freemasons timeline

By tjholtz
  • Jun 1, 1136

    Melrose Abbey Church is in the process of construction. Traveling Masons leave their marks on some of the stones

  • Jun 1, 1360

    13 Sheriffs are ordered by the Crown to send 568 Masons to work on Windsor Castle.

    13 Sheriffs are ordered by the Crown to send 568 Masons to work on Windsor Castle.
  • Jun 1, 1400

    The inventory of the Masons' Lodge at York Minster contains two Tracing Boards.

  • Jun 1, 1429

    "Masons of the Lodge" is mentioned in the records of Canterbury Cathedral.

  • Jun 1, 1440

    masons given the mason word by william to preserve the secrets of the Templars he was building Rosslyn to house

  • Jun 1, 1487

    The word "Freemason" appears for the first time in the Statutes of England.

  • The Grand Lodge No 1 Manuscript is written. Now in the possession of the United Grand Lodge of England, this is the third oldest of the existing Manuscripts relating to Freemasonry.

  • William Schaw sets up the modern lodge system in Scotland following the instructions of James VI

  • Sir Robert Moray becomes the first Mason recorded to be made on English Soil

  • An anti-Masonic leaflet is published warning people against the "Freed Masons".

  • The first Grand Lodge is formed on 24th June (St John the Baptist's Day) in London by four Lodges meeting in the City of Westminster. The Grand Lodge of England (GL of E)

  • Dr James Anderson publishes the first edition of The Constitutions of the Free-Masons

  • The Grand Lodge of Ireland is formed. (GL of I)

  • The Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, the first American Grand Lodge, was given its Constitution

  • The Grand Lodge of Germany is formed.

  • On 17th January, Joseph Torrubia (a Roman Catholic priest living is Spain) secures permission from the Pope to become a Freemason

  • First Lodge is established in China by the GL of E.

  • The GL of E issues a Charter to African Lodge No 459 on 29th September. This is an African-American Lodge.

  • The Royal Masonic Institution for Girls is established in England

  • The Royal Masonic Institution for Boys is established in England

  • The Grand Lodge Library is founded by the UGL of E.

  • First Lodge formed in New Zealand

  • A Lodge is formed in Japan by the UGL of E.

  • Gould's History of Freemasonry is published

  • On 13th Feb, the Grand Fascist Council issues its first resolution against Freemasonry

  • The Portugal Police order that all Masonic meetings are prohibited

  • A court in England rules that Freemasonry is not a religion

  • The BBC presented a program entitled Freemasonry - The Open Secret purporting to be an expose of Freemasonry.

  • Several Prince Hall Lodges in South Africa give up their Charters from the USA and join the regular Craft in South Africa.

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  • Prince Edwin, son of King Athelstan, calls and presides over a meeting of Masons at York

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