| 1075 - 1092 |
Norman Cathedral built at Old Sarum. |
| 1215 |
Magna Carta sealed. |
| 1220 |
Building of new Cathedral started on Salisbury Water Meadows. Foundation stones laid. |
| 1258 |
Cathedral dedicated. |
| 1260s – 1270s |
Completion of the rest of the scheme: cloisters, Chapter House, West Front and Bell Tower. |
| 1327 |
Licence granted to build Close Wall from stone taken from Cathedral at Old Sarum. |
| 1330s |
Completion of Tower and Spire. |
| 1370 |
Construction of surviving wooden interior tower scaffolding. |
| 1400 – 1500 |
Nave crossing reinforced with two vast strainer arches, and crossing vault built. |
| 1612 |
James I lodges at King's House. |
| 1641-1660 |
Civil War and Commonwealth period: Bishop, Dean and Chapter expelled, cloisters and Chapter House used to house Dutch prisoners of war, much damage done to cathedral. |
| 1714 |
Wren Hall, the Old Choristers' School is completed. |
| 1788 - 1791 |
Restoration and radical re-ordering of the Cathedral by James Wyatt. Demolition of the Bell Tower and levelling of churchyard to lawns. |
| 1823 |
The artist John Constable paints his famous view of the cathedral from the grounds of the Bishop's Palace. |
| 1860 - 1878 |
Restoration of the Cathedral by Sir George Gilbert Scott. |
| 1945 - 1951 |
Top 30 feet of spire rebuilt. |
| 1947 |
The Cathedral School moves to the Bishop’s Palace. |
| 1985 |
Spire Appeal started to raise £6,500,000 for the repair and conservation of the Spire, Tower and West Front. |
| 1991 |
Commencement of the Major Repair Programme, a 20 year, £20 million programme partly funded by English Heritage. |
| 1991 |
Salisbury Cathedral becomes the first English Cathedral to establish a separate girls’ choir. |
| 2000 |
Re-development of ‘The Plumbery’, providing new shop and restaurant facilities under a glass roof allowing views of the spire. |
| 2000 |
Completion of the repair and conservation of the Spire, Tower and West Front. |
| 2000-2010 |
Several new statues installed on West Front including an angel, St Aldhelm (2001), George Herbert (2003), and the Sudanese Canon Ezra (2008). |
| 2001 |
New cathedral Statutes and Constitution. |
| 2004 |
Present Dean of Salisbury, The Very Revd June Osborne, installed – the first woman Dean of a medieval Cathedral. |
| 2008 |
The Cathedral’s 750th anniversary year. Permanent font installed, designed by William Pye and consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury at a special anniversary service on 28 September. |
| 2009 |
The worldwide significance of Magna Carta 1215 was recognised as it was inscribed in the UNESCO "Memory of the World" register. (The finest of the four surviving exemplars is housed in the Cathedral’s Chapter House). |
| 2011 |
75% of the Major Repair programme has to date been completed. Current work is centred on the Chapter House and North East transept. |
