60 | Fort at Rossington 50-60AD large enough to hold half a legion. 3000 |
71 | Fort at Burghwallis |
71 | Fort at Danum. Half size of Rossington but larger than Templeborough |
87 | Fort at Danum rebuilt |
120 | Fort at Danum rebuilt |
160 | Fort at Danum rebuilt |
300 | Fort at Danum some reconstruction. Continued until 390AD |
633 | Edwin King of Northumberland killed at Hatfield |
687 | St Cuthbert died. One hiding place from Vikings at Fishlake |
850 | Saxon. 9th cent ornament found in Roman fort Doncaster |
1066 | William I 1066-87 |
1070 | Doncaster - Norman 11th cent Motte & Bailey on Roman fort site |
1087 | William II 1087-1100 |
1100 | Henry I 1100-1135 |
1135 | Stephen 1135-54 |
1141 | Tickhill castle besieged |
1150 | Doncaster castle disappeared mid 12th cent |
1154 | Henry II 1154-89 |
1154 | Tickhill castle gatehouse 1154-1189 |
1170 | Roche Abbey. First appearance of keeled responses on columns |
1180 | Grant of Land Hatchel Woods to Kirkstall 12th cent |
1189 | Richard I 1189-99 |
1191 | Tickhill castle besieged |
1199 | Bawtry first charter |
1199 | John 1199-1216 |
1202 | Wheat 3s per quarter |
1204 | Frost from January to March |
1215 | King John ordered fortification with ditches, bars or gates |
1216 | Henry III 1216-72 |
1250 | St Mary Magdalene 13th cent remodelling |
1272 | Edward I 1272-1307 |
1277 | Windmill. Mention of one in Tickhill |
1300 | Richard Rol a monk at Hampole Priory. Author |
1303 | St Mary Magdalene Rectorial tithes transferred to St Georges |
1305 | Friars Lodge in Marsh Gate removed 1843 |
1307 | Edward II 1307-27 |
1307 | Grey Friars. Mentioned |
1316 | Wheat 20s per quarter |
1321 | Tickhill castle besieged |
1327 | Edward III 1327-77 |
1346 | Carmelite Earliest documentary reference |
1377 | Richard II 1377-99 |
1390 | St Mary Magdalene northern aisle rebuilt |
1399 | Henry Bolingbrook. Henry IV. Oath in Doncaster |
1399 | Henry IV 1399-1413 |
1400 | Campsall Church: South porch 15th cent. Clerestory. |
1400 | Potters working in Hallgate late 12th & 13th cent |
1413 | Henry V 1413-22 |
1420 | Tickhill Church tower heightened |
1422 | Henry VI (Lancs.) 1422-61 & 1470-71 |
1438 | Wheat 4d bushel. Very high. Famine |
1456 | Public well is in Hawgate (High St) |
1461 | Edward IV (Yorks) 1461-70 & 1471-83 |
1470 | Henry VI 1422-61 & 1470-71 |
1471 | Edward IV 1461-70 & 1471-83 |
1474 | Wadworth Church. Tomb of Edmund Fitzwilliam & wife |
1483 | Edward V Apr-June 1483 |
1483 | Richard III 1483-85 |
1483 | Richard III crowned at York (not correct ?) |
1485 | Henry VII 1485-1509 |
1493 | Wheat 6d a bushel |
1509 | Henry VIII 1509-47 |
1517 | Plague in Doncaster |
1520 | Kirk Sandall Church: Chantry Chapel built. William Rokeby |
1524 | Rossington bridge to be repaired |
1536 | Aske rebellion. Later encamped at Scawsby-Leys |
1536 | Pilgrimage of Grace ends at Scawsby Lees |
1538 | Grey Friars. Dissolved |
1539 | Carmelite Prior & six friars surrendered their house at Doncaster |
1539 | Carmelite Prior of Doncaster hanged for treason |
1540 | 2 geldings & 1 nag £4 6s 8d |
1540 | Every house 1d for well lid without the bar (St Sepulchre Gate) |
1540 | Knives. 3 doz 2s 8d |
1541 | Falcon 16d |
1541 | Shirt. 15d |
1543 | Tunic 11s 7d |
1546 | Leyland - all house built of timber with slated (stone) roofs |
1546 | Leyland mentions a chapel on the bridge |
1546 | Leyland. Stone house at end of St Georges. 'Town House' |
1546 | St Mary's bridge with Chapel & stone gate. Leyland |
1546 | House of White Friars now defaced. Leyland |
1547 | Edward VI 1547-53 |
1547 | Grey Friars. Kirkham - guardian executed |
1548 | St Mary Magdalene became Crown property |
1548 | St Mary Magdalene sold to Thomas Reve by Crown |
1551 | A great plague in Doncaster |
1551 | Cantley plague |
1552 | St Mary Magdalene sold to Ralph Boseville |
1553 | Jane |
1553 | Mary I (Bloody Mary) 1553-58 |
1556 | St Mary Magdalene sold & then resold to Corporation. Made into Guild Hall |
1557 | A mare 22s |
1557 | Grammar School founded in Part of St Mary Magdalene |
1557 | St Thomas's Hospital deeds of foundation |
1557 | Wheat 45s per quarter. Failing harvest. After 4s |
1558 | Elizabeth I 1558-1603 |
1559 | ½lb sugar 8d - 1 pair of cards 3d |
1572 | a pair of shoes 12d |
1574 | Wheat 6s a quarter |
1575 | St Mary Magdalene re edified and part converted into a grammar school |
1583 | Cantley plague |
1583 | Great plague. 908 died. 1/3 of population. Doncaster |
1588 | St Thomas's Hospital (6 houses for poor) erected by Thomas Ellis |
1588 | Windmill. Council agreed that one should be built |
1595 | 120 licensed knitters. Tenter = a frame for cloth drying |
1596 | Wheat 10s a quarter |
1603 | James I (VI of Scotland) 1603-25 |
1603 | James I lodged at Doncaster from Scotland on way to be crowned |
1604 | Carr House built by Hugh Childers |
1605 | Doncaster. A plague continues for a year |
1605 | Horse fair to be held in Hallgate from Pynfold to Hall Crosse |
1605 | Sheep fair to be held (in High St) between Butchers Cross & Pynfold |
1605 | Swine fair to be held in Sepulchre Gate within the bars |
1606 | wheat average 34s 1d per quarter |
1608 | Great frost December to April. |
1608 | Windmill. Records of one at Bessacarr |
1614 | Great snow. Friars bridge broken by flood and rebuilt |
1614 | Friars Bridge. New one built |
1614 | Gallows taken down. Doncaster |
1614 | Renewal of Charter. Mayor & 24 burgesses |
1614 | Water mill rebuilt. Doncaster |
1615 | Doncaster Moor. Race to be discontinued |
1615 | Doncaster Moor. Agree to survey to ditch & enclose |
1622 | Paid £3,000 for Lordship of Doncaster |
1625 | Charles I 1625-49 |
1627 | Plague in Doncaster |
1629 | Fishergate paved |
1631 | Charles I lodged in Doncaster |
1631 | Plague in Doncaster |
1631 | Rossington bridge built |
1633 | Cantley plague 20 burials |
1634 | Great snow. |
1634 | May pole in the market place taken down and a cross erected |
1637 | Town Hall in the Church Yard to be re-edified. Schoolmaster lived there |
1642 | Charles I at Doncaster |
1643 | Doncaster passed to Royalist |
1644 | Cantley plague 21 burials |
1644 | Charles I attended divine service in Doncaster |
1644 | Doncaster passed to Roundheads after Marston Moor |
1644 | Tickhill castle fell after Marston Moor. Billeted by Scots. Cromwell troops. |
1645 | Plague in Doncaster |
1646 | Bridges in decay & need repairing |
1646 | Marsh Gate flood |
1647 | Col Rainsborough (Roundhead) killed by Royalist soldiers |
1647 | Tickhill castle dismantled by Parliamentarians |
1649 | Charles I beheaded |
1650 | William Pells house 17 century |
1651 | Quakers first appear in Doncaster |
1655 | Every person to grind corn at public mills only |
1657 | Stocks in Market Place |
1660 | Arksey alms houses built by Sir Brian Cooke |
1660 | Charles II (restored) 1660-85 |
1660 | Plague in Doncaster |
1661 | Mill Bridge washed away by flood |
1662 | A new Charter granted |
1663 | Doncaster Charter renewed |
1666 | Plague in Doncaster |
1670 | Population Doncaster 2000 approx (Frankland 1983 paper) |
1679 | Cross in market Place erected. Replacing earlier. Pump nearby |
1679 | Ote di Tilli cross rebuilt at top of Hallgate/ South Parade |
1680 | New Butchers Cross built |
1682 | Scot Lane paved |
1683 | Severe frost for 3 months |
1683 | Riot by Sir John Reresbys soldiers |
1685 | Doncaster charter renewed |
1685 | James II (VII of Scotland) 1685-88 |
1686 | Wheatley Hall built 1686 by Sir Henry Cooke |
1688 | A new Charter |
1689 | 1688-1689 Glorious Revolution to remove James II |
1689 | Water Mills rebuilt and the wash repaired |
1689 | William III & Mary II 1689-1702 |
1694 | Rainy autumn poor crops |
1694 | Wheat 67s 8d a quarter |
1699 | Water engine built and pipes laid in the streets |
1702 | Anne 1702-14 |
1702 | Dials placed on the Butter cross |
1702 | Wheat 8s a quarter |
1703 | Butchers, barbers & others to be restrained from trading on Sunday |
1703 | Flooding |
1703 | Water wheel built on Cheswold |
1703 | Windmill from Bessacarr be built on old windmill hill Balby |
1704 | Unitarian Chapel built. Doncaster |
1707 | Vicarage new built. Doncaster |
1707 | Windmill corn mill & salmon hecks let |
1713 | Pump in Market Place instead of the draw well |
1713 | Whipping Post to be set up at Butchers Cross |
1714 | Council. Great debt reduced expenditure |
1714 | George I 1714-27 |
1714 | Oath of Allegiance |
1719 | William Pells house at Pells Close bought as a poor house |
1719 | Workhouse established. Doncaster |
1720 | Alms houses built for 6 poor. Doncaster |
1721 | Bill for making Don navigable |
1725 | Butchers Cross taken down. Doncaster |
1726 | Dun Navigation from Doncaster to Tinsley. 1726/27. 1819 to Sheffield |
1726 | Grant for making more of the river navigable |
1727 | George II 1727-60 |
1727 | Lock & cut at Mill Bridge made |
1727 | Tax. Every housekeeper to pay 1d per pound rent for cleaning streets |
1727 | wheat averaged 30s a quarter |
1729 | A lock built at Sandall |
1730 | Town Hall new sash windows |
1731 | Teacher salary £30 pa |
1732 | A lock built at Barnby Dun |
1732 | All poor people to go to the poor house |
1733 | Wheat 4s a bushel |
1734 | Committee for turnpike from Salter's brook |
1734 | Committee for turnpike to Barnsley |
1736 | St Thomas's hospital rebuilt. Doncaster |
1737 | Teacher £50 pa |
1738 | A sick club (first) established called the Mutual Society. Doncaster |
1739 | Wheat 7s a bushel |
1740 | Cusworth Hall new building |
1740 | Mansion House. Order for plans & estimates |
1740 | Old Friars bridge taken down & new one built |
1740 | Presbyterian chapel built. Doncaster |
1740 | Severe frost. |
1740 | Turnpike. From Doncaster to Salterbrook & also to Tadcaster |
1741 | Balby to Worksop turnpike |
1741 | Mansion House. Plans approved |
1744 | 6000 English & Hessians camped upon Wheatley Hills |
1744 | Mansion House. built £8000 |
1744 | Wheat 59s a quarter. A great scarcity |
1745 | Great number of Wades army sick. Town unable to look after them |
1749 | Mill bridge. Roof over gateway to be pulled down |
1750 | Don overflowed |
1750 | Wheat 32s a quarter |
1752 | Fire engine to be lodged at the Mansion House |
1752 | Mill bridge & Friars Bridge road between raised above level of floods |
1753 | Making a road & building a bridge west end of river Torne |
1754 | Turnpike in bad state of repair from Milne bridge to Lady Pitt bridge |
1755 | Riot at election in Doncaster |
1756 | Butchers Shambles & Butter Cross built |
1756 | History of Doncaster by Edward Miller. 1804. Elected organist |
1756 | Ravenfield Church. Designed by John Carr |
1756 | Shambles. Plan for octagon cross |
1756 | The New Shambles and Butter Cross built. |
1760 | George III 1760-1820 |
1761 | Grammar school investigation about neglect by schoolmaster |
1764 | New flood gates at Crimpsall |
1764 | Population Doncaster 3300 approx (Frankland 1983 paper) |
1765 | Lamps fixed in the streets. Doncaster |
1767 | Old gaol taken down and a new gaol built |
1769 | Arthur Young Traveller stayed at Crown. 'Middling but cheap dinner' |
1772 | Market cross demolished |
1773 | Doncaster. Old water mills taken down and expensive ones rebuilt |
1774 | Alverley Hall built circa by John Dixon of Wadworth |
1775 | Theatre in Market Place built by Wm Lindley |
1776 | Turnpike. Doncaster to Bawtry Road act passed |
1777 | Cantley Enclosure Act |
1777 | Race Course new course and new stand erected |
1777 | Race Course. All work to be stopped except stand until 1779 |
1777 | Retford & Chesterfield Canal |
1777 | Tickhill 1777 Buttercross built |
1779 | Cantley Enclosure Act awards |
1779 | New gaol in St Sepulchre Gate/West Laith Gate. Dem 1829 |
1780 | Buildings in High Street to be taken down for road widening |
1780 | Many streets widened and paved. Doncaster |
1780 | Rossington Bridge & Mill Bridge to be rebuilt |
1780 | Stone Mill bridge built |
1782 | Mill bridge. Rebuilt |
1786 | Cantley Hall built circa 1786 by Childers Walbank Childers |
1786 | New Inn at Rossington bridge |
1786 | Sunday schools established for boys and girls |
1786 | Wheat 30s-42s a quarter |
1787 | Edmund Cartwright set up a manufactory of calicoes etc |
1788 | Friars bridge. Committee appointed for rebuilding |
1792 | Earthquake in Doncaster |
1792 | John Bing (Viscount Torrington) stayed at Old Angel. Town well paved & wide streets |
1793 | Dispensary, French Gate. Architect William Lindley. Closed 1867. Dem 1969 |
1793 | Otto de Tilli's cross taken down. Copy erected Hob Cross Hill |
1793 | Reservoir built to look like a house. 28,000 gals |
1793 | Reservoir built at top of Hallgate. Regent Sq |
1795 | Duke of York stayed with regiment |
1797 | Penny pieces of copper first used in England |
1798 | Dissenters chapel first built. 1804 new chapel in Hallgate |
1799 | Quakers bought land in Laithe-Gate (West) for a new meeting house |
1800 | Mansion House. raised in height |
1800 | Population Doncaster 5697. 1246 house. 1260 families. 2477 m. 3220 f |
1800 | Sedan chair. Three & six men |
1801 | Hurricane. Many houses unroofed. Barns & chimneys down |
1801 | Wheat 60s a quarter |
1802 | Sewer. Plans for first under ground drains in Doncaster |
1802 | Stainforth & Keadby canal linked Don & Trent |
1803 | 53rd Foot stayed |
1804 | Independent Dissenters Chapel built in Hallgate |
1804 | Methodist chapel in Spring Gardens built |
1804 | Penny loaf weighs 6oz 8dr. |
1805 | Elmfield House built by JW Childers for his mother Sarah |
1806 | 8th Foot stayed |
1810 | Loversall Hall rebuilt by James Fenton |
1811 | Population Doncaster 6935 |
1812 | Butter to be sold at 16oz to lb not 18oz |
1812 | Cantley Vicarage rebuilt |
1812 | Wheat 66s a quarter |
1816 | National School. Marshgate |
1816 | St Georges National School. West Laith Gate |
1818 | Water corn mills burnt down & rebuilt |
1819 | Library & newsroom erected High Street/ St Sepulchre Gate |
1820 | George IV 1820-30 |
1820 | Primitive Methodist first meeting in Doncaster |
1821 | New Connexion Chapel built see 1843 |
1821 | Population Doncaster 8544 |
1822 | Congregational Chapel built |
1826 | Albion Terrace erected |
1826 | Doncaster Gas Company established |
1826 | Subscription Rooms built |
1827 | Christ Church foundation stone laid. Finished 1829 |
1827 | Doncaster. Gas works erected |
1829 | Deaf School founded. Doncaster |
1829 | Foundation stone laid for a new gaol. Cost £3000 |
1830 | Priory Place formed |
1830 | William IV 1830-37 |
1831 | Elephant PH in High St demolished |
1831 | Population Doncaster 10801 |
1832 | Doncaster Cholera |
1832 | Turnpike. Doncaster to Selby |
1832 | Wesleyan Chapel built. Replaced small Bethel chapel in Lower Fisher Gate |
1833 | St Peters RC church built |
1833 | St Peters RC school Princes St |
1835 | British School built (founded 1832). Wood Street. Demolished circa 1995 |
1835 | Plans for new sewers |
1835 | Primitive Methodist Chapel built in Balby |
1835 | Primitive Methodist chapel built in Hatfield |
1836 | Christ Church spire struck by lightning |
1836 | Police. First police force in Doncaster |
1837 | Population Doncaster 11000 approx In Approx 2000 Houses |
1837 | Union Workhouse opened (Hexthorpe bridge) Closed 1901 |
1837 | Victoria 1837-1901 |
1839 | School opened in the Workhouse |
1840 | North Midland Rwy. Derby/Leeds. Closest to Doncaster was Swinton |
1841 | Population Doncaster 10455 |
1843 | Last Elizabethan house in French Gate removed |
1843 | Friars bridge New one over canal built |
1843 | Friars Lodge in Marsh Gate removed. Built 1305 |
1843 | New Cut built in Doncaster |
1843 | Primitive Methodist bought chapel from New Connexion in Duke St |
1844 | Workhouse in St Sep pulled down. Corner Printing Office St |
1845 | Cantley windmill converted to steam |
1846 | London to Doncaster. Act finally passed. Helped by Edmund Dennison |
1846 | Market Hall Site cleared |
1847 | Grammar school built in St Georges Gate (Rear of old library) |
1848 | Connected to Askern (to York) temporary station built. |
1848 | Guildhall opened (dem 1969) on site of the Old Angel French Gate |
1849 | First Doncaster station built. Wooden. Rebuilt 1865 |
1849 | Market Hall opened. Southern extension 1871 |
1850 | Cadbey church built 1850 ? by Gilbert Scott |
1850 | Christ Church spire damaged in gales |
1850 | Railway to Thorne. Re-aligned in 1866. Other line in 1869 |
1851 | Population Doncaster 12052 |
1851 | Queen Victoria stayed at Angel (& Royal) on way to Balmoral by train |
1852 | Christ Church National Schools |
1852 | Railway. London to Doncaster all completed by 1852 |
1853 | Plant works built. Also 300 cottages & bridge & hospital |
1853 | St Georges burnt down |
1853 | St James's Hospital, Cleveland/St Sep. Became YMCA. Dem 1963 |
1854 | GNR Schools 1854. St James burnt down 1895 |
1854 | Primitive Methodist new chapel built in Spring Gardens 1854? |
1856 | Doncaster cemetery opened |
1857 | Dickens visited Doncaster |
1857 | Sedan chair last seen used by Mrs Leonard Childers of South Belmont |
1858 | St Georges rebuilt |
1859 | Another threat of war. Volunteers raised |
1860 | Ragged school. New building in Factory Lane |
1861 | Population Doncaster 16406 |
1862 | Public baths built |
1863 | Burden Street new |
1865 | Doncaster station rebuilt |
1866 | Bass Terrace built ? |
1866 | Cholera 30 deaths. Doncaster |
1866 | Corporation still getting water from Cheswold |
1866 | Doncaster cholera |
1867 | Infirmary & Dispensary, Wood Street. Demolished 1994 |
1867 | Marshgate School |
1868 | Primitive Methodist. Another chapel built in Balby |
1868 | St Georges National School. New site near church |
1869 | Grammar School new building Thorne Road opened |
1869 | Primitive Methodist chapel built in Hexthorpe |
1871 | Direct line to York via Selby |
1871 | Oxford Place Wesleyan Schools |
1871 | Population Doncaster 18768 |
1871 | Windmill on Thorne Road demolished. |
1873 | Booth - Novelist & musician. Lived at Young St |
1873 | Corn Exchange opened |
1873 | First reservoir at Hooton Roberts/Thrybergh |
1873 | Sewage works opened |
1873 | St Peters RC. New school at Portland Place |
1874 | Cantley Church 1874 restoration by Gilbert Scott |
1880 | Doncaster Rovers FC formed circa 1880. |
1880 | E.W.Clark. Opens shop in Bennetthorpe selling bikes & Penny farthings |
1881 | Population Doncaster 21139 |
1882 | Station Road built |
1885 | Hexthorpe mixed school. Shadyside |
1885 | Mixed school. Balby Road |
1885 | St Mary's Church. Beckett Road |
1886 | Great flood. |
1888 | Holmes National School. Chapel St. Dockin Hill |
1889 | Free library built St George's Gate. Dem 1970 |
1891 | Population Doncaster 25933 |
1892 | Presbyterian Church opened. Waterdale/Wood St ? |
1894 | Baptist's chapel in Chequer Road opened |
1894 | Cantley Church restored & re opened |
1894 | Masters.FW Mayor. Architect designs Post Office, Yorkshire Bank & other houses |
1894 | St Judes, Hexthorpe completed June 1894. Cost 4,320 |
1894 | Yorkshire Penny opening on High Street |
1895 | Floods |
1895 | Great Frost in Doncaster |
1895 | Hyde Park school |
1895 | Town Moor Avenue opened |
1895 | York City Bank (now Midland premises) purchased Baxter Gate corner |
1896 | E.W.Clark. moves to Station Road. Eventually selling motor bikes & cars |
1897 | (St Mary's) bridge planned |
1897 | Butchers pump removed from High St/Newsroom corner |
1897 | Co-op opened in Station Road |
1897 | New GNR school |
1897 | Turkish Baths and shops opened. Station Road |
1897 | Wheatley Board School. Beckett Road |
1899 | Grand Theatre opened. Builder H. Arnold & Son |
1899 | Hexthorpe Junior school. Shadyside |
1900 | Christ Church spire taken down early 20th cent |
1900 | Corporation generating station in Grey Friars Road opened |
1900 | Population Doncaster 28708 |
1901 | Edward VII 1901-10 |
1901 | Population Doncaster 28932 |
1901 | Victoria Infants. Littlemoor Lane |
1902 | Trams (First) |
1903 | Water closets. Order that all new buildings have one |
1905 | Agricultural show in June |
1905 | High School for Girls 1905. in former St Georges vicarage |
1905 | New Junction canal linking Dun Navigation and Aire & Calder |
1907 | Wheatley Park. Beckett Road/Morley Road |
1908 | Bentley Pit sunk |
1908 | Cantley windmill sails blown off |
1908 | Senior school. King Edward Road |
1909 | First English Aviation show held in Doncaster |
1909 | Ram Inn pulled down & Danum Hotel built |
1910 | Carcroft pit (Bullcroft) opened. closed 1971 |
1910 | George V 1910-36 |
1910 | St Peters RC. New school at Lord Street |
1911 | E.W.Jackson. 1911-1914 built Cheswold car. 80-150 examples incl ambulance |
1911 | High School for Girls. New building in Waterdale |
1911 | Population Doncaster 30516 |
1913 | Oswin Avenue school demolished circa 1995 |
1914 | Picture House High st opened |
1915 | Technical College. Church View |
1916 | Water wheel replaced by electric pump. In use for fire & streets until 1953 |
1919 | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle visited Doncaster |
1920 | Becketts Bank High St pull down early 1920s |
1921 | Population Doncaster 54064 |
1927 | Cantley windmill ceased operations |
1928 | Trams replaced 1928-1935 |
1930 | First Infirmary on Thorne Road opened. |
1936 | Edward VIII |
1936 | George VI 1936-52 |
1938 | Christ Church new spire |
1952 | Elizabeth II |