Date | Reign | Aldbourne | Britain & World | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ~5,000 BC | Mesolithic | Microliths have been found at Woodsend, Stock Lane & North Farm | |||
| ~2,500 BC | Neolithic | Large numbers of flint implements have been found at the Warren, North Farm, Stock Close & many other places | |||
| ~500 BC | Bronze Age | ||||
| 43 AD | Iron Age | Field systems at Upham, Stock Lane, Hillwood, etc. | 43AD - Roman Conquest | ||
| ~450 AD | Roman Province | Coin hoard at North Farm, traces of baths at Upper Upham | |||
| 519 | Dark Ages | ||||
| 520 | Kingdom of the Gewissae | 597 - Mission of St Augustine of Canterbury | |||
| 648 | Kingdom of Wessex | Cenwalh - Æthelbert | 664 - Synod of Whitby | ||
| 865 | Æthelred | ||||
| 878 | Alfred the Great | Battle of Ethandun. Treaty of Wedmore creates the Danelaw | |||
| 880 | King Alfred leaves "a ham at Ældingburnham" to his nephew Ælthelm | ||||
| late 9th Cty | Alfred the Great | Wooden Saxon church built dedicated to St Mary Magdelene | |||
| 899 | |||||
| 924 | |||||
| 927 | Kingdom of England | House of Wessex | |||
| 939 | Edmund I | ||||
| 946 | Eadred | ||||
| 955 | Eadwig | ||||
| 959 | Edgar the Peaceful | ||||
| 975 | Edward the Martyr | Alfheah, a relative of King Edgar, leaves property in Aldbourne to his brother | |||
| 978 | Æthelred the Unready | Upham named after Hubba, a Danish chieftain. [Manor of?] Aldbourne holds 6 Burgages in Cricklade & a well endowed church | |||
| 1013 | Denmark | Sweyn Forkbeard | |||
| 1014 | Kingdom of England | Wsx | Æthelred the Unready | ||
| 1016 | Edmund Ironside | ||||
| 1016 | Denmark | Cnut | |||
| 1035 | Harold Harefoot | ||||
| 1040 | Harthacnut | ||||
| 1042 | House of Wessex | Edward the Confessor | |||
| 1053 | Earl Godwin leaves the Manor of Aldbourne to his widow, Gytha, the niece of King Cnut | ||||
| 1066 | Harold Godwinson | ||||
| 1066 | Edgar the Ætheling | ||||
| 1066 | House of Normandy | William I | William I siezes the Manor of Aldbourne from Gytha | 1066 - Battle of Hastings | |
| 1086 | Domesday: Aldbourne is assessed as worth £70 p.a. - "a Glebe of two Hides worth 40 shillings and the priest had two ploughs". The land was 45 Carucates (approx. 5,400 acres) with a mile long meadow, pasture one mile by half a mile and wood 2 miles long by half a mile broad. | ||||
| 1087 | William II | ||||
| 1100 | Henry I | ||||
| 1135 | Blois | Stephen | 1135-1153 - The Anarchy | ||
| c1150 | Norman church of St Mary Magdalene built | ||||
| 1154 | Anjou | Henry II | |||
| 1189 | Richard I | ||||
| 1199 | John | 1215 - Magna Carta | |||
| 1216 | Plantagenet | Henry III | Louis the Dauphine garrisons Lewisham Castle | ||
| c1220 | The Norman church is badly damaged by fire; rebuilt with pointed arches | ||||
| 1229 | Henry III gives the Manor of Aldbourne to William Langspée, 4th Earl of Salisbury | 1265 - Defeat of Simon de Montfort at the Battle of Evesham | |||
| 1272 | Edward I | ||||
| 1285 | The Manor of Aldbourne is 16 years in arrears to the Hundred of Selkley | ||||
| 1301 | Richard de Whityngdigh - first known Vicar of Aldbourne | ||||
| 1307 | Edward II | ||||
| 1311 | Regular market is held on the Green every Thursday | 1314 - Battle of Bannockburn | |||
| 1318 | William Walrond is appointed Reeve of Aldbourne Forest. The family remain as Rangers of the Chase until 1620. | ||||
| 1327 | Edward III | Thomas atte Halle lives at Hillwood Farm | |||
| 1365 | John of Gaunt receives Aldbourne from the Earl of Salisbury | 1348 - Black Death arrives in England | |||
| 1377 | Richard II | 1381 - Peasants' Revolt | |||
| 1382 | Aldbourne had a Shambles [stall] at Trowbridge Market | ||||
| c1385 [1399?] | Henry Bolingbroke [later Henry IV] inherits Aldbourne from his father John o' Gaunt | ||||
| 1399 | Lancaster | Henry IV | |||
| 1412 | Henry V | ||||
| 1422 | Henry VI | ||||
| 1440 | John Wykham is appointed Warrener of Aldbourne Chase | ||||
| 1460 | Church is remodelled with present tower by Richard Goddard and rededicated to St Michael the Archangel | ||||
| 1460 | The Chantry of the Fraternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary is founded to tend the Lady Chapel. Henry Frekylton is appointed Chaplain of the Fraternity. | ||||
| 1461 | York | Edward IV | |||
| 1470 | Henry VI | ||||
| 1471 | York | Edward IV | |||
| 1483 | Edward V | ||||
| 1483 | Richard III | ||||
| 1485 | Tudor | Henry VII | 1485 - Battle of Bosworth | ||
| 1492 | Elizabeth Goddard, wife of Richard Goddard dies. She is commemorated by a brass on the floor of the South Aisle | Christopher Columbus discovers the New World | |||
| 1508 | Death of Henry Frekylton. He has a brass on the floor of the Chancel | ||||
| 1509 | Henry VIII | Duchy of Lancaster Rent Roll of Manor of Aldbourne | |||
| 1516 | The oldest bell is hung in the Tower in memory of Richard Goddard and his two wives. An ale is held outside the Blue Boar and the upturned bell is filled with beer. | ||||
| 1527 | The Abbess of Lacocke renewed the lease of land at Upham to John Goddard, woolman | 1534 - Act of Supremacy | |||
| 1539 | Henry VIII grants Upham to John Goddard | 1536 - Dissolution of the Monasteries | |||
| 1541 | Thomas Seymour becomes Rector of Aldbourne | ||||
| 1546 | Chantry of St Mary the Virgin is dissolved | ||||
| 1547 | Edward VI | ||||
| 1553 | Jane | ||||
| 1553 | Mary (& Philip) | The first mention of the name of South Street | |||
| 1558 | Elizabeth | ||||
| 1562 | Reversion of Upham is sold to Thomas Goddard | ||||
| 1588 | Thomas Goddard gives £25 towards defence against the Armada | 1588 - Spanish Armada | |||
| 1590 | The great Dissenter William Wild is born | ||||
| 1600 | Fustian manufacture introduced into England[???] | ||||
| 1603 | Stuart | James I (& VI) | 1605 - Gunpowder Plot | ||
| 1614 | William and Edward Walrond dies. They had lived in the house of the Fraternity of St Mary the Virgin and have an elaborate tomb in the Lady Chapel | ||||
| 1617 | |||||
| 1624 | James I settled Aldbourne Manor on Prince Charles (Charles I) | ||||
| 1625 | Charles I | ||||
| c1626 | Charles I sells the Manor to the City of London | ||||
| 1636 | Last deer killed in the Chase | ||||
| 1637 | Surviving parish registers commence | 1642 - Civil War Begins | |||
| 1643 | Battle of Aldbourne Chase - Prince Rupert's cavalry ambush the Earl of Essex's Army | ||||
| 1644 | On April 10th Charles I musters his army of about 9, 000 men in the Chase | ||||
| 1645 | Royalists attack a Parliamentary company quartered in Aldbourne. | ||||
| 1648 | Plague in Aldbourne | ||||
| 1649 | Inter-regnum | First Commonwealth | 1649 - Execution of King Charles I | ||
| 1653 | Protectorate | ||||
| 1659 | Second Commonwealth | ||||
| 1660 | Kingdon of England | Stuart | Charles II | Ed Witts introduces fustian manufacture into the village | 1660 - Restoration of the Monarchy |
| 1666 | 1666 - Fire of London | ||||
| 1667 | Thomas Fairchild, gardener, and pioneer of the hybridisation of plants, is born in Aldbourne | ||||
| 1669 | Some 300 Dissenters meet at Court House on Thursdays and Saturdays to hear preachers such as Christopher Fowler and Noah Webb | ||||
| 1685 | James II | 1685 - Battle of Sedgemoor | |||
| 1688 | 1688 - Glorious Revolution | ||||
| 1689 | William IV & Mary II | ||||
| 1694 | William & Robert Corr start the manufacture of bells and wooden buttons at Court House | 1701 - Act of Settlement | |||
| 1702 | Anne | ||||
| 1707 | Death of William Wild aged 116 | 1707 - Act of Union | |||
| 1713 | Robert Corr buys Court House from Elizabeth Bond, daughter-in-law of Thomas Bond who had bought the Manor from the City of London | ||||
| 1714 | Hanover | George I | |||
| 1715 | Aldbourne has an Independent Church; S.Oldfield is the Minister | ||||
| 1724 | 24,000 rabbits are counted on the Warren | ||||
| 1727 | George II | ||||
| 1732 | The Market Cross is fitted with an iron lamp | ||||
| 1739 | J.Corr, E.Gould and 100 villagers stone and harass the Constable, Adye Ayres for three nights | ||||
| 1741 | John Starrs and Edward Read take over and run the Bell Foundry at Court House from the Corr family | 1755 - Samuel Johnson's Dictionary published | |||
| 1760 | First Great Fire: Fire destroyed 72 dwellings, a Fustian warehouse and also ricks, barns and granaries to the value of £20,000 | ||||
| 1760 | George III | ||||
| 1760 | Robert Wells started the manufacture bell founding at Bell Court | ||||
| 1764 | Market Cross restored (slanted cross dates from then) | 1776 - American Independence | |||
| 1777 | Second Great Fire: August 24thA great fire destroyed 80 houses and 20 barns to a value of £10,000 plus £3, 000 covered by insurance. Towns, villages far and wide (including Oxford colleges and London Livery Companies) donated money to the relief fund | ||||
| 1778 | Two fire engines, Adam & Eve, were obtained for the village fire brigade | 1779 - Ironbridge built by Abraham Darby | |||
| 1787 | No. 1 bell given to the church by Robert Wells and J.Pizzie and W. Gwynne give No. 2 bell | ||||
| 1790 | Straw plaiting prospers in the village | ||||
| 1800 | The Village Workhouse is built in South Street | 1803 - Battle of Trafalgar | |||
| 1805-9 | Enclosure: The four open fields are surveyed and plots held by all landowners and tenants are consolidated into fields and farms | ||||
| 1807 | Lousa Poor, a slave, is baptized & buried in Aldbourne | 1807 - Slave Trade Act passed | |||
| 1811 | A waterspout accompanies severe flooding in South Street | ||||
| 1814 | Robert Drewe, an Aldbourne-born soldier in the 20th Regiment of Foot, is a pall-bearer at Napoleon Bonaparte's funeral in St Helena | 1815 - Battle of Waterloo | |||
| 1817 | Third Great Fire: Fire destroys 15 cottages, 3 barns, 2 malt-houses, smithy & carpenter's shop to the value of £4, 000 | ||||
| 1820 | George IV | ||||
| 1826 | Robert Wells, Bell-founder, declared bankrupt | 1825 - Stockton & Darlington Railway opens | |||
| 1830 | William IV | Swing Riots: About 400 men came from Ramsbury and demonstrate in the village, smashing threshing machines belonging to Broome Witts & demanding money and food | 1832 - Great Reform Act | ||
| 1834 - New Poor Law Act | |||||
| 1835 | The first brass and reed band forms under Richard Bunce | ||||
| 1837 | Victoria | 1838 - Slavery Abolition Act enforced | |||
| 1837-9 | Tithe Apportionment: Tithes due to ecclesiastical authorities in the parish are assessed and commuted to annual rates | 1838 -Chartist Movement founded | |||
| 1844 | Wesleyan Methodist Chapel built in Lottage Road | 1841 - Great Western Railway reaches Swindon | |||
| 1846 | Baptist Chapel built in Back Lane | 1846 - Corn Laws repealed | |||
| 1851 | Bell founding in Aldbourne finally ceases when the last founder, James Bridgeman, falls when rehanging a church bell and is too badly injured to continue in the trade. | ||||
| 1855 | Chapel School at Woodsend is opened by the Rural Dean | ||||
| 1858 | School built on land donated by W. Brown | 1859 - On the Origin of Species | |||
| 1867 | Church is remodeled by William Butterfield | ||||
| c1867 | Chair making commences | ||||
| 1870 | Ambrose Goddard buys the near-derelict Upham House | 1870 - Education Act | |||
| 1878-9 | Canon Greenwell excavates the Bronze Age Barrows to the North of the village. His finds include the Aldbourne Cup now in the British Museum | ||||
| 1880 | A man named Woodley is the last drunk, to be locked up in the Blind | ||||
| 1887 | A new Church Clock is installed to celebrate the Jubilee | ||||
| 1892 | William Brown gives the Green to the village as his Manor Court is replaced by the Parish Council | ||||
| 1900 | The Windmill is demolished | ||||
| 1901 | Saxe-Coburg-Gotha | Edward VII | |||
| c1902 | Miss Hanbury (later Lady Currie) rebuilds Upham House to the designs of Edward Lutyens | ||||
| c1905 | Snap Farm closes and the last inhabitant of Snap, Rachel Fisher, is moved into the village | ||||
| 1910 | A Village Wedding, written and produced by Charles McEvoy is staged in the Malthouse Barn before George Bernard Shaw and then tours the country | ||||
| 1910 | Windsor | George V | |||
| 1914-18 | First World War: more than 100 Aldbourne men join the Forces. Forty-eight do not return. | ||||
| 1915 | Severe flooding in Lottage, West Street and the Square | ||||
| 1915 | No. 5 Bell recast and the bells are rehung on a steel frame. The clock is repaired and fitted with Westminster Chimes | ||||
| 1924 | Adam & Eve retired from service | ||||
| 1925 | James White of Foxhill gives the Band 41 instruments which cost £650 | 1926 - General Strike | |||
| 1927 | Chair manufacture ceases | ||||
| 1936 | Edward VIII | ||||
| 1936 | George VI | 1936 - Jarrow Hunger March | |||
| 1937 | Seat erected by the Court House & 14 trees planted to commemorate the Coronation of George VI | ||||
| 1939-45 | Second World War: Thirteen Aldbourne men are lost | ||||
| 1940 | Severe flash floods in the centre of the village follow a torrential downpour | ||||
| 1944 | Elements of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division are billeted in Aldbourne in the months before D-Day | 1948 - Olympic Games in London | |||
| 1952 | Elizabeth | ||||
| 1953 - Everest conquered; Queen Elizabeth's Coronation | |||||
| 1961 | New development planned for Aldbourne - Cook & Alma Roads, the Garlings and Westfield Chase | ||||
| 1963 | A very cold winter with prolonged heavy snow and low temperatures | ||||
| 1970 | 18th Century Festival | ||||
| 1971 | First issue of "Parish News" published by Tony Gilligan - August 1971 | ||||
| 1971 | St Michael's Church explodes in the finale of the Doctor Who series "The Daemons" starring Jon Pertwee | ||||
| 1972 | The Sealed Knot Society re-enact the battle of Aldbourne Chase | ||||
| 1974 | Veterans of 101st Airborne are welcomed back on the 30th Anniversary of D-Day | ||||
| 1980 | Victorian Festival | ||||
| 1990 | March- final issue of the "Parish News" | ||||
| 1990 | Roaring Twenties Festival | 1994 - Channel Tunnel Opened | |||
| 1990 | December - the first issue of "The Dabchick" appears | ||||
| 1991 | After intensive local lobbying, new social housing units built in Claridge Close and Lottage Road | ||||
| 2000 | Saxons & Normans Festival | 2005 - July 7th Bombings in London | |||
| 2010 | Cavaliers & Roundheads Festival | 2012 - Olympic Games in London | |||
| 2013 | After a public meeting the Aldbourne Community Heritage Group is formed | ||||
| 2014 | Severe groundwater flooding leaves parts of the village under water for many weeks and Lottage Road closed | ||||
| 2014 | Aldbourne Heritage Centre opens |