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EspañolMISS SUSAN GAY'S FALMOUTH CHRONOLOGY
'FALMOUTH CHRONOLOGY' from Miss Susan E. Gay's ''Old Falmouth'' (1903) pp.230-238
★ 9th century. Pendennis supposed to have been fortified by the Danes.
★ 1120 The Naming of Gyllyngvase.
★ 1403 Manor of Arwenack acquired by the Killigrew family, temp. Richard II; Landing of the Duchess Dowager of Bretagne at Falmouth Haven, on her way to wed Henry IV.
★ 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's visit to the two castles.
★ 1552 Date of Sir Walter Raleigh'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, Penryn and Helston to James I against its progress.
★ 1619 Sir John established a lighthouse at the Lizard.
★ 1620 Visitation of the Heralds.
★ 1642 Prince Charles (Charles II) at Pendennis Castle, protected by the Governor, John Arundel.
★ 1644-5 Duke of Hamilton[1] confined in Pendennis Castle.
★ 1644 Queen Henrietta Maria at Pendennis Castle on her way to France.
★ 1646 Pendennis Castle besieged by Cromwell's forces under Sir Thomas Fairfax, in March, and Arwenack House partly destroyed by fire. Surrendered in August, 1646.
★ 1650 The Custom-house removed from Penryn to Falmouth, near the Market Strand.
★ 1652 Markets established by Sir Peter Killigrew.
★ 1655 George Fox (the founder of Quakers) visited Falmouth.
★ 1660 The names of Smithike and Penny-come-quick changed to Falmouth by Charles II's proclamation, August 20th.
★ 1660 William Killigrew created a baronet.
★ 1660 A prison built.
★ 1661 October 5th. Charter of the Incorporation of Falmouth granted by Charles H.
★ 1661 A quay authorised.
★ 1662 Parish church built; opened 1663; consecrated 1664.
★ 1662 An Independent Congregation formed by Thomas Tregoose.
★ 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, Bishop of Exeter.
★ '1664 Two hundred houses in Falmouth.'
★ 1664 (or 61) Earldom of Falmouth created by Charles II.
★ 1670 Society of Friends first established.
★ 1670 Sir Peter Killigrew built a new quay near Arwenack.
★ 1670 Baptist 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.
★ 1696 Constitution of Falmouth drawn up and adopted.
★ 1699 Gallery on North Side of Parish Church, built by contributions.
★ 'Close of l7th century, 350 houses in Falmouth'
★ 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 8th. 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 at Falmouth.
★ 1748 Fairs at Falmouth; July and October.
★ 1749 Alterations made at the Parish Church, probably to the tower, etc.
★ 1750 Seaman's Hospital established.
★ 1750 Church enlarged at West End.
★ '1750 Between 500 and 600 houses in Falmouth.'
★ 1751 Freemason's 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 landed at Falmouth on his way to America.
★ 1766 First Jews' Synagogue, 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 25th. A fire, which caused distress to twenty-five families.
★ 1785 New Custom house built near Arwenack.
★ 1788 August 16th. 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 21st. 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.
★ 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 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 3rd. Public Dispensary opened.
★ 1807 Misericordia Society founded by Lieut.-Governor Melvill.
★ 1808 October 9th. Expedition under Sir David Baird of 150 transports carrying between 12,000 and 13,000 men, convoyed by H.M.S. Louie, Amelia and Champion. On 13th entered Corunna Harbour.
★ 1809 Celebration of fifty years reign of George III.
★ 1809 Church Sunday School founded by the Rev. R. H. Hitchins and Captain Melvill.
★ 1809 The harbour pilots regulated by the Trinity Board.
★ 1809 A Basking shark 31 feet long caught at Penryn.
★ 1809 Second Freemasons' Lodge founded, "Love and Unity." Other orders.
★ 1809 National Schools on Wodehouse Terrace.
★ 1810 Charitable Society founded.
★ 1810 Widows' Retreat founded by Lord Wodehouse and Mr. Samuel Tregelles.
★ 1810 Mutiny of the Packets-men.
★ 1810 Baptist Sunday School.
★ 1811 Howellian Girls' Free School; Boys' ditto; organised by Miss Howell.
★ 1811 Bible Society established.
★ 1812 Lord Clinton, bearer of the news of the victory of Salamanca, on July 21st.
★ 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 Boys' School established.
★ 1812 Accident at the Parish Church, causing loss of several lives, November 29th.
★ 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 2nd. .
★ 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 H.M.S. Northumberland.
★ 1817 Provident Institution for the relief of poor in winter founded.
★ 1817 Falmouth Savings Bank founded.
★ 1818 Unitarian 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 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''[2] by fire in the Bay of Biscay, on 24th 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, Lord High Admiral, in the Royal Sovereign yacht, and inspection of the Packets.
★ 1827-8 Penwerris Church built.
★ 1828 Donna Maria da Gloria, second Queen of Portugal, landed at Falmouth, September 27th.
★ 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)[3].
★ 1829 Wesleyan Chapel in Porhan Street built.
★ 1830 Bible Christian Chapel built on Smithick Hill.
★ 1831 The ex-Emperor and Empress of Brazil visited Falmouth (on board the Volage).
★ 1832 United Borough of Penryn and Falmouth incorporated, returning two M.P.s. In 1885 Flushing 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 founded and Public Library.
★ 1833 Cholera at Falmouth.
★ 1834 Polytechnic Hall built.
★ 1834 Act creating Unions passed; meetings of Guardians shortly after [4].
★ 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 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. W. J. Coope, Rector of Falmouth.
★ 1840 Gyllyngdune House built by the Coope family.
★ 1842 Governorship of St. Mawes Castle abolished.
★ 1843 Queen Victoria and Prince Albert visited Falmouth, September 1st, 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 14th, in steam yacht Victoria and Albert. 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 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 R. C. Polytechnic Society.
★ 1852 Swanpool Mine first worked, March 16th.
★ 1853 Congregational Chapel built in High Street.
★ 1853 July 23rd. 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'', training-ship, at Fa!mouth.
★ 1859 Cornwall Railway 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 generally adopted at Falmouth.
★ 1860 Falmouth Archery Club.
★ 1861 Parish Church provided with three bells.
★ 1861 Repairs at Parish Church, Sir Peter Killigrew's vault seen, April 24th.
★ 1861 Foresters' Court opened.
★ 1861 The Duke and Duchess de Montpensier arrived In a Spanish Man-of-War, July 5th.
★ 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 visited Falmouth.
★ 1862 April 12th. 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 21st. Railway opened to Falmouth; town decorated and illuminated; and great whale 75 feet long, and 25 feet round, towed in from Cadgwith.
★ 1863 Catholic and Apostolic (Irvingite) Church closed.
★ 1864 New Town Hall begun.
★ 1864 April 7th. General Garibaldi in Duke of Sutherland's yacht, at Falmouth.
★ 1864 May 10th. H.M.S. St. George (training) at Falmouth.
★ 1865 Falmouth Hotel opened.
★ 1865 Drive made round Pendennis Castle.
★ 1865 July l0th. H.R.H. the Duke of Cornwall and Grand Duke Alexis 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 l0th. Mabe Church injured by lightning.
★ 1866 Working Men's Club and Institute 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 29th.
★ 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 14th. Bank House burnt down.
★ 1868 June 1st. Exhibition of Bath and West of England Agricultural Society.
★ 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 5th. Great Fire at Market Street.
★ 1870 Harbour Board.
★ 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 removed.
★ 1873 Volunteer Drill Hall built.
★ 1874 May 13th. ''H.M.S. Ganges'' arrived.
★ 1874 Wesleyan Chapel rebuilt in the Moor.
★ 1875 Baptist Chapel built in Market Street.
★ 1875 School Board formed.
★ 1876 Mission Church or Chapel-of-Ease established in Lower Killigrew Street.
★ 1877 Kimberley Park presented by the Earl of Kimberley 1877-8 Trevethan Girls' and Infants' Board Schools built.
★ 1878 August 14th. Portrait of Mr. R. R. Broad, Senr., presented by Lord Northbrook at banquet at the Royal Hotel.
★ 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 12th. Foundation stone of second Meteorological Observatory laid by Earl of Mount Edgcumbe .
★ 1885 New Masonic Hall built, opened in 1886.
★ 1885 Falmouth lost one Member of Parliament by the Redistribution of Seats Act.
★ 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, who laid the foundation stone of All Saints' Church.
★ 1888 Good Templars' Lodge founded.
★ 1889 Consecration of All Saints' Church.
★ 1890 All Saints' Church opened.
★ 1891 March 9th 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 founded.
★ 1892 Maria Camilla School closed.
★ 1892 May 20th. Broad gauge altered to narrow on G.W.R., 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 3rd. 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.
★ 1894 Falmouth Sailing Club founded.
★ 1894 R.C. Agricultural Show held at Falmouth.
★ 1894 Art Gallery built.
★ 1894 Golf Club and Links at Higher Argal; removed to Higher Kergillick in 1898.
★ 1895 Buffaloes Lodge founded.
★ 1896 Presentation of his portrait and some plate to Mr. Thos. Webber, "eight times Mayor of Falmouth."
★ 1896 March 9th, Science and Art Rooms opened in Municipal Buildings.
★ 1897 Board School for boys built at Wellington Terrace.
★ 1897 Smithick (Infants') Board School purchased from Trustees of British School.
★ 1897 January 16th, 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 26th. Fire at Ellerslie, Melville Road.
★ 1898 Packet Memorial erected in the Moor, and unveiled Moor.
★ 1898 Wreck of the SS Mohegan on the Manacles, and loss of 106 lives.
★ 1899 H.M.S. Ganges left Falmouth, August 28th.
★ 1899 Stranding of the SS Paris near the Manacles.
★ 1899 May 26th. Devon and Cornwall Regiment, marching through Cornwall, received at Falmouth.
★ 1899 Gallery, etc., added to Drill Hall.
★ 1899 October 6th. First Conversazione of Polytechnic Society held (alternately with Exhibition).
★ 1900 Rifle Club formed.
★ 1901 January 26th. King Edward VII. proclaimed.
★ 1901 August 19th. Art School commenced in Manor Avenue, in memoriam ANNA MARIA FOX; 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.
1. Miss Gay probably means James Hamilton (1606-1649), 1st Duke of Hamilton
2. E.I.C.= East India Company
3. Falmouth Packet and Cornish Herald = a newspaper
4. The Unions were bodies representing a group of Parishes, set up to run a "Union Workhouse" to deal with the poor of those parishes. Budock Hospital (recently closed: 2007) was formerly the Union Workhouse.
Falmouth Church of St. Charles, view from Events Square
| Contents |
| Before the 18th century |
| 18th century |
| Nineteenth Century' |
| 1810-1819 |
| 1820-1829 |
| 1830-1839 |
| 1840-1849 |
| 1850-1859 |
| 1860-1869 |
| 1870-1879 |
| 1880-1889 |
| 1890-1899 |
| Twentieth Century |
| References |
Before the 18th century
★ 9th century. Pendennis supposed to have been fortified by the Danes.
★ 1120 The Naming of Gyllyngvase.
★ 1403 Manor of Arwenack acquired by the Killigrew family, temp. Richard II; Landing of the Duchess Dowager of Bretagne at Falmouth Haven, on her way to wed Henry IV.
★ 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's visit to the two castles.
★ 1552 Date of Sir Walter Raleigh'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, Penryn and Helston to James I against its progress.
★ 1619 Sir John established a lighthouse at the Lizard.
★ 1620 Visitation of the Heralds.
★ 1642 Prince Charles (Charles II) at Pendennis Castle, protected by the Governor, John Arundel.
★ 1644-5 Duke of Hamilton[1] confined in Pendennis Castle.
★ 1644 Queen Henrietta Maria at Pendennis Castle on her way to France.
★ 1646 Pendennis Castle besieged by Cromwell's forces under Sir Thomas Fairfax, in March, and Arwenack House partly destroyed by fire. Surrendered in August, 1646.
★ 1650 The Custom-house removed from Penryn to Falmouth, near the Market Strand.
★ 1652 Markets established by Sir Peter Killigrew.
★ 1655 George Fox (the founder of Quakers) visited Falmouth.
★ 1660 The names of Smithike and Penny-come-quick changed to Falmouth by Charles II's proclamation, August 20th.
★ 1660 William Killigrew created a baronet.
★ 1660 A prison built.
★ 1661 October 5th. Charter of the Incorporation of Falmouth granted by Charles H.
★ 1661 A quay authorised.
★ 1662 Parish church built; opened 1663; consecrated 1664.
★ 1662 An Independent Congregation formed by Thomas Tregoose.
★ 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, Bishop of Exeter.
★ '1664 Two hundred houses in Falmouth.'
★ 1664 (or 61) Earldom of Falmouth created by Charles II.
★ 1670 Society of Friends first established.
★ 1670 Sir Peter Killigrew built a new quay near Arwenack.
★ 1670 Baptist 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.
★ 1696 Constitution of Falmouth drawn up and adopted.
★ 1699 Gallery on North Side of Parish Church, built by contributions.
★ 'Close of l7th century, 350 houses in Falmouth'
18th 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 8th. 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 at Falmouth.
★ 1748 Fairs at Falmouth; July and October.
★ 1749 Alterations made at the Parish Church, probably to the tower, etc.
★ 1750 Seaman's Hospital established.
★ 1750 Church enlarged at West End.
★ '1750 Between 500 and 600 houses in Falmouth.'
★ 1751 Freemason's 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 landed at Falmouth on his way to America.
★ 1766 First Jews' Synagogue, 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 25th. A fire, which caused distress to twenty-five families.
★ 1785 New Custom house built near Arwenack.
★ 1788 August 16th. 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 21st. 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.
★ 1797 Pendennis Volunteer Artillery commissioned.
★ 1798 Organ placed in the gallery of the Parish Church.
★ 1799 Baptist Chapel built.
Nineteenth Century'
★ 1800 The Church tower raised for the clock.
★ '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 3rd. Public Dispensary opened.
★ 1807 Misericordia Society founded by Lieut.-Governor Melvill.
★ 1808 October 9th. Expedition under Sir David Baird of 150 transports carrying between 12,000 and 13,000 men, convoyed by H.M.S. Louie, Amelia and Champion. On 13th entered Corunna Harbour.
★ 1809 Celebration of fifty years reign of George III.
★ 1809 Church Sunday School founded by the Rev. R. H. Hitchins and Captain Melvill.
★ 1809 The harbour pilots regulated by the Trinity Board.
★ 1809 A Basking shark 31 feet long caught at Penryn.
★ 1809 Second Freemasons' Lodge founded, "Love and Unity." Other orders.
★ 1809 National Schools on Wodehouse Terrace.
1810-1819
★ 1810 Charitable Society founded.
★ 1810 Widows' Retreat founded by Lord Wodehouse and Mr. Samuel Tregelles.
★ 1810 Mutiny of the Packets-men.
★ 1810 Baptist Sunday School.
★ 1811 Howellian Girls' Free School; Boys' ditto; organised by Miss Howell.
★ 1811 Bible Society established.
★ 1812 Lord Clinton, bearer of the news of the victory of Salamanca, on July 21st.
★ 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 Boys' School established.
★ 1812 Accident at the Parish Church, causing loss of several lives, November 29th.
★ 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 2nd. .
★ 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 H.M.S. Northumberland.
★ 1817 Provident Institution for the relief of poor in winter founded.
★ 1817 Falmouth Savings Bank founded.
★ 1818 Unitarian 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.
1820-1829
★ 1820 Roman Catholic Chapel built on Green Bank (formerly in Well Lane).
★ '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''[2] by fire in the Bay of Biscay, on 24th 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, Lord High Admiral, in the Royal Sovereign yacht, and inspection of the Packets.
★ 1827-8 Penwerris Church built.
★ 1828 Donna Maria da Gloria, second Queen of Portugal, landed at Falmouth, September 27th.
★ 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)[3].
★ 1829 Wesleyan Chapel in Porhan Street built.
1830-1839
★ 1830 Bible Christian Chapel built on Smithick Hill.
★ 1831 The ex-Emperor and Empress of Brazil visited Falmouth (on board the Volage).
★ 1832 United Borough of Penryn and Falmouth incorporated, returning two M.P.s. In 1885 Flushing 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 founded and Public Library.
★ 1833 Cholera at Falmouth.
★ 1834 Polytechnic Hall built.
★ 1834 Act creating Unions passed; meetings of Guardians shortly after [4].
★ 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 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. W. J. Coope, Rector of Falmouth.
1840-1849
★ 1840 Gyllyngdune House built by the Coope family.
★ 1842 Governorship of St. Mawes Castle abolished.
★ 1843 Queen Victoria and Prince Albert visited Falmouth, September 1st, 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 14th, in steam yacht Victoria and Albert. 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.
1850-1859
★ 1850 Falmouth ceased to be a Packet Station.
★ 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 R. C. Polytechnic Society.
★ 1852 Swanpool Mine first worked, March 16th.
★ 1853 Congregational Chapel built in High Street.
★ 1853 July 23rd. 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'', training-ship, at Fa!mouth.
★ 1859 Cornwall Railway opened to Truro.
1860-1869
★ 1860 The Docks begun.
★ 1860 Mail S.S. Hungarian lost with all hands, including G. P.Nash, of Falmouth, mail master.
★ 1860 Greenwich Time generally adopted at Falmouth.
★ 1860 Falmouth Archery Club.
★ 1861 Parish Church provided with three bells.
★ 1861 Repairs at Parish Church, Sir Peter Killigrew's vault seen, April 24th.
★ 1861 Foresters' Court opened.
★ 1861 The Duke and Duchess de Montpensier arrived In a Spanish Man-of-War, July 5th.
★ 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 visited Falmouth.
★ 1862 April 12th. 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 21st. Railway opened to Falmouth; town decorated and illuminated; and great whale 75 feet long, and 25 feet round, towed in from Cadgwith.
★ 1863 Catholic and Apostolic (Irvingite) Church closed.
★ 1864 New Town Hall begun.
★ 1864 April 7th. General Garibaldi in Duke of Sutherland's yacht, at Falmouth.
★ 1864 May 10th. H.M.S. St. George (training) at Falmouth.
★ 1865 Falmouth Hotel opened.
★ 1865 Drive made round Pendennis Castle.
★ 1865 July l0th. H.R.H. the Duke of Cornwall and Grand Duke Alexis 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 l0th. Mabe Church injured by lightning.
★ 1866 Working Men's Club and Institute 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 29th.
★ 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 14th. Bank House burnt down.
★ 1868 June 1st. Exhibition of Bath and West of England Agricultural Society.
★ 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.
1870-1879
★ 1870 June 5th. Great Fire at Market Street.
★ 1870 Harbour Board.
★ 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.
Killigrew Obelisk, opposite Arwenack Manor House, Falmouth.
★ 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 removed.
★ 1873 Volunteer Drill Hall built.
★ 1874 May 13th. ''H.M.S. Ganges'' arrived.
★ 1874 Wesleyan Chapel rebuilt in the Moor.
★ 1875 Baptist Chapel built in Market Street.
★ 1875 School Board formed.
★ 1876 Mission Church or Chapel-of-Ease established in Lower Killigrew Street.
★ 1877 Kimberley Park presented by the Earl of Kimberley 1877-8 Trevethan Girls' and Infants' Board Schools built.
★ 1878 August 14th. Portrait of Mr. R. R. Broad, Senr., presented by Lord Northbrook at banquet at the Royal Hotel.
1880-1889
★ 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 12th. Foundation stone of second Meteorological Observatory laid by Earl of Mount Edgcumbe .
★ 1885 New Masonic Hall built, opened in 1886.
★ 1885 Falmouth lost one Member of Parliament by the Redistribution of Seats Act.
★ 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, who laid the foundation stone of All Saints' Church.
★ 1888 Good Templars' Lodge founded.
★ 1889 Consecration of All Saints' Church.
1890-1899
★ 1890 All Saints' Church opened.
★ 1891 March 9th 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 founded.
★ 1892 Maria Camilla School closed.
★ 1892 May 20th. Broad gauge altered to narrow on G.W.R., 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 3rd. 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.
★ 1894 Falmouth Sailing Club founded.
★ 1894 R.C. Agricultural Show held at Falmouth.
★ 1894 Art Gallery built.
★ 1894 Golf Club and Links at Higher Argal; removed to Higher Kergillick in 1898.
★ 1895 Buffaloes Lodge founded.
★ 1896 Presentation of his portrait and some plate to Mr. Thos. Webber, "eight times Mayor of Falmouth."
★ 1896 March 9th, Science and Art Rooms opened in Municipal Buildings.
★ 1897 Board School for boys built at Wellington Terrace.
★ 1897 Smithick (Infants') Board School purchased from Trustees of British School.
★ 1897 January 16th, 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 26th. Fire at Ellerslie, Melville Road.
★ 1898 Packet Memorial erected in the Moor, and unveiled Moor.
★ 1898 Wreck of the SS Mohegan on the Manacles, and loss of 106 lives.
★ 1899 H.M.S. Ganges left Falmouth, August 28th.
★ 1899 Stranding of the SS Paris near the Manacles.
★ 1899 May 26th. Devon and Cornwall Regiment, marching through Cornwall, received at Falmouth.
★ 1899 Gallery, etc., added to Drill Hall.
★ 1899 October 6th. First Conversazione of Polytechnic Society held (alternately with Exhibition).
Twentieth Century
★ 1900 Rifle Club formed.
★ 1901 January 26th. King Edward VII. proclaimed.
★ 1901 August 19th. Art School commenced in Manor Avenue, in memoriam ANNA MARIA FOX; 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.
References
1. Miss Gay probably means James Hamilton (1606-1649), 1st Duke of Hamilton
2. E.I.C.= East India Company
3. Falmouth Packet and Cornish Herald = a newspaper
4. The Unions were bodies representing a group of Parishes, set up to run a "Union Workhouse" to deal with the poor of those parishes. Budock Hospital (recently closed: 2007) was formerly the Union Workhouse.
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