Timeline of Bath, Somerset

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Bath, Somerset, England.

Prehistory

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1st to 5th centuries

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  • c. 60s – First Roman temple structures built, around the hot water springs; completed by 76.
  • 2nd century
    • Early: Baths extended.
    • Late: Baths vaulted.
  • 3rd century – By this time, Bath city walls are built for defence.
  • 300–350 – Evidence for Christians in Bath.
  • 5th century – Following the end of Roman rule in Britain, Bath is largely abandoned.

6th to 10th centuries

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11th to 17th centuries

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  • 1087 – Town, Abbey and mint pass to John of Tours.
  • 1090 – John of Tours, Bishop of Wells, moves the episcopal seat to Bath, giving it city status.
  • Early 12th century? – King's Bath built.
  • 1102 – Bath fair active.[4]
  • 1137 – Major fire.[6]
  • 1148–1161 – Abbey consecrated between these dates.[6]
  • c. 1174 – St John's Hospital founded.
  • 1273 – Old Bridge extant.
  • 1285 – Church of St Michael's Within built in St John's Hospital.
  • c. 1333 – Monks of the abbey establish a weaving trade in Broad Street.[7]
  • 1371 – Market mentioned in charter.
  • c. 1435 – Hospital of St Catherine established.
  • 1482 – "Sally Lunn's House" built.
  • c. 1495 – St Mary Magdalen, Holloway, built as a chapel to a leper's hospital.[6]
  • 1499 – Abbey found derelict by Oliver King, Bishop of Bath and Wells, who begins its reconstruction.[8]
 
Roman Baths with Abbey beyond as at c.1900
  • 1533 – Rebuilding of Abbey substantially completed by this date.[6]
  • 1539 – January: Dissolution of the Monasteries: Abbey surrendered.
  • 1552
  • 1572
    • The roofless Abbey is given to the corporation of Bath[6] for restoration as a parish church.
    • Dr. John Jones makes the first public endorsement of the medicinal properties of the city's water.
  • 1576 – Queen's Bath built.
  • 1578 – Drinking fountain installed in the Baths.
  • 1590 – Bath chartered (city status confirmed) by Elizabeth I.[10]
  • 1597 – Deserving poor given free use of the mineral water.[11]
  • 1608 – Bellott's Hospital established.
  • 1613 and 1615 - Anne of Denmark, wife of James VI and I, visits Bath for her health
  • 1616 – Abbey Church consecrated.[12]
  • 1625–1628 – Guildhall rebuilt.[13]
  • 1643 – 5 July: Battle of Lansdowne fought near the city.
  • 1657 – Regular coach service from London.
  • 1676 – Dr. Thomas Guidott publishes A discourse of Bathe, and the hot waters there. Also, Some Enquiries into the Nature of the water, the first published account of the medicinal properties of the city's water.
  • 1677 – West Gate pub in business.
  • 1680 – Supposed origin of the Sally Lunn bun.
  • 1687 – Mary of Modena, queen consort of James II of England, visits in the hope that Bath waters would aid conception; by the end of the year she is pregnant with James Francis Edward Stuart.

1700s

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View of Bath, 18th century
 
Royal Crescent, climax of the Woods' Bath
 
Bath Assembly Rooms
 
Thomas Rowlandson, Comforts of Bath – The Pump Room (1798)

1800s

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Map of the city, drawn in 1818.
  • 1800
  • 1801
    • January: Jane Austen becomes resident in Bath when her father retires here; she will remain until summer 1806 living mostly in the new-built Sydney Place.
    • 1 May: Kennet and Avon Canal opens from Bath to Devizes[48] (completion of the locks at the latter place at the end of 1810 creates through inland water communication to London).[49]
 
Footbridges over Kennet and Avon Canal in Sydney Gardens

1900s

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Empire Hotel with Pulteney Bridge beyond
 
City centre in 1958, still with signs of the Bath Blitz

2000s

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Thermae Bath Spa
 
Elizabeth Park in the Bath Western Riverside residential development, opened in 2019

Births

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John Palmer (postal innovator) at age 75

See also

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References

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Christopher Anstey, author of The New Bath Guide, with his daughter, painted by Bath resident artist William Hoare c.1777

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