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Timeline of Bath, Somerset

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

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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

Roman Baths with Abbey beyond as at c.1900

1700s

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

1800s

Map of the city, drawn in 1818.
  • 1800
  • 1801
    • January: Jane Austen becomes resident in Bath when her father retires here; she will remain until summer 1806 living mostly in the new-built Sydney Place.
    • 1 May: Kennet and Avon Canal opens from Bath to Devizes[48] (completion of the locks at the latter place at the end of 1810 creates through inland water communication to London).[49]
Footbridges over Kennet and Avon Canal in Sydney Gardens

1900s

Empire Hotel with Pulteney Bridge beyond
City centre in 1958, still with signs of the Bath Blitz

2000s

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

Births

John Palmer (postal innovator) at age 75

See also

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Bibliography

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

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External links

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