| DATE | EVENT | PERIOD |
| 1066 | | NORMAN |
| 1154 | | PALANTAGENETS |
| 1200 | | |
| 1260 | Work starts on St. Margaret's Church | |
| 1300 | | |
| 1311 | Henry de Grofhurst becomes second rector of St. Margaret's. He remains so until 1361 | |
| 1349 | The Black Death | |
| 1361 | Henry de Grofhurst dies | |
| 1380 | Richard, Lord Poynings marries Isabel, the daughter and heiress of Robert, Lord Fitzpayne. It was in perhaps celebration of this that St. Margaret's tower was built | |
| 1399 | | LANCASTRIANS |
| 1400 | | |
| 1455 | Bishop summons everyone 'resident in the Parish or an outsider, holding land or possesion in the Parish' to a meeting concerning the repair of the south side of St. Margaret's | |
| 1461 | | YORKISTS |
| 1462 | John Bobbe becomes Rector. He remains so until 1484 | |
| 1485 | | TUDORS |
| 1500 | | |
| 1514 | Thomas Bartell listed as owning the foundry at Furnace Pond | |
| 1558 | | TUDORS
ELIZABETHAN |
| 1561 | Rood screens in St. Margaret's destroyed due to law by Elizabeth I | |
| 1600 | | |
| 1603 | | STUARTS
JACOBEAN |
| 1605 | April 7th: Simon Willard (founder of the City of Concord, Massachusetts) was baptised
November 5th: Discovery of the Gunpowder Plot
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1615 | John Browne becomes the first holder of the post of King's Gunfounder | |
1619 | John Browne is said to employ 200 people in and around his Furnace Pond foundry | |
1641 | English Civil War 1641-1651 | |
| 1649 | 30 January: King Charles I beheaded | COMMONWEALTH |
| 1651 | June 8th: John Browne dies | |
| 1660 | | STUARTS
RESTORATION |
| 1673 | Stephen Bate becomes Rector | |
| 1685 | Horsmonden Foundry closes | |
| 1700 | Stephen Bate raises £1,000 for repairs the north side, aisle, vestry and chancel doorway of St. Margaret's | |
| 1702 | | STUARTS
ANNE |
| 1714 | | HANOVERIAN
GEORGIAN |
| 1724 | William Hassell become Rector | |
| 1785 | Dr. James Marriott become Rector | |
| 1800 | | |
| 1805 | October 21st: The Battle of Trafalgar
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| 1810 | | HANOVERIAN
REGENCY |
| 1818 | December 18th: William Moon, developer of the Moon System of reading by touch and pioneer of blind welfare is born in Horsmonden. More... | |
| 1823 | John Read, inventor of the stomach pump, shows his contraption to the Royal Society | |
| 1835 | Henry Foord founds the Horsmonden Benefit Society | |
| 1837 | | HANOVERIAN
VICTORIAN |
| 1845 | William Moon develops the Moon System of reading by touch. More... | |
| 1847 | John Read dies | |
| 1855 | Heath House School is founded | |
| 1860 | John Francis Austin builds Capel Manor | |
| 1861 | Fuggle Hops discovered: Seedling found in the hop yard of George Stace at Horsmonden and introduced by Richard Fuggle of Benchley in 1875 | |
| 1867 | Hugh Marriott becomes Rector
Restoration of St. Margaret's Church | |
| 1890 | "Heathleigh" school for girls is founded | |
| 1892 | September 12th: Cranbrook & Paddock Wood Line (Hawkhurst Branch Line) opens | |
| 1894 | William Moon dies. | |
| 1898 | May 28th: Rudyard Kipling contribution to Horsmonden School Budget containing six 'Hints on Schoolboy Etiquette' published. | |
| 1900 | | |
| 1901 | | EDWARDIAN |
| 1910 | | WINDSOR |
| 1921 | Simon Willard's descendants donate a new stained glass window for the west end of St. Margaret's | |
| 1939 | September 1st: A group of evacuees arrived in Horsmonden from the Burrage Grove School in Woolwich | |
| 1940 | August 18th: Battle of Britain ace F/L Bob Stanford Tuck's Spitfire I (N3040) crashes near Sprivers. See fragments at the Highwayman. | |
| 1944 | Feb 11th: USAF Flying Fortress B-17 42-39810 Big-A Bird 358BS (VK-E) crash lands at August Pitts farm with one fatality. July 3rd: While on V-1 patrol, F/L William Lister (Dusty) Miller parachutes into a Horsmonden farm after ditching his Hawker Tempest V (SA-Z) fragments of which are displayed in a local museum. A V-1 flying bomb lands in north east side of St. Margaret's churchyard destroying all the windows on that side | |
| 1946 | Rosemary Everett nee Smith-Marriott designs and installs a new stained glass east window in St. Margaret's church | |
| 1948 | Rosemary Everett nee Smith-Marriott designs and installs a new stained glass west window in St. Margaret's church | |
| 1955 | The ring of six bells at St. Margaret's is increased to eight | |
| 1961 | June 10th: Cranbrook & Paddock Wood Line (Hawkhurst Branch Line) closes | |
| 1966 | Capel Manor is demolished | |
| 1967 | Anthony Cronk publishes "St. Margret's Church, Horsmonden" | |
| 1970 | Closure of All Saint's, Maidstone Road, as Chapel of Rest | |
| 1971 | Feb: David Morgan retires as leader of 30-strong choir | |
| 1975 | Anthony Cronk publishes "A Wealden Rector" | |
| 1987 | Oct: The Great Storm | |
| 1998 | A tenor bell, known as the "Willard Bell" is installed in St. Margaret's | |
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