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Chronological History of Standish
 
1000 AD Jump to Year 1000
1066AD: Norman Conquest of Britain
1086AD: Domesday Book is completed in England
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1100 AD Jump to Year 1100Jump to Year 1100
1178AD: First mention of the Standish placename
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1200 AD Jump to Year 1200Jump to Year 1200
1202AD: Radulphus de Stanedis, First holder of the Manor of Standish
1205AD: First mention of St. Wilfrid's Church
1215AD: Signing of Magna Carta
1220AD: Alexander de Stanedis, Lord of the Manor 1220-1240
1240AD: Radulphus de Standish, Lord of the Manor 1240-1246
1246AD: Edmund, Hugh and Jordan de Standish, Lords of the Manor 1246-1290
1290AD: Radulphus de Standish, Lord of the Manor 1290-1296
1295AD: The Legend of Mabs Cross
1296AD: William de Standish, Lord of the Manor 1296-1326
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1300 AD Jump to Year 1300Jump to Year 1300
1315AD: The Banastre Rebellion
1326AD: John de Standish, Lord of the Manor 1326-1353
1347AD: Jolly Mill
1353AD: Ralph Standish
  Henry de Standish, Lord of the Manor 1353-1396
1381AD: Ralph Standish and the Death of Wat Tyler
1396AD: Ralph de Standish, Lord of the Manor 1396-1418
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1400 AD Jump to Year 1400Jump to Year 1400
1415AD: The Battle of Agincourt
1418AD: Lawrence de Standish, Lord of the Manor 1418-1434
1434AD: Alexander de Standish, Lord of the Manor 1434-1445
1445AD: Ralph Standish, Lord of the Manor 1445-1468
1468AD: Alexander Standish, Lord of the Manor 1468-1507
1479AD: The Standishes and the Langtrees versus the Gerards of Bryn
1497AD: Ralph and Alice
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1500 AD Jump to Year 1500Jump to Year 1500
1507AD: Ralph Standish, Lord of the Manor 1507-1538
1538AD: Alexander Standish, Lord of the Manor 1538-1539
1539AD: Ralph Standish, Holder of manor under wardship 1539-1547
1551AD: Edward Standish, under Wardship 1547-1551, Lord of the Manor 1551-1610
1552AD: St. Wilfrid's Church Bells
1574AD: Standish Hall
1575AD: Alexander Standish and Elizabeth Harwarden
1582AD: St. Wilfrid's Church rebuilding started
1584AD: Birth of Myles Standish
1589AD: St. Wilfrid's Church rebuilding finished
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1600 AD Jump to Year 1600Jump to Year 1600
1605AD: Guy Fawkes Gunpowder Plot
1610AD: Hudson Bay discovered
  Alexander Standish, Inherited the manor 1610
  Ralph Standish, Lord of the Manor 1610-1656
1611AD: Arthur Standish and the Training of Mallards
1620AD: Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the "Mayflower", and found New Plymouth
  Captain Myles Standish
1635AD: Coal Mining in Standish
1641AD: Standish and the English Civil War
1651AD: The Battle of Wigan Lane
1656AD: Death of Captain Myles Standish
  Edward Standish, Lord of the Manor 1656-1682
1682AD: William Standish, Lord of the Manor 1682-1705
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1700 AD Jump to Year 1700Jump to Year 1700
1705AD: Ralph Standish, Lord of the Manor 1705-1755
1715AD: Ralph Standish and the Jacobite Rebellion
  Cat i'th' Window
1716AD: James Blundell and the Preston Fight
1755AD: Cecilia Townley, nee Standish, Lady of the Manor 1755-1778
1757AD: The hidden papers of the Jacobite Rebellion
1763AD: Hic Bibi - Here I drank
1778AD: Edward Townley Standish, Lord of the Manor 1778-1807
1797AD: Mary Smalley's School for Girls
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1800 AD Jump to Year 1800Jump to Year 1800
1801AD: 1801 Census
1807AD: Thomas Strickland Standish, Lord of the Manor 1807-1813
1811AD: 1811 Census
1813AD: Charles Strickland Standish, Lord of the Manor 1813-1863
1821AD: 1821
1831AD: 1831 Census
1837AD: Charles Strickland Standish elected MP for Wigan
1840AD: Highway Robbery
1841AD: 1841 Census
1842AD: Charles Strickland Standish re-elected MP for Wigan
1851AD: 1851 Census
1861AD: 1861 Census
1863AD: Charles Henry Widdrington Lionel Standish, Lord of the Manor 1863-1883
1869AD: The 1869 Wigan Directory
1871AD: 1871 Census
1881AD: 1881 Census
1883AD: Henry Noailles Widdrington Standish, Lord of the Manor 1883-1920
1891AD: 1891 Census
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1900 AD Jump to Year 1900Jump to Year 1900
1900AD: Victoria Colliery
1901AD: 1901 Census
1902AD: Trams begin running from Wigan to Boar's Head Station
1905AD: Wigan Tram extended to Standish
1911AD: 50 years of change in Standish
  1911 Census
1913AD: 8 Bells dedicated at St. Wilfrid's Church
1921AD: The Standish Estate sold
  Sale of Standish Estate
  Sale of Standish Estate
  1921 Census
1923AD: The Rev. Thomas Cruddas Porteus
1926AD: Roman coins found in Standish
1931AD: Last Tram from Standish to Wigan
1939AD: 16th Century Coin found in Standish
1942AD: Madame Widor and the Nationalisation of the Standish Coal Seams
1950AD: Standish-with-Langtree in 1950
1957AD: Visit of the Duke of Gloucester
1963AD: The Last Colliery in Standish closed
  Working at the Robin Hill Drift Mine
1972AD: Opening of Woodfold School
1994AD: Standish Community Forum established
1998AD: Standish Courier launched
  Well is reopened
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2000 AD Jump to Year 2000
2000AD: The Standish Homepage website launched
  Unveiling of Market Place Interpretation Boards
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Signing of the Magna Carta
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Cat in th' Window
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