| 925 | | Barnes given to Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's by King Athelstan
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| 1086 | | Domesday Book records the manor of Mortlake as having land sufficient for 35 ploughs and the smaller manor of Barnes enough for six ploughs.
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| 1206 | | King John visits the manor at Mortlake. The manor house, on the older part of the brewery site, was in the possession of the Archbishops of Canterbury from the 11th to the 16th centuries.
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| 1348 | | Archbishop John Stratford granted a licence to build a chapel on a piece of ground in Berecroft for "the tenants of Estshene and Mortelak, who are far distance from their parish church"
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| 1415 | | Death of Sir William de Milbourne whose house stood opposite Barnes Pond on the site of the present Milbourne House
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| 1536 | | Archbishop Thomas Cranmer gives the Manor of Mortlake to Henry VIII who grants it to Thomas Cromwell
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| 1538 | | Thomas Cromwell orders all parish churches to keep registers of baptisms, marriages and burials
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| 1543 | | Henry VIII grants the Manor of Mortlake to his sixth wife, Katherine Parr. He retains the manor house for his own use
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| 1543 | | Henry orders Mortlake Parish Church to be moved from the manor house to its present site
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| 1554 | | Thomas Wyatt is executed for treason following a rebellion against Mary Tudor. His freehold of Milbourne House reverts to the Crown
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| 1566 | | John Dee comes to Mortlake
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| 1580 | | Barm Elms estate is acquired by Elizabeth I who grants it to Sir Francis Walsingham
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| 1619 | | Tapestry works opens at Mortlake
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| 1637 | | Richmond Park is enclosed including 732 acres of Mortlake
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| 1660 | | Restoration of monarchy. Barn Elms restored to St.Paul's
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| 1665 | | Plague! 200 die in Mortlake; 18 in Barnes
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| 1703 | | Kit Cat Club moves to a house on the Barn Elms estate
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| 1703 | | Mortlake Tapestry works close
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| 1720 | | Large houses start to be built on Barnes Terrace
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| 1758 | | Barnes poorhouse is converted to a workhouse
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| 1776 | | Thames freezes over at Mortlake
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| 1778 | | New workhouse erected in Queen's Ride
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| 1827 | | First Hammersmith Bridge opens
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| 1828 | | William Cobbett leases Barn Elms Farm
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| 1831 | | Cholera outbreak in Mortlake
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| 1845 | | First University Boat Race on the Putney to Mortlake course
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| 1846 | | Railway comes to Barnes and Mortlake
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| 1849 | | Barnes railway bridge opens
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| 1884 | | Ranelagh Club moves to Barn Elms
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| 1887 | | New Hammersmith Bridge opens
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| 1888 | | Cowan's sugar works, on the site of Harrod's depository, is destroyed by fire
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| 1892 | | Richmond takes over 329 acres (North Sheen) from Mortlake
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| 1894 | | Barnes and Mortlake combine to form Barnes Urban District Council
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| 1906 | | First motorised bus service from Mortlake and Barnes to London
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| 1928 | | Foundation stone of All Saints Church is laid by the Duchess of York, later Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
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| 1932 | | Barnes becomes a borough (including Mortlake and East Sheen)
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| 1933 | | Chiswick Bridge opens
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| 1955 | | Barnes and Mortlake History Society founded
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| 1965 | | Barnes and Mortlake become part of the new London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames
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| 1968 | | St Paul's School moves to Lonsdale Road, Barnes
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| 1978 | | St Mary's Church, Barnes is gutted by fire
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| 1993 | | Barn Elms reservoirs close; Wildfowl Sanctuary opens on site in 2000
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| 2014 | | Mortlake Brewery's last brew before closing
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