This is a timeline giving details of national events and local events.
For a timeline of Hoxne events only click here: Hoxne Timeline
National Events | Date | Local Events | Details | ||
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400000 BC | Lower Paleolithic period | Hoxne handaxe found from this period - see further details | |||
Neolithic and Bronze age | 6000 BC | ||||
Iron Age | 800 BC | ||||
Roman Britain | 46 | ||||
47 | Roman Hoard buried in Hoxne - Discovered in 1992 | Follow this link for more details of the Hoxne Hoard | |||
Vikings and Anglo Saxons | 410 | ||||
Norman Conquest | 1066 | Battle of Hastings | |||
Domesday Book | 1086 | ||||
1086 | Domesday Book entry for Hoxne | ||||
William ll | 1087 | ||||
Henry l | 1100 | ||||
King Stephen | 1135 | ||||
Middle Ages | 1154 | ||||
Henry ll | 1154 | ||||
Richard l (the Lionheart) | 1189 | ||||
The Julian Calendar was introduced in England | 1190 | ||||
King John | 1199 | ||||
Magna Carta sealed by King John | 1215 | ||||
Henry lll | 1216 | ||||
Edward l | 1272 | ||||
Edward ll | 1307 | ||||
Edward lll | 1327 | ||||
The Black Death strikes in England | 1348 | ||||
Richard ll | 1377 | ||||
Henry lV | 1399 | ||||
Henry V | 1413 | ||||
Henry Vl | 1422 | Henry Vl King from 1422 to 1461 and from 1470 to 1471 | |||
Wars of the Roses | 1455 | 1455 to 1485 | |||
Edward lV | 1461 | Edward was king from 1461 to 1470 and 1471 to 1483 | |||
Henry Vl | 1470 | ||||
Edward lV | 1471 | ||||
William Caxton sets up 1st English Printing Press | 1476 | Set up in Westminster | |||
Richard lll | 1483 | ||||
Edward V | 9 | Apr | 1483 | He was only king for 2 months | |
Tudors | 1485 | ||||
Henry Vll | 1485 | ||||
Henry Vlll comes to the throne | 1509 | ||||
Church of England established | 1534 | Known in Wales as the Church in Wales | |||
1536 to 1540 - Dissolution of the monastries | 1536 | ||||
Act of Union between England & Wales | 1536 | ||||
Start of Parish Records. | 1538 | Thomas Cromwell, the vicar general to Henry Vlll, declared that all marriages, christenings and burials should be recorded | |||
Edward Vl | 1547 | 9 Year old Edward becomes king after the death of Henry Vlll | |||
1549 | Norfolk Rebellion started | A dispute over hedges in Attleborough - Rebels captured Norwich | |||
Lady Jane Grey | 6 | Jul | 1553 | ||
Mary l (Bloody Mary) | 19 | Jul | 1553 | She had protestants burnt | |
Elizabeth l | 1558 | ||||
The Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity | 1559 | These made it illegal to celebrate a Catholic Mass in Engand and Wales | |||
Spanish Armada defeated by the English Fleet | 1588 | ||||
East India Tea Company formed | 1600 | Formed by a group of London Merchants | |||
Poor Law Act | 1601 | This consolidated a system of poor relief in Engand and Wales | |||
James l | 1603 | James Vl of Scotland succeeds Elizabeth l to become James l of England | |||
Gunpowder Plot | 1605 | ||||
Authorised version of the English Bible published | 1611 | ||||
Charles l | 1625 | ||||
Civil Wars | 1642 | 1642 to 1651 - Charles l executed in 1649 | |||
Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector | 1653 | ||||
Oliver Cromwell dies | 1658 | He is succeeded by his son Richard | |||
Pepys diaries started | 1 | Jan | 1660 | ||
Charles ll restored to the throne | 29 | May | 1660 | ||
Plague of London | 1665 | ||||
Fire of London Started | 2 | Sep | 1666 | ||
James ll | 8 | Feb | 1685 | James ll Succeeds to the throne after Charles ll death | |
William of Orange lands with an army at Torbay | 5 | Nov | 1688 | ||
William & Mary proclaimed King & Queen | 13 | Feb | 1689 | William lll and Mary ll. Mary died in 1694 | |
Queen Anne | 8 | Mar | 1702 | Anne succeeded to the throne after the death of William lll | |
George l | 1 | Aug | 1714 | ||
1st Major Jacobite rising - Sept 1715 - Feb 1716 | 1715 | ||||
South Sea Bubble' bursts | 1720 | ||||
1st Prime Minister | 1721 | Sir Robert Walpole becomes 1st Prime Minister and is given No 10 Downing Street by George l | |||
Poaching becomes a Capital Offence | 1723 | ||||
George ll | 1727 | ||||
The use of Latin in Parish Registers is discontinued | 1732 | ||||
Gregorian Calendar introduced in Engand & Wales | 1752 | ||||
Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act | 1753 | Marriages solemnised in the Church of England become the main form of legal marriage in England & Wales | |||
George lll | 1760 | ||||
Catholic Relief Act | 1778 | Ends the persecution of Roman Catholics | |||
1801 | 1801 Census | 972 people were recorded as living in Hoxne - 451 males 521 females | |||
Act of Union | 1801 | Incorporates Ireland and Britain into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | |||
1st official Census in England, Scotland & Wales | 1801 | ||||
Battle of Trafalgar | 1805 | ||||
Slave trade abolished | 1807 | ||||
1811 | 1811 Census | 948 people were recorded as living in Hoxne - 457 males 491 females | |||
BMD recording | 1813 | Parishes have to record Baptisms, Marriages and burials in books and on printed forms | |||
Battle of Waterloo | 1815 | ||||
George lV | 1820 | ||||
1821 | 1821 Census | 1066 people were recorded as living in Hoxne - 507 males 559 females | |||
1822 | East Anglian Agrarian Riots | ||||
Prisons | 1823 | Houses of correction and county gaols are amalgamated and called prisons | |||
1st Police force | 1829 | The Metropolitan Police, Britain's first statutory police force, is founded by the Home Secretary, Robert Peel | |||
William lV | 1830 | ||||
1831 | 1831 Census | 1243 people were recorded as living in Hoxne - 624 males 619 females | |||
Reform Act | 1832 | The start of the democratic system of voting | |||
The Poor Law Amendment Act | 1834 | This makes radical changes to the system of poor relief and the Union Workhouse is introduced | |||
1835 | New Hoxne Union Workhouse built | Located at Barley Green, near Stradbroke | |||
Queen Victoria | 1837 | ||||
Permitted age for making a will raised to 21 | 1837 | ||||
Civil registration of births, marriages and deaths | Sep | 1837 | Introduced in Engand and Wales | ||
1st Public Record Office is established | 1838 | ||||
1841 Census | Apr | 1841 | For the 1st time the census contains personnal information such as names, ages and addresses | ||
Apr | 1841 | 1841 Census in Hoxne | 1333 people were recorded as living in Hoxne - 678 males 655 females | ||
Irish Potato famine | 1845 | 1845 to 1851 | |||
1851 Census | Apr | 1851 | |||
Apr | 1851 | 1851 Census in Hoxne | 1262 people were recorded as living in Hoxne - 648 males 614 females | ||
Crimean War | 1853 | 1853 to 1856 | |||
Matrimonial Causes Act | 1857 | Divorce becomes available through the civil courts in England and Wales | |||
1861 Census | Apr | 1861 | |||
Apr | 1861 | 1861 Census in Hoxne | 1218 people were recorded as living in Hoxne - 603 males 615 females | ||
1871 | Hoxne Union Workhouse was closed. | It had been empty for many years | |||
Apr | 1871 | 1871 Census in Hoxne | 1090 people were recorded as living in Hoxne | ||
1871 Census | Apr | 1871 | |||
1881 Census | Apr | 1881 | |||
Apr | 1881 | 1881 Census in Hoxne | 1000 people were recorded as living in Hoxne - 505 males 495 females | ||
1891 Census | Apr | 1891 | |||
Apr | 1891 | 1891 Census in Hoxne | 934 people were recorded as living in Hoxne - 470 males 464 females | ||
1901 Census | Apr | 1901 | |||
Apr | 1901 | 1901 Census in Hoxne | 838 people were recorded as living in Hoxne - 432 males 406 females | ||
Apr | 1911 | 1911 Census in Hoxne | 877 people were recorded as living in Hoxne - 442 males 435 females | ||
1911 Census | Apr | 1911 | |||
1921 | 1921 Census | 769 people were recorded as living in Hoxne - 378 males 391 females | |||
1931 | 1931 Census | 744 people were recorded as living in Hoxne - 384 males 360 females | |||
1951 | 1951 Census | 742 people were recorded as living in Hoxne - 366 males 376 females | |||
1961 | 1961 Census | 676 people were recorded as living in Hoxne - 330 males 346 females | |||
May | 1964 | Red Lion Inn partially burnt down | Occupied by the Jolly family. The building was demolished | ||
16 | Nov | 1992 | Roman Hoard discovered by Eric Lawes |