Southampton

city and major port in Hampshire, South-East England, United Kingdom

16 dated entries naming Southampton, drawn from 15 separate years between 634 CE and 1967 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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7th century

634Birinus, Frankish missionary, lands at the port of "Hamwic" (now in the St. Mary's area of Southampton), on his mission to reconvert the West Saxons in England. About this time, the St Mary's Church is founded.source

9th century

896Summer – King Alfred the Great orders the building of English warships (almost twice as long as the longships) on the Itchen at Southampton, against the Danish Viking raiders in Wessex.source

12th century

1190July 4 – King Richard I (the Lion Heart) and Philip II (Augustus), meet at Vézelay and agree to divide the spoils of the Crusade equally between themselves. They march to the coast and then make their way across the Mediterranean, taking different routes. Richard travels with an expeditionary force (some 17,000 men) via Marseille and Philip travels with a smaller contingent (some 15,000 men) via Genoa. Richard has some 100 ships at his disposal, several of which are from Norman ports, others from Shoreham and Southampton.source

13th century

1299Southampton Old Bowling Green is established in Southampton. It is the oldest surviving bowling green.source

14th century

1338October 5 – Hundred Years' War, English Channel naval campaign: Southampton is destroyed.source

15th century

1471September 22 – After being tracked down by King Edward IV and taken prisoner at Southampton, the rebel Thomas Neville is beheaded at Middleham Castle in his native Yorkshire.source

19th century

18411 May - Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin, acting Governor of the Cape Colony who supervised the arrival and settling of the British settlers and who founded Port Elizabeth, dies in Southampton, Englandsource

20th century

1909Mahatma Gandhi embarks in Cape Town for Southampton, England.source
191120 September – the new liner RMS Olympic, sister ship to the Titanic, collides with Royal Navy cruiser HMS Hawke off Southampton; there is no loss of life or serious injury.source
1912April 10 – White Star liner RMS Titanic departs from Southampton, England, with more than 2,200 passengers and crew on her maiden voyage, bound for New York.source
1918August 3 – WWI: Australian hospital ship HMAT Warilda is torpedoed and sunk in the English Channel on passage from Le Havre to Southampton by German submarine SMU UC-49 with the loss of 123 of the 801 people on board.source
1935July 1 – RMS Mauretania sails from Southampton to Rosyth to be broken up.source
19494 January – RMS Caronia of the Cunard Line departs Southampton for New York on her maiden voyage.source
1949January 4 – RMS Caronia (1947) of the Cunard Line departs Southampton for New York City on her maiden voyage.source
1952July 3 - The SS United States Has Her maiden voyage en route from New York To Southampton And wins the Blue Ribandsource
1967September 27 – The RMS Queen Mary arrives in Southampton at the end of her last transatlantic crossing.source