| 47 | | Romans invaders reach Exeter in Devon |
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| circa 75 | | Roman legions leave Exeter; civil settlement of Isca Dumnoniorum established
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| circa 675 | | Exeter area becomes part of kingdom of Wessex |
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| 710 | | The Saxons occupy Exeter in Devon |
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| 876 | | Danes occupy Exeter |
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| 877 | | Battle of Swanage Bay; Alfred the Great wins first English naval victory against the Danes
A Danish fleet left Wareham to relieve their comrades besieged at Exeter by King Alfreds forces. Storms drove 120 of the vessels ashore off Perveril Point before the English galleys could intercept them - the earliest known shipwrecks off the Dorset Coast |
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| 893 | | Danes attack Exeter and north Devon |
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| 927 | | Athelstan of Wessex attacks the south western Celts forcing them to withdraw from Exeter
There is no record of him entering Cornwall - the Cornish king Hywel probably agreed to pay tribute to Athelstan |
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| 1003 | | Exeter sacked by the Danes (ASC) |
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| circa 1050 | | Diocese of Cornwall combined with Devon, with see at Exeter
See of Crediton transferred to Exeter |
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| 1067 | | Exeter beseiged by the Normans |
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| 1068 | | Exeter beseiged by the Normans |
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| 1112 | | Construction of the new cathedral at Exeter |
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| 1126 | | Foundation of Launceston Priory (Cornwall) by the William-de-Warelwest, Bishop of Exeter |
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| 1136.Jul | | Exeter beseiged by King Stephen and Baldwin de redvers exiled |
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| 1194 | | Henry Marshal becomes Bishop of Exeter |
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| 1205 | | First mayor of Exeter recorded
Winchester, the former capital of Wessex, was the only provincial city to already have a mayor |
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| 1497 | | Perkin Warbeck beseiges Exeter |
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| 1630 | | Making of the Exeter Salt, part of the crown jewels since 1660 |
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| 1643.Sep.05 | | Articles of surrender signed and Royalists take control of Exeter following a seige |
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| 1644.Jun.16 | | Birth of Princess Henrietta Anne to Henrietta Maria and Charles I at Exeter |
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| 1645 | | Exeter beseiged by Parliamentarian forces |
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| 1646.Apr.09 | | Exeter surrenders to Parliamentary forces (Fairfax and Cromwell) |
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| 1658 | | Stage Coach from the George Inn, Aldersgate (London) advertised
To Salisbury in two days for 20 shillings; To Exter in four days for 40 shillings; To Plymouth for 50 shillings |
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| 1660 | | The Exter Salt (made about 1630) presented to Charles II on his coronation by the city of Exeter (which had sided with parliament during the Civil War |
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| 1682 | | First Quaker Meeting House in Devon built at Spiceland nr. Uffculme
Built 9 years before the Act of Toleration, 7 of the trustees were imprisoned at Exeter goal |
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| 1682.Aug.14 | | Three Bideford women tried for witchcraft at Exeter convicted and sentenced to death - the last execution for witchcraft in England |
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| 1685.Sep.14 | | Rebels of the Monmouth rebellion tried at Exeter |
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| 1688.Nov.11 | | Prince William of Orange enters Exeter amidst public jubilation |
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| 1698 | | Samuel Darker sets up first permanent printing press in Exeter |
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| 1741.Aug.27 | | Laying of the foundation stone of the Devon and Exeter Hospital |
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| 1753 | | Establishment of the first turnpike trust in Devon - Exeter, Honiton and Axminster |
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| 1761 | | A nonconformist academy established in Exeter |
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| 1782.Jul.29 | | Rebecca Downing burned at Exeter for poisoning her master
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| 1793.Jan.11 | | Effigy of the radical Tom Paine burned in Exeter |
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| 1820 | | Tregonwell\'s house in Bournemouth leased to the Marchioness of Exeter and renamed Exeter House |
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| 1823.Jul.19 | | First cholera case reported in Exeter - the ensuing epedemic killed 440 people |
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| 1841.Jun.14 | | Opening of the GWR London to Bristol railway line, the first train reaching Bristol in 4 hours and travelling on to Bridgewater on the Bristol to Exeter line.
Opening of the railway rapidly caused a drop in traffic on the Kennet and Avon Canal |
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| 1844.May.01 | | Opening of the Bristol to Exeter Railway - the first steam locomotive arrives at Exeter |
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| 1860 | | London and South Western Railway reaches Exeter |
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| 1862 | | London and South Western Railway leases Exeter and Crediton and the Taw Valley Railways |
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| 1869.May.06 | | Public Libraries Act adopted at a public meeting in Exeter, Devon |
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| 1876 | | Mixed guage track reaches Exeter |
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| 1887.Sep.05 | | Theatre Royal, Exeter destroyed by fire with the loss of 160 lives |
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| 1904 | | Motor cars first registered in Exeter |
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| 1942.May.04 | | 10,000 incendiary bombs dropped on Exeter |
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| 1944.Jul.26 | | !!!!!! Charles I, pursuing Essex westwards, reaches Exeter |
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| 1955 | | University of Exeter recieves a royal charter |
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| 1963 | | Former Southern Railways lines to the west of Exeter transfered to the Western Region of British Railways |
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| 1970 | | Foundation of a Chair of Cornish Studies at Exeter University |
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| 1977 | | M5 motorway reaches Exeter |
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| 1996 | | First cybercafe in the south west opens in Exeter |
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| 2003.Oct.12 | | Exeter Central Library starts opening on Sundays between 10.30am and 2.00pm
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| 2003.Oct.25 | | Marine Conservation Society\'s annual conference in Exeter
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| 2003.Nov.28 | | Goverment announces A30 imporovements to create a continuous dual carriageway between Camborne and the M5 at Exeter are a priority |
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