Timeline of Southampton

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Southampton, Hampshire, England.

Prior to 16th century

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• 750 – Market active.^[1]
• 837 – Town besieged by Danes.^[2]
• 980 – Town "ravaged" by Danes (approximate date).^[3]
• 1070 – St. Michael's Church founded.
• 11th century – Southampton Castle built.
• 1124 – St Denys Priory founded.^[4]
• 1180 – Bargate built (approximate date).
• 1197 – God's House hostel and Church of St. Julien established (approximate date).
• 1200 – Long House built (approximate date).
• 1220 – Walter Fortin becomes mayor (approximate date).^[5]
• 1233 – Franciscan Friary founded (approximate date).
• 1236 – Jews expelled.^[6]
• 1239 – Netley Abbey founded near town.
• 1299 – Bowling Green in use.^[7]
• 1300 – Population: 5,000 (approximate).
• 1319 – Venetian state fleet visits Southampton.^[8]
• 1320 – Holyrood Church built.
• 1338 – Town taken by French forces.^[2]
• 1348 – Black plague.^[3]
• 1415 – August: Southampton Plot ringleaders executed at Bargate.
• 1461 – Southampton fair active.^[1]

16th-18th centuries

• 1550 – Grammar school founded.^[4]
• 1552 – Edward VI visits town.^[3]
• 1554 – Philip of Spain visits town.^[3]
• 1669 – Charles II visits town.^[9]
• 1760 – Taunton's School founded.^[10]
• 1761 – Assembly rooms built.^[9][11]
• 1766 – Theatre built.^[11]
• 1772 – Hampshire Chronicle newspaper begins publication.^[12]
• 1798 – Thorners Charity built.^[9]
• 1799 – Northam Bridge built.

19th century

• 1802 – Salisbury and Southampton Canal begins operating.
• 1822 – Southampton County Chronicle newspaper begins publication.^[13]
• 1823 – Public dispensary established.^[2]
• 1830 – Southampton Polytechnic Institution established.^[10]
• 1831 – Population: 19,324.^[14]
• 1836
  • Woolston Floating Bridge (ferry) begins operating.
  • Police force established.
  • Southampton Dock Company incorporated.^[15]
• 1839 – Southampton Terminus railway station opens.
• 1841 – Population: 27,744.^[14]
• 1842
  • Docks built.^[2]
  • Elliott Brothers (builders merchant) in business.
• 1846 – Southampton Old Cemetery begins operating.
• 1849 – James & Co. bookseller in business.^[16]
• 1855 – Southampton School of Art,^[10] and prison on Ascupart Street established.
• 1860 – Southampton Times newspaper begins publication.^[13]
• 1862 – Hartley Institute founded.^[2]
• 1872 – Ordnance Survey buildings constructed.
• 1875
  • Watts Memorial Hall built.^[4]
  • Royal Southampton Yacht Club chartered.
• 1876 – Above Bar Church founded.
• 1879 – Southampton Tramways Company begins operating.
• 1884 – St. Mary's Church built.
• 1885 – St. Mary's Young Men's Association Football Club, and Hampshire Field Club^[17] established.
• 1889 – Southampton Free Public Library established.^[16]
• 1890 – September: Southampton Dock Strike of 1890.
• 1891
  • Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway begins operating.
  • Southampton Docks acquired by the London and South Western Railway company.^[18]
• 1895
  • Bitterne (portion), Freemantle, Millbrook, and Shirley become part of Southampton.^[18]
  • Southampton West railway station opens.
• 1898
  • Southampton Football Club founded.
  • The Dell (stadium) opens.
• 1899 – David Holmes bookseller in business.^[16]

20th century

• 1901 – Population: 104,824.^[4]
• 1905 – Southampton Record Society founded.^[19][20]
• 1907 – White Star Line relocates to Southampton from Liverpool.
• 1912
  • Tudor House Museum established.
  • 10 April: RMS Titanic departs Southampton; later sinks.^[21]
• 1913 – Palladium Cinema opens.^[22]
• 1914 – Scala Cinema opens.^[22]
• 1919
  • January: 1919 Southampton Mutiny.
  • Cunard Line relocates to Southampton from Liverpool.
• 1920
  • Bassett, Bitterne Parish Council, Itchen Urban District Council, and Swaythling become part of Southampton.
  • The Cenotaph (war memorial) unveiled in Watts Park.
• 1925 – Southampton Above Bar Musical and Dramatic Society active.
• 1928 – Empire Theatre opens.
• 1932 – Southampton Municipal Airport established.
• 1933 – King George V Graving Dock opens.
• 1937
  • Southampton Guildhall opens.
  • Foster, Wikner Aircraft company relocates to Southampton.
• 1939 – Southampton City Art Gallery opens.^[23]
• 1940 – November–December: Aerial bombing by German forces.
• 1952 – University of Southampton chartered.
• 1954 – Northam Bridge rebuilt.
• 1961 – Museum of Archaeology opens in God's House Tower.
• 1962 – City of Southampton Society founded.^[24]
• 1964 – Southampton becomes a city.
• 1965 – Wilton Royal factory opens near city.^[25]
• 1966 – Southampton Maritime Museum opens in The Wool House.
• 1968 – Southampton Boat Show begins.
• 1969
  • Southampton Technical College established.
  • Television Centre built.
• 1979 – John Hansard Gallery established.^[26]
• 1984
  • Southampton Institute of Higher Education established.
  • Solent Sky aviation museum opens.^[27]
• 1985 – Medieval Merchant's House restored.
• 1986
  • Ocean Village (marina) area redeveloped.
  • Southampton Citybus in operation.
• 1989 – Bargate Shopping Centre built.
• 1991 – Marlands Shopping Centre in business.
• 1996 – Southampton Oceanography Centre opens.

21st century

• 2000
  • WestQuay shopping centre in business.
  • Chamberlayne Leisure Centre opens in Mayfield Park.
• 2001 – Population: 217,400.^[28]
• 2009 – Carnival House office building opens.
• 2011 – Population: 236,900.^[28]
• 2012 – SeaCity Museum opens.

See also

• History of Southampton

References

Further reading

Published in the 18th century

• Stephen Whatley (1751). "Southampton". England's Gazetteer. London: Printed for J. and P. Knapton. 
• Southampton Guide. Southampton: James Linden. 1768. 
• Nathaniel Spencer (1772). "County of Hants: (Southampton)". Complete English Traveller. London: J. Cooke. 
• Daniel Defoe; Samuel Richardson (1778), "(Southampton)", A Tour Through the Island of Great Britain (8th ed.), London: J.F. and C. Rivingdon 
• J. Hassell (1798). "Tour of the Isle of Wight: (Southampton)". In William Mavor. British Tourists; Or Traveller's Pocket Companion. 5. London. 

Published in the 19th century

1800s-1840s

• John Britton; Edward Wedlake Brayley (1805), "Southampton", Beauties of England and Wales, 6, London: Vernor & Hood 
• Henry Englefield (1805), A Walk through Southampton (2nd ed.), Southampton: Baker and Fletcher, OCLC 422509 
• James Dugdale (1819), "Hampshire: Southampton", New British Traveller, 4, London: J. Robins and Co. 
• "Southampton". Rees's Cyclopædia. 1819. 
• John Bullar (1820). Historical Particulars Relating to Southampton. Southampton. 
• Southampton Guide (26th ed.). Elizabeth Skelton. 1823. 
• Robert Watt (1824). "Southampton". Bibliotheca Britannica. 4. Edinburgh: A. Constable. OCLC 961753. 
• Kidd's picturesque pocket companion to Southampton. W. Kidd. 1830. 
• David Brewster, ed. (1832). "Southampton". Edinburgh Encyclopædia. 17. Philadelphia: Joseph and Edward Parker. 
• "Southampton", Leigh's New Pocket Road-Book of England and Wales (7th ed.), London: Leigh and Son, 1839 
• "Southampton". London and Southampton Railway Guide. London: James Wyld. 1839. 
• John Duthy (1839). "Southampton". Sketches of Hampshire. Winchester: Jacob and Johnson. 
• "Southampton". Hampshire. Journey-Book of England. London: Charles Knight & Co. 1841. 
• "Southampton Station", Mogg's Southampton Railway, and Isle of Wight Guide, London: Edward Mogg, 1845 
• Samuel Lewis (1848), "Southampton", Topographical Dictionary of England (7th ed.), London: S. Lewis and Co. 

1850s-1890s

• "Southampton". Post Office Directory of Hampshire, Wiltshire, and Dorsetshire. Kelly and Co. 1855. 
• Charles Knight, ed. (1867). "Southampton". Geography. English Cyclopaedia. London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co. 
• "Southampton", Black's Guide to Hampshire, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1872 
• Henry March Gilbert (1872), "(Southampton)", Bibliotheca Hantoniensis, Southampton: Ye Olde Booke Shoppe 
• "Southampton", Handbook for Travellers in Surrey, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight (3rd ed.), London: John Murray, 1876 
• "Southampton". Kelly's Directory. 1880. 
• G. Phillips Bevan (1881), "Southampton", Tourist's Guide to Hampshire, including the Isle of Wight, London: Edward Stanford 
• John Parker Anderson (1881), "Hampshire: Southampton", Book of British Topography: a Classified Catalogue of the Topographical Works in the Library of the British Museum Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, London: W. Satchell 
• Thomas William Shore (1882). Guide to Southampton and Neighbourhood. Southampton. 
• J. Silvester Davies (1883), History of Southampton, Southampton: Gilbert & Co. 
• "Southampton". Official Guide to the London and North Western Railway. London: Cassell & Company. 1894. 
• "Southampton", Great Britain (4th ed.), Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1897, OCLC 6430424 
• Charles Gross (1897). "Southampton". Bibliography of British Municipal History. New York: Longmans, Green, and Co. 
• Southampton ; an historical guide to the places of interest in the town and neighbourhood. Southampton: John Adams. 1899. 

Published in the 20th century

• "Southampton". List of Works Relating to British Genealogy and Local History. New York: New York Public Library. 1910. 
• "Southampton". England. Blue Guides. London: Macmillan. 1920. 
• Ruth Hutchinson Crocker (1987). "Victorian Poor Law in Crisis and Change: Southampton, 1870–1895". Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies. 19. JSTOR 4049658. 

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Southampton.

• "Southampton's Local History". Southampton City Council. 
• Hartley Library, Special Collections. "Guide to the Cope Collection and the Local History subject guide". University of Southampton. 
• "Southampton: Timeline". Port Cities UK. UK: New Opportunities Fund. 
• "Hampshire", Historical Directories, UK: University of Leicester . Includes Southampton area directories, various dates.

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Areas and suburbs of Southampton
City of Southampton electoral wards (and their neighbourhoods) listed by constituency — sources: 1 2
Southampton Itchen	Bargate Ward City Centre Holyrood estate Ocean Village The Polygon St Mary's Bitterne Ward Bitterne Thornhill Bitterne Park Ward Bitterne Park Bitterne Manor Midanbury Townhill Park Harefield Ward Harefield Peartree Ward Peartree Green Sholing Ward Sholing Woolston Ward Itchen Ferry village Woolston Weston
Southampton Test	Bevois Ward Bevois Valley Inner Avenue Nicholstown Northam Coxford Ward Lordshill Lordswood Freemantle Ward Freemantle Millbrook Ward Millbrook Regents Park Portswood Ward Portswood Highfield St Denys Redbridge Ward Redbridge Maybush Shirley Ward Shirley Southampton Common
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