| 8 | | Diodorus Siculus names Cornwall \'Belerion\' (The Shining Land) - the first recorded place named in the British Isles |
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| 19.Jun.21 | | Solar eclispse visible from Cornwall |
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| 28.Jul.21 | | Solar eclipse visible from Cornwall |
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| 43 | | Roman invasion of Britain |
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| 47 | | Romans invaders reach Exeter in Devon |
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| 55 | | Roman invaders reach Nanstallon |
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| circa 57 | | Construction of the Roman fort at Nanstallion (near Bodmin) to guard chief communictaion and trade route linking Fowey on the south coast to Camel on the north |
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| 118.Sep.03 | | Solar eclipse visible from Cornwall |
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| circa 250 | | Romans begin to exploit Cornish tin
(FE Haliday) |
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| circa 250 | | King Mark\'s era in Cornwall |
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| circa 250 | | Irish raids on Cornwall |
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| circa 250 | | Saints arrive in Cornwall |
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| circa 492 | | Birth of St Selevan |
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| 515 | | The West Saxon
advance halted by the Britons at the Battle of Badon (possibly led by a leader named Arthur)
(FE Haliday,1959)c. 500 Ambrosius Aurelianus defeats Saxons at Badon Hill |
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| 577 | | Battle of Deorham Down near Bristol results in the separation of the West Welsh (the Cornish) from the Welsh by the advancing of the Saxons
Bath, Cirencester and Gloucester mentioned in an account of the battle but not Bristol |
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| circa 600 | | Earliest Christian church in Cornwall opens at St Piran�s Oratory
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| 639.Sep.03 | | Solar eclipse visible from Cornwall |
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| 664 | | The Synod of Whitby; determines that England is again an ecclesiastical province of Rome. The structure of dioceses and parishes is established
The Celtic Church of Dumnonia (Cornwall)is not party to the decision - the Cornish Church retains its monastic in nature |
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| circa 700 | | The Saxons reach the Bristol Channel cutting of the Celts of Cornwall from the Celts of Wales |
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| circa 700 | | Cornwall had began to be recorded as Cornubia by the Romans, and its people as Cornovii or Cornavii |
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| 705 | | The Saxons under King Ine renew their westward advance into Devon and Cornwall |
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| 710 | | The Saxons occupy Exeter in Devon |
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| circa 710 | | King Ina of the Wessex attempts to destroy the Celtic kingdom of Dumnonia |
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| 722 | | Roderic, King of the Britons in Wales and Cornwall, repels Adelred, King of Wessex |
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| 787 | | Viking Danes visit the coasts of Wessex |
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| 807 | | Viking Danes form alliance alliance with the Cornish against the Saxons |
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| 814 | | Ecgberht of Wessex conquers Cornwall
The Saxons \'laid waste the land from east to west\' but cannot subjugate the Cornish |
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| 825 | | Egbert, king of Wessex, repels the Vikings in North Cornwall and returns to route the Mercians at the battle of Ellendune (modern Wroughton, Swindon) assuring the predominance of Wessex
The Cornish defeated by Ecgberht at Gafulford (modern Galford on the River Lew in West Devon)
He also conquered Kent, Sussex and Essex
Check out Nether Wroughton
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| 838 | | Egbert of Wessex wins a spectacular victory over the Danish/Cornish allies at Hingston Down (now in Cornwall) |
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| 878 | | Death of Dumgarth, king of the Cornish, by drowning
Dumgarth is identified as Doniert in Saxon records. Doniert\'s Stone stands in the parish of St Cleer, Cornwall |
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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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| 931 | | King Athelstan of Wessex creates the diocese of Cornwall with its see at St Germans (-c.1050) |
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| 936 | | Settlement between Cletic Cornish and King Athelstan of Wessex fixes the east bank of the Tamar as the boundary between Wessex and Cornwall |
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| 968.Dec.22 | | Solar eclipse visible from Cornwall |
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| 997 | | Danes raid the Severn estuary, Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Wales (ASC) |
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| 1023.Jan.24 | | Solar eclipse visible from Cornwall |
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| 1042 | | Cornish see of St Germans is united with Crediton |
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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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| 1066 | | The Norman Robert of Mortain becomes Earl of Cornwall and builds a castle at Launceston |
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| 1066 | | The Norman Earl Ordulf is given charge of Moresk Castle, Truro, Cornwall |
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| circa 1100 | | rugby evolves from hurling in Penzance |
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| 1126 | | Foundation of Launceston Priory (Cornwall) by the William-de-Warelwest, Bishop of Exeter |
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| 1140 | | Reginald of Dunstanville harasses Stephen\\\'s forces from Cornwall. He is defeated by Stephen
He is defeated by Stephen |
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| 1141 | | Reginald de Dunstanville becomes Earl of Cornwall (-1175) |
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| 1166 | | Launceston established as Cornwall\\\'s Assize Court (-1840) |
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| 1201 | | King John grants a charter to the Stannaries (Cornwall) |
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| 1227 | | Richard, brother of Henry III, becomes Earl of Cornwall |
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| 1230.May.14 | | Solar eclipse visible from Cornwall |
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| 1275 | | Bitter dispute between the Constable of Corfe Castle and the Abbot of Cerne about casks of wine washed up on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour |
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| circa 1280 | | Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, makes Lostwithiel the capital of the county |
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| 1307 | | The Tinners Charter granted by Edward I |
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| 1307 | | Liskeard in Cornwall becomes a stannary town |
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| 1315 | | Bad weather causes total failure of the harvest in Cornwall |
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| 1338 | | Edward the Black Prince, eldest son of Edward III, created first Duke of Cornwall |
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| 1396 | | Earliest record of lights to aid shipping in Cornwall - payment by fishermen of beaconage to the chapel of Carn Brea |
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| 1473 | | Lancastrian attempt to seize St Micheals Mount in Cornwall |
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| 1496.Sep | | Abortive attempt by the Scots to invade England in support of Perkin Warbeck with only 1,400 men
Warbeck had promised James IV 50,000 marks and the stronghold of Berwick-on-tweed once Warbeck becomes King of England |
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| 1497.May | | Cornish Rebellion against the taxes of Henry VII for war against Scotland
The rebels were led by Thomas Flamanck and Michael an Gof - both executed |
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| 1497.Jun | | Lord Audley takes command of the Cornish rebels as they march through Somerset to London |
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| 1497.Jun.17 | | Battle of Blackheath: Henry VII's vastly superior army under Giles, Lord Daubeney routes the Cornish rebels at Blackheath and its leaders are all captured ( !! or July 13th !! ) |
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| 1497.Jun.27 | | Micheal an Gof and Thomas Flamank, leaders of the defeated Cornish rebels are executed at Tyburn |
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| 1497.Jun.28 | | Execution of Lord Audley, leader of the Cornish rebels at Tower Hill |
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| 1497.Sep.07 | | Perkin Warbeck lands at Whitesand Bay, Land\'s End, to seize the throne from Henry VII
He is proclaimed King Richard IV at Bodmin |
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| 1499.Nov.23 | | Execution of the pretender Perkin Warbeck |
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| 1508 | | Cornwall granted the Charter of Pardon by king Henry VII guaranteeing the rights of the Cornish Stannary Parliament - still extant as legislation |
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| 1549 | | Cornish uprising in protest against Edward VI\'s English Book of Common Prayer
The Book of Common Prayer was never translated into Cornish and spelt its demise as a living language |
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| 1549.Sep.12 | | The Council issue special orders for Devon and Cornwall; where the rebels have used the bells in every Parish as an instrument to stir the multitude and call them together that all bells in the two counties should be taken down leaving in every church one Bell the least of the Ring that is now in the same, which may serve to call the Parishioners to the Sermon and Divine Service. |
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| 1577.Jun.08 | | Imprisnment of Roman Catholic priest Cuthbert Mayne at Launceston in Cornwall
Francis Tregian was also imprisoned |
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| 1577.Nov.29 | | Martyrdom of the Roman Catholic priest Cuthbert Mayne for high treason at Launceston |
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| 1578 | | Peter Carder of Veryan was the first recorded european to travel the length of South America (east coast) |
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| 1588.Jul.19 | | Spanish Armada first sighted from Hazlephron cliff, Cornwall |
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| 1591 | | Death of Sir Richard Grenville of the Revenge |
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| 1595 | | Spanish raid on Penzance, Cornwall |
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| 1598.Feb.25 | | Solar eclipse visible from Cornwall |
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| 1602 | | Publication of Richard Carew\'s Survey of Cornwall |
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| 1619 | | John Killigrew\'s lighthouse at the Lizard built |
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| 1629 | | Imprisonment of Sir John Eliot |
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| 1643 | | Battles of Bradock Down, Stratton, Lansdown (Sir Bevil Grenville killed) and Roundway Down.
Royalists take Bristol
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| 1644.Aug | | Royalists defeat Essex at Lostwithiel (after laying seige to the Cornish town throughout August) and push Essex to the old earthworks at Castle Dor
Charles I stayed at the nearby Boconnoc estate during the seige |
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| 1646 | | 2nd Battle of Lostwithiel; Royalists defeat Essex |
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| 1646 | | John Arundell surrenders Pendennis Castle |
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| 1646 | | Parliamentary army enters Cornwall led by Fairfax |
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| 1646 | | Fox\'s Shipping Agency founded |
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| 1648 | | William Cookworthy deposits at St Stephen in Brannel which led to the china clay industry in Cornwall |
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| 1651 | | John Grenville and Royalists driven out of Scilly |
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| 1656 | | Imprisonment of George Fox, founder of the Quaker sect, at Launceston, Cornwall |
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| 1665 | | Richard Lower experimented with blood transfusion, transfering blood form one dog\'s artery to another |
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| 1688 | | Imprisonment and acquittal of Bishop Trelawny |
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| 1689 | | Falmouth Packet service innaugurated, carrying the mail (first was from Falmouth to Corunna in Spain) |
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| 1699 | | Joel Gascoyne produces the first 1 inch to 1 mile County map - of mapping Cornwall |
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| 1702 | | Start of the ministry of the Earl of Godolphin |
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| 1702 | | First Falmouth Packet service across the Atlantic to the West Indies |
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| 1705.Apr.12 | | Birth of William Cookworthy (-1780), pharmacist and father of the English porcelain and Cornish clay mining idustries, at Kingsbridge, Devon
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| 1707 | | Sir Cloudesley Shovel wrecked on the Scilly Isles |
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| 1710 | | End of the ministry of the Earl of Godolphin |
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| circa 1710 | | Introduction of the first steam pump in Cornish mining |
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| circa 1710 | | Capitalist development of Cornish tin and copper mining |
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| 1715.May.03 | | Solar eclipse visible in Cornwall excepting in the north and the south-east |
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| 1743 | | First visit to Cornwall by John Wesley |
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| 1746 | | William Cookworthy discoveres china clay at Tregonning Hill ,Helston |
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| 1754 | | William Borlase publishes his Antiquities of Cornwall |
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| 1773 | | Cornishman William Bligh discovered bread fruit on the island of Otaheite (also known as King George III\'s Island) |
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| 1774 | | Building of the inner harbour at Megavissey, Cornwall |
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| 1776 | | John Edyvean invented the inclined plane system, to reduce the necessity for locks on the canal system |
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| 1777 | | Death of Dorothy (or Dolly) Pentreath, reputed to be the last speaker of the Cornish language |
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| 1777 | | James Watt erects his first steam engine in Cornwall |
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| 1780.Oct.17 | | Death of William Cookworthy (1705-), pharmacist and father of the English porcelain and Cornish clay mining idustries |
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| 1787 | | Riots at Poldice mine in Cornwall due to the copper depression |
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| 1789 | | Last visit to Corwall of John Wesley |
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| 1790 | | William Gregor discoveres manaccanite, now know as Titanium at Manaccan, at the Lizard |
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| 1792 | | First convict ship leaves for Australia
On board is Cornishman James Ruse from Launceston |
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| 1801 | | British engineer Richard Trevithick devises a steam road carriage
Trevithick constructed the first passenger carrying steam engine known locally as the puffing devil at Penydaren |
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| 1801 | | Publication of Cornwalls first newspaper The Cornwall Gazetet and Falmouth Packet |
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| 1801.Dec.24 | | Richard Trevithick runs a steam car up Camborne Hill |
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| 1805 | | First anouncement of the death of Nelson in England made from the balcony of the Unoin Hotel, Penzance |
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| 1808 | | Invention of the Breeches Boy by Henry Trengrouse |
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| 1810.Jul.20 | | First publication of The West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser |
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| circa 1810 | | Mining commences at the North Levant Mine in Cornwall |
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| 1811 | | Death of Philip Rashleigh (1729-) |
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| 1812 | | Andrew Pears of Mevagissey, perfects the refining of soap |
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| 1818 | | Foundation of the Royal Institution of Cornwall |
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| 1824.Nov.22 | | The Great Gale rages for 2 days, during high tides, battering the West Country and leaving a trail of devastation in its wake
The bad weather continued - a week later
the Dutch vessel Leonora went ashore at Chesil Beach between Wyke and Portland, all her crew and cargo lost |
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| 1825 | | RS Hawker writes The Song of the Western Men, later adopted as the Cornish national anthem |
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| 1827 | | Opening of the incomplete Liskeard-Looe Union Canal in Cornwall |
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| 1832 | | Reform Act: number of Cornish MPs reduced from 42 to 12 |
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| 1833 | | Death of the British engineer and inventor Richard Trevithick (1771-) |
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| 1834 | | Opening of the Bodmin-Wadebridge Railway |
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| 1836 | | Rich deposits of copper, tin and lead found at Caradon Hill near Liskeard in Cornwall |
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| 1837 | | Discovery of copper at Caradon, Cornwall |
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| 1838 | | Abolition of tin coinage |
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| 1840 | | Cornwall\'s assizes moved from Launceston to Bodmin |
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| 1840.Apr.13 | | Execution of the Lightfoot brothers at Bodmin jail, Cornwall for the murder of Mr Neville Norway
Specialexcursion trains were run from Wadebridge carrying 1,100 spectators |
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| 1841 | | The Old Delabole Slate Company formed from five quarries in Delabole, Cornwall |
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| 1842 | | Man engine installed at Tresavean mine |
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| 1842 | | Publication of An Illustrated Itinerary Of The County Of Cornwall by Cyrus Redding |
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| 1846 | | Queen Victoria visits the Polberro Mine in St Agnes, Cornwall |
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| 1847 | | Plymouth-Falmouth railway began |
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| 1851.Aug | | Discovery of gold in Australia leads thousands of Cornish miners to emigrate there |
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| 1852 | | Completion of the West Cornwall railway (Penzance - Truro) |
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| 1856 | | Cornish copper production hits a peak of 209,000 tons of ore |
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| 1859.Apr.11 | | First train passes over the Royal Albert Bridge from Plymouth to Truro |
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| 1859.May.03 | | Brunel\'s Royal Albert Bridge linking Saltash in Cornwall to Plymouth in Devon opened by Prince Albert |
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| 1863.Oct.26 | | Birth of the Cornish composer of many famous Christmas carols, Thomas Merritt (-1908), at Illogan |
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| 1864 | | The Mines Commission |
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| 1866 | | Financial crisis, collapse of copper mining, and emigration of miners from Cornwall |
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| 1871 | | The control of the militia removed from the Lord-Lieutenants of the counties |
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| 1872.Oct.19 | | World\'s largest gold nugget (weighing 215 kg) found in New South Wales by two Cornishmen
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| 1875 | | Death of English inventor Sir Goldsworthy Gurney |
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| 1876 | | Cornwall ceases to be an archdeaconry, the diocese of Cornwall is reinstated with the see at Truro
By the Bishopric of Truro Bill |
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| 1877 | | Henry Jenner discovers a fragment of early Cornish verse consisting of 41-line on the back of a charter dated 1340 while working at the British Museum as Keeper of Manuscripts
Jenner was responsible for the revival of the Cornish language in the early 20th century |
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| 1877 | | City status granted to Truro in Cornwall by Queen Victoria |
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| 1881 | | Lanhydrock House in Cornwall largely rebuilt after a disasterous fire |
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| 1888 | | Building ofthe outer harbour at Mevagissey, Cornwall |
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| 1889.Jan.16 | | First county council elections held |
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| 1890 | | Bob Fitzsimmons of Helston becomes heavy-weight boxing champion |
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| circa 1890 | | Cornwall suffers decline in tin mining and fisheries while the china clay and tourist industries expand |
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| 1891.Mar | | Great blizard; outer harbour walls washed away at Mevagissey, Cornwall |
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| 1891.Mar.09 | | Hurricane claims over 200 lives as 63 ships founder off the SW coast and Cornwall suffers blizards and snowdrifts 20 feet deep |
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| 1893 | | Publication of The St. Ives Weekly Summary newspaper |
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| 1893 | | Cornwall first free public lending library building opens in Penzance |
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| 1893.Jan.10 | | Flooding disaster as Wheal Owles mine in St Just claims the lives of 20 Cornish miners |
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| 1893.Jun.06 | | J Passmore Edwards is made the first Freeman of the City of Truro for his gifts to the City and the County of Cornwall |
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| 1897 | | Outer harbour walls rebuilt at Megavissey, Cornwall |
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| 1897 | | Formation of the Truro Diocesan Guild of Ringers |
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| 1898 | | Victoria Gardens in Truro are laid out and open for public use commemorating the 60th year of the reign of Queen Victoria |
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| 1898 | | Cornish Old Delabole Slate Company becomes a limited liability company |
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| 1901 | | Radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi sends the first transatlantic signal from the Lizard in Cornwall |
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| 1901 | | The Cornish Guardian newspaper first published at Bodmin
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| 1902 | | Opening of the Camborne and Redruth Tramway
This was Cornwall\'s only electric street tramway. It was unique in Britain as it transported minerals as well as passengers |
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| 1903.Jul.06 | | GWR Chacewater to Perranporth branch line (via St Agnes) opened in Cornwall |
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| 1904 | | Publication of Jenner\'s Handbook of the Cornish Language
The book prompted the revival of the Cornish language |
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| 1905 | | First publication of The Newquay Express newspaper |
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| 1905.Jan.02 | | GWR Chacewater to Perranporth branch line extended to Newquay in Cornwall |
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| 1908.Apr.17 | | Death of the Cornish composer of many famous Christmas carols, Thomas Merritt (1863-), aged 46 |
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| 1910 | | Completion of the building of Truro Cathedral in Cornwall |
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| 1913 | | First Publication of The St Ives Times newspaper |
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| 1919 | | The Royal Institution of Cornwall moves into its present building in River Street, Truro |
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| 1919.Oct.20 | | The Levant Mine disaster at St Just claims the lives of 31 Cornish miners when main rod of the man-engine breaks |
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| 1920 | | Donald Healey transmits an air-to-ground radio message over Perranporth
This is the first such transmission in Cornwall and possibly the first in Britain |
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| 1920 | | Foundation of the first Old Cornwall Society at St Ives
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| 1920 | | Formation of the Wadebridge Male Voice Choir (Cornwall) |
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| 1921 | | Closure of Dolcoath, Cornwall�s deepest mine at 3,500 feet |
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| 1921 | | Lord-Lieutenants of the counties lost power to call on men of the county to fight in case of need
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| 1921 | | First pilgrimage in honour of St Cuthbert Mayne organised at Launceston by Fr Richard McElroy |
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| 1925.Jan | | Cornwall County Council adopts the Public Libraries Acts establishing the county\'s first public lending library service |
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| 1925.Jan | | Cornwall County Council adopts the Public Libraries Acts establishing the county\'s first public lending library service |
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| 1928 | | Cornwall County Council purchases its first exhibition library van
The van crried about 2,000 books, visiting each village regularly to permit the public to select books |
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| 1928 | | The first Cornish Gorsedd held at Boscawen symbolising the resurgent interest in Cornwall\'s cultural and linguistic heritage
Instituted by Henry Jenner, it was conducted by Pedrog, Archdruid of Britain |
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| 1928 | | Cornwall College becomes the first college of further education in the county |
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| 1930 | | Publication of Cornwall: a survey of its coast, moors and valleys, with suggestions for the preservation of amenities by the Council for the Preservation of Rural England |
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| 1931 | | Discovery of the remains of a Roman villa at Magor Farm, Camborne, Cornwall |
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| 1932 | | Miss Rowena Cade and her gardener start carving out an amphitheatre on the cliffs at Porthcurno, Cornwall
It later became the Minack Theatre |
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| 1935 | | Cornish author Silas K Hocking becomes the first author to sell 1 million books in his lifetime |
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| 1945 | | The Newquay Express newspaper becomes the Newquay Guardian and Cornwall County Chronicle |
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| 1950 | | The Royal Institution of Cornwall suggests the establishment of a County Record Office to the County Council |
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| 1950.May.24 | | Opening of Wesley Cottage at Trewint in Cornwall as a Wesley Museum and place of pilgrimage |
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| 1951 | | Formation of Mebyon Kernow (The Sons of Cornwall)
Originally formed as a pressure group to work within existing political parties canvassing for Cornwall to achieve greater control of its own destiny |
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| 1951 | | Publication of Farewell Aggie Weston, Charles Causley\'s first volume of poetry
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| 1955 | | The Newquay Express newspaper becomes the Newquay Guardian and Cornwall County Chronicle (which started publication as The Newquay Express) is incorporated as a local edition of the Cornish Guardian |
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| 1957 | | The St Ives Times newspaper becomes the St. Ives Times and Echo (incorporating the Western Echo) |
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| 1961 | | Opening of the Tamar Bridge carrying the A38 from Plymouth in Devon to Saltash in Cornwall |
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| 1961 | | Opening of the Tamar Bridge carrying the A38 from Plymouth in Devon to Saltash in Cornwall |
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| 1963.Feb.04 | | GWR Chacewater to Newquay branch line closed in Cornwall |
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| 1966 | | RNLI decides a Lifeboat Station is needed between Newquay and
St Ives on the north Cornish coast, deciding to place it at St Agnes |
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| 1967 | | BBC\'s Blue Peter Appeal for paperback books buys four Inshore Life Boats (ILBs)
Blue Peter IV stationed at St Agnes |
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| 1967.Jan.30 | | Closure of the North Cornwall Line for all passenger traffic |
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| 1967.Mar.18 | | Tanker Torrey Canyon carrying 119,328 tons of oil runs aground on the Seven Stones Reef, Isles of Scilly, causing fouling of the north and south coasts of Cornwall by oil |
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| 1967.Mar.21 | | The Torrey canyon is abandoned
Losing crude oil, it causes a slick 35 miles long and 20 wide |
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| 1970 | | Foundation of the Institute of Cornish Studies |
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| 1970 | | Foundation of a Chair of Cornish Studies at Exeter University |
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| 1977 | | Cornish Old Delabole Slate Company liquidated by bankers - the quarry falls into corporate onwership |
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| 1978 | | 1,014-km (630 mile) South West Coast Path from
Minehead in Somerset to Poole in Dorset becomes a complete National Trail |
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| 1985 | | The tin prices crashes from �10,000 to �3,400 per tonne
The crash signalled the death-knell for the remains of the Cornish tin-mining industry |
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| 1986 | | Closure of the Geevor mine in Cornwall |
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| 1987.Nov.04 | | Land\'s End in Cornwall sold for nearly �7m to property tycoon, Peter de Savary who plans major expansion of tourist facilities at the site |
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| 1990 | | Trinity House National Lighthouse Centre opens in Penzance |
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| 1993.Jun.29 | | St. Michael\'s Church in Newquay is destroyed by an arson attack |
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| 1993.Aug | | The Geevor Mine in Cornwall opens as a heritage centre |
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| 1999.Jun | | Management buy-out at Delabole quarry forms the Delabole Slate Company Ltd |
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| 1999.Aug.11 | | Total solar eclipse visible from the Scilly Isles, Cornwall and South Devon, partial eclipse in the rest of England |
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| 2003.Oct | | Cornwall\'s NHS, $31-million in debt, barred from taking �8-million loan from Cornwall County Council\'s reserve by auditors |
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| 2003.Oct.26 | | Sutton Harbour Holdings which runs Plymouth Airport has started a new airline, Air Southwest to fly between Newquay, Plymouth and Gatwick
BA decided to end services Cornwall and Plymouth earlier in 2003 |
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| 2003.Nov.01 | | Truro and St Austell MP Matthew Taylor calls for central government to write of the Cornish health authority\\\'s �31-million debt |
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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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| 2003.Dec.03 | | Frustrated with being unable to catch enough fish, Micheal Ellis of Newlyn caught over 120 sharks in a week earning over �7,000 amidst protests from conservationists |
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| 2070.Sep.23 | | Total solar eclipse visible from West Cornwall |
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| 28.Jul.21 | | Solar eclipse visible from Cornwall |
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