1066    Norman Invasion, Battle of Hastings, Norman Barons deposed Saxon manorial lords.
1284    Wales annexed by the English, Prince Edward, son of Edward I was installed as the first Prince of Wales.
1338    Start of the Hundred Years War.
1415    Battle of Agincourt.
1455    Wars of the Roses.
1588    Spanish Armada.
1605    Gunpowder Plot.
1612    Two companies of soldiers at Holsworthy under the command of Mr. John Corscott and Mr. Simon Weate.
1638    Recorded that Holsworthy, Torrington and Hatherleigh had been burdened with the army for longer than any other part of the country.
1642    1642–1646 Civil War.
1643    April 24–29. 5000 foot and 500 horse Royalist Troops sent to Holsworthy from Barnstaple and Bideford engaged in a fight before Launceston and was defeated by Parliamentarian army under Captain Chudleigh.
1646    A body of undisciplined Royalist troops occupied Holsworthy and almost ruined it, scavaging the district, eating up the produce and committing the greatest excesses.
1646    12th–18th Feb. Prince Charles (later King Charles II) went from Launceston to Holsworthy, the headquarters of Goring's Horse, but had to retire westwards before Sir Thomas Fairfax's troops.
1685    Monmouth Rebellion. Battle of Sedgemoor.
1688    William of Orange landed at Brixham.
1773    Boston Tea Party.
1776    American Declaration of Independance.
1789    French Revolution began.
1805    Battle of Trafalgar.
1812    Napoleon retreated from Moscow.
1815    Battle of Waterloo ended the war between France and Britain, as a result of which bonfires were lit and church bells were rung in Holsworthy, to celebrate the end of the war.
1830    Farm machinery riots.
1836    Bread riots in Sheepwash.
1854    Crimean War broke out.
1861    American Civil War.
1899    Boer War began.
1914    First World War began.
1921    August 4th. Unveiling of the War Memorial.
1939    September 3rd. Start of Second World War.
1939    Three hundred troops arrived in Holsworthy and billeted with local families.
1939    1939-45. First combine harvester in the district used on Common Moor by the War Agricultural Committee.
1940    First Parish casualty of the war was Bert Bazley of Ashwater, serving with the Royal Navy.
1940    First Town casualty was Private F Lock, serving with the Devon Regiment.
1941    The Womens Voluntary Service (W.R.V.S.) opened a communal feeding centre in Bodmin Street for refugee mothers and children.
1941    Meetings held to discuss provision of an Ambulance service.
1941    May. Four hundred troops in town, all sleeping under canvas.
1941    June. War Weapons Week. Total collected £162,384.
1942    First Holsworthy Ambulance arrived.
1942    February. Warships Week. Total collected £132,000.
1942    March. National Waste Paper Competition. Holsworthy won £500.
1942    September. H.M.S. Towey laid down. Paid for by Warships Week.
1942    September. Building of P.0.W. Camp began.
1943    H.M.S.Towey launched at Smiths Dock.
1943    May. Sgt Brawn of Bridgerule was the first Briton to shake hands with the Americans in Tunisia.
1943    May. Home Guard birthday parade.
1943    May. Spitfire EN 953 entered service with 500 Squadron.
1943    Wings for Victory Week. Total collected £141,000, enabling adoption of Spitfire EN 953.
1943    Sgt G F Locke killed when EN 953 crashed.
1943    First American troops in the town, 392 Engineer Battalion, arrived from Bude.
1944    New six-inch water main laid by Italian prisoners of war.
1944    June. Salute the Soldier Week. Total collected £108,000.
1944    September. Evacuees left Holsworthy to return home.
1945    Crucifix on the organ in Church was carved by an Italian prisoner of war.

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