Site History
2,000 years of history and 21st century living...........
A vibrant, thriving economy supported by the world class University forms the city's diverse and rich character.
Alumni include some of the world's greatest minds; Newton and Darwin, Watson and Crick and more recently Sir Stephen Hawking. As the many technology based based businesses around the city demonstrate, there are many reasons for the proud claim that 'Cambridge ideas change the world.'
The arts also thrive in Cambridge. The latest in a long tradition of public arts is the £1million Corpus Clock, with its unique gold dial and grasshopper escapement, symbolically devouring every second. No city in the world can match the heritage, opportunity or vibrancy of Cambridge.
Here are some of the most memorable events to take place in Cambridge:
1209 Earliest record of the University
1446 Henry VI lays first stone of King's College Chapel
1533 Thomas Cramer becomes first post-reformation Archbishop of Canterbury after finishing Cambridge
1784 Rt Hon William Pitt (Pembroke) elected MP for the University a year after becoming Prime Minster
1829 First Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge
1897 J.J Thomson (Cavendish) discovers the electron
1911 Cambridge becomes centre for philosophical research
1932 Atom is split for the first time
1941 First aeroplane powered by Frank Whittle's revolutionary jet engine takes off
1975 First Science Park founded by Dr John Bradfield
1980 Dr Frederick Sanger (Fellow of King's College) wins second nobel prize for discovering DNA sequencing
2007 Her Majesty the Queen opens Cancer Research UK Institute next to Addenbrooke's Hospital
2012 Cambridge Riverside
