| 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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| circa 70 | | The Romans overran the settlement at Cadbury Castle in Somerset and dispersed the Britons living there |
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| 118.Sep.03 | | Solar eclipse visible from Cornwall |
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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 500 | | Defences at Cadbury Castle in Somerset thought to have been built |
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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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| 658 | | Kenwalh, King of the West Saxons, fought and defeated the Britons at Pen Selwood in Somerset |
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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 675 | | Exeter area becomes part of kingdom of Wessex |
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| 682 | | Centwine of Wessex drives Britons in flight as far as the sea |
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| 689 | | Death of King Caedwalla of Wessex in Rome |
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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 | | King Ine established Sherborne as the bishopric of Wessex and appointed his kinsman Aldhelm as its first bishop |
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| 705 | | The Saxons under King Ine renew their westward advance into Devon and Cornwall |
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| 709.May.25 | | Death of St Aldhelm, bishop of Sherborne (Wessex), at Doulting in Somerset
His body was carried back to the Abbey he founded at Malmesbury for burial |
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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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| 802 | | Egbert succeeds Beorhtric as King of Wessex |
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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 defeated the Mercians at the Battle of Ellandun (modern Nether
Wroughton) and Wessex became the dominant Saxon kingdom in England. He also conquered
Kent, Sussex and Essex. |
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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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| 829 | | Egbert, King of Wessex, conquers Mercia |
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| 830 | | Egbert, King of Wessex, loses Mercia to Wiglaf |
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| 837 | | Egbert of Wessex defeated the allied
Vikings and West Welsh at Hengsdown Hill |
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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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| 839 | | Egbert succeeded by Aethelwulf as
King of Wessex |
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| 855 | | Aethelwulf succeeded by Aethelbald as King of Wessex |
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| 860 | | Aethelbald succeeded by Aethelbert as king of
Wessex |
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| 866 | | Aethelbert succeeded by Aethelred as king of
Wessex |
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| 871.Apr.23 | | Death of king Ethelred I of Wessex, succeeded by his brother Alfred the
Great
Although Alfred never united England under his rule, he is often considered the first English king |
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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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| 899 | | Death of Alfred the Great of Wessex. He was succeeded by his son Edward the Elder |
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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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| 937 | | Athelstans crowning victory at the Battle
of Brunanburgh gave the kings of Wessex mastery over England |
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| 968.Dec.22 | | Solar eclipse visible from Cornwall |
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| 1023.Jan.24 | | Solar eclipse visible from Cornwall |
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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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| 1053.Apr.14 | | Death of Earl Godwin of Wessex at Winchester |
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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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| 1066 | | Studland in Dorset given to The Conquerors half-brother Robert de Mortain |
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| 1069 | | Brian de Bretagne, Norman Earl of Cornwall, leads an army against the sons of the defeated Saxon King Harold II |
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| 1075 | | The see of Wessex removed from Sherborne in Dorset to Old Sarum, Wilts. |
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| 1126 | | Foundation of Launceston Priory (Cornwall) by the William-de-Warelwest, Bishop of Exeter |
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| 1141 | | Reginald de Dunstanville becomes Earl of Cornwall (-1175) |
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| circa 1150 | | Building of Christchurch Castle, Dorset |
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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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| 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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| 1213 | | King John writes commanding the Sheriff of Dorset to cause ropes, cables and twisted ropes for cordage to be made at Bridport |
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| 1225 | | Launceston (Cornwall) recieves its first charter |
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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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| 1240 | | Liskeard in Cornwall recieves the first of 18 charters |
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| 1261 | | Consecration of the church of St Germanus, Cornwall |
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| 1272 | | Death of Richard, Earl of Cornwall, succeeded by his son, Edmund who pulled out of Launceston |
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| circa 1280 | | Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, makes Lostwithiel the capital of the county |
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| 1307 | | Christchurch in Dorset starts to send 2 MPs to parliament |
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| 1307 | | Liskeard in Cornwall becomes a stannary town |
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| 1313 | | A market and 2 fairs granted to Wadebridge, Cornwall |
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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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| 1354 | | The Black Prince briefly holds court at Restormel Castle near Lostwithiel, Cornwall |
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| 1377.Nov.11 | | A great storm hit the south coast
At Lyme Regis in Dorset it destoryed the breakwater, fifty boats and eighty houses |
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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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| 1460 | | Building of the first bridge over the river Camel at Wadebridge, Cornwall |
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| 1473 | | Lancastrian attempt to seize St Micheals Mount in Cornwall |
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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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| circa 1500 | | Building of the Old Guild Hall at Looe in Cornwall |
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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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| 1547.Jan.28 | | Death of King Henry
VIII, aged 55; Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset becomes
Lord Protector in the name of the 9-year-old King Edward VI |
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| 1550 | | Deposition of the Lord Protector Somerset; England ruled by Northumberland |
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| 1574 | | Census at Poole in Dorset shows it has a population of 1,373 |
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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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| 1588.Jul.19 | | Spanish Armada first sighted from Hazlephron cliff, Cornwall |
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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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| 1610 | | Dorchester, Dorset, granted a charter |
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| 1613 | | Serious fire destroys much of Dorchester, Dorset |
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| 1615 | | Sir Robert Napper builds the Nappers Mite almshouses in Dorchester, Dorset, for ten poor men |
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| 1619 | | Building of the first lighthouse at Lizard Point, Cornwall |
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| 1622 | | Serious fire at Dorchester, Dorset |
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| 1623 | | Lizard Point lighthouse, Cornwall, abandoned |
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| circa 1628 | | Colony of New Dorchester founded in New England by Puritans from Dorchester, Dorset |
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| 1630 | | Dorchester, Dorset, granted a charter |
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| 1640 | | First stage coaches ran to/from Christchurch, Dorset |
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| 1643.Aug | | Royalists take and plunder Dorchester, Dorset |
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| 1644.Apr | | Parliament captures Christchurch, Dorset |
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| 1644.Jul | | Royalist attempt to take Dorchester, Dorset |
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| 1644.Sep.02 | | Phillip Skippon surrenders Parliamentary forces leaving Charles I in control of Devon and Cornwall
Essex and Lord Robartes had slipped away to Plymouth on a small boat. The 6,000 parliamentarian troops disarmed now and allowed to leave - they marched to Southampton and Portsmouth but 5,000 died en-route of starvation and exposure |
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| 1646 | | Parliamentary army enters Cornwall led by Fairfax |
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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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| 1656 | | Imprisonment of George Fox, founder of the Quaker sect, at Launceston, Cornwall |
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| 1662 | | Free grammar school established at Christchurch, Dorset |
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| 1664 | | West Country ravaged by the Great Plague |
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| 1677 | | Edward (or William ***) Elliot dies at Christchurch, Dorset, establishing Elliots
Charity |
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| 1685.Jun.11 | | Rebel Duke of Monmouth lands at Lyme Regis in Dorset with 82 supporters to wrest the Crown from James II
Monmouths rebellion in the West Country was crushed by James II at the Battle of Sedgemoor and followed by the notorious Bloody Assizes presided over by Judge Jeffereys |
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| 1689 | | Bridge linking East and West Looe in Cornwall repaired |
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| 1697 | | Dorset Purbeck stone to be sold as company joint stock
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| by 1698 | | Tho Hyde of Poole and Lewis Cockram of Swanage have a partnership to dig white Dorset clay |
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| 1699 | | Joel Gascoyne produces the first 1 inch to 1 mile County map - of mapping Cornwall |
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| 1701 | | Presbyterian church built at Liskeard, Cornwall |
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| 1707 | | The Great Fire of Wincanton in Somerset |
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| 1715 | | Bath postmaster, Ralph Allen, discloses details of a Jacobite plot in the West Country to General Wade |
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| 1715.May.03 | | Solar eclipse visible in Cornwall excepting in the north and the south-east |
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| 1725 | | Serious fire at Dorchester, Dorset |
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| 1731 | | Great Fire of Blandford Forum, Dorset |
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| 1737 | | Serious fire at Dorchester, Dorset |
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| 1743 | | First visit to Cornwall by John Wesley |
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| 1744 | | The Bargate demolished in Christchurch, Dorset |
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| 1744 | | John Wesley visits Trewint in Cornwall - his host, Digory Isbell, builds a chapel and guest room onto his cottage
The cottage is now open as a museum |
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| 1752 | | Rebuilding of the lighthouse at Lizard Point, Cornwall |
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| 1754 | | William Borlase publishes his Antiquities of Cornwall |
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| 1757 | | John Wesley\'s first visit to Liskeard, Cornwall |
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| 1762 | | Great fire of Wareham destorys much of the Dorset town |
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| 1771 | | Birth of the British engineer and inventor Richard Trevithick (-1833) at Illogan, Cornwall |
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| 1774 | | Building of the inner harbour at Megavissey, Cornwall |
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| 1774 | | Fire pump purchased by Christchurch, Dorset |
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| 1775 | | Serious fire at Dorchester, Dorset |
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| 1776 | | Use of thatch forbidden in Dorchester, Dorset, after a series of serious fires |
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| 1777 | | James Watt erects his first steam engine in Cornwall |
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| 1787 | | Riots at Poldice mine in Cornwall due to the copper depression |
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| 1792 | | Barracks established at Christchurch, Dorset |
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| 1800 | | British engineer Richard Trevithick devizes a double-acting high-pressure steam engine used in the mines of Cornwall and South Wales. |
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| 1801 | | Publication of Cornwalls first newspaper The Cornwall Gazetet and Falmouth Packet |
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| 1810 | | Dorset squire Lewis Tregonwell visits Bournemouth
Tregonwell later built a summer residence at the hamlet and is credited with founding the modern town, the largest in the county |
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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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| 1818 | | Foundation of the Royal Institution of Cornwall |
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| 1821 | | Grampound, a notorious rotten borough in Cornwall, was disenfranchised |
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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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| 1827 | | Opening of the incomplete Liskeard-Looe Union Canal in Cornwall |
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| 1832 | | Christchurch in Dorset sends only 1 MP toparliament - the constituency is enlarged |
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| 1835 | | Gas lighting installed Dorchester, Dorset |
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| 1835 | | Cornwall\\\'s capital moved from Launceston to Bodmin |
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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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| 1837 | | Dorset poet William Barnes moves to Dorchester, Dorset |
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| 1837 | | Liskeard Poor Law Union formed in Cornwall
It included East and West Looe |
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| 1837 | | Building of Liskeard Workhouse (Cornwall) starts |
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| 1837 | | Opening of the South Caradon Mine, Cornwall |
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| 1840 | | Cornwall\'s assizes moved from Launceston to Bodmin |
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| 1840 | | Birth of Dorset author Thomas Hardy |
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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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| 1841 | | Building of the County Hospital at Dorchester, Dorset |
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| 1842 | | Publication of An Illustrated Itinerary Of The County Of Cornwall by Cyrus Redding |
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| 1845 | | Museum opened at Dorchester, Dorset |
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| 1846 | | Queen Victoria visits the Polberro Mine in St Agnes, Cornwall |
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| 1847 | | New Town Hall built at Dorchester, Dorset |
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| 1848 | | Cholera outbreak at Fordington, Dorchester, Dorset |
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| 1848 | | Corn Exchange built at Dorchester, Dorset |
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| 1852 | | Completion of the West Cornwall railway (Penzance - Truro) |
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| 1853 | | Gas works built at Christchurch, Dorset |
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| 1854 | | Cholera outbreak at Fordington, Dorchester, Dorset |
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| 1855 | | First publication of the Christchurch Times at Christchurch, Dorset |
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| 1856 | | Cemetery laid out at Dorchester, Dorset |
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| 1859 | | Building of the Guid Hall in Liskeard, Cornwall |
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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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| 1860 | | Piped water introduced at Dorchester, Dorset |
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| 1862 | | Arrival of the railway at Christchurch, Dorset |
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| 1862 | | Clock tower added to the Town Hall at Dorchester, Dorset |
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| 1863 | | RC church of Our Lady and St Neot built in Liskeard, Cornwall |
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| 1864 | | Deanry of St Buryan in Cornwall, consisting of the parishes St Buryan, St Levan and Sennen, brocken up |
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| 1866 | | Financial crisis, collapse of copper mining, and emigration of miners from Cornwall |
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| 1867 | | Birth of Francis Mawson Rattenbury in Leeds |
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| 1870 | | Laying of the first trans-Atlantic telegraph cable. It came ashore at Porthcurno in Cornwall |
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| 1872 | | Abolition of the two annual fairs at Christchurch, Dorset
The weekly market also stopped at about this time |
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| 1874 | | Publication of Thomas Hardy\'s first major work Far from the Madding Crowd (a Wessex story) |
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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 | | 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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| 1883 | | Twelve miners die at Wheal Agar tin mine in Cornwall when the steel rope parts at the top of a mine shaft |
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| 1883 | | The Cornwall Constabulary take over the Launceston Borough Police and the superintendent\'s office is moved to the town
Edward Barrett, Launceston\'s only Police Constable since 1860, retires |
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| 1887 | | Salvation Army creates a citadel at Liskeard, Cornwall |
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| 1888 | | Building ofthe outer harbour at Mevagissey, Cornwall |
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| 1888.May.31 | | Opening of the Town Hall at Wadebridge, Cornwall |
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| 1889 | | Closure of the Wheal Coates mine in the parish of St Agnes in Cornwall
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| 1890 | | Britain suffers a severe winter
The Mill Stream at Christchurch, Dorset freezes over |
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| 1890 | | Building of the Public Hall in Liskeard, Cornwall |
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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 | | Cornwall first free public lending library building opens in Penzance |
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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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| 1895 | | Piped water supply installed at Christchurch, Dorset |
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| 1896 | | Building of Foresters Hall, Liskeard, Cornwall
It now houses the Town Museum |
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| 1897 | | Outer harbour walls rebuilt at Megavissey, Cornwall |
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| 1898 | | Publication of Thomas Hardy\'s Wessex Poems |
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| 1898 | | School of art, science and technology opened in Christchurch, Dorset |
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| 1899 | | Friends Meeting House in Friends Place, Liskeard, Cornwall, burns down |
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| 1900.Sep.26 | | Commissioning of Pendeen lighthouse (Cornwall) |
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| 1901 | | Radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi sends the first transatlantic signal from the Lizard in Cornwall |
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| 1901 | | First electricity supply installed at Dorchester, Dorset |
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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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| 1902 | | First sewers laid in Christchurch, Dorset |
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| 1902 | | Demolition of the tower of Liskeard parish church, Cornwall |
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| 1903 | | Bournemouth and Poole Electricity Company establishes power station in Christchurch, Dorset |
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| 1903 | | Completion of the new tower of Liskeard parish church, Cornwall |
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| 1903.Jul.06 | | GWR Chacewater to Perranporth branch line (via St Agnes) opened in Cornwall |
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| 1905 | | First tram services run in Christchurch, Dorset |
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| 1905.Jan.02 | | GWR Chacewater to Perranporth branch line extended to Newquay in Cornwall |
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| 1910 | | Completion of the building of Truro Cathedral in Cornwall |
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| 1911 | | First cinema opens at Dorchester, Dorset |
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| 1914 | | Winter storms destroy the harbour at Trevaunance Cove, St Agnes, Cornwall |
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| 1915.Jul.15 | | A storm breaches the North Quay of the harbour at Trevaunance, St Agnes, Cornwall |
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| 1916 | | Storms completely destroy the North Quay of the harbour at Trevaunance, St Agnes, Cornwall |
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| 1919 | | The Royal Institution of Cornwall moves into its present building in River Street, Truro |
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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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| 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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| 1926 | | Electricity replaces Argand lamp at Pendeen lighthouse, Cornwall |
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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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| 1928 | | Electricity supply brought to St Agnes, Cornwall |
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| 1928 | | Death of Dorset author Thomas Hardy |
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| 1928 | | Meeting of Alfred Wallis, Ben Nicholson and Christopher Wood starts development of St Ives in Cornwall as an artists\' colony |
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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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| 1931 | | Erection of statue of Thomas Hardy at Dorchester, Dorset |
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| 1931 | | Opening of the Regent Cinema (-1973) in Christchurch, Dorset |
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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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| 1934 | | Decision taken to construct airfield at Hurn Christchurch, Dorset
Now Bournemouth International Airport |
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| 1934 | | Slum clearance begins around Spicer Street in Christchurch, Dorset |
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| 1936 | | Trams replaced by trolleybuses at Christchurch, Dorset |
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| 1941 | | Closure of the Polberro Tin Mine in St Agnes, Cornwall |
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| 1941 | | Airspeed aircraft factory built at Christchurch, Dorset |
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| 1942 | | Discovery of Roman milestone at Menheer, Gwennap inscribed to Gordian III - the earliest example in Cornwall |
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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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| 1952 | | Opening of the Red House Museum in Christchurch, Dorset |
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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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| 1958 | | By-pass built at Christchurch, Dorset |
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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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| 1962 | | Closure of Airspeed aircraft factory at Christchurch, Dorset |
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| 1962 | | Dorset Wildlife Trust acquires its first nature reserve on Brownsea Island |
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| 1963.Feb.04 | | GWR Chacewater to Newquay branch line closed in Cornwall |
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| 1966 | | New public library built at Dorchester, Dorset |
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| 1967 | | Stanpit Marsh, Christchurch, Dorset, established as a nature reserve |
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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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| 1969 | | Trolleybuses withdrawn at Christchurch, Dorset |
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| 1972 | | Hampshire border oved eastwards leaving Bournemouth and Christchurch in Dorset |
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| 1973 | | Closure of the Regent Cinema (1931-) in Christchurch, Dorset
It became a bingo hall until conversion to the Regent centre in 1983 |
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| 1974.Apr.01 | | Local government reorganisation under the Local Government Act 1972 comes into force |
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| 1975 | | Christchurch, Dorset, twinned with Christchurch, New Zealand
Christchurch was also twinned with Aalen, Germany |
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| 1976 | | Weekly market re-established at Christchurch, Dorset |
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| 1977.Jun.06 | | Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II
Cities, towns and villages celebrated in various manner but a string of beacons was lit starting with Land\'s End in Cornwall at midnight |
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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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| 1979 | | Plessey builds factory at Christchurch, Dorset |
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| 1980 | | Opening of new Civic Offices in Bridge Street, Christchurch, Dorset |
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| 1981 | | Museum of Electricity opened in Christchurch, Dorset, by John Wedgewood |
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| 1983 | | Opening of Tourist Office in Christchurch, Dorset |
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| 1984 | | Launceston Castle in Cornwall comes under the care of English Heritage
The castle remains in the ownership of the Duchy of Cornwall
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| 1986 | | Closure of the Geevor mine in Cornwall |
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| 1986 | | The Dorset Martyrs statue erected at Dorchester, Dorset |
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| 1987 | | The West Dorset Hospital built at Dorchester, Dorset |
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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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| 1988 | | Building of the Dorchester bypass (Dorset) |
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| 1992.Apr.17 | | British Cycling Museum opens at Camelford in Cornwall |
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| 1993.Aug | | The Geevor Mine in Cornwall opens as a heritage centre |
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| 1994 | | Opening of the Keep Military Museum at Dorchester, Dorset |
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| 1996.Apr.01 | | Abolition of the County of Avon by the Local Government Act 1992 and the Avon (Structural Change) Order 1995; Avon split into four unitary authorities - Bristol, South Gloucestershire, North Somerset and Bath and NE Somerset |
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| 1996.Dec | | First recorded British specimen of the Mediterannean sea slug Tylodina perversa found at Looe, Cornwall |
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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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| 2002.Jun.06 | | HRH Prince Charles, Duke of Cornwall, opens the Liskeard and District Museum and Stuart House |
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| 2003.Sep | | A world record cucumber weighing 12-kg (27 pounds) was displayed at Shepton Mallet in Somerset |
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| 2003.Sep | | The primary school opened at Cotford St Luke, Somerset\'s newest village (near Taunton)
It is the only public facility in the new village of 900 houses |
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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.21 | | Kevin Philips, barricaded inside a house in Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset for 2 days and believed armed with a machete give himself up to police
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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.02 | | Dedication of Field of Remembrance
at the Post Office, Liskeard, Cornwall |
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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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