800 years of innovation

The University of Cambridge’s history spans eight centuries of transformative thinking that has changed the world as we know it 

  • 1209
  • 1231
  • Henry III
  • 1233
  • 1288
  • 1318
  • Henry VI
  • 1446
  • 1503
  • St John's College, Cambridge
  • 1509
  • 1510
  • 1530
  • 1534
  • Erasmus
  • Henry VIII
  • 1536
  • 1546
  • 1570
  • 1573
  • Trinity College, Cambridge
  • Francis Bacon
  • 1616
  • Oliver Cromwell
  • 1626
  • 1632
  • 1663
  • 1664
  • 1776
  • The United States Declaration of Independence
  • Isaac Newton
  • 1805
  • Lord Byron
  • 1812
  • 1828
  • 1833
  • 1835
  • Girton College, Cambridge
  • 1869
  • 1874
  • The Cavendish Laboratory
  • 1884
  • 1890
  • 1893
  • 1897
  • 1904
  • John Maynard Keynes
  • 1904
  • 1907
  • 1910
  • Bertrand Russell
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • 1911
  • 1932
  • 1932
  • 1937
  • Frank Whittle
  • 1945
  • 1947
  • Iris Murdoch
  • Electronic delay storage automatic calculator
  • 1949
  • 1953
  • 1955
  • 1959
  • Watson-Crick Structure of DNA
  • Beyond the Fringe
  • 1960
  • 1960
  • 1967
  • 1970
  • Trinity Science Park
  • 1973
  • Acorn Computers
  • 1978
  • 1978
  • 1981
  • Emma Thompson
  • Sue Perkins
  • 1990
  • 2008
  • 2016
  • Salman Rushdie