More Grammar schools established at Dorchester, Winchester, Hexham, Malmesbury, Lichfield, Hereford and Worcester
Jan 1, 700
Venerable Bede :Ecclesiastical History.
Jan 1, 776
Alcuin established school at York.
Mar 10, 1016
Canute became king of England: concerned about the education of poor boys.
Mar 10, 1066
Norman invasion: French replaced English as vernacular medium for teaching Latin.
Mar 10, 1096
Oxford: evidence of teaching.
Mar 10, 1209
Cambridge: scholars arrived from Oxford
Mar 10, 1214
Oxford: post of Chancellor established.
Mar 10, 1226
Cambridge: post of Chancellor established.
Mar 10, 1249
Oxford: University College established, followed by Balliol 1260, Merton 1264.
Mar 10, 1382
Winchester founded: independent school.
Mar 10, 1384
Grammar school opened at Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire: first chantry school.
Mar 10, 1440
Eton founded: independent school.
Mar 10, 1486
Renaissance: Pico della Mirandola's De hominis dignitate.
Mar 10, 1509
Henry VIII became king
Mar 10, 1515
Roger Ascham born (d. 1568): called for greater care and respect for education.
Mar 10, 1517
Reformation: Luther's protest.
Mar 10, 1535
Tyndale's English Bible placed in churches.
Mar 10, 1540
Dissolution of the monasteries.
Mar 10, 1541
Canterbury grammar school refounded.
Mar 10, 1562
Elizabethan Statute of Artificers.
Comenius: Didactica magna championed universal education.
Samuel Hartlib: A Reformation of Schooles.
Restoration of the monarchy: Oxford and Cambridge discriminate against Nonconformists.
Dissenting Academies: established to teach law, medicine, commerce, engineering and the arts.
Locke: Some Thoughts concerning Education.
Charity Schools for the poor.
Thomas Braidwood's Academy for the Deaf and Dumb opened in Edinburgh.
Industrial Revolution began to create demand for mass education.
School of Instruction for the Indigent Blind established in Liverpool.
School of industry opened at Kendal. ________________________________________
Peel's Factory Act.
Parochial Schools Bill: made provision for the education of 'the labouring classes'
Mill Hill School: founded by Congregationalists.
National Society: CE organisation aimed to provide a school in every parish.
British and Foreign School Society: founded by liberal Anglicans, Roman Catholics and Jews as an alternative to the National Society.
Robert Owen opened first infant school in New Lanark, Scotland.
David Stow founded the Glasgow Normal School.
Liverpool Institute opened: other proprietary day schools followed (King's College School 1829, University College School 1830 etc).
Universities Act 1825: behaviour of Oxbridge students.
Thomas Arnold: head of Rugby School.
Representation of the People Act (The Reform Act) gave one million people the right to vote.
Government began making annual grants to church schools
Home and Colonial Institution (later Society): founded to establish infant schools.
Central Society of Education: aimed to keep religion out of schools altogether.
Thomas Wyse: Education reform or the necessity of a national system of education
Normal School of Design established in London.
Education Department established: Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth appointed as first Permanent Secretary
Grammar Schools Act 1840: allowed endowment funds to be spent on modern and commercial subjects.
Five School Sites Acts passed between 1841 and 1852 facilitated the purchase of land for school buildings and allowed for 'Parliamentary Grants for the Education of the Poor':
Cheltenham College established, followed by other boarding schools (Marlborough 1843, Rossall 1844, Radley 1847, Wellington 1853 etc).
Governesses' Benevolent Institution: campaigned for better education for girls and women.
Committee of Council on Education made grants to schools of industry.
Government began making annual grants to Baptist and Congregationalist schools.
College of Preceptors.
Government began making annual grants to Wesleyan Methodists and the Catholic Poor School Committee.
Great Exhibition revealed lack of facilities for technical education in England.
Cripples Home and Industrial School for Girls founded at Marylebone.
Department of Practical Art created under the Board of Trade.
Government began making annual grants to Manchester Jewish community school.
Edward Thring: head of Uppingham School.
Literary and Scientific Institutions Act 1854 (pdf text 487kb) facilitated the establishment of institutions for the promotion of literature, science and the arts.
St Augustine arrived in England
First Grammar School established in Canterbury
Viking invasions began
Alfred became king of Wessex and showed 'concern for education'.