Miss Susan Gay's Falmouth chronology

A chronology
Chronology
Chronology is the science of arranging events in their order of occurrence in time, such as the use of a timeline or sequence of events. It is also "the determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events".Chronology is part of periodization...

of the town of Falmouth
Falmouth, Cornwall
Falmouth is a town, civil parish and port on the River Fal on the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It has a total resident population of 21,635.Falmouth is the terminus of the A39, which begins some 200 miles away in Bath, Somerset....

was described by Miss Susan E. Gay

Susan Elizabeth Gay

Susan Elizabeth Gay was a chronicler of Falmouth in a book published in 1903 entitled Old Falmouth ....

in Old Falmouth (1903), pages 230–238.

Before the eighteenth century

9th century. Pendennis
Pendennis
Pendennis is a novel by the English author William Makepeace Thackeray. It is set in 19th century England, particularly in London. The main hero is a young English gentleman Arthur Pendennis who is born in the country and sets out for London to seek his place in life and society...

supposed to have been fortified by the Danes.
1120 The naming of Gyllyngvase
Gyllyngvase
Gyllyngvase is one of the four beaches associated with Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom, south of Pendennis Castle.It is to the south of Falmouth town centre, but was an essentially rural area as recently as the late 19th century...

.
1403 Manor of Arwenack acquired by the Killigrew
Killigrew
-Family of, or descended from, Arwenack, Falmouth, Cornwall and Hanworth, Middlesex:* Anne Killigrew , the poet* Catherine Killigrew * Henry Killigrew , English diplomat* Henry Killigrew , playwright...

family, temp. Richard II
Richard II of England
Richard II was King of England, a member of the House of Plantagenet and the last of its main-line kings. He ruled from 1377 until he was deposed in 1399. Richard was a son of Edward, the Black Prince, and was born during the reign of his grandfather, Edward III...

; Landing of the Duchess Dowager of Bretagne at Falmouth Haven, on her way to wed Henry IV
Henry IV of England
Henry IV was King of England and Lord of Ireland . He was the ninth King of England of the House of Plantagenet and also asserted his grandfather's claim to the title King of France. He was born at Bolingbroke Castle in Lincolnshire, hence his other name, Henry Bolingbroke...

.
1538 Old Fort erected on Pendennis Point; oldest (existing) fortification of Pendennis built.
1542 St. Mawes Castle built.
1542-44 Pendennis Castle built, temp. Henry VIII. Sir John Killigrew first Governor, which office he retained until 1567.
1544 Supposed date of Henry VIII
Henry VIII of England
Henry VIII was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was Lord, and later King, of Ireland, as well as continuing the nominal claim by the English monarchs to the Kingdom of France...

's visit to the two castles.
1552 Date of Sir Walter Raleigh
Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh was an English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer. He is also well known for popularising tobacco in England....

's visit.
1567 Arwenack manor house built by John Killigrew.
1600 Ale-house called "Penny-come-quick," near Greenbank quay, established by Mr. Pendarves' servant."
1600 Arwenack House, and a few fishermen's huts, all that were built (1550 has also been mentioned as the date, possibly of the erection of the house).
1613 Date of the rise of Falmouth; Sir John Killigrew's plan.
1613 Petitions of Truro
Truro
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, Penryn
Penryn, Cornwall
Penryn is a civil parish and town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated on the Penryn River about one mile northwest of Falmouth...

and Helston
Helston
Helston is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated at the northern end of the Lizard Peninsula approximately 12 miles east of Penzance and nine miles southwest of Falmouth. Helston is the most southerly town in the UK and is around further south than...

to James I
James I of England
James VI and I was King of Scots as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the English and Scottish crowns on 24 March 1603...

against its progress.
1619 Sir John established a lighthouse at the Lizard
The Lizard
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1620 Visitation of the Heralds
Heraldic visitation
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.
1642 Prince Charles (Charles II
Charles II of England
Charles II was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland.Charles II's father, King Charles I, was executed at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War...

) at Pendennis Castle, protected by the Governor, John Arundel
John Arundell (born 1576)
Sir John Arundell , nicknamed "Jack for the King", was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1597 and 1640. He was Royalist governor of Pendennis Castle during the English Civil War....

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1644-5 Duke of Hamilton confined in Pendennis Castle.
1644 Queen Henrietta Maria at Pendennis Castle on her way to France.
1646 Pendennis Castle besieged by Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell was an English military and political leader who overthrew the English monarchy and temporarily turned England into a republican Commonwealth, and served as Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland....

's forces under Sir Thomas Fairfax
Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron
Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron was a general and parliamentary commander-in-chief during the English Civil War...

, in March, and Arwenack House partly destroyed by fire. Surrendered in August, 1646.

1650 The Custom-house removed from Penryn
Penryn, Cornwall
Penryn is a civil parish and town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated on the Penryn River about one mile northwest of Falmouth...

to Falmouth, near the Market Strand.
1652 Markets established by Sir Peter Killigrew.
1655 George Fox
George Fox
George Fox was an English Dissenter and a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends.The son of a Leicestershire weaver, Fox lived in a time of great social upheaval and war...

(the founder of the Quakers) visited Falmouth.
1660 The names of Smithike and Penny-come-quick changed to Falmouth by Charles II's proclamation, August 20.
1660 William Killigrew
William Killigrew
Sir William Killigrew was an English court official under Charles I and Charles II.He was the son of Sir Robert Killigrew and Mary Woodhouse, of Kimberley, Norfolk, his wife. He was the elder brother to Thomas Killigrew...

created a baronet.
1660 A prison built.
1661 October 5. Charter of the Incorporation of Falmouth granted by Charles II.
1661 A quay authorised.
1662 Parish church
Church of King Charles the Martyr, Falmouth
The Church of King Charles the Martyr is a parish church in the Church of England located in Falmouth, Cornwall.-History:The foundation stone was laid in August 1662 and the church was consecrated in 1665 by Seth Ward, Bishop of Exeter....

built; opened 1663; consecrated 1664.
1662 An Independent
Independent (religion)
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Congregation formed by Thomas Tregosse
Thomas Tregosse
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.
1663 Register of baptisms at Falmouth Church commences.
1664 Registers of marriages and burials commence.
1664 Falmouth Parish separated from Budock and Gluvias by Act of Parliament.
1664 Falmouth Parish Church consecrated by Dr. Seth Ward
Seth Ward (bishop)
Seth Ward was an English mathematician, astronomer, and bishop.-Early life:He was born in Hertfordshire, and educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1636 and M.A. in 1640, becoming a Fellow in that year...

, Bishop of Exeter.
1664 Two hundred houses in Falmouth.
1664 (or 61) Earldom of Falmouth
Earl of Falmouth
The title of Earl of Falmouth has been created twice, once in the Peerage of England and the second time in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The first creation, on 17 March 1664, was for Charles Berkeley, 1st Viscount Fitzhardinge, who was at the same time created Baron Botetourt of Langport. It...

created by Charles II.
1670 Society of Friends
Religious Society of Friends
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(Quakers) first established.
1670 Sir Peter Killigrew built a new quay near Arwenack.
1670 Baptist
Baptist
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Society established.
1684 Chancel built at east end of Parish Church, by Walter Quarme, rector.
1686 Gallery built at west end of Parish Church by Sir Peter Killigrew and Mr. Bryan Rogers.
1688 Falmouth became a Packet station
Post Office Packet Service
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1696 Constitution of Falmouth drawn up and adopted.
1699 Gallery on north side of Parish Church, built by contributions.
Close of 17th century, 350 houses in Falmouth

Eighteenth century

1703 Gallery on south side of Parish church built, and also organ at west end.
1704 Sir Peter Killigrew (second) d. at Ludlow, Shropshire, January 8. Interred in Falmouth Church.
1705 Five Packets sailed between Falmouth and the West Indies.
1709. The Mayor and Corporation of Falmouth established their claim against Truro to the jurisdiction of Falmouth harbour. (1703/4 also given)
1713-15 Independent Chapel erected in Prince Street.
1715 Congregational Chapel built; enlarged 1789.
1717 Pendennis Castle struck by lightning and seriously damaged.
1723 Independent Chapel in High Street.
1725 Town Hall in High Street given by Mr. M. L. Killigrew, a brick building, previously a chapel.
1737-8 Granite pyramid built by Mr. M. L. Killigrew, near Arwenack.
1740 Large church bell provided by Mr. M. L. Killigrew.
1745 John Wesley
John Wesley
John Wesley was a Church of England cleric and Christian theologian. Wesley is largely credited, along with his brother Charles Wesley, as founding the Methodist movement which began when he took to open-air preaching in a similar manner to George Whitefield...

at Falmouth.
1748 Fairs at Falmouth; July and October.
1749 Alterations made at the Parish Church, probably to the tower, etc.
1750 Seamen's Hospital established.
1750 Church enlarged at West End.
1750 Between 500 and 600 houses in Falmouth.

1751 Freemasons Lodge (of Love and Honour) established (the "Mother Lodge" of the Province).
1753 New Independent Chapel built in High Street.
1754 Methodists first established in Falmouth by John Wesley.
1757 Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Dr. Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat...

landed at Falmouth on his way to America.
1766 First Jews' Synagogue
Synagogue
A synagogue is a Jewish house of prayer. This use of the Greek term synagogue originates in the Septuagint where it sometimes translates the Hebrew word for assembly, kahal...

, near Mount Sion.
1769 Baptist Chapel in Well Lane.
1779 Death of Joan Davis, aged 101.
1780 Mrs. Ann Davell's Charity of £9 per annum to poor widows or their sons.
1781 Falmouth Bank established; Joseph Banfield and Co., afterwards Came, Lake and Co.
1781 October 25. A fire, which caused distress to twenty-five families.
1785 New Custom House built near Arwenack.
1788 August 16. A great fire in Church Street, extending up Well Lane, and as far as the present Public Rooms.

1789 Grove Hill House begun.
1790 New Independent Chapel in High Street; Mr. Wildbore, minister.
1791 Methodist (or Wesleyan) Chapel in Killigrew Street, enlarged in 1814, organ in 1859; great thunderstorm; Trescobeas and ships in harbour struck.
1792 August 21. Great fire which destroyed forty-two houses and the theatre.
1792 Market-house re-built owing to insecurity of the old foundation.
1792 Sunday Schools founded from 1792 to 1810.
1793 Death of Catherine Freeman, aged 117.
1794 A brew-house built, disclosing a bed of beach sand under the ground.
1795 Crab Quay and Half Moon batteries built below the Castle.
1795 The Crown purchased the land on which the Castle stands (about sixty acres), from Sir John Wodehouse
John Wodehouse, 1st Baron Wodehouse
John Wodehouse, 1st Baron Wodehouse , known as Sir John Wodehouse, 6th Baronet, from 1777 to 1797, was a British peer and Member of Parliament....

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1797 Pendennis Volunteer Artillery commissioned.
1798 Organ placed in the gallery of the Parish Church.
1799 Baptist Chapel built.
1800 The Church tower raised for the clock.

1801-1810

1801 Falmouth population: 4,849. 1801-11: 719 houses.
1801 Illuminations on peace being proclaimed.
1801 Cornwall Gazette and Falmouth Packet started.
1802 Richard Pidgeley bequeathed £5 per annum for distribution of bread to the poor, from the estate of Mulberry Square, for 1,000 years.
1802 Church Charity School founded for girls, and in 1804 for boys.
1803-5 Friends' Meeting-house built in Quay Street.
1803 Roman Catholic Mission founded.
1804 Baptist Chapel built in Webber Street; enlarged in 1807 and re-built in 1814; and enlarged by a gallery, 1834.
1805 Methodist Sunday School.
1806 Cornish Naval Bank (afterwards Cornish Bank), opened in Church Street.
1806 Second Jews' Synagogue built on Forhan Hill.

1807 April 3. Public Dispensary opened.
1807 Misericordia Society founded by Lieut.-Governor Melvill
Philip Melvill
Philip Melvill was a nineteenth century philanthropist of Falmouth, Cornwall .He was born in 1762 in Dunbar, in East Lothian on the southeast coast of Scotland.-Military service:...

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1808 October 9. Expedition under Sir David Baird
Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
General Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet GCB was a British military leader.-Military career:He was born at Newbyth House in Haddingtonshire, Scotland, the son of an Edinburgh merchant family, and entered the British Army in 1772. He was sent to India in 1779 with the 73rd Highlanders, in which he...

of 150 transports carrying between 12,000 and 13,000 men, convoyed by H.M.S. Louis, Amelia
HMS Amelia (1796)
Proserpine was a 38-gun Hébé-class frigate of the French Navy captured by on 13 June 1796. The Admiralty commissioned Prosperine into the Royal Navy as the fifth rate, HMS Amelia...

and Champion
HMS Champion
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. On 13th entered Corunna Harbour
Battle of Corunna
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.
1809 Celebration of fifty years reign of George III
George III of the United Kingdom
George III was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of these two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death...

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1809 Church Sunday School founded by the Rev. R. H. Hitchins and Captain Melvill.
1809 The harbour pilots regulated by the Trinity Board
Trinity House
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1809 A Basking shark
Basking shark
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31 feet (9.4 m) long caught at Penryn.
1809 Second Freemasons' Lodge founded, "Love and Unity." Other orders.
1809 National Schools
National school (England and Wales)
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on Wodehouse Terrace.
1810 Charitable Society founded.
1810 Widows' Retreat founded by Lord Wodehouse
John Wodehouse, 1st Baron Wodehouse
John Wodehouse, 1st Baron Wodehouse , known as Sir John Wodehouse, 6th Baronet, from 1777 to 1797, was a British peer and Member of Parliament....

and Mr. Samuel Tregelles.
1810 Mutiny of the Packets-men.
1810 Baptist Sunday School.

1811-1820

1811 Howellian Girls' Free School; Boys' ditto; organised by Miss Howell.
1811 Bible Society
Bible society
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established.
1812 Lord Clinton, bearer of the news of the victory of Salamanca
Battle of Salamanca
The Battle of Salamanca saw Anglo-Portuguese and Spanish armies under the Duke of Wellington defeat Marshal Auguste Marmont's French forces among the hills around Arapiles south of Salamanca, Spain on July 22, 1812 during the Peninsular War....

, on July 21 .
1812 Death of John Zouster, aged 105.
1812 Unitarian Society founded.
1812 Parish Church lengthened one-third at east end, at a cost of £1,643.
1812 250 sail sheltered from a storm in Falmouth Harbour, convoyed by several of H.M's. ships.
1812 Lancastrian
Joseph Lancaster
Joseph Lancaster was an English Quaker and public education innovator.-Life:Lancaster was born the son of a shopkeeper in Southwark, south London....

Boys' School established.
1812 Accident at the Parish Church, causing loss of several lives, November 29.
1812 Removal of the Market.
1813 Market-house built by Lord Wodehouse.
1813 British Girls' School founded at Smithick Hill.
1813 Humane Society founded.

1814 Proclamation of peace and rejoicings in Falmouth, November 2. .
1814 The Queen transport wrecked at Trefusis Point on her way home from Lisbon to Plymouth, and 195 persons drowned .
1814 Adult School founded.
1814 Infant School founded.
1815 Between thirty and forty Packets sailing to and from Falmouth.
1815 Napoleon brought into Falmouth Harbour on board HMS Northumberland
HMS Northumberland (1798)
HMS Northumberland was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at the yards of Barnard, Deptford and launched on 2 February 1798....

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1817 Provident Institution for the relief of poor in winter founded.
1817 Falmouth Savings Bank founded.
1818 Unitarian
Unitarianism
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Chapel built in the Moor.
1819 Cornish Naval Bank carried on by Messrs. Praed, Rogers, Tweedy, and Williams.
1819 First Gas-Works established by Mr. Wynne.
1820 Roman Catholic Chapel built on Green Bank (formerly in Well Lane).

1821-1830

1821 850 houses, and 7,000 population.
1824 Classical and Mathematical School built, Headmaster, Rev. T. Sheepshanks. Endowed 1892 by a bequest from Miss Curgenven, aunt of H. M. Jeffery, F.R.S.
1825 Loss of the E.I.C. ship Kent by fire in the Bay of Biscay, on 24 February: 547 persons rescued and brought in the Cambria to Falmouth.
1826 Public Reading and News Rooms built and opened in Church Street.
1826 Swanpool tunnel made.
1827 National School on Mount Sion opened, including Church Charity School, through the exertions of the Rev. L.Mathias and Mr. B. B. Falck, jun.
1827 Fire at Quay Street, and another at Tregedna.
1827 900 houses, and over 8,000 inhabitants.

1827 Visit of H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence
William IV of the United Kingdom
William IV was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death...

, Lord High Admiral, in the Royal Sovereign yacht, and inspection of the Packets.
1827-8 Penwerris Church
St. Michael and All Angels Church, Penwerris
St Michael and All Angels Church, Penwerris is a parish church of the Church of England located in Penwerris, near Falmouth, Cornwall. The church is Anglo-Catholic and under the care of the Bishop of Ebbsfleet rather than the diocesean bishop....

built.
1828 Donna Maria da Gloria, second Queen of Portugal, landed at Falmouth, September 27.
1828-9 Losses of the Redpole, Hearty, Arid, and Myrtle Packets.
1828 Disaster at a Falmouth ball.
1829 Falmouth Packet and Cornish Herald started (discontinued in 1848).
1829 Wesleyan
Wesleyanism
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Chapel in Porhan Street built.
1830 Bible Christian Chapel built on Smithick Hill.

1831-1840

1831 The ex-Emperor and Empress of Brazil visited Falmouth (on board the Volage).
1832 United Borough of Penryn and Falmouth
Penryn and Falmouth (UK Parliament constituency)
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incorporated, returning two M.P.s. In 1885 Flushing
Flushing, Cornwall
Flushing is a coastal village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated three miles south of Penryn and eleven miles south-east of Truro. It faces Falmouth across the Penryn river, an arm of the Carrick Roads...

added, and the representation reduced to one. St. Mawes disfranchised.
1832 Steam Packet to Lisbon twice a month.
1832 Primitive Methodist Chapel built in Chapel Terrace; enlarged by gallery in 1836.
1833 Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society
Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society
The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society is an educational, cultural and scientific charity, based in Falmouth, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The Society exists to promote innovation in the arts and sciences...

founded and Public Library.
1833 Cholera
Cholera
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at Falmouth.
1834 Polytechnic Hall built.
1834 Act creating Unions
Poor Law Amendment Act 1834
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passed; meetings of Guardians shortly after .
1834 St. Anthony's lighthouse begun.
1835 The cone and iron standard on the Black Rock built by the Trinity House.

1835 Municipal Corporation Act
Municipal Corporations Act 1835
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passed.
1835 Lieut.-Governorship of Pendennis Castle abolished.
1836 Meridian Stone placed in field near Beacon.
1836 The Killigrew obelisk removed to the top of the old ropewalk.
1837 The office of Governor of Pendennis Castle abolished.
1837 Some forty Packets sailing to and from Falmouth.

1838 Rev. William J. Coope, Rector of Falmouth.
1840 Gyllyngdune House built by the Coope family.

1841-1850

1842 Governorship of St. Mawes Castle abolished.
1843 Queen Victoria
Victoria of the United Kingdom
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and Prince Albert visited Falmouth, September 1, Mr. Joseph Fox, Mayor.
1845 Oddfellows' Lodge opened.
1845 Destructive fire at the Market Strand in January.
1846 Second visit of Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort on September 14, in steam yacht Victoria and Albert
HMY Victoria and Albert
HMY Victoria and Albert was a twin paddle steamer launched 25 April 1843. It functioned as a Royal Yacht of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, owned and operated by the Royal Navy. She laid down in 1842 at Pembroke Dock and was designed by Symonds...

. Mr. R. R. Broad, Mayor.

1846 County Court founded: held in Old Town Hall (now Oddfellows' Hall).
1847-8 Falmouth Water-works established.
1848 Western Provident Association founded.
1848 Atheneum Library and Museum founded.
1848 Penwerris made a District Church.
1849 British and Foreign Sailors' Society founded-Seamen's Bethel and Institute.
1849 Vestry added on north side of Parish Church.
1850 Falmouth ceased to be a Packet Station.

1851-1860

1851 H.M.S. Astrea left Falmouth Harbour .
1851 Union Workhouse founded.
1852 Royal Cornwall Sailors' Home founded.
1852 Art Union formed in connection with the Roryal Cornwall Polytechnic Society.
1852 Swanpool Mine first worked, March 16 .
1853 Congregational Chapel built in High Street.
1853 July 23. 149 vessels for orders in Falmouth under 21 different flags.
1853 Town Mission established.

1855 Young Men's Christian Association.
1855 Lake's Falmouth Packet started .
1857 Falmouth Cemetery laid out; consecrated (church ground) in 1857.
1857 Electric Telegraph Company opened a station in Arwenack Street .
1858 H.M.S. Russell
HMS Russell (1822)
HMS Russell was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 May 1822 at Deptford.She was fitted with screw propulsion in 1855, and was broken up in 1865....

, training-ship, at Falmouth.
1859 Cornwall Railway
Cornwall Railway
The Cornwall Railway was a broad gauge railway from Plymouth in Devon to Falmouth in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The section from Plymouth to Truro opened in 1859, the extension to Falmouth in 1863...

opened to Truro.
1860 The Docks begun.
1860 Mail S.S. Hungarian lost with all hands, including G. P. Nash, of Falmouth, mail master.
1860 Greenwich Time
Greenwich Mean Time
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generally adopted at Falmouth.
1860 Falmouth Archery Club.

1861-1870

1861 Parish Church provided with three bells.
1861 Repairs at Parish Church, Sir Peter Killigrew's vault seen, April 24.
1861 Foresters' Court opened.
1861 The Duke and Duchess de Montpensier
Philippe, Comte de Paris
Philippe d'Orléans, Count of Paris was the grandson of Louis Philippe I, King of the French. He was a claimant to the French throne from 1848 until his death.-Early life:...

arrived In a Spanish Man-of-War, July 5.
1861 Missions to Seamen commenced.
1861 Maria Camilla Training School for girls founded .
1862 Testimonial to Mr. T. H. Tilly, for his work in behalf of the Docks.
1862 Penny Savings Bank opened.
1862 Falmouth Debating Society.
1862 H.R.H. Prince Arthur
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn was a member of the shared British and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha royal family who served as the Governor General of Canada, the 10th since Canadian Confederation.Born the seventh child and third son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and...

visited Falmouth.
1862 April 12. Great fire in High Street, destroying thirty houses. A smaller fire same year in Church Street.
1863 Falmouth adopted the Local Government Act.
1863 Gyllyngdune sold by Rev. W. J. Coope to Mr. Sampson Waters for £10,000.
1863 Old Rectory premises sold for £720.
1863 August 21. Railway
Cornwall Railway
The Cornwall Railway was a broad gauge railway from Plymouth in Devon to Falmouth in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The section from Plymouth to Truro opened in 1859, the extension to Falmouth in 1863...

opened to Falmouth; town decorated and illuminated; and great whale 75 feet (22.9 m) long, and 25 feet (7.6 m) round, towed in from Cadgwith
Cadgwith
Cadgwith is a village and fishing port in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated on the Lizard Peninsula between The Lizard and Coverack.-History:...

.
1863 Catholic and Apostolic (Irvingite) Church
Catholic Apostolic Church
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closed.
1864 New Town Hall begun.
1864 April 7. General Garibaldi
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italian military and political figure. In his twenties, he joined the Carbonari Italian patriot revolutionaries, and fled Italy after a failed insurrection. Garibaldi took part in the War of the Farrapos and the Uruguayan Civil War leading the Italian Legion, and...

in Duke of Sutherland's
George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland
George Granville William Sutherland Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland , styled Viscount Trentham until 1833, Earl Gower in 1833 and Marquess of Stafford between 1833 and 1861, was a British politician.-Background:Sutherland was the son of George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland...

yacht, at Falmouth.
1864 May 10. H.M.S. St. George
HMS St George (1840)
HMS St George was a 120-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 27 August 1840 at Plymouth.She was fitted with screw propulsion in 1859, and was sold out of the service in 1883....

(training) at Falmouth.

1865 Falmouth Hotel opened .
1865 Drive made round Pendennis Castle.
1865 July 10. H.R.H. the Duke of Cornwall
Edward VII of the United Kingdom
Edward VII was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910...

and Grand Duke Alexis
Alexander III of Russia
Alexander Alexandrovich Romanov , historically remembered as Alexander III or Alexander the Peacemaker reigned as Emperor of Russia from until his death on .-Disposition:...

visited Falmouth, 1866.
1865 March. Hoard of 960 Roman Brass Coins, A.D. 306, found at Pennance Head.
1865 Fire at Masonic Lodge, destroying valuable paintings, etc.
1866 February 10. Church of Saint Laud, Mabe
Church of Saint Laud
The Church of Saint Laud is an active parish church in Mabe, Cornwall, England, UK, originally built in the 15th century and dedicated to the sixth-century Saint Laud of Coutances. It is part of the Church of England's Diocese of Truro. Struck by lightning in the 19th century, much of it had to...

injured by lightning.
1866 Working Men's Club and Institute
Working men's club
Working men's clubs are a type of private social club founded in the 19th century in industrial areas of the United Kingdom, particularly the North of England, the Midlands and many parts of the South Wales Valleys, to provide recreation and education for working class men and their families.-...

at Bell's Court opened.
1866 Wesleyan Chapel built at Pike's Hill.
1866 Chamber of Commerce founded.
1866 New Gas Works opened.
1867 Falmouth Observatory established by the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society; (first Meteorological) maintained by grant from the Meteorological Council.
1867 Life-boat established; launched August 29.
1867 Bible Christian Chapel built.

1867 Wesleyan Chapel built at Pike's Hill.
1867 Three wrecks at Gyllyngvase, and damage to shipping.
1867 Royal Cornwall Home for Destitute Girls built.
1868 March 14. Bank House burnt down.
1868 June 1. Exhibition of Bath and West of England Agricultural Society
Royal Bath and West of England Society
The Royal Bath and West of England Society is a charitable society founded in 1777 to promote and improve agriculture and related activities around the West Country of England. Based at the Royal Bath and West of England Society Showground near Shepton Mallet in Somerset, the society is a...

.
1868 St. Mawes Steamboats established.
1869 Roman Catholic Church built in Killigrew Street.
1869 Earle's Retreat built for aged persons, by Mr. George Earle, of Philadelphia, D.S.A., and Falmouth.
1870 June 5. Great Fire at Market Street.
1870 Harbour Board.

1871-1880

1871 New landing places at Fish Strand and Market Strand built. At the latter a sub-marine forest discovered. Foundation stones laid by Lord Kimberley.
1871 Penwerris Day Schools opened.
1871 The Killigrew Obelisk removed to green in front of Arwenack.
1872 Royal Cornwall Yacht Club opened (1874 also given).

1873 Direct Spanish Telegraph established.
1873 Friends' New Meeting-house built .
1873 H.M.S. Russell
HMS Russell (1822)
HMS Russell was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 May 1822 at Deptford.She was fitted with screw propulsion in 1855, and was broken up in 1865....

removed.
1873 Volunteer Drill Hall
Drill hall
A drill hall is a place such as a building or a hangar where soldiers practice and perform military drill. In the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, the term was also used for the whole headquarters building of a military reserve unit, which usually incorporated such a hall...

built .

1874 May 13. H.M.S. Ganges
HMS Ganges (1821)
HMS Ganges was an 84-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 10 November 1821 at Bombay Dockyard, constructed from teak...

arrived.
1874 Wesleyan Chapel rebuilt in the Moor.

1875 Baptist Chapel built in Market Street.
1875 School Board
School board (England & Wales)
School boards were public bodies in England and Wales between 1870 and 1902, which established and administered elementary schools.School boards were created in boroughs and parishes under the Elementary Education Act 1870 following campaigning by George Dixon, Joseph Chamberlain and the National...

formed.
1876 Mission Church or Chapel-of-Ease established in Lower Killigrew Street.
1877 Kimberley Park presented by the Earl of Kimberley
John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley
John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley KG , PC , known as the Lord Wodehouse from 1846 to 1866, was a British Liberal politician...
1877-8 Trevethan Girls' and Infants' Board Schools built.
1878 August 14. Portrait of Mr. R. R. Broad, Senr., presented by Lord Northbrook
Francis Baring, 2nd Earl of Northbrook
Francis George Baring, 2nd Earl of Northbrook , styled Viscount Baring from 1876 to 1904, was a British politician....

at banquet at the Royal Hotel.

1881-1890

1881 Congregational Sunday School erected in Prince Street.
1881 Climatological Station established at Observatory.
1882 Young Women's Christian Association founded.
1882 Girls' British School (Clare Terrace) opened in May.
1882 Jubilee Exhibition of the Polytechnic Society.
1882 The Rev. Brian Christopherson became Rector.
1883 Cottage Hospital and Nursing Home founded by Mrs. FitzGerald.
1883 Church Institute founded.
1883 Cornwall Volunteer Artillery established .

1884 August 12. Foundation stone of second Meteorological Observatory laid by Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
William Edgcumbe, 4th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
William Henry Edgcumbe, 4th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe GCVO, PC , styled Viscount Valletort between 1839 and 1861, was a British courtier and Conservative politician.-Background:...

.
1885 New Masonic Hall built, opened in 1886.
1885 Falmouth lost one Member of Parliament by the Redistribution of Seats Act
Redistribution of Seats Act 1885
The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was a piece of electoral reform legislation that redistributed the seats in the House of Commons, introducing the concept of equally populated constituencies, in an attempt to equalise representation across...

.
1886 Self-recording magnetographs placed in new Observatory.
1887 High School for Girls built.
1887 Recreation Ground opened.
1887 Jubilee of Queen Victoria's reign celebrated.
1887 Visit of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales
Edward VII of the United Kingdom
Edward VII was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910...

, who laid the foundation stone of All Saints' Church
All Saints' Church, Falmouth
All Saints' Church, Falmouth is a parish church in the Church of England located in Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom.-History:The foundation stone for this church was laid by the Duke of Cornwall in 1887. It was designed by the architect J. D. Sedding in the Gothic Revival style...

.
1888 Good Templars'
International Organisation of Good Templars
The IOGT International is an international non-governmental organisation working in the field of temperance...

Lodge founded.
1889 Consecration of All Saints' Church.
1890 All Saints' Church opened.

1891-1900

1891 March 9 and l0th. Great Snow Blizzard. Trains snowed up in Cornwall.
1891 Census, 2,400 houses, and over 10,000 inhabitants (excluding ships).
1891 Association for befriending Young Servants founded.
1892 Order of Rechabites
Independent Order of Rechabites
The Independent Order of Rechabites was a Friendly Society founded in England in 1835 as part of the temperance movement to promote total abstinence from alcoholic beverages. Always well connected in upper society and involved in financial matters, it gradually transformed into a financial...

founded.
1892 Maria Camilla School closed.
1892 May 20. Broad gauge altered to narrow on G.W.R.
Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament in 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838...

, from Exeter, in 50 hours.
1892 Extension and consolidation of the Borough.
1892 Bequest of nearly £2,000 from Mr. Octavius Ferris for a Free Library.
1893 Mission Church in Killigrew Street repaired and opened.
1893 May 3. Foundation stone of Falmouth Hospital laid by Mr. Passmore Edwards.
1893 July. Pendennis Hotel opened.
1893 The Mayor's gold chain purchased for £125.
1894 Municipal Building and Free Library built by Passmore Edwards
John Passmore Edwards
John Passmore Edwards was a British journalist, newspaper owner and philanthropist. The son of a carpenter, he was born in Blackwater, a small village between Redruth and Truro in Cornwall, United Kingdom.-Biography:...

.

1894 Falmouth Sailing Club founded.
1894 R.C. Agricultural Show
Royal Cornwall Agricultural Show
The Royal Cornwall Agricultural Show, usually called the Royal Cornwall Show, is an agricultural show organised by The Royal Cornwall Agricultural Association, which takes place at the beginning of June each year, at Wadebridge in North Cornwall....

held at Falmouth.
1894 Art Gallery built.
1894 Golf Club and Links at Higher Argal; removed to Higher Kergillick in 1898.
1895 Buffaloes Lodge
Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes
The Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes is a Fraternal, Benevolent and Social Organisation in the United Kingdom. It has no Royal patronage; it was founded after the Flood, it is not a recognised Order of chivalry and has no connection with buffaloes...

founded.

1896 Presentation of his portrait and some plate to Mr. Thos. Webber, "eight times Mayor of Falmouth."
1896 March 9, Science and Art Rooms opened in Municipal Buildings.
1897 Board School
School board (England & Wales)
School boards were public bodies in England and Wales between 1870 and 1902, which established and administered elementary schools.School boards were created in boroughs and parishes under the Elementary Education Act 1870 following campaigning by George Dixon, Joseph Chamberlain and the National...

for boys built at Wellington Terrace.

1897 Smithick (Infants') Board School purchased from Trustees of British School.
1897 January 16, the Falmouth Rector's rate abolished as such by special Act of Parliament.
1897 Diamond Jubilee (60 years) of the reign of Queen Victoria celebrated. Bonfires on all heights.
1897 Time-ball fixed at Pendennis Castle.
1898 Restoration of Parish Church completed. The tower struck by lightning without damage.
1898 March 26. Fire at Ellerslie, Melville Road.
1898 Packet Memorial erected in the Moor, and unveiled Moor.

1898 Wreck of the SS Mohegan on The Manacles
The Manacles
The Manacles are a set of treacherous rocks off The Lizard peninsula in Cornwall close to Porthoustock, which is a popular spot for diving due to the shipwrecks around them. The name derives from the Cornish for 'church stone', the top of St Keverne church being visible from the area.The rocks...

.

, and loss of 106 lives.

1899 H.M.S. Ganges left Falmouth, August 28.
1899 Stranding of the SS Paris near the Manacles.
1899 May 26. Devon and Cornwall Regiment, marching through Cornwall, received at Falmouth.
1899 Gallery, etc., added to Drill Hall.
1899 October 6. First Conversazione of Polytechnic Society held (alternately with Exhibition).
1900 Rifle Club formed.

Twentieth century

1901 January 26. King Edward VII
Edward VII of the United Kingdom
Edward VII was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910...

proclaimed.
1901 August 19. Art School commenced in Manor Avenue, in memoriam ANNA MARIA FOX
Anna Maria Fox
Anna Maria Fox was a promoter of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society and the artistic and cultural development of Falmouth in Cornwall, UK.-Family links:...

; stone laid by Lord St. Levan.
1901 Church House in memoriam E. D. ALDERTON opened in Arwenack Street.

1901 New Police Station built in the Moor.
1901 Census taken; Falmouth population, 11,173.
1901 Old King's Arms Inn pulled down at Market Strand.

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