Education in Europe

More Grammar schools established at Dorchester, Winchester, Hexham, Malmesbury, Lichfield, Hereford and Worcester

Jan 1, 600

Venerable Bede :Ecclesiastical History.

Jan 1, 700

Alcuin established school at York.

Jan 1, 776

Canute became king of England: concerned about the education of poor boys.

Mar 10, 1016

Norman invasion: French replaced English as vernacular medium for teaching Latin.

Mar 10, 1066

Oxford: evidence of teaching.

Mar 10, 1096

Cambridge: scholars arrived from Oxford

Mar 10, 1209

Oxford: post of Chancellor established.

Mar 10, 1214

Cambridge: post of Chancellor established.

Mar 10, 1226

Oxford: University College established, followed by Balliol 1260, Merton 1264.

Mar 10, 1249

Winchester founded: independent school.

Mar 10, 1382

Grammar school opened at Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire: first chantry school.

Mar 10, 1384

Eton founded: independent school.

Mar 10, 1440

Renaissance: Pico della Mirandola's De hominis dignitate.

Mar 10, 1486

Henry VIII became king

Mar 10, 1509

Roger Ascham born (d. 1568): called for greater care and respect for education.

Mar 10, 1515

Reformation: Luther's protest.

Mar 10, 1517

Tyndale's English Bible placed in churches.

Mar 10, 1535

Dissolution of the monasteries.

Mar 10, 1540

Canterbury grammar school refounded.

Mar 10, 1541

Elizabethan Statute of Artificers.

Mar 10, 1562

Comenius: Didactica magna championed universal education.

Mar 10, 1632

Samuel Hartlib: A Reformation of Schooles.

Mar 10, 1642

Restoration of the monarchy: Oxford and Cambridge discriminate against Nonconformists.

Mar 10, 1660

Dissenting Academies: established to teach law, medicine, commerce, engineering and the arts.

Mar 10, 1670

Locke: Some Thoughts concerning Education.

Mar 10, 1693

Charity Schools for the poor.

Mar 10, 1700

Thomas Braidwood's Academy for the Deaf and Dumb opened in Edinburgh.

Mar 10, 1760

Industrial Revolution began to create demand for mass education.

Mar 10, 1775

School of Instruction for the Indigent Blind established in Liverpool.

Mar 10, 1791

School of industry opened at Kendal. ________________________________________

Mar 10, 1799

Peel's Factory Act.

Mar 10, 1802

Parochial Schools Bill: made provision for the education of 'the labouring classes'

Mar 10, 1807

Mill Hill School: founded by Congregationalists.

Mar 10, 1807

National Society: CE organisation aimed to provide a school in every parish.

Mar 10, 1811

British and Foreign School Society: founded by liberal Anglicans, Roman Catholics and Jews as an alternative to the National Society.

Mar 10, 1814

Robert Owen opened first infant school in New Lanark, Scotland.

Mar 10, 1816

David Stow founded the Glasgow Normal School.

Mar 10, 1824

Liverpool Institute opened: other proprietary day schools followed (King's College School 1829, University College School 1830 etc).

Mar 10, 1825

Universities Act 1825: behaviour of Oxbridge students.

Mar 10, 1825

Thomas Arnold: head of Rugby School.

Mar 10, 1828

Representation of the People Act (The Reform Act) gave one million people the right to vote.

Mar 10, 1832

Government began making annual grants to church schools

Mar 10, 1833

Home and Colonial Institution (later Society): founded to establish infant schools.

Mar 10, 1836

Central Society of Education: aimed to keep religion out of schools altogether.

Mar 10, 1836

Thomas Wyse: Education reform or the necessity of a national system of education

Mar 10, 1836

Normal School of Design established in London.

Mar 10, 1837

Education Department established: Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth appointed as first Permanent Secretary

Mar 10, 1839

Grammar Schools Act 1840: allowed endowment funds to be spent on modern and commercial subjects.

Mar 10, 1840

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':

Mar 10, 1841

Cheltenham College established, followed by other boarding schools (Marlborough 1843, Rossall 1844, Radley 1847, Wellington 1853 etc).

Mar 10, 1841

Governesses' Benevolent Institution: campaigned for better education for girls and women.

Mar 10, 1843

Committee of Council on Education made grants to schools of industry.

Mar 10, 1846

Government began making annual grants to Baptist and Congregationalist schools.

Mar 10, 1846

College of Preceptors.

Mar 10, 1846

Government began making annual grants to Wesleyan Methodists and the Catholic Poor School Committee.

Mar 10, 1847

Asylum for Idiots established at Highgate.

Mar 10, 1847

Woodard Society: provided Anglican boarding schools.

Mar 10, 1848

Queen's College in Harley Street: for women.

Mar 10, 1848

Great Exhibition revealed lack of facilities for technical education in England.

Mar 10, 1851

Cripples Home and Industrial School for Girls founded at Marylebone.

Mar 10, 1851

Department of Practical Art created under the Board of Trade.

Mar 10, 1852

Government began making annual grants to Manchester Jewish community school.

Mar 10, 1853

Edward Thring: head of Uppingham School.

Mar 10, 1853

Literary and Scientific Institutions Act 1854 (pdf text 487kb) facilitated the establishment of institutions for the promotion of literature, science and the arts.

Mar 10, 1854

St Augustine arrived in England

Mar 2, 2022

First Grammar School established in Canterbury

Mar 2, 2022

Viking invasions began

Mar 2, 2022

Alfred became king of Wessex and showed 'concern for education'.

Mar 2, 2022

Dunstan born.

Mar 2, 2022