APPROXIMATE DATES IN THE HISTORY OF LEICESTER
| AD 43 |
Thought to be date of a Roman Garrison in the area |
| AD 122 |
Forum and Basilica built |
| AD 150 |
Baths built |
| AD 400 |
End of Roman occupation |
| AD 877 |
Settlement by Danes |
| AD 1016 |
Sacked by Edmund Ironside |
| AD 1086 |
Doomsday Survey |
| AD 1101 |
Leicester plundered |
| AD 1107 |
St Mary de Castro church built |
| AD1143 |
Abbey of St.Mary consecrated |
| AD 1173 |
Sack of leicester |
| AD 1255 |
Jews expelled from leicester |
| AD1331 |
Newarke hospital founded |
| AD 1340 |
Epidemic of Pestulance. |
| AD1348 |
The Black Death |
| AD 1361 |
Return of the black death |
| AD 1414 |
Paliament held in Leicester |
| AD 1485 |
Richard 111 sleeps at Blue Boar in town |
| AD 1513 |
Wyggeston Hospital founded |
| AD1530 |
Cardinel Wolsey died in Leicester Abbey |
| AD 1538/9 |
Destruction and dissolution of Leicester Abbey |
| AD1593, AD 1610, AD 1625 |
Plague in Leicester |
| AD 1632 |
Library Founded |
| AD 1645 |
Town seiege and captured by Royalists and recaptured by Paliamentarians |
| AD 1680's |
First stocking frame machines installed in Town |
| AD 1759 |
First street lights |
| AD 1759 |
First public water pumps |
| AD 1764 |
Stage Coach does journey to London in one Day |
| AD 1767 |
Infirmary established |
| AD 1774 |
Town gates removed |
| AD 1785 |
New Walk laid out |
| AD 1794 |
Canal to Loughborough opened |
| AD 1795 |
'Corn' Famine |
| AD 1821 |
Gas Street lighting installed |
| AD 1832 |
Leicester to Swannington Railway opened |
| AD 1842 |
Chartist's riots in town |
| AD 1843 |
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert visit town |
| AD 1843 |
More rioting in the town |
| AD 1849 |
Town Museum opened |
| AD 1849 |
Water supply from Thornton reservoir opened |
| AD 1870 |
Free Library opened |
| AD 1874 |
First Horse trams in Belgrave Road |
| AD 1876 |
New Town Hall opened |
| AD 1877 |
Wyggeston Boys Scool opened |
| AD 1882 |
Abbey park opened |
| AD 1885 |
Art Gallery opened |
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