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| Date | Event | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1065 | Rumburgh Priory founded | |||
| 1086 | First recorded Rector of Halesworth – Ulf the priest | |||
| 1223 | King Henry III grants Halesworth the right to hold a market | |||
| 1478c | Halesworth Guildhall built in the Thoroughfare. St Loye Guild Goldsmiths & metalworkers (now a row of four shops including (D C Patrick, Newsagents) | |||
| 1540 | Gothic House built. | |||
| 1632 | Sir Henry Bedingfield, Chief Justice, born in Gothic House | |||
| 1645 | Seven individuals from Halesworth were accused of witchcraft and tried at Bury St Edmunds. One man and three women were hanged on the 27th August of that year. | |||
| 1672 | The Dutch Fleet was beaten at the Battle of Sole Bay, Southwold | |||
| 1686 | The Steeple End Almshouses built by William Carey | |||
| 1743 | Two windmills were built in Pound Street (now London Road). The first was demolished in 1900 and the second in 1905. | |||
| 1761 | Opening of the River Blyth Navigation, leading to an expansion of trade | |||
| 1766 | Blything House of Industry, Bulcamp opened on 13th October. | |||
| 1782 | Gurneys and Turner, bank of Gt Yarmouth opened in Halesworth. It merged into Barclays Bank in 1896 | |||
| 1788 | Mill Hill Windmill was built. | |||
| 1792 | Halesworth Theatre (Rifle Hall) built, in London Road. | |||
| 1794 | Original Congregation Chapel opened, in London Road. | |||
| 1800c | Gothic House used as a boarding school. | |||
| 1803 | Messrs Easterson & Seaman established Halesworth Iron Foundry | |||
| 1816 | Mr William Lincolne opened his new Drapery, Grocery & Tallow Candle Shop in The Market Place on 4th November (Boots Chemist now trades in these premises) | |||
| 1817 | Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, botanist and Director of Kew Gardens, born in Halesworth | |||
| 1841 | Wissett Congregational Chapel built | |||
| 1842 | Patrick Stead, Halesworth maltster, builds the first steam maltings in the country | |||
| 1854 | Hadiscoe to Halesworth Railway Opened | |||
| 1859 | George Lansbury, politician and reformer, born in Halesworth | |||
| Aug | 1879 | Southwold Railway opened | ||
| 1880 | Moving Platforms installed | |||
| 1887 | Halesworth Corps of the Salvation Army opened | |||
| 1893 | Fred Johnson, photographer, leaves Halesworth | |||
| 1899 | Crescent House burnt down | |||
| 24 | Feb | 1900 | Ives' Boot Factory burnt down | |
| 1916 | 1st Halesworth Scouts founded | |||
| 1922 | Moving Platform restored by Bolton Paul | |||
| 11 | April | 1929 | Southwold Railway closed | |
| 1933 | Halesworth Dairy built in Bungay Road by United Dairies. At its peak it employed 56 staff nd handled 40,000 gallons per day. | |||
| 5 | May | 1935 | Silver Jubilee celebrations for King George V | |
| 12 | May | 1937 | Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth | |
| 1941 | Halesworth Railway Station bombed | |||
| 1958 | New road bridge opened and Moving Platforms redundant | |||
| 19 | March | 1962 | The Southwold Railway bridge across Holton Road is taken down. | |
| 18 | June | 1963 | Halesworth Corps of the Salvation Army closes | |
| 1968 | Halesworth Flooded | This flood was worse than the one in 1993 | ||
| 30 | April | 1968 | Halesworth Dairy closed | |
| June | 1974 | Builders hand over new police station building | ||
| 1980 | Micropress moved into the Gasworks site | |||
| 1983 | Halesworth Town Football Club tops Division 1 of the Suffolk and Ipswich League | |||
| 1985 | Museum opened in the Alms House in Steeple End | |||
| 1986 | Halesworth Signal Box moved to the Middle School | |||
| 1986 | Kuk Sool Dojang (a complete system of martial art training) opened on Dairy Hill, the first in the country | |||
| 1987 | Halesworth Town Football Club celebrated its centenary | |||
| 1988 | Work on the Relief Road started | |||
| 1989 | Ives, shoe shop closed down after at least 100 years | |||
| 1989 | Saxons Way opened | |||
| 1989 | Patrick Stead Maternity Hospital closes (est. 1936) | |||
| 1990 | Prime and Cowles Garage closed in the Market Place | |||
| 1990 | Archaeological excavation at Barclays Bank | |||
| 1991 | Thoroughfare pedestrianised | |||
| 1991 | Halesworth Golf Club opened | |||
| 1992 | Opening of the New Reach | |||
| 1993 | Thoroughfare flooded | |||
| 1993 | Post Office moved from Norwich Road to Coopers | |||
| 1994 | Co-op opened on present site | |||
| 1996 | Steeple End Bus Terminal closes | |||
| 1996 | Library moved to new building from Alms House | |||
| 1996 | Cutlers Hill Surgery moved to present location | |||
| 1996 | Oriental Public House in Quay Street closed | |||
| 1997 | Holton Airfield Museum opened | |||
| 1997 | Halesworth and Blyth Valley Partnership started | |||
| 1998 | Brewery Site, off the Market Place, cleared for housing | |||
| 1998 | Pime and Cowles garage, in the Market Place, demolished | |||
| 1999 | Moving Platform restored | |||
| 2000 | Millennium Green opened (the largest in the country) | |||
| 2000 | Halesworth and District Museum moves to railway station building. | |||
| 2000 | Millennium oak tree is planted in the Town Park | |||
| 2001 | Halesworth Town Trail is launched. | |||
| 2003 | Church Farm Development | |||
| 2003 | The Cut opened | |||
| 2003 | Halesworth Police Station completely refurbished | |||
| 2003 | Halesworth Business Connections formed. | |||
| 2006 | World Land Trust moved into their offices in Blyth House, Bridge Street | |||
| 2007 | Halesworth Signal Box moved to North Norfolk Railway | |||
| 2009 | Swimming Pool Closed after 27 years | |||
| 2009 | Nollies Pet Shop, in the Market Place, closed | |||
| 2010 | Halesworth Bowles Club produces the National Triples Champions | |||
| 2011 | Wissett Hoard discovered | |||
| 2012 | Micropress moved to Reydon | |||
| 2012 | Wissett Hoard purchased by Museum | |||
| 2012 | Mike King, Halesworth weight lifter, becomes World Champion in his class. | |||
| 2012 | Middle School closed | |||
| 2013 | Ron Stone, Headmaster, Middle School, died | |||
| 2017 | Barrow Crossing gates installed | |||