1086
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Gravesend and Milton are mentioned in the Domesday survey as manors with hythes or landing places. |
1155
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A hospital is built at Milton by Warin de Monte Canisio. |
1268
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Gravesend receives its first Market Charter. |
1321
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Milton Chantry is endowed by Aylmer de Valence. |
1380 |
Gravesend is sacked and burnt by the French. |
1401 |
Henry IV confirms the right of the watermen of Gravesend to control the ferry between Gravesend and Milton. |
1524 |
The Chantry, with its outbuildings and grounds, is in poor repair and is rented out as a farm to William Wilde of Gravesend. |
1539 |
HenryVIII orders the building of 5 artillery blockhouses, 2 at Gravesend, to defend the mouth of the Thames. |
1562 |
Elizabeth 1 grants a Charter of Incorporation to the people of Milton and Gravesend. |
1588 |
Giannibelli builds a boom of boats across the river between Gravesend and Tilbury to protect London from the Spanish Armada. |
1667 |
Blockhouses are repaired and armed against a Dutch invasion. |
1697 |
Milton Chantry becomes the Zoar alehouse, later renamed the New Tavern. |
1727 |
A Great Fire destroys the parish church, the prison and 120 homes in the town. The population at this time is 2000. |
1778 |
New Tavern Fort is built as a precaution against French invasion. Milton Chantry is encased in brick and used as a barracks. |
1865 |
Another French invasion scare results in major reconstruction and rearming of the New Tavern Fort. |
1910 |
The population of Gravesend has grown to nearly 30,000. |
1944 |
Fort House is destroyed by a V2 rocket during the second world war. |