Chronology, Great Yarmouth
500,000BC, Yarmouth in a river valley between
rolling chalk hills
125,000BC, Yarmouth a sandy moor with elephants
and deer forests
10,000 B.C. End of the ice age.
6,000 B.C. Maglemose man settles in East
Anglia, Britain continuous with mainland Europe.
5,000 B.C. Britain separated from European
mainland as North sea floods and the icecap receded to present size.
4,000 B.C. Copper Age.
1500 B.C. Field systems in evidence.
300 B.C. Trade links in place with Europe.
55 B.C. First Roman expedition to Britain
(Julius Caesar).
43 A.D. Roman invasion of Britain (Claudius),
first Roman Governor- Aulus Plautius.
60 A.D. Boudicca and the Iceni rebel.
100 First Roman presence in the Yarmouth Area.
250 Caister Roman fort established.
270 Burgh Castle constructed.
630 Fursey establishes his cell.
1002 Sweyne invades East Anglia.
1010 Great Yarmouth razed by Vikings.
1041 Yarmouth in possession of Edward the
confessor, having 70 Burgesses.
1101 Foundation of St. Nicholas Church.
1204 Foundation of Blackfriars monastery.
1209 Charter of King John.
1261 Licence by Henry II to build a wall.
1278 Foundation of St.Mary's Hospital.
1340 Battle of Sluys.
1346 First haven cut.
1349 The Great Plague.
1382 Visit of Richard II.
1396 Town wall completed.
1427 First bridge over the Yare.
1450 Foundation of Caister Castle.
1469 Seige of caister Castle.
1508 Making of 5th Haven.
1515 Visit of Queen of France.
1529 Fifth haven cut.
1528 Famine and riots.
1544 Rampire upon the wall.
1549 Sixth haven created.
1549 Kett's rebellion.
1550 Plague.
1555 Henry Manship (jnr) born
1560 Seventh haven constructed.
1578 Scroby island annexed.
1604 Third market cross erected.
1607 The rivers all frozen solid for three
days.
1625 Henry Manship (jnr) died.
1688 Cessation of office of Mayor.
1702 Charter of Queen Anne re-enabled the
office of mayor.
1702 Fisherman's hospital erected.
1709 Peter Le Neve purchased a residence in
Yarmouth.
1716 Henry Swinden Born.(?)
1729 Removal of the pillory.
1736 copy made of Manship's History by John
Mosse.
1338 Swinden creates first accurate map of
Yarmouth.
1750 John Ives (jnr) born.
1766 Famine and relief of the poor by
subscription.
1772 Death of Henry Swinden.
1772 Armstrong publishes History of Norfolk.
1776 Death of John Ives.
1776 Well sunk at 55 King Street.
1795 Arrival of the Princess of Orange.
1800 Return to Britain via Yarmouth of Nelson
and the Hamiltons.
1801 Visit by Nelson.
1804 Rows first numbered.
1805 Charles Palmer born.
1807 The North Gate removed.
1811 St.Nicholas Hospital built.
1812 The South Gate demolished.
1813 Regent Street constructed.
1813 William III landed at Yarmouth.
1813 John Hannah executed. (The last in
Yarmouth)
1814 Grand Dinner held upon the Quay, from end
to end.
1817 Nelson Monument erected.
1822 George IV arrives.
1829 Opening of the suspension bridge.
1827 Body snatching from the cemetery.
1828 Road to Acle proposed.
1841 Foundation of the Victoria buildings.
1843 Sarah Martin died.
1844 Yarmouth to Norwich railway opened.
1844 Paget's brewery pulled down.
1845 Suspension bridge disaster. (80 died)
1853 Wellington pier commenced.
1858 Dawson Turner Died.
1879 Philip Ernest Rumbelow Born.(?)
1889 Harry Johnson born.(?)
1932 Harry Johnson Died.
1954 Philip Rumbelow Died.