| 1529 | Katherine Parr, aged 20, living at Sizergh. |
| 1543 | Grant to W Thompson of Kerchbi in Kendale of mansion called Abbot Hall and the Abbot Garth adjoining the church following dissolution of St Mary, York. |
| 1557 | Cartmel burials: "One little mann Rownd faced wch was Drouned at Grainge.". |
| 1597 - 1598 | Died of plague in Kendal about 2,500 persons. |
| 1550 | Kendal cloth still downmarket. 'A serving man is content to goe in Kendall cote in summer'. |
| 1594 | John Boste, Catholic martyr from North Westmorland, hung drawn and quartered at Tyburn. |
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| 1607 | Hard frost Nov - March 1608. |
| 1632 | Locally produced snuff thought to ward off plague. |
| 1635 | 47 wedding guests drowned in Windermere ferry sinking. |
| 1651 | Charles II retreats through Kendal. |
| 1661 | Savage frost November 1 to March 8th 1662. "Common to draw timber over the ice on Windermere" |
| Mid 1670s | A dozen Quakers in Appleby goal. |
| 1687 | Declaration of Indulgence. Quaker Meeting House founded in Kendal tannery at cost of £50. |
| 1698 | Miss Fiennes refers to Cumbrian cottages as: "sad little huts made up of drye walls, only stones piled together and the roof of same slatts, there seemed to be little or noe tunnels for their chimneys and have no mortar or plaister within or without...". |
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| C18 | Ring 0' Bells built for wardens to brew their ale and have meetings. |
| 1716-17 | Howgill colliery, Whitehaven gets a Newcomen atmospheric engine for pumping - the third or fourth pumping engine in the world. |
| 1739 | Turnpike movement begun in the Whitehaven area. |
| 1745 | Bonny Prince Charlie slept in Stricklandgate, Kendal: Duke of Cumberland (in hot pursuit) slept there 3 nights later. Last battle on English soil at Clifton Moor |
| 1775 | 'Flying machine' stage coach boasts only 3 days from London to Kendal (255 miles). |
| 1786 | First mail coach. |
| 1788 | Obelisk on Kendal, Bowling Fell celebrates "The Glorious Revolution" - arrival of William of Orange and abdication of James II. |
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| 1812 | Kendal: "a man whipped through the town for tumbling and fighting Tommy Morrice the flogger - a great crowd. A sailor whipt out of town over Stramondgate Bridge for kicking up a row in Chaple on Sunday." |
| 1818 | Westmorland Gazette first published. |
| 1819 | Kendal, Lancaster & Preston Canal opened. |
| 1822 | Punishment stocks removed from Kendal after 417 years. |
| 1838 | First rail line in Cumbria linking Carlisle and Newcastle. |
| 1844 | Reported that "The bobbin trade in Westmorland is so brisk that not enough hands can be got for the orders coming in..". |
| 1846 | Main railway line through Kendal opened. |
| 1847 | Railway to Windermere opened. Wordsworth opposed extension. |
| 1850 | Death of William Wordsworth. |
| 1862 | 5 foot shark found near Kendal bridge. |
| 1886 | June 28, Walter Haskett-Smith solos Napes Needle. Arguably the start of rock climbing as a sport. |
| 1889 | Westmorland County Council formed. |
| 1895 | Arctic weather. Frozen Lake Windermere attracts huge numbers of people. |
| 1897 | Abbot Hall Park given to town, so footpath extended to Nether Bridge. |
| 1898 | Great flood. |
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| 1911 | Local haymakers die of sunstroke. |
| 1916 | More than 100 'Kendal Pals' killed on the Somme. |
| 1919 | Provincial Insurance moves its head office to Kendal. |
| 1934 | Oswald Mosley, leader of British Union of fascists, visits Kendal. |
| 1936 | First red telephone kiosks in Kendal. |
| 1956 | Queen Elizabeth visits Kendal. |
| 1967 | Campbell killed just after reaching 300mph on Lake Coniston in speedboat Bluebird. |
| 1971 | Kendal by-pass opened. |
| 1974 | Cumbria created from Cumberland, Westmorland and part of Lancashire |
| 1981 | K Shoes bought by C & J Clark Ltd. |
| 1999 | Axa Insurance announce plans to leave Kendal. |
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