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| Date | Year | Event |
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| 70 | Deva Victrix (Chester) founded as a Roman garrison town. | |
| 407 | Constantine III pulls the roman legion Legio XX Valeria Victrix out of Britain, leaving Chester un-garrisoned. | |
| 660 | Church founded in Chester by King Wulfhere | |
| February 3 | 699 | St. Werburgh dies. Her body is exhumed in 708 and found to be miraculously intact. Her tomb in Hanbury, Staffordshire, becomes a centre of pilgrimage. |
| 875 | St. Werbugh's remains are relocated from Hanbury to the walled city of Chester amidst concerns about Viking raiders. The relics are housed in the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul on the site of the present cathedral.[1] | |
| 907 | Queen Ethelfleda, the 'Lady of the Mercians', founds a minster on the site to house St. Werburgh's remains.[2] | |
| 1066 | Norman conquest. | |
| 1092 | Hugh Lupus, the Norman Earl of Chester converts the minster into a Benedictine Abbey. The Abbot of Bec in Normandy, called Anselm (later canonised), is called upon to establish the abbey which uses the Saxon minster as a base and is constructed in the Romanesque style. | |
| Etc. | Etc. |
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Bibliography[edit]
- Sheehan, Bernie (2003), Chester Cathedral, Jarrold Publishing, ISBN 0-7117-3090-3