Norwich timeline
Find out what has been happening in and around Norwich over the centuries ...
AD 43 to 870
- 43 - Roman invasion
- 61 - Boudican Revolt
- Circa 70 - Roman town of Venta Icenorum founded
- Circa 720 - Small villages on both banks of River Wensum
- Circa 850 - One settlement dominates - Northwic
- 866 - Vikings land in East Anglia
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871 to 1068
- Circa 870 to 917 - Danish occupation / earthwork defences on north bank of river
- 917 - Edward the Elder re-conquers east Anglia
- 924 to 939 - reign of Aethelstan / coins minted in Norwich
- Circa 980 - first documentary evidence of Norwich (in Liber Eliensis)
- 1004 - Norwich sacked by Danes
- 1066 - Norman conquest
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1069 to 1175
- 1068 to 1075 - Normans build Norwich castle using 'local labour'
- 1075 - Earl Ralf of East Anglia plot / castle under siege / Norwich market established
- 1086 - Norwich entered in Doomsday Book
- 1094 to 1096 - Herbert de Losinga establishes Norwich Cathedral
- Circa 1100 - Stone keep added to castle
- 1165 to 1166 - first gaol (jail) built at castle, later moved to keep
- 1175 - Music House built by Isaac Jurnet (oldest domestic building in Norwich )
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1176 to 1349
- 1194 - Norwich granted status of city by Richard I
- Circa 1200 - stone bridge and gatehouse added to castle
- 1253 - Bank and ditch around city
- 1278 - Norwich Cathedral consecrated
- Circa 1280 to 1340 - construction of city Wall and 12 gates
- 1349 - Black Death
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1350 to 1539
- 1381 - Peasants Revolt
- 1398 - Cow Tower built
- 1404 - Charter grants city a mayor and two sheriffs
- 1410 - Guildhall under construction
- 1430 to 1455 - St Peter Mancroft built
- 1536 to 1539 - Dissolution of the monasteries
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1540 to 1800
- 1549 - Norwich besieged by Kett's Rebellion
- 1569 - Elizabeth I visits Norwich
- 1693 - Old Meeting House built by Norwich Non-conformists
- 1754 - Assembly House built by Thomas Ivory
- 1790 to 1810 - Demolition of City Gates
- 1797 - Thomas Bignold founded Norwich Union
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1800 to 2000
- 1803 - John Crome starts artists school - The Norwich School
- 1856 - New Colemans Mustard works opened at Carrow Road
- 1884 - 1910 - Roman Catholic Cathedral of St John the Baptist built
- 1887 to 1894 - Castle gaol demolished and Castle Museum founded
- 1921 - Maddermarket founded by Nugent Monck and Norwich Players
- 1938 - City Hall built and opened by George VI
- 1963 - University of East Anglia (UEA) takes first students
- 1986 - Guildhall becomes Tourist Information Centre
- 1989 to 1993 - Castle Mall shopping centre built
- 1994 - central Norwich Library burnt down
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2000 to Present Day
- 2001 - New library, Norwich Millenium Library and The Forum opens costing £63 million
- 2004 to 2005 New Norwich Market opens
- 2005 - Norwich's new Bus Station opens
- 2005 - 21st September sees the opening of the Chapelfield shopping complex (£1 billion investment / 530,000 sq feet)
- 2007 - July, Norwich is joins the World League of Historical Cities - the first city in England to be admitted
