| Date | All Stretton | United Kingdom | International |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1801 | 1801 census population of Church Stretton parish 924 | London Stock Exchange founded | Naval Battle of Copenhagen |
| 1802 | Dudegley mill passed from the Rev Edward Harries of Allscot to Thomas Parker of Acton Scott | Madame Tussaud opens her exhibition of wax sculptures in London | Napoleon confirmed as the First Consul of France |
| 1811 | 1811 census population of Church Stretton parish 944 | Regency of George Prince of Wales due to the illness of George III | Mexican War of Independence |
| 1812 | William Jones admitted to possession of Old Hall Farm | Framebreaking Act brings in the death penalty for Luddites | War of 1812 between Britain and the USA |
| 1821 | 1821 census population of Church Stretton parish 1,226 | Cinderloo Massacre in Shropshire | Death of Emperor Napoleon |
| 1831 | 1831 census population of Church Stretton parish 1,302 | Charles Darwin's voyage on HMS Beagle begins | French Foreign Legion established |
| 1832 | Will of Samuel Wilding, owner of the majority of land in All Stretton | First Reform Act | Greece established as an independent country |
| 1839 | Church Stretton tithe map produced | Rebecca riots in Wales portesting against tolls | First Opium war against China begins |
| 1841 | 1841 census population of Church Stretton parish 1,604 | Great Western Railway completed between London and Bristol | New Zealand becomes a British colony |
| 1849 | Mary Haverkham resident at All Stretton Hall until 1870 | Famine in Ireland | Conflicts as part of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 |
| 1851 | 1851 census population of Church Stretton parish 1,676 | The Great Exhibition held in London | Western Union founded in the USA |
| 1852 | Railway opens through All Stretton | Kings Cross railway station opens in London | Napoleon III becomes Emperor of the French |
| 1855 | Wilding estate purchased by Beriah Botfield, MP for Ludlow, 1840-47 and 1857-63 | Siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War | Van Diemen's land renamed Tasmania |
| 1861 | 1861 census population of Church Stretton parish 1,695 | Mrs Beetons Book of Household Management published | American Civil War breaks out |
| 1863 | Death of Beriah Botfield, estate held by his wife Isabella until her death in 1911 | Foundation of the Football Association | President Lincoln's Gettysburg address |
| 1871 | 1871 census population of Church Stretton parish 1,756 | Bank Holidays established in the UK | The Paris Commune uprising |
| 1879 | Death of the Rev Hugh Owen Wilson, rector of Church Stretton, and owner of Buxton House. His will was proved that year with an estate valued at £18,000 | Anglo Zulu war starts | Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public |
| 1881 | 1881 census population of Church Stretton parish 1,683 | Natural History Museum opened in London | Assassination of US President Garfield |
| 1883 | Death of John McClintock proprietor of the Grove asylum | Foundation of the Boys Brigade | Eruption of the volcano Krakatoa |
| 1891 | 1891 census population of Church Stretton parish 1,707 | First appearance in print of detective Sherlock Holmes | London to Paris telephone system opened |
| 1899 | Admittance of Samuel Jones to Minton Villa | Premiere of Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations in London | Second Boer War begins |
| 1900 | Richard Everall had been landlord of the Yew Tree for 15 years, he stayed for another 15 until 1915 | Formation of the Labour party | Boxer rebellion in China |
| 1901 | 1901 census population of Church Stretton parish 1,749 Dedication of All Stretton parish church | Death of Queen Victoria, accession of Edward VII | Assasination of US President McKinley |
| 1902 | Dedication of All Stretton parish church | Education act establishes local authority secondary schools | End of the Boer War |
| 1903 | Launch of the Daily Mirror newspaper | ||
| 1904 | Smithy ceased operating at Roseleigh, Farm Lane | First production of Rolls Royce cars | Russo-Japanese War |
| 1905 | Mrs Mary Fitzsimmons resident at Buxton House; death of Hannah McLintock proprietor of Grove House asylum | Automobile Association (AA) established | 1905 Russian revolution |
| 1906 | Admittance of members of the Bullock family to Brooklyn Cottage, Batch Valley | HMS Dreadnought launched starting the Anglo -German naval race | San Francisco earthquake causing widespread destruction |
| 1907 | Edward Lewis renting Plush Hill for £15 rent per annum | First boy scout camp on Brownsea island | New Zealand and Newfoundland become dominions |
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| 1909 | Death of Roger Atcherley, retired sugar merchant, aged 78 of All Stretton Hall | Lloyd George's people's budget | City of Tel Aviv founded |
| 1910 | Alfred Haworth of Altringham owner of Dudgeley farm in electoral register | Trial and execution of Dr. Crippen | First public radio broadcast in the USA |
| 1911 | 1911 census population of Church Stretton parish 2,435, death of writer Hesba Stretton | Coronation of George V | Roald Amundsen reaches the South pole |
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| 1914 | 26 Oct, Guardsman Caleb Halfpenny killed in action | Suffragette action across the country | Outbreak of First World War |
| 1915 | 29 Dec, Serjeant Herbert William Preen killed in action | Sinking of the Lusitania | Battle of Loos |
| 1916 | 2 June, Private James Cleeton Gough killed in action; 4 July, Gunner Fred Hanson killed in action; 14 July, Private Percy George Edwards and Private Leonard John Medlicott killed in action; 12 Oct Private Harry Probert killed in action | Easter Rising in Dublin | Battle of the Somme |
| 1917 | 24 April, Gunner John Charles Wilkes killed in action; 13 May Private Arthur Robert Spurgeon, died of wounds; 20 July, 2nd Lieutenant Thomas Russell Band killed in action; 31 July Private Stanley Price killed in action; 16 Aug, Private Jesse Haynes and Serjeant Henry Millman killed in action; 26 Sept, Corporal James Hotchkiss killed in action | Formation of Women's Land Army | Battle of Passchendaele |
| 1918 | 22 Mar, Gunner George Arden killed in action; 26 Aug, Captain Brian Hanbury-Sparrow killed in action; 8 Oct, Gunner Edward Lewis killed in action; 12 Oct, Provate Edward Richard Francis killed in action; 25 Oct, Gunner John Francis George killed in action | Extension of the franchise to all men and some women, Poet Wilfred Owen killed in action | End of the First World War |
| 1919 | 3 May, Gunner Charles Arden died of disease | Nancy Astor first woman MP | Treaty of Versilles signed, Spanish Flu pandemic |
| 1920 | War memorial unveiled | Prohibition of alcohol in US | |
| 1921 | Partition of Ireland | Discovery of insulin | |
| 1924 | Ramsay MacDonald, first Labour prime minister | Death of Lenin | |
| 1926 | Sale of the All Stretton Hall estate | Elizabeth II born, General strike | First television produced |
| Work on church Stretton water works | |||
| 1927 | Formation of the BBC | First solo flight across the Atlantic by Charles Lindbergh | |
| 1929 | All Stretton Hall operating as a private hotel | Wall Street crash leads to the Great Depression of the 1930s | |
| 1930 | Planet Pluto identified | ||
| Evacuation of St Kilda | |||
| 1933 | Heat wave in June | London tube map introduced | Nazis come to power in Germany |
| 1935 | Church Stretton by pass construction agreed | 30 mph speed limit and cats eyes introduced | |
| Invasion of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) by Italy | |||
| 1936 | New halt on railway at All Stretton | Accession of George VI | Spanish Civil War starts |
| 1937 | Debate on one or two way traffic on The Row | Coronation of George VI | |
| 1939 | Church Stretton bypass completed | Britain declares war on Germany | |
| 1940 | Bomb lands on Caer Caradoc | Retreat from Dunkirk | Invasion of Norway, the Low Countries and France |
| St Dunstan's arrive in Church Stretton | Battle of Britain | ||
| 1942 | Dick Bebbington RAF of Lower Botvyle Farm, killed in action | First US Soldiers arrive in the UK | Fall of Singapore |
| Battle of El Alamein | |||
| 1943 | Edmund Deaves RAF of Rock Cottage, killed in action | First Bevin Boys sent to work in coal mines | Invasions of Sicily and Italy |
| 1944 | Robert Sankey KSLI of Bridge Cottage, Farm Lane, killed in action | V1 and V2 bombing campaigns against British cities | D-Day invasion of France |
| Harold Evans KSLI of no. 3 Farm Lane, killed in action | Warsaw uprising | ||
| Battle of the Bulge | |||
| 1945 | Labour government elected | End of war in Europe and Japan. | |
| Demobilisation begins | Formation of the United Nations | ||
| 1946 | St Dunstan's leave Church Stretton | Introduction of bread rationing | |
| 1947 | Marriage Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip, Formation of the National Health Service | India and Pakistan gain independence | |
| 1948 | Land for Village Hall purchased | Olympic Games in London | Formation of Israel |
| 1951 | All Stretton Women's Institute established, First meeting of All Stretton Village Hall committee | Festival of Britain | Trail of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg for espionage in USA |
| 1952 | First All Stretton pantomime performed | Accession of Elizabeth II | |
| 1953 | All Stretton reservoir purchased by Church Stretton UD Council | Coronation of Elizabeth II, Structure of DNA discovered | Death of Stalin |
| 1956 | Suez crisis | ||
| 1957 | Opening of bus shelter | First UK H Bomb tested | First satellite launched |
| 1958 | Shropshire Hills designated an Area of Outstanding Beauty, closure of All Stretton railway halt | Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament launched | Foundation of European Economic Community |
| 1960 | National Service abolished | Invention of laser | |
| 1961 | Yuri Gagarin first man in space | ||
| 1962 | Mains water comes to All Stretton | Launch of the Ford Cortina car | |
| 1963 | All Stretton Football Club established | Beeching report on British railways | President of USA John F Kennedy assassinated |
| 1965 | Manor of Church Stretton, including the Long Mynd, purchased by the National Trust. | Capital punishment abolished, | Civil rights unrest in USA |
| Most properties in the village connected to mains sewage | Funeral of Sir Winston Churchill | ||
| 1966 | England win the football World Cup | Cultural revolution in China | |
| 1967 | Church Stretton Arts festival started. | First colour television programme broadcast | 6 day war in the Middle East |
| Stretton Focus launched | First heart transplant | ||
| 1968 | Church Stretton secondary school opened | USSR invades Czechoslovakia | |
| 1969 | Dr McClintock, owner of the Grove dies | Concorde's first flight | Neil Armstrong first man on the moon |
| 1970 | The Grove demolished | Beatles disbands | Solzhenitsyn awarded Nobel prize for literature |
| 1971 | Memorial window to Dr McClintock in All Stretton church dedicated | Decimal currency introduced | |
| 1973 | Village exhibition, 100 years of village life | VAT introduced | Britain joins the Common Market (now the EU) |
| All Stretton Preservation Society formed, trees planted | Oil crisis results in increased oil prices and global recession | ||
| 1974 | New built houses in Star Lane occupied | 3 day week - power cuts and shortages | President of USA Richard Nixon resigns following Watergate investigation |
| 1975 | Village exhibition, Once Upon A Time | Bill Gates establishes Microsoft | |
| 1976 | Summer heat wave | Viking probe lands on Mars | |
| 1977 | Kneelers created for the church | Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee | Death of Steve Biko in police custody in South Africa |
| 1978 | First UK test tube baby | Camp David Middle East agreement in USA | |
| 1979 | Village exhibition, Made In Shropshire | Election of Margaret Thatcher, first woman prime minister | Russian invasion of Afghanistan |
| 1980 | Village Records Trust formed, first Records Day | John Lennon shot dead in New York | Moscow Olympics, boycotted by many countries |
| Sodium street lighting installed | |||
| 1981 | Village exhibition, Village Pastimes | Marriage of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer | First space shuttle flight |
| 1982 | First Autumn Produce Show | Falklands War | |
| 1983 | Agreement with the United Reformed Church to hold joint services in St Michael's church | Introduction of the pound coin | Music CDs first on sale |
| War Memorial restored | |||
| Old Houses publications produced | |||
| 1984 | Miners strike | Launch of the Apple Mackintosh computer | |
| 1986 | Save Our School movement Records trust starts oral history recording | GCSE examinations replace O levels and CSEs | Chernobyl disaster |
| 1988 | New gas main installed on Shrewsbury Road | Beginning of Perestroika (restructuring) in the USSR | |
| Village exhibition, Times past, Times present | |||
| 1989 | Additional names added to the War Memorial | Church of England agrees to ordain women priests | Fall of the Berlin Wall Invention of the internet |
| 1990 | Opening of the Parish Centre | Margaret Thatcher resigns as Prime Minister | First Gulf War, release of Nelson Mandela |
| 1991 | Church Stretton parish population 4,161 | Terry Waite freed after 4 and a half years as a hostage in Lebanon | |
| 1994 | Morris's foodmarket opens, Lion Meadow road cut and car parks remodelled | Channel tunnel opened | Rwandan genocide |
| 1995 | Revival of Church Stretton Carnival | 50th anniversary of the end of World War II | Oklahoma City bombing |
| 1997 | Mayfair 'Old People's' Home becomes the community owned Mayfair Centre | Death of Diana Princess of Wales, Hong Kong returned to the Chinese | |
| 1999 | Last Church Stretton Carnival | First meetings of Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly | Launch of the Euro |
| 2000 | Millennium celebrations | Opening of Tate Modern | |
| Time capsule buried | |||
| 2001 | Sheep slaughtered in the Grove field | Foot and mouth outbreak | 9/11 attacks on USA |
| 2002 | Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee | US invasion of Afghanistan | |
| 2003 | Village Design statement launched, Neighbourhood Watch scheme established, Millennium footpath to Church Stretton opened | Hutton enquiry into death of Dr David Kelly | Iraq War |
| 2004 | B4370 road renumbered B5477 | Opening of the Gherkin building in London | Asian Boxing Day tsunami |
| 2005 | Part of All Stretton designated a Conservation area | Suicide bombings in London | Hurricane Katrina hits US |
| Civil partnerships introduced | |||
| 2006 | All Stretton History Day | Human Genome mapped | |
| Opening of All Stretton bunk house | |||
| 2007 | Sale of All Stretton Hall to Morris & Company | News of the World phone hacking scandal | |
| 2008 | Launch of 'All Stretton History and Houses' book | Nationalisation of Northern Rock | International financial crisis |
| Closure of village shop | Election of Barak Obama as US President | ||
| 2009 | Opening of Stretton Hall Care Home | Royal Bank of Scotland announces record losses of £24.1 billion | |
| 2010 | Coalition government established | Eruption of Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajkull | |
| 2011 | Bus Shelter replaced | Marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton | Arab Spring |
| 2012 | Diamond Jubilee celebrations | Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee | Syrian uprising |
| London Olympics and Paralympics | |||
| 2013 | Proposals for the building of houses and a business park on the lower slopes of Caer Caradoc | Prince George was born and is the third in line for the British throne. | Nelson Mandela dies |
| Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher dies following a stroke. | Pope Benedict XVI resigns the first pope to resign since Gregory XII in 1415 | ||
| A garment factory in Bangladesh collapses, killing 1,127 people and injuring another 2,500 people. | |||
| 2014 | The Population of All Stretton Village is 330 | Scotland votes to remain part of the UK | Malala Yousafzai youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize winner |
| Six people are killed after a refuse lorry crashes into a group of people in Glasgow's George Square | Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 disappears and later in the year Flight 17 is shot down over the Ukraine. | ||
| Ebola epidemic in West Africa | |||
| 2015 | A Defibrillator is installed at the Village Hall | Libby Lane becomes the first woman ordained as a bishop in the Church of England, at York Minster. | Earthquakes in the Himalayas kill over 10,000 people |
| A Village Emergency Support Plan is drawn up | The U.K. Government finally pays off War Loan bonds, originally introduced to consolidate debt incurred in fighting World War I | Same Sex marriage legal in 50 US States | |
| The Queen becomes the longest serving monarch in British History | Terrorists attacks in Paris kill 130 people | ||
| 2016 | The Red Phone Box is de-comissioned. | Grenfell Tower fire in London kills 72 people | Donald Trump is elected President of the United States |
| Shropshire Council reject the application to build two blocks of semi-detached affordable 2 and 3 bedroomed houses, adjacent to the Yew Tree. | United Kingdom vote to leave the European Union | Coup in Turkey fails | |
| Theresa May becomes Prime Minister | |||
| 2017 | New Village Design Statement available | Terrorist attacks in Westminster, London Bridge and Manchester Arena kills a total of 35 people | Robert Mugabe resigns as President of Zimbabwe |
| The Rohingya people flee Myanmar for Bangladesh | |||
| 2018 | The Beast from the East arrives in February with heavy snow and chilling winds | Four people are poisoned by Novichok in Salisbury (one person dies) | Apple is first public company worth $1 trillion |
| Approval to build houses to the rear of the Yew Tree to be called Yew Tree Gardens | Prince Harry marries Meghan Markle | Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi is assassinated inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul | |
| #MeToo Movement goes Global | |||
| 2019 | The 'Next Door' Website is used widely in the Village | Boris Johnson becomes Prime Minister | Christchurch, New Zealand mosque shootings kill 51 people |
| A new Rector Steve Johnson is welcomed at the Church | England win the Cricket World Cup | Greta Thunberg delivers speech to the United Nations | |
| New houses built behind the Yew Tree | COVID-19 begins in Wuhan, China | ||
| 2020 | Improved broadband brought to the village | United Kingdom formally withdraw from the E.U. | |
| Villagers organise Support Groups in the Village throughout Lockdown. | March - First Lockdown for COVID-19 in the U.K. | WHO declare COVID-19 a pandemic. Many events cancelled including the Olympics. | |
| December - Pfizer Vaccine approved for use in U.K. and begin mass innoculation. AstraZeneca vaccine quickly follows. | George Floyd is killed by Police in Minneapolis, leading to global protests and the creation of the Black Lives Matter movement. | ||
| Joe Biden is elected as 46th President defeating Donald Trump. | |||
| 2021 | Prince Phillip Duke of Edinburgh dies aged 99 years old. | American Congress is stormed by Trump Supporters in protest of the Election result. | |
| The 2020 Olympics begin in Tokyo. | |||
| The number of deaths from COVID-19 surpass 5 million worldwide. | |||
| 2022 | New fishing pond excavated at Old Hall Farm | Boris Johnson is forced to resign after Lockdown Party revelations. | Russia invades Ukraine. Many sanctions placed on Russians and NATO supply Ukraine weapons. |
| New play equipment installed at Farm Lane Play area. | Liz Truss is elected as the new Tory leader and P.M. but has to resign after 50 days, being replaced by Rishi Sunak. | ||
| Platinum Jubilee exhibition | Queen Elizabeth II dies at Balmoral aged 96 years old. | FIFA 2022 World Cup begins in Qatar won by Argentina. Pele Brazilian Footballer dies |
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| Worldwide Prices in Energy rise sharply, Government have to step in to support consumers. | A Major Winter Storm in Canada and USA kills at least 91 people. | ||
| 2023 | Militants from Gaza breached the Israel border. 1200 people are killed and 250 taken hostage. Israel respond and many thousands are killed in Gaza. | ||
| 2024 | A huge storm in September resulted in Village flooding. Part of the old Grove House wall in Batch Valley Road is brought down by the water. | General Election in July - the new Government is Labour. Kier Starmer being the new Prime Minister. | The continuation of the Israel-Gaza conflict together with the Russia-Ukraine war. |
| Donald Trump is elected as new American President again. | |||