit by gas |
| 1834 | Abolition of Slavery. Poor Law Act sets up workhouses | Proposed rlwy to York |
| 1835 | Darwin arrives at Galapagos. First photographic negative | |
| Colt revolver invented. Darwin ends voyage | Brid Gas & Light Co opened | |
| 1837 | Queen Victoria accedes, moves to Buck Palace. Oliver Twist pub’d | |
| 1838 | Brunel’s SS Gt Western transatlantic in 15 days. Grace Darling rescue | Mechanics Institue opened |
| 1839 | British seize Hong Kong. First Grand National | |
| 1840 | Penny Post introduced, penny black stamps issued | Christ Church built |
| 1841 | First Issue of ‘Punch’ New Zealand becomes British colony. | |
| 1842 | Q Victoria takes train.Mines Act bans women and children under 10 | |
| 1843 | Christmas Carol pub’d. First commercial Christmas cards | |
| 1844 | Rochdale Pioneers set up first Co-op. Safety matches invented | |
| 1845 | Potato famine starts in Ireland. John Newman becomes RC | |
| 1846 | Koh-i-Noor diamond for Q Victoria. Saxaphone patented. Neptune discovered | |
| 1847 | Jane Eyre’ & Wuthering Heights pub’d. | Rlwy extended to Scarborough |
| 1848 | California Gold Rush. Year of Revolutions. Irish Potsto Famine | S. Pier finished. St John’s Sewerby opened. Victoria Rooms opened |
| 1849 | Once in Royal David’s City’ written. Safety pin invented | Rev Geo Smith , vicar for 49 years, dies. |
| 1850 | Lohengrin (Wagner) pub’d. RC bishops established in England & Wales | |
| 1851 | Gt Exhibition (May to Oct), Crystal Palace. Moby Dick pub’d | Christ Church enlarged |
| 1852 | Gt ormond St Hospital opened. First public toilet for women | Wreck of ‘Omega’ on S Sands |
| 1853 | Trovatore perfomed. Bechstein, Bluthner and Steinway founded | |
| 1854 | Crimean War: UK and France v Russia. Flor. Nightingale sets out | First stamped newspaper. Temperance Hall opened |
| 1855 | Cholera epidemic in London kills 10,000 - traced to single pump | |
| 1856 | End of Crimean War. Victoria Cross instituted. Everest surveyed. | |
| 1857 | Indian Mutiny, Siege of Lucknow. First elevator -New York | |
| 1858 | First - ascent of Eiger; vision of BVM at Lourdes. Dr Livingstone Africa | |
| 1859 | Tale of Two cities pub’d.Suez Canal started. Big Ben working | First issue of Brid Free Press. E Yorks volunteer rifles started |
| 1860 | Darwin pub. Origin of Species - debate at Oxford | |
| 1861 | American Civil War. Death of Prince Albert | |
| 1862 | Alice in Wonderland written. US Civil war continues | |
| 1863 | Ab Lincoln declares end of slavery. Yorkshire Cricket Club founded | Celebration of Pr of Wales and Alexandra’s wedding |
| 1864 | Football Assocn, Red Cross founded. | |
| 1865 | End of US Civil War. Klu Klux Klan started | Brid Agric Show started. Sailors’ and Working Men’s Club est’d. |
| 1866 | Transatlantic cable successful. Alf. Nobel invents dynamite | |
| 1867 | US buys Alaska from Russia. | First stone openeing of sea wall |
| 1868 | Early Man’ found at Les Eyzies, France. First - traffic lights, TUC meeting | |
| 1869 | Public hanging ended. Suez Canal opened. War & Peace published | Flamborough church re-opened |
| 1870 | First England-Scotland football match. Franco-Prussion war | Brid Charity Trustees established |
| 1871 | Tay Rlwy bridge opened. First Rugby Union international: Eng v Scot | Great Gale- 70 lives lost. Holy Trinity Church consecrated |
| 1872 | Marie Celeste’ found abandoned. | Horse & cart fell over cliff, boy killed. Priory Ch lit by gas |
| 1873 | Barbed wire, abd Levi jeans introduced. Aston Villa Bolton W founded | Wesleyan chapel opened Brid Quay. First Brid & Quay Gazette |
| 1874 | Impresionism’ defined. Vincent van Gogh sent to London | |
| 1875 | Bizet’s Carmen first performed. Cpt Webb swam Channel (first ever) | Priory reredos unveiled; Sir Gilbert Scott’s restoration begins |
| 1876 | Bell’s telephone patented. Brahms’ 1st symphony. Settle-Carlisle rlwy | Priory appeal to create towers |
| 1877 | Swan Lake Ballet. First Test Match, Wimbledon tournament | Promenade Cong chapel built |
| 1878 | Cleopatra’s Needle to London. Phonograph patented. | Clough Bridge Mill burned down |
| 1879 | Anglo - Zulu War. Tay Bridge disaster. Pirates of Penzance premiered | Priory restoration celebrated. Salvation Army Hall opened |
| 1880 | First Boer War, first shipment offrozen mutton from Australia | Call to improve sea defences & drains. Cons.Assocn founded |
| 1881 | Billy the Kid. D’Oyley Cartes’ Savoy Theatre opened - elec. Light | Brid man frozen to death. Court House and Police station opened |
| 1882 | Cause of TB (bacterium) identified. Women get property rights | |
| 1883 | Krakatoa erupts, 36,000 killed. Gaudi starts cathedral, Barcelona | Cemetery opens |
| 1884 | Greenwich meridian fixed for world. Ox. Eng. Dictionary pub’d | St John Burlington opened |
| 1885 | First appendix removed.’Mikado’ opens. First cremations in UK | New lifeboat - William John and Frances |
| 1886 | Field Hockey is born. Coca Cola invented. Folies Beregeres opened | Orb’ from Whitby aground on N Beach |
| 1887 | Q Victoria’s Golden Jubilee. Biggest ever snowflake, 15" ‘Otello’ Verdi | Local celebration. Lords Feoffees election Christ Church restored |
| 1888 | Matchgirls’ strike. Bicycles allowed on road. Also Benz car. | Duke of Gloucester opened R Princes Parade. Great storm |
| 1889 | Eiffel Tower opens. Jack the Ripper at large. Van Gogh cuts off ear. | Priory organ opened |
| 1890 | Forth Bridge opened. First powered flight. Van Gogh suicide | Fisherman rescues 8 people in rowing boat. Princes Parade lit by electricity |
| 1891 | London-Paris telephone system. First Sherlock Holmes story | Brid population reaches 6840 |
| 1892 | Basketball starts. Finger-printing starts - in Brazil. | Waterspoout and flood at Langtoft |
| 1893 | Gold found in W Australia. Dvorak ‘New World’ symphony | Rescue of crew from schooner ‘Victoria’. Dukes Park opened |
| 1894 | Blackpool Tower opened. Olympic Cttee formed. Dreyfus affair (FR) | Sea front lit by electricity. RC Church Our lady & St Peter opened |
| 1895 | National Trust founded. Oscar Wilde imprisoned. Rugby League starts | First meeting of Brid Urban Distric Council |
| 1896 | First Xrays. Premiere of La Boheme. Yorkshire sets innings record 887 | Donkey rides on beach started. Spa and Gardens opened, also People’s Palace |
| 1897 | Q Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. Dracula pub’d. Klondike Gold Rush | 12 men lost in ligeboat error. Q Victoria Diamond Jubilee. New PO in High St |
| 1898 | Battle of Omdurman Sudan. Spanish-American war. 1st fatal car accident | Kit Brown died in rescue attempt. Penny Bank on Queen St |
| 1899 | 2nd Boer war. Start for Oxo cubes, aspirin, paperclip. AngloEgyptian Sudan | Charter Day - Brid becomes Borough - first mayor M R Medworth |
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| Year | World History | Bridlington History |
| 1900 | Premiere of Tosca. Labour Party formed. 1st Zeppelin flight. Boers defeated | |
| 1901 | Q Victoria dies @ 81, Edward VII king. Census. First British submarine. 2nd Olympics | Population now 12,482 - doubled in 10 yrs |
| 1902 | End of 2nd Boer War. 1st Borstal. Real Madrid founded. | New Ring of 8 bells Extension to Brid Grammar School opened, and Oxford St Schools |
| 1903 | King ‘Emperor of India’. Orville Wright flight. 1st ‘Teddy’, US-UK radio broadcast | Emmanuel Ch dedicated |
| 1904 | Entente Cordiale (Britain/France). GWR steam engine exceeds 100 mph. Peter Pan | First RYYC regatta. RNLI lifeboat to S Marine Drive. New NW pier at harbour |
| 1905 | Russo-Jap. War. Br. Take Tibet. Einstein’s most famous papers. AA founded | Brid High School for Girls opened. Generating Station, Brett St opened. |
| 1906 | Dreadnought’ launched, sparks naval race. San Francisco earthquake. | Lord Mayor of London visited to open Grand Pavilion etc. Spa burned |
| 1907 | 1st Scout camp,European powered flight, modern taxi cabs. SOS adopted. | Floral clock installed. New Spa theatre & Opera House opened. |
| 1908 | Formal start of Scouts. Shackleton in Antarctica. 1st Model T Ford | |
| 1909 | Bleriot flies across Channel. BP founded in Persia | |
| 1910 | Edward VII dies, George V king. Union of S Africa foudned. 1st infrared photo. | Burlington Schools opened. Cinema opened (princes Pde).Last market in Old Town |
| 1911 | 1st Monte Carlo Rally. Hull of Titanic launched. Amundsrn reaches S Pole | John Bull Rock factory opened. Pop: 14,334 |
| 1912 | Scott & Co to S Pole then death. Titanic sinks on maiden voyage. 1st parachute jump | John Sawdon memorial opened, Kirkgate Coble ‘Three Brothers’ built |
| 1913 | Social security (unemployment etc) intro’d. Suffragette killed at Derby.1st Chelsea Fl Show | Schooner ‘Kate’ of Montevideo washed ashore in Brid bay |
| 1914 | Panama Canal opened. Pygmalion premered. WWI breaks out 1st battle of Ypres | |
| 1915 | Uboats & Zeppelins cause damage. Dardenellles attack fails. First WI. Women into jobs | |
| 1916 | Lloyd George replaces Asquith. Conscritption. Battle of Soome 60k Br.killed on 1st day | |
| 1917 | WLA, WRNS founded. US joins war. Paschendaele. Russian Revolution. Bread rationed | Brirish airship sighted over Brid |
| 1918 | Bombs in London.RAF replaces RFC. Tsar etc killed. War ends Nov 11. Spanish flu | Damage caused by mine explosion |
| 1919 | League of Nations founded. 1st transatlantic flight. First woman MP. Flu kills 000s | Peace Pageant. New Spa bought by Corporation |
| 1920 | Prohibition in US. ‘Unknown warrior’ in Westminster Abbey, Cenotaph. ‘Northern Ireland | Augustinian Society founded. First Information Bureau opened |
| 1921 | british Legion founded, strikes, coal rationing, R38 airship, 1st birth control cilnic | War Memorial opened, Wellington Gardens |
| 1922 | Irish Free State set up. BBC founded.Howard Carter finds Tutankhamun tomb | First Sea-Angling Festival. Fortyfoot and Kingsgate completed |
| 1923 | Stanley Baldwin PM. Duke of York (GVI) and Eliz. Marry. Littlewoods Pools founded | Kingsgate officially opened. Floral Hall destroyed by fire. |
| 1924 | 1st (brief) Lab. Govt. Olympic games Paris. Mallory lost on Everest. 1st newspaper Xword | Spa leased to Brid Corporation. Woolworths opened |
| 1925 | Problems in coal industry. 1st red London buses. 1st TV experiment | Great storm - 2 fishermen lost. Golf course bought. Rotary Club formed |
| 1926 | Miners’ sstrike May-Oct, General Strike May. Red telephone boxes. 1st Br Grand Prix | Queensgate and Avenues laid out |
| 1927 | New land-speed record. First transatlantic telephone call. Total solar eclipse. Gales | Post Office moved to Quay Rd |
| 1928 | Floods in London. Flying Scotsman train to Edinburgh. 1st Kings College Carols | Princess Mary opens P. M. Parade.Massive seaweed mountain on beach. |
| 1929 | Wall St crash, Stock Exchange collapse.. Labour govt. 1st TESCO shop. 1st TV broadcast | |
| 1930 | 1st Times Crossword Amy Johnson 1st woman to fly solo to Australia. 1st Youth hostel | Soup kitchen established in Brid. |
| 1931 | 2m unemploued. National Govt elected. Highway Code published. Vic Wells Ballet | new sea wall completed.. New lifeboat. Avenues becomes maternity hospital |
| 1932 | Abp forbids remarriage of divorces in Church. First Mars bar. Methodist Union | Spa Royal burned, Jan, reopens July. New Town Hall opened |
| 1933 | London Tube map published England win Ashes (bodyline). Geo V 1st Xtmas broadcast | Victoria Rooms burned. Fog signal erected, N Pier. Lawrence of Arabia in Brid |
| 1934 | Oswald Moseley and Fascists. Q Mary launched. First Glyndebourne season | Sewerby Estate bought by Brid Corporation |
| 1935 | Geo V Silver Jubilee. 30 mph limit + driving test. Penguin Books founded. | St Georges’ Boys Sch opened. Winfred Holtby dies, aged 37 |
| 1936 | Geo V dies. Edward VIII King (Jan-Dec). Jarrow March. Abdication crisis: Geo Vi King | Sewerby Estate opened byAmy Johnson |
| 1937 | Coronation. Neveille Chamberlain PM 999 calls inroduced. First issue of Dandy | Grand Pav’n, Public Library, Queen’s Park opened |
| 1938 | Bren gun adopted.Beano appears. PM sees Hitler, Munich Agreement. York Castle Museum | St George’s Girls School opened |
| 1939 | penicillin discovered. Petrol rationing. Sutton Hoo ship find. Evacuation. WW2 for UK | Flamborought Head bought by Brid Corpn. TUC conf. at Brid. |
| 1940 | Food rationing. Norway, France fall. Churchill PM. Dunkirk. Battle of Britain. Blitz | Bombs fell - Woolworths, People’s Pal., Hilderthorpe Rd, PO inQuay Rd |
| 1941 | Blitz: London, B’m, Coventry, S’H’ton, Bristol, Sheffield,L’pool,Swansea, Plymouth, Clydebank, Belfast | Amy Johnson dies, Thames Estuary. Landmine exploaded |
| 1942 | US in war, Japan sinking Br ships.. Convoys. Bombing German cities. Wm Temple Abp | Bomb in harbour. St Anne’s Conval Home opened |
| 1943 | Utility’ furniture etc, Rommel defeated, Allied invasion of Italy, Dambusters raids | Minsweeper HMS Bridlington adopted |
| 1944 | PAYE started, Education Act, sec. edn for all. Dday landings, But also V1 and V2 rockets | Visit by King Geo VI, Q Eliz and Pr. Elizabeth |
| 1945 | Dresden etc bombed, Belsen etc found, Hitler deade, VE Day. Labour win election | VE Day celebrations. Brid Chamber of Trade formed. |
| 1946 | UN founded.. Atom bomb, VJ day. First bananas!. BBC TV again. Bread rationing | Ladies’ Lifeboat Guild. Kirby’s toyshop |
| 1947 | Terrible winter, coal nationalised, Free school milk. India& Pakistan indep.Pr Eliz marries Pr Philip | Prolonged snowfall. New Yorkshire Belle trips started. Thompson hardware |
| 1948 | NHS starts. Also Brit Rail. Gas nationlaised1st Ed Festival. Israel set up. Pr Charles born | Harold McMillan, Billy Graham, visited. New war memorial opened |
| 1949 | Nar.Service replaces conscriotion. 1st launderette, computer, passenger jet | First houses on Westhill. Atlee at TUC. First jazz jamboree at Royal Hall |
| 1950 | Atlee wins election, Archers starts, Troops to Kprea. End of petrol rationing. ‘Eagle’ | Green Howards regimental standard dedicated at Priory |
| 1951 | Korean war. Festival of Britain. GCE starts. Also Goon Show. Churchill wins election | EYMS bus services started. Riggs opened (closed 1999) |
| 1952 | King Geo VI dies, Accession of Eliz II. UK has atomic bomb. ‘Mousetrap’ starts | GPO opened Quay Rd |
| 1953 | N Sea floods. DNA discovered. Everest climbed. Coronation. Samaritans founded | Celebrations. Hilderthorpe schools opened. Houses cleared in Old Town |
| 1954 | Bannister runs 4 min mile. End of all rationing. UK leaves Suez Canal. Britten: Turn of Screw | Feoffees election. Brid Chronicle bought out by Free Press. |
| 1955 | ITV starts. Eden replaces Churchill. Polio vaccine. 1st Guinness Boook of Records | Ice Age stones moved to Church Green |
| 1956 | Premium Bonds start. 1st nuclear power station. Suez Crisis, Russia invades Hungary | Sewerby Rd ‘cleared’, new housing. Sandascre started 450 houses |
| 1957 | Start for: Royal Ballet, Tescos, ‘Which’. Macmillan PM. Asian flu. Smoking/cancer linked | |
| 1958 | Man U air crash, TV: Blue Peter, Grandstand. 1st Life peers, CND march. M1 starts | Amy Johnson trophies presented to Brid. 33 houses cleared S Back Lane |
| 1959 | UK postcodes start. 1st bit of M1 opens. Cod wars. Hovercraft built | St Mar’s Westhill opened |
| 1960 | Mau Mau in Kenya ends. Nat Service ends. 1st Coronation St, Beatles concert. Pr Margaret marries | Promenade methodist chapel demolished. MENCAP founded |
| 1961 | ladyChatterley allowed, Michael Ramsey Abp, 1st Songs of Praise, new Guildford Cath’l | Fire Station completed. First supermkt. Easton farmhouse demolished |
| 1962 | Coventry Cath. Consec’d, Beatles at Abbey Road, 1st Z Cars, Sunday Col Supp. | Roxy cinema closed. New houses S Back Lane etc. |
| 1963 | Worst winter since 1947,frost tll April. 1st Beatles albumn. Great train robbery. | Danescroft estate developed. New rlwy bridge, Flamb Rd |
| 1964 | BBC2 starts. Av weekly wage£16. 1st Match of Day. Harold Wilson PM. Last hanging | Bridgeport factory opened. ‘Stierling Castle’ Q. St demolished. |
| 1965 | death penalty abolished. Churchill dies. Moors murderers arrested. | Headlands school opened. Priory services broadcast |
| 1966 | England win World Cup. Aberfan disaster. 1st elec. Mainline, hovercraft, credit card | Rolling Stones at Spa. More cottages go, S Back Lane |
| 1967 | 1st colour TV. Forsyte Saga, N Sea gas. Sandie Shaw wins Eurovision. Radion 1 starts | First Inshore lifeboat, boathouse opened. |
| 1968 | Ford Escort. M1 completed. 1st heart transplantg. M L King assassinated. ‘Joseph’ prem. | Last steam train, coal gas. Bessingby rd dualled. Busiest B. Holiday ever |
| 1969 | Student sit ins. N Ireland ‘troubles’ begin. Moon landing. Harrier jump jet. 1st B&Q | Holy Trinity Restoration Appeal. Harbour footbridge built |
| 1970 | 1st Glastonbury Fest’l, jumbo jet in UK, N Sea oil. Heath wins election. 18 now majority | Gas Works gone, Cattle Market closed, Nag’s Head opened Mkt Pl. Crown Bldgs. |
| 1971 | Switch to decimal coinage. Ibrox disaster. OU starts. Ian Paisley founds party. Hockney fame | Chantry Court opened. First Lions Carnival. Regal cinema closed |
| 1972 | Yorkshire Ripper’ murders start. ‘Bloody Sunday (N.Ireland) M6 completed. School to 16 | Martongate School opened, also West and Heaton. ‘My Suzanne’ rescue |
| 1973 | IRA bombs in England. UK enters EEC with Denmark & Ireland. 1st OU degrees. Pink Floyd | Well Lane bypasss opened. Crew of ‘Calcharis’ rescued (J King & crew) |
| 1974 | 3 day week, strikes, oil crisis. Harold Wilson PM. Flixboro’ disaster. 1st MacDonalds | Brid won Britain in Bloom. Belvedere prom opened. ‘Boro of N Wolds’ |
| 1975 | Donald Coggan Abp. Thatcher leader of Tories. Inflation 24%. Bohemian Rhapsody, Fawlty Towers | Brid twinned with Bad Salzuflen. Fish Quay opened by Lord Halifax |
| 1976 | Hurricane (Jan) heatwave & drought. Selby coalfield opened. ‘Troubles’. Callaghan PM | Health centre Station Rd opened by Pr Margaret. Ebor Flats completed |
| 1977 | Queen’s Silver Jubilee. Red Rum 3rd win at National. Concorde start. Y Ripper fear. | New Pasture Lane estate started.St Mary’s RC School opened. Compr Schools formed |
| 1978 | Strikes, IRA continue. SERPS starts. Evita prem’d.Liverpool cathedral finished | BBC Songs of Praise in Priory. Kirkgate House opened |
| 1979 | Winter of Discontent’. Mountbatten assass’d. Thatcher wins election - 1st woman PM | Last soft drinks factory closed. New P Lane School,Middleton Ct opened. Popn 28,590 |
| 1980 | Recession, steel strike. Rob. Runcie Abp. Iranian embassy siege. J. Lennon shot | Priory Restoration Appeal launched. Harbour museum opened. RAF unit left. |
| 1981 | SDP set up. Charles and Diana engaged. 1st London marathon. Y. Ripper convicted | East Yorks. College established. Spa Cinema opened. ‘Boro of EastYorks’ |
| 1982 | unemployed 3m. Falklands war. IRA hunger strikes. End of caning. Fuel in litres | Winter Gales. ‘Friendly Forester’ M’gate opened. |
| 1983 | Thatcher wins landslide. Start of breakfast TV, seatbelts, CDs, Ch 4. ‘Mary Rose’ raised | Combined ex-servicemen’s Conference held in Brid |
| 1984 | Start of FTSE 100. Miners’ strike, 3.2m unempl., Brighton bomb. BrinksMat robbery | New electronic telephone exchange. Rlwy station coalyard closed |
| 1985 | Start of Eastenders, end of miners strike, Heysel stadium disaster Peak of N Sea oil | E Yorks College St Mary’s Walk opened. Baptist Ch, Quay Rd, demolished. |
| 1986 | M25 completed. John McCarthy kidnapped. Start of GCSE., Casualty, MetroCentre | Brid won national ‘resorts’ competition. Final concert at Floral Pav’n |
| 1987 | Terry Waite kidnapped. BSE starts. AIDS . Herald of Free Enterprise, Kings X fire | Opening: B&Q, McDonalds, Coastguard HQ; and Leisure World (HRH Duchess of Kent) |
| 1988 | 1st RedNose Day, house price boom, Education Act, Piper Alpha disaster, Lockerbie | Kingdom Hall built. Lloyd Hospital closes. |
| 1989 | Start of M42, Sky TV, Fall of Berlin Wall, Marchioness & Hillsboro’ disasters. Lib Dems | Opening:Union conval. Home Limekiln Ln; Brid Hospital (HRH Duchess of Gloucester) |
| 1990 | Gt storm (Jan). Poll Tax - riots. . Mandela free. BSE bad. Thatcher out. | East Yorkshire Road Signs erected. Tesco opens |
| 1991 | 1st Gulf War (Jan-Feb). Waite&McCarthy freed. Interest rates@ 17% End of Poll Tax | Richard Marriot High Sheriff; Belgrave Mansions opened |
| 1992 | AIDS fears. 2.8 unempl’d . Tories win Windsor Castle fire. Women priests approved | Fishermen protest at govt controls - blockade. CAB opened. Qu St ‘superloos’ |
| 1993 | 3m unempl’d. Bosnia war.Warrington bomb. !m on waiting lists | Avenues apartments opened. King St Mkt re-opened. Links Golf course opens |
| 1994 | West murders.Channel Tunnel opened. National Lottery. Blair leader | Restored N Prom opened. Sunday Market,King St (being pedestrianised) |
| 1995 | Nick Leeson busts Barings. Brit. Troops ot Sarajevo. Diana on TV | Emmanuel Ch burned down. New: Lifeboat ‘Marine Engineer’, Promenades, Red Ho |
| 1996 | Charles&Diana divorce. Dunblane massacre. Brit. Rail privatised | Burlington Infants opened, High St refurbished, SRB award, Duke of Ed to Yacht Club |
| 1997 | Dolly’ cloned. Blair & Lab win landslide. 1st Harry Potter. Diana dies. Queen’s Golden Wed. | WRVS HQ North St. Boyes takes ove Binns. ‘Beide the Seaside’ museum opens |
| 1998 | Omagh bombing. Good Friday Agreement signed. G8 summit in B’m.ASBOs start | New Emmanuel Ch opened, Priory restoration complete, first marriage at Town Hall |
| 1999 | Euro launched. Solar eclipse. Scottish parl’t Welsh Assembly. Minimum wage starts | Prince Charles opens Macmillan Wolds unit. Clough Hole devlt competed |
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| 2000 | Millenium celebrations/Dome. London Eye. Harold Shipman convicted. Ken Livingston Mayor | Brid gets Town Council. ‘Prior John’ opened |
| 2001 | Foot&mouth crisis. 9/11: 000s killed. Invasion of Afganistan Race riots in Y’shire. | Marina public Inquiry. Old Town Revival Assocn founded |
| 2002 | End of F&M. Pr Margaret and Q.Mother die. Queen’s Golden Jubilee. NHS reform | Brid School: Sports College, Headlands School- Science College |
| 2003 | Rowan Williams Abp. Iraq War, Saddam toppled. David Kelly dies. Final Concorde flight | Brid Harbour Heritage museum opened. |
| 2004 | Gherkin, Millau Bridge open. Boscastle flood. Foxhunting ban. Butler Inquiry. Tsunami | Harbour Commissioners Const’n revised |
| 2005 | England win Ashes. Chip&Pin starts. G8 in Edinburgh. 7/7 bombs kill 50+. Sentamu to York | 220 yrs of lifeboats celebrated |
| 2006 | Children’s Centre opened, Butts Close | |
| 2007 | Yorkshire Regiment gets Freedom of Bridlington | |
| 2008 | Spa Royal Hall and Theatre refurbished (£20.5m) | |
| 2009 | New East Riding College opened St mary’s Walk (£17m) | |
| 2010 | Brid South Foreshore + Spa environs and Gardens revitalised | |
| 2011 | Promenade Shopping Centre redeveloped | |
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