Henfield Cricket Club Timeline
Eighteenth Century
1707: Act of Union between England and Scotland
1719: First recorded match by a Henfield team
1721: Sir Robert Walpole becomes first Prime Minister
1721: First recorded home match by a Henfield team
1742: Handel's Messiah gets first performance
1746: Last battle on British soil at Culloden
1764: First newspaper reference to cricket on Henfield Common
1770: Cook lands in Australia
1771: Henfield commence regular home and away fixtures
1771: Henfield play outside of Sussex for the first time
1772: First recorded half-century, by Mr Irish of Steyning
1776: US Declaration of Independence
1787: Marylebone Cricket Club established
1789: French Revolution begins
1793: Earliest surviving scorecard
1793: First recorded five wicket haul by Mr Richardson
Nineteenth Century
1802: First Henfield reference to runs instead of notches
1805: Nelson killed at Trafalgar
1823: Charles Lanaway becomes first Henfield player to play for Sussex
1833: Slavery abolished in the British Empire
1837: Queen Victoria ascends the throne
1839: Sussex CCC formed. A committee of 16 is formed, comprising ten from Brighton and six from the strongest clubs in the county. These were Shillinglee, Uckfield, Horsham, Hurst, Arundel and Henfield. Mr B Smith was Henfield's representative
1842: Bowlers credited with wickets from catches for the first time (in MCC scorebooks 1836)
1843: First record of the follow on being enforced, vs Horsham (made law in 1835)
1844: Highest aggregate score in Henfield history; 599 runs in match v Brighton
1845: First reference to the controversy of round-arm bowling
1848: Henfield play Hampshire home and away, having the upper hand of two draws
1851: Great Exhibition opens
1859: Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species is published
1865: Henfield score club record 332 vs Brighton. Henry Charlwood and Richard Fillery set 3rd wicket record partnership of 211, which still stands
1869: Suez Canal opens
1870: L Woodard and H Charlwood run nine off one ball vs Broadwater
1877: Henfield's Henry Charlwood appears in the first ever Test match, in Melbourne vs Australia
1877: Henfield Common enclosed for purpose of cricket. Grounds future secured
1886: Henfield concede club record 331-9 vs Stanford (Brighton)
1899: Boer War begins
Twentieth Century
1901: Queen Victoria dies
1906: Royal Navy launches Dreadnought
1908: First London Olympics
1911: Cricket ceases in Henfield
1913: Suffragette Emily Davison killed by King's horse
1913: Rev. RJ Lea arrives in Henfield
1914-1918: World War One
1920: Cricket resumes
1921: Creation of Irish Free State
1922: 2nd XI begins
1924: Ramsay MacDonald becomes first Labour Prime Minister
1926: Pavilion constructed
1926: General Strike declared
1928: JM Musson becomes first player to take 100 eickets in a season
1929: Wall Street Crash
1933: 2nd XI ceases
1936: Edward VIII abdicates
1939-1945 World War Two
1947: Normal cricket resumes
1947: India gains independence
1948: Second London Olympics
1948: 2nd XI re-started
1949: AE Ralls becomes first player to score 1,000 runs in a season
1949: Percy Groves takes record 170 1st XI wickets in a season
1956: Eden resigns over Suez Crisis
1963: Henfield wins Horsham Six-a-Side competition
1965: Death penalty abolished
1966: England win the World Cup
1971: Henfield celebrates bicentenary
1971: Britain goes decimal
1973: Britain joins EEC
1977: Sussex Invitation League formed
1979: Sussex Invitation League begins
1979: Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister
1980: Ken Sadler scores 1,000 runs for the tenth season in a row
1982: Britain goes to war in the Falklands
1987: David Jemmett scores record 1,496 runs in a season
1992: Channel Tunnel opens
1997: Princess Diana killed
1998: David Silverson scores his 20,000th 1st XI run
Twenty-First Century
2001: Terrorists attack New York and Washington
2002: Henfield relegated to Division Three of the Invitation League
2003: First overseas player, Chris Garcia, engaged
2003: Britain goes to war in Iraq
2003: Henfield Play Cricket site launched
2005: www.henfieldcricketclub.com site launched
2005: Club sponsor appointed (the White Hart)
2005: Henfield promoted back to Division One of Invitation League
2005: Henfield Cup 20/20 competition launched
2005: England regain the Ashes
2006: Womens 1st XI launched
2007: 3rd XI launched
2007: England lose the Ashes
2007: Sussex Cricket League expanded
2007: Henfield resign from Sussex Invitation League
2011: Henfield win the White Hart T20 Cup
2012: London hosts the Olympics for the third time
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