|
|
LOCAL TIME LINE |
|
700,000
|
PALAEOLITHIC
|
|
700,000 |
First Humans in Britain
|
|
500,000
|
Lower Palaeolithic hand axes found at Longmoor and Kingsley |
| 20,000 |
Peak of last Ice Age
|
| 10,000 | MESOLITHIC |
| 10,000 | The Warren thousands of flint tools discovered |
| 4,300 | NEOLITHIC |
| 4000-2300 | Axes and leaf arrow heads found at Longmoor |
|
3000
|
Henge
Monuments Stonehenge (phase 1) and Avebury
|
|
2570
|
Building of Pyramids at Giza,Egypt |
| 2,300 | BRONZE AGE |
|
2300-1500
|
Large numbers of Round Barrows around
Whitehill-Bordon
|
|
2300-700
|
Hogmoor Hoard, weapons hoard found at
Whitehill. |
|
700
|
IRON AGE
|
|
700-300
|
Walldown Earthwork? |
|
55
|
Julius Caesar fails to conquer Britain
|
|
0
|
|
|
AD43
|
ROMANS
|
|
AD43
|
Roman Invasion of Britain
|
|
61
|
Boudicca's Revolt Colchester razed
|
|
100
|
Chichester to Silchester Rd passes through Woolmer
& Blackmoor
|
|
122-140
|
Hadrian and Antonine Walls (keep out Picts in
Scotland)
|
|
293
|
Blackmoor Hoard,29,773 roman coins found
|
|
296
|
Battle of Woolmer Constantius Chlorus defeats
Allectus to retake Britain
|
|
43-410
|
Two Roman Coin Hoards found at Woolmer Pond and one
at Hogmoor
|
|
60-420
|
Alice Holt Ware Major Roman Pottery Centre at
Alice Holt
|
|
400
|
Angles, Saxons and Jutes raid then begin to settle in
Britain
|
|
410
|
SAXONS |
|
597 |
St Augustine brings Christianity back to Britain |
|
625
|
Saxon King Raedwald buried at Sutton Hoo |
|
878
|
Alfred the Great of Wessex defeats the Danes
|
| 1066 |
NORMANS |
|
1066 |
Norman Invasion Battle of Hastings |
|
1086
|
Domesday Book Headley Mill and Oakhanger mentioned
|
|
1154
|
MEDIAEVAL |
|
1199-1216
|
King John and Magna Carta Hunting lodge at
Walldown
|
|
1230
|
"Burdunesdene" (Bordon literally a
Hillfort above a valley)
|
|
1240
|
Knights Templar at Templar,Blackmoor.Order
suppressed 1312
|
|
1254
|
Great Chapel at Blackmoor erected
|
|
1270
|
"Le Whitestigele" (first reference to
Whitehill)
|
|
1284-5
|
Woolmer Hunting Lodge built by Edward I
|
|
1348-9
|
Black Death
|
|
1350
|
"la Holywatre juxta iueleybrigg" (first
reference to Hollywater)
|
|
1387
|
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales wife buried at Worldham
|
|
1415
|
Battle of Agincourt
|
|
1455-85
|
Wars of the Roses
|
|
1483
|
TUDORS
|
|
1492
|
Columbus Discovers America
|
|
1509
|
Prince Hal,Ranger of Woolmer becomes Henry VIII
|
|
1536-40
|
Dissolution of the Monasteries.Selborne Priory
already dissolved
|
|
1603
|
STUARTS |
|
1605
|
Gunpowder Plot
|
|
1642
|
English Civil Wars - Royalist encampment at
Walldown, Whitehill
|
|
1649
|
Execution of Charles I.Commonwealth established
|
|
1666
|
The Great Plague and Fire of London
|
|
1688
|
GEORGIAN PERIOD |
|
1689
|
Glorious Revolution and Bill of Rights
|
|
1710
|
Queen Anne watches deer herds at Queen's
Bank,Woolmer
|
|
1750-1830
|
Agricultural Revolution and Industrialisation
|
|
1789
|
Gilbert White (The Natural
History of Selborne). |
|
1805
|
Battle of Trafalgar
|
|
1815
|
Battle of Waterloo
|
|
1826
|
Turnpike Road (A325) with tollhouse at Sleaford
|
|
1830
|
Workhouse Swing Riots at Selborne and Headley
|
|
1837
|
VICTORIANS |
|
1859
|
Darwin publishes Origin of Species.Queen Victoria
visits troops at Longmoor
|
|
1863
|
War Department buys land at Longmoor
|
|
1866-9
|
1st Lord Selborne. Waterhouse designs Blackmoor
Estate
|
|
1899
|
The Boer War
|
|
1901-
|
TO DATE MODERN PERIOD |
|
1901-03
|
Army moves into Longmoor and Bordon
|
|
1905
|
Longmoor 'Loop' Railway opens. Closes
|
|
1910
|
King George V visits troops at Bordon
|
|
1914-18
|
The Great War (WWI)
|
|
1928-9
|
Parish of Whitehill created out of Selborne and
Headley Parishes
|
|
1935-45
|
World War II
|
|
1969
|
Neal Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on Moon
|
| 1989-91 |
Fall of Berlin Wall and break up of Soviet Union
|
| 2004 |
Museum case officially opened in Bordon Library |
