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7000BC
Mesolithic Hunter Gatherers in the area.
2000BC
Bronze Age Burial Barrows on the Heath.
1000BC
Iron Age Burial Barrows on the Heath.
100BC
Romano - British Settlement - Chalton.
150BC
Roman Villa - Stroud.
600AD
Froxfield Saxon Entrenchments.
600AD
Early Saxon Village - Chalton.
1086 Domesday
The King holds Mapleduram (Buriton, Petersfield, Sheet).
1120
Earl Robert of Gloucester founds Petersfield.
1184
Countess Hawisa of Gloucester give Charter.
1198
John Count of Moreton, renews Hawisa charter.
1307
Two MPs sent to Parliament at Carlise.
1384
Plague.
1390
Brick and tile industry develops.
1400
Market and trades develop.
1563
Serious Plague brought by soldiers from Le Harve.
1596
Town Mace Purchased.
1599
Letters Patent of The Borough, purchased by Thomas Hanbury.
1660
Traffic developing on Portsmouth Road due to naval expansion.
1664
John Goodyer dies - Weston Charity founded.
1711
Sheetbridge to Portsmouth Turnpike founded.
1722
Richard Churcher endowed Churcher's College.
1729
Churcher's College opened.
1734
MPs were Sir William Joliffe and Edward Gibbon.
1780
Market Square cleared of stalls - cattle market moved in. Old Town Hall built.
1800 Circa
London - Portsmouth road important. Napoleonic wars.
1821
Case of the Borough of Petersfield won on appeal.
1832
Parliamentary Reform Act.
1836
Poor Law Union built. (Workhouse)
1852
Introduction of gas lighting.
1858
Opening of Police Station.
1859
Railway reached Petersfield connection London and Portsmouth.
1866
Corn Exchange built N.E. corner of The Square.
1871
Opening of Cottage Hospital.
1884
Introduction of drain and sewage system.
1885
Borough of Petersfield dissolved.
1894
Petersfield Urban District Council founded.
1898
Old Town Hall in front of Church (1780) demolished.
1901
First Petersfield Music Festival.
1911
Petersfield buys market rights and statue of William III.
1913
Statue of William III refurbished.
1922
War Memorial Cenotaph unveiled.
1935
Petersfield Town Council/Festival Hall built.
1936
First mention of need for Petersfield by-pass.
1953
Last horse and animal sale at Taro Fair.
1958
The Petersfield School opens off The Causeway.
1961
Open Air Swimming Pool opens.
1962
Last Cattle Market in The Square.
1963
Statue of William III refurbished.
1974
Town and East Hampshire District Councils established.
1981
Library opens in The Square.
1987
Festival Hall re-development (opened 6th October)
1992
Petersfield Twinned with Barentin, France.
1992
Petersfield by-pass opened.
1993
Rams Walk opened.
1994
The Tour de France race passes through Petersfield.
1999
Petersfield Museum opened.
2000
Petersfield community opens its own bespoke youth centre - The King's Arms.
2006
Petersfield twinned with Warendorf, Germany.
2009
Town hosted celebrations to mark the 150th anniversary of the coming of the railway.
2012
The Olympic Torch is carried through the streets of Petersfield.
2016
Petersfield Museum purchases the Police station for expansion.
2018
Major refurbishment to High Street War Memorial to add names and replace worn stones.
2019
10th Anniversary as a Fair Trade Town
2023
Petersfield's first Town Crier was selected.

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