Timeline of Bath, Somerset

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

Prehistory

1st to 5th centuries

  • 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

11th to 17th centuries

  • 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.
  • 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

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

1800s

Map of the city, drawn in 1818.

1900s

City centre in 1958, still with signs of the Bath Blitz

2000s

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

Births

See also

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

Published in 18th century

Published in 19th century

1800s-1840s

1850s-1890s

Published in 20th century

  • Emanuel Green (1902). Bibliotheca Somersetensis. 1: Bath Books. Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce. OCLC 7080200.
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  • Bryan Little (1947). The Building of Bath 47-1947: an architectural and social study. London: Collins.
  • Walter Ison (1948). The Georgian Buildings of Bath from 1700 to 1830. London: Faber.
  • Benjamin Boyce (1967). The benevolent man: a life of Ralph Allen of Bath. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
  • "Bath in the Eighteenth Century". Apollo. London. November 1973.
  • Peter Coard (1973). Vanishing Bath: buildings threatened and destroyed (3rd ed.). Bath: Kingsmead Press. ISBN 0901571679.
  • Adam Fergusson (1973). The Sack of Bath: a record and an indictment. Salisbury: Compton Russell. ISBN 9780859550024.
    • Adam Fergusson; Tim Mowl (1989). The Sack of Bath and after. Salisbury: Compton Russell. ISBN 085955161X.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Charles Robertson (1975). Bath: an architectural guide. London: Faber. ISBN 0571107508.
  • Larry R. Ford (1978). "Continuity and Change in Historic Cities: Bath, Chester, and Norwich". Geographical Review. 68 (3): 253–273. doi:10.2307/215046. JSTOR 215046.
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  • R. S. Neale (1981). Bath 1680-1850: a social history. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. ISBN 9780710006394.
  • Christopher Pound (1981). Genius of Bath: the city and its landscape. Bath: Millstream. ISBN 9780948975011.
  • Barry Cunliffe; Peter Davenport, eds. (1985). The Temple of Sulis Minerva at Bath. Vol. 1. The site. Monograph 7. Oxford University Committee for Archaeology. ISBN 0947816070.
  • Barry Cunliffe (1986). The City of Bath. Gloucester: Alan Sutton. ISBN 0862992974.
  • Tim Mowl; Brian Earnshaw (1988). John Wood: architect of obsession. Bath: Millstream Books. ISBN 9780948975134.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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  • G. A. Kellaway, ed. (1991). Hot Springs of Bath. Bath City Council. ISBN 9780901303257.
  • Peter Davenport (1999). Archaeology in Bath: excavations 1984–1989. BAR British series 284. Oxford: Archaeopress. ISBN 1841710075.
  • Peter Borsay (2000). Image of Georgian Bath, 1700–2000. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198202652.
  • Barry Cunliffe (2000). Roman Bath Discovered (3rd ed.). Stroud: Tempus. ISBN 0752419021.

Published in 21st century

  • Peter Davenport (2002). Medieval Bath uncovered. Stroud: Tempus. ISBN 075241965X.
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  • John Wroughton (2004). Stuart Bath: Life in the forgotten city, 1603–1714. Bath: Lansdown Press. ISBN 0-9520249-5-0.
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  • John Wroughton (2006). Tudor Bath: Life and strife in the little city, 1485–1603. Bath: Lansdown Press. ISBN 0-9520249-6-9.
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  • Cathryn Spence (2010). Bath City on Show. Brimscombe Port: The History Press. ISBN 978-0-7524-5674-4.
  • Dan Brown & Cathryn Spence (2012). Bath in the Blitz: Then & Now in colour. Brimscombe Port: The History Press. ISBN 978-0-7524-6639-2.
  • Roger Rolls (2012). Douched and Doctored: thermal springs, spa doctors and rheumatic diseases. London Publishing Partnership. ISBN 978-1-907994-09-8.
  • Cathryn Spence (2012). Water, History & Style Bath: World Heritage Site. Brimscombe Port: The History Press. ISBN 978-0-7524-8814-1.
  • Mike Jenner (2013). The Classical Buildings of Bath. Bristol: Redcliffe. ISBN 978-1-908326-03-4.

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