This Time Chart was researched and compiled by BERYL GREEN and the presentation by - UNA LONERGAN in December 2001 and extended in 2007. Further additions have been added by BOB HOWLETT in 2009.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
*Memoranda of the Parish of North Baddesley 1808 - John Marsh
*The Manor of North Baddesley 1919 - Mrs Suckling
*North Baddesley Church and Village 1949 - K.J. Ritchie
Kings and Queens - Collins Gem British History - Parragon
Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia
*Not all of these sources agree on all of the dates shown.
To navigate the TIME CHART scroll up and down using the bar on the right hand side. The information highlighted in the coloured columns all pertains to local history.
| DATE | Local | Lords of Manor | Incumbents St Johns |
National & International Events plus Famous People | Monarchs |
| CHEPING (Saxon Thane) | Edward III 1042-1066 | ||||
| 1066 |
Death of Edward the Confessor- Struggle for the throne ensues – Harold Godwinson also known as Harold II, the last Anglo-Saxon king is killed at the Battle of Hastings. The Norman Conquest of England began with the invasion of the Kingdom of England by the troops of William, Duke of Normandy ('William the Conqueror or William the Bastard') |
Harold II January-October William I (William the Conqueror) House of Normandy 1066-1087 |
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| 1078 | The Tower of London’s White Tower was built in 1078 by William the Conqueror | ||||
| (Actual date not known) | Ralph de Mortimer Norman Baron later Earl of March | ||||
| 1086 | First record of North Baddesley |
Domesday Book | |||
| 1087 | William II (Rufus) 1087-1100 | ||||
| 1092 | First record of Knights Hospitallers founded in Jerusalem | ||||
| 1097 | 1st Crusade | ||||
| 1100 | King Rufus killed in New Forest | Henry I 1100-1135 | |||
| 1106 | Knights Hospitallers established in Clerkenwell London | ||||
| 1119 | Order of Knights Templars founded | ||||
| 1135 | Stephen 1135-1154 | ||||
| 1147 | 2nd Crusade | ||||
| 1154 | Anglo-Saxon Chronicle completed | Henry II 1154-1189 House of Plantagenet |
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| 1167 | First record of Knights hospitallers | Oxford University founded | |||
| 1189 | Start of 3rd Crusade | Richard I 1189-1199 | |||
| 1199 | John I 1199-1216 | ||||
| 1215 | Magna Carta signed at Runnymead is an English legal charter, originally issued in the year 1215. It required King John of England to proclaim certain rights to his subjects, whether free or fettered — and implicitly supported what became the writ of habeas corpus, allowing appeal against unlawful imprisonment. Known by its Latin name the usual English translation of Magna Carta is Great Charter | ||||
| 1216 | Henry III 1216-1272 | ||||
| 1263-1267 | War with Barons under Simon de Monfort | ||||
| 1270-1271 | Prince Edward on Crusade | ||||
| 1272 | Edward I 1272-1307 | ||||
| 1304 | All Saints church transferred to Knights Hospitallers and name changed to St. John's the Baptist | Knights Hospitallers? possible date of acquisition of North Baddesley from the Mortimer family |
Martin de Lavington | ||
| 1307 | Edward II 1307-1327 | ||||
| 1311 | Richard le Archer (Acolitus) | Robert the Bruce raids England | |||
| 1313 | Thomas de Watford | ||||
| 1317 | Galfridus de Tottehale Knight of St. John | ||||
| 1327 | Edward III 1327-1377 | ||||
| 1337 | Start of 100 years war | ||||
| 1348-1349 | Becomes Hampshire HQ of Knights Hospitallers | The Black Death caused the death of between a third and more than half of the nation's inhabitants | |||
| 1367 | Hugh de Alverstone | ||||
| 1377 | First poll tax | Richard II 1377-1399 | |||
| 1378 | 2nd and 3rd poll tax | ||||
| 1380 | Alexander de Drome | ||||
| 1381 | Peasants Revolt - Wat Tyler and John Bull (1st Socialists) | ||||
| 1383 | William Wylnygton | ||||
| 1387 | John Langham John Welles | ||||
| 1399 | John de Rousby | Henry IV 1399-1413
House of Lancaster |
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| 1402 | Stephen Edwards | ||||
| 1403 | William Burton (exchanged with Edwards) | ||||
| 1407 | John Bone (exchanged with Burton) | Plague strikes England for the 5th time | |||
| 1413 | Henry V 1413-22 | ||||
| 1415 | Victory at Agincourt, Henry V killed on the battlefield | ||||
| 1422 | gap until 1582 | Henry VI 1422-1461 | |||
| 1455-1485 | The War of the Roses fought between the Lancastrians and the Yorkshirarians | ||||
| 1461 | Henry VI deposed | Edward IV 1461-1483
House of York |
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| 1476 | Caxton's printing press established at Westminster | ||||
| 1483 | Young princes murdered in the tower | Edward V 1483
Richard III 1483-1485 |
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| 1485 | Battle of Bosworth Field Richard III killed | Henry VII 1485-1509
House of Tudor |
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| 1509 | Henry VIII 1509-1547 | ||||
| 1536 | Crown | Union of England and Wales
Dissolution of the monasteries 1536-1540 |
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| 1537 | Death of Queen Jane Seymour | ||||
| 1539 | Sir Thomas Seymour 1539-1548 beheaded for High Treason | ||||
| 1547 | Back to Crown | Duke of Somerset - Lord Proctor | Edward VI 1547-53 | ||
| 1552 | Sir Nicholas Throcknorton | ||||
| 1553 | John Forster - Restored to Knights Hospitallers 1553-1558 | Mary I 1553-1558 | |||
| 1558 | Restored to John Forster 1558-1576 | Elizabeth I 1558-1603 | |||
| 1571 | Earliest Will - Richard Walwyn | ||||
| 1576 | Andrew Forster 1576-1595 | ||||
| 1582 | Sometime in Elizabeth's reign - an 'E'shaped manor house was built on site of the Preceptory | Ralph Blencowe (taught school at old monastery) | |||
| 1588 | Gap until 1652 | Defeat of Spanish Armada by Frances Drake | |||
| 1595 | John Forster | ||||
| 1597 | Barrow Forster | ||||
| 1599 | Thomas Fleming 1599-1603 | Globe theatre opened in Southwark | |||
| 1602 | Date on Chancel screen | ||||
| 1603 | John More 1603-1620 | James I 1603-1625
House of Stuart |
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| 1620 | John More (son)1620-1622 | Voyage of Mayflower taking settlers to America | |||
| 1622 | More monument | Samuel Dunch 1622 - 1688? | |||
| 1625 | Charles I 1625-1649 | ||||
| 1640 | John Dunch | ||||
| 1642 | Beginning of Civil War Battle of Edgehill beteen the Royalists and the Roundheads | ||||
| 1649 | King Charles I executed Commonwealth under Oliver Cromwell (Charles II in excile in France) |
Cromwell 1649-1660
Charles II 1649-1685 |
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| 1652 | William Poore | ||||
| 1664 | Only 24 dwelling houses | ||||
| 1665 | The Great Plague in London - 70,000 die | ||||
| 1666 | Great Fire of London - Sir Isaac Newton completes his Theory of Gravity | ||||
| 1668 | Major Dunch 1668-1679 | Isaac Newton builds first reflecting telescope | |||
| 1674 | West tower built St.John's | ||||
| 1679 | Wharton Dunch 1679-1705 | ||||
| 1680 | Timothy Goodacre | Penny Post is instituted in London | |||
| 1683 | Samuel Herdy | First museum in Britain opened -The Ashmolen in Oxford | |||
| 1685 | Aaron Wood | Battle of Sedgemoor - last battle on English soil | James II 1685-1689 | ||
| 1689 | William III & Mary II (Jointly) 1689-1694 William III (alone) 1694-1702 | ||||
| 1690 | Robert Thorner died tenant at manor house | John Goldwire | |||
| 1693 | Tomkyns gave 'chained' bible | Thomas Tomkyns | |||
| 1702 | John Raymond | Anne 1702-1714 | |||
| 1703 | Ambrose Fleury | ||||
| 1705 | Left to his sister Jane wife of Francis Keck | ||||
| 1707 | By his will passed to Anthony Chute then his brother John Chute | Union with Scotland | |||
| 1714 | George I 1714-1727
House of Hanover |
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| 1719 | William Raymond brother of above (not incumbent) | ||||
| 1723 | Joshua Harrison | ||||
| 1727 | George II 1727-60 | ||||
| 1759 | Earliest known map | ||||
| 1760 | George III I760-1820 | ||||
| 1767 | Manor sold to - | Thomas Dummer of Cranbury Park Otterborne 1767-1781 | |||
| 1773 | Reginald Colton (appointed by T.Dummer) | ||||
| 1779 | John Penton | ||||
| 1781 | T.Dummer left his estates in Hants to his | Life long friend William Chamberlayne of Coley Park Berks-he married Dummer's widow | |||
| 1789 | Present manor house built | ||||
| 1801 | Population 242 | Union of Engand and Ireland | |||
| 1802 | John Marsh | Marie (Madam) Tussaud 1761-1850. Madam Tussaud and her waxworks arrive in London | |||
| 1804 | Richard Trevithick is credited with building the first locomotive | ||||
| 1805 | The Battle of Trafalgar was fought on October 21 1805 off Cape Trafalgar on the Spanish coast. The combined fleets of Spain and France were defeated by the Royal Navy led by Admiral Lord Nelson aboard HMS Victory who was mortally wounded during the battle, becoming Britain's greatest war hero. | ||||
| 1808 | Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland was in residence - married Chamberlayne's widow | John Marsh (wrote Memoranda of the Parish of North Baddesley) | |||
| 1809 | Charles Robert Darwin was born on February 12. | ||||
| 1811 | Estate passed back to Chamblayne family | William Chamberlayne MP 1811-1829 | |||
| 1814 | George Stephenson (1781-1848) designed his first locomotive | ||||
| 1815 | The Battle of Waterloo which took place on Sunday June 18 near Waterloo, Belgium was fought between forces of the French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte and Michel Ney and defeated by those of the Seventh Coalition, including an Anglo-Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher. | ||||
| 1820 | George IV 1820-1830 | ||||
| 1822 | Poacher Smith 1st Tombstone | Royal Acadamy of Music founded in London | |||
| 1824 | Thomas Penton | ||||
| 1825 | Horse drawn buses in London. Stephenson's Stockton to Darlington railway opened on September 27 - the first public steam railway in the world | ||||
| 1829 | Thomas Chamberlayne 1829-1876 | ||||
| 1830 | William IV 1830-37 | ||||
| 1831 | Michael Faraday discovered Electromagnetic Induction. | ||||
| 1836 | Act of Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages | ||||
| 1837 | Issac Pitman invents Shorthand | Victoria 1837-1901 | |||
| 1849 | James Davies | ||||
| 1851 | Great Exhibition in Hyde Park | ||||
| 1859 | The book "Origin of Species" by Charles Robert Darwin went on sale to the public on November 22 | ||||
| 1870 | Married Woman's Property Act - a women's property no longer automatically belongs to her husband | ||||
| 1871 | Population 318 | Ninian Barr | |||
| 1872 | Secret Ballots for the first time in General Elections | ||||
| 1876 | Village school opened | Tankerville Chamberlayne 1876-1924 | Telephone invented by Scottish born Alexander Graham Bell | ||
| 1878 | Restoration of St. John's by Sir Gilbert Scott 'in a ruinous state' | Modern safety bike invented - 1st reliable electric light bulb by Joseph Wilson Swan 1828-1914 who receives a UK patent for an improved incandescent lamp in a vacuum tube. The following year Swan began installing light bulbs in homes and landmarks in England. |
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| 1884 | F.H.Baring | ||||
| 1885 | E.H.Hoar | ||||
| 1901 | (Incumbent publishes article in "Memories of old Hampshire") Population 393 | P.W.M.Gaisford Bourne | Edward VII 1901-10
House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha |
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| 1903 | First electric trams in London. - Emmeline Pankhurst starts the "Suffragette" movement | ||||
| 1904 | Horses Stampede on Common | ||||
| 1907 | Poacher Smith 2nd Tombstone | ||||
| 1908 | W.J.Oliver | ||||
| 1910 | George V 1910-36 | ||||
| 1912 | White Star's RMS TITANIC sank on her maiden voyage to America, with the loss of 1500 lives | ||||
| 1914 | Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne was assassinated on June 28 1914 by Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian nationalist. Within weeks this lead to the start of World War I | ||||
| 1916 | C.D.Hindle | ||||
| 1917 | Hubert Heap | Became - House of Windsor | |||
| 1918 | Following the outbreak of the German Revolution, the Kaiser fled to the Netherlands. On November 11 an armistice with Germany was signed in a railroad carriage at Compiègne. At 11 a.m. on November 11, 1918 — the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month — a ceasefire came into effect and World War I ended in Victory over the Germans by the Allies | ||||
| 1919 | The Story of North Baddesley is presented by Florence Horatia Nelson Suckling | Nancy Lady Astor - first woman MP | |||
| 1920 | War Memorial dedicated | ||||
| 1923 | Vernon A Busbridge | ||||
| 1924 | Opening of Baddesley Arms Public House | Tankerville Chamberlayne 1924-1943 | Work begins on the Trunk road system | ||
| 1925 | Manorial System abolished | ||||
| 1930's | Opening of Baptist Church (Symes Memorial) | Frank Whittle invents the jet engine - 1930 | |||
| 1936 | P.R.Butler | Cunard's Queen Mary sails on maiden voyage | Edward VIII abdicated uncrowned - George VI 1936-52 | ||
| 1938 | Baddesley Aircraft Factory | John Logie Baird demonstrates first colour TV | |||
| 1939 | Start of WW2 | ||||
| 1940 | Taken over by Follands | Battle of Britain | |||
| 1941 | Bombs dropped on village-Decoy site on common manned by RAF 1941-1944 | House of Commons bombed | |||
| 1943 | Penelope Chamberlayne 1943 - (on marriage became Chamberlayne-Macdonald) largest landowner in village | ||||
| 1944 | Allied landing in Normandy 6 June | ||||
| 1945 | Celebrations with street parties | Victory in Europe May 8. Victory over Japan August 15. End of WW2 | |||
| 1946 | Bordens operating as Leicester Lovell take over aircraft factory site | Milk allowance reduced to 2½ pints per week, bread and flour rationing introduced. Weekly meat ration cut to 1shillings worth (5p) in January 1947 | |||
| 1948 | 1st post war village hall in England | Ian Kirk Hamel Cooke | Olympic Games held in London. Clothes rationing ends | ||
| 1951 | Electric light brought to St. John's. Population 1263 | Festival of Britain held on the South Bank of the Thames | |||
| 1952 | Last London tram | Elizabeth II 1952- | |||
| 1953 | 1st Conquest of Everest on May 29 by Edmund Hillary and the Nepalese Sherpa, Tenzing Norgay | Queen's Coronation. | |||
| 1954 | Roger Bannister becomes the first man to run a mile in under 4 minutes | ||||
| 1955 | Peter John Chandler | ||||
| 1958 | New Baptist church opens | ||||
| 1959 | 1st Hovercraft flight at Cowes Isle of Wight | ||||
| 1960's | Development of Ringwood Park, Fleming Avenue etc. | The Beatles rock and pop band from Liverpool formed in 1960 | |||
| 1961 | Russian Yuri Gagarin becomes first man in space | ||||
| 1962 | Death of Marilyn Munroe (actress) | ||||
| 1963 | Dedication of the new All Saints church | President John F. Kennedy is assassinated November 22 | |||
| 1964 | Nigel John Ovenden | The last executions by hanging in Britain were carried out at 8 am on August 13. Peter Anthony Allen and John Robson Walby (alias Gwynne Owen Evans) were hanged separately - but simultaneously - for murder in Walton Prison, Liverpool, and Strangeways Prison, Manchester | |||
| 1965 | Wall painting revealed in St. John's | Winston Churchill, war time Prime Minister died on January 24 (aged 90) | |||
| 1966 | Borden Chemical Co (UK) Ltd - Bedes Lea Public House opened | Oil discovered in North Sea. England wins Football World Cup by beating Germany in the Final | |||
| 1967 | First human heart transplant performed in South Africa by Doctor Christian Barnard | ||||
| 1968 | Martin Luther King Jr., the black rights leader is assassinated on April 4 | ||||
| 1969 | Neil Armstrong becomes first man to walk on Moon | ||||
| 1971 | It's goodbye to Pounds Shillings and Pence - Decimal currency introduced | ||||
| 1973 | John Nicholas Seaford | Britain joins European Economic Community (EEC) | |||
| 1975 | Roman Catholic Church opens | ||||
| 1977 | Jubilee Street party | Queen Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee | |||
| 1979 | Michael Sturge Milliken | Margaret Thatcher - first woman Prime Minister | |||
| 1980's | Manor House and all farms and buildings sold to various private owners | John Lennon of the Beatles is shot dead in New York on December 8 | |||
| 1981 | Population 6045 | ||||
| 1982 | The Falklands War started on April 2 with the Argentine invasion and occupation of the Falkland Islands and South Georgia, and ended with the Argentine surrender on June 14. The war lasted 74 days, with 255 British and 649 Argentine soldiers, sailors, and airmen, and three civilian Falklanders killed - The Thames Barrier completed | ||||
| 1984 | The Health Centre opens. | James R. Tarr | IRA bomb Grand Hotel Brighton | ||
| 1989 | Borders between East and West Germany opened with the dismantling of the Berlin Wall November 9. Timothy John Berners-Lee, an English computer scientist and MIT professor is credited with inventing the World Wide Web |
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| 1991 | New village hall opens. Population 9029 including Valley Park | Andrew Doughty | |||
| 1994 | The Cross Channel Tunnel between England and France, which began construction in 1988, was opened | ||||
| 1995 | Closure of Baddesley Ennel - Redevelopment of Knightwood and Zionshill | Peter Salisbury | |||
| 1996 | "The Changing Face Of North Baddesley" Published | ||||
| 1997 | August 31, 1997 Princess Diana dies in car crash in Paris. | ||||
| 2000 | New cricket pitch and tennis courts opened. Millennium weather vane erected on village hall | Millennium Dome and The London Eye opened | |||
| 2001 | Closure of Borden Chemical Company and Mansells | September 11, 2001 the World Trade Center in New York was attacked and destroyed by terrorists | |||
| 2002 | Borden Site cleaned for redevelopment. Mansell's site taken over by NHS "Hampshire Shared Financial Services" | Queen's Golden Jubilee. | |||
| 2003 | Video's / DVD's of "The Story Of The Borden Site 1938-2002" and "The Story Of North Baddesley From Domesday To The Millennium" Produced | England wins the Rugby World Cup | |||
| 2005 | "North Baddesley… Revisted" published | Peter Salisbury moves to another Parish | Terrorists bombing in London. Nation commemorates the 60th anniversary of the end of WW2. International Festival Of The Sea/Trafalgar 200 commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar and the death of Lord Nelson. England beat Australia at cricket to regain the "ASHES" | ||
| 2006 | North Baddesley Historical Society launched in Sept. | Peter Gilks | |||
| 2007 | Boundary change to North Baddesley, as Valley Park becomes a parish in its own right. Population reduced to approximately 6000 | England lose the "ASHES" to Australia but win Tri-National Series and Cup | |||
| 2008 | "North Baddesley School Log Book 1876-1945" published and "Memoranda Of The Parish Of North Baddesley" by John Marsh published to mark the 200th anniversary of first publication in 1808. |
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| 2009 | The New Sports Pavillion opened 27 June | February 12 marks the 200th birthday of Charles Robert Darwin Nation commemorates the 65th anniversary of D-Day England beat Australia to regain the "ASHES" |