Headington was still under the sea
Fragments of coral and the fossils of sea urchins remain at Rock Edge, which was probably the boundary between a coral reef and the surrounding shallow sea

Stone Age man was living in Headington
(Artefacts have been found in Quarry and the Barton Lane area)

Iron Age man was living in Headington
(artefacts have been found in former Manor Ground area)

Romans were living in Headington
(villa found at Headington Wick, and pottery kiln on site of present Churchill Hospital)

Anglo-Saxons were living in Headington
(burial ground discovered on site of present Stephen Road)

Oxford was carved out of the royal domain of Headington by this date

King Ethelred granted his land in Headington ("Headan dune") to St Frideswide Priory in Oxford on St Andrewstide (7 December 1004)

King Ethelred had his palace in Headington by this date

Domesday Book gave details about Headington, indicating that the King had regained ownership of it from St Frideswide's Priory

First mention of St Andrew's Church, Headington (in a charter of Henry I)

Death of Henry I, the last king to reside in Headington

The windmill was already in existence on Windmill Road

The hamlet of Barton was already well established and known as Old Barton

Quarrying began in earnest: New College bell-tower built of Headington stone

William Orchard leased a quarry in Headington to build at Magdalen College

The Brome/Whorwood dynasty became Lords of the Manor of Headington

The road from Headington to Oxford (now Old Road) was improved to transport stone down via the Milham Ford to build Cardinal College (Christ Church)

The Churchwardens of Headington were charged with having cut down "custom-boughs at Whitsuntide for the Church"

The earliest part of the Rookery (now Ruskin Hall) was built

A hamlet began to develop at Quarry

Civil War: Parliamentarian Sir Thomas Fairfax moved his headquarters from Marston to Headington

Earliest surviving Headington parish register begins in this year

The terraced walkway up Headington Hill was created by public subscription of the University

A fire in Old Headington (which started in St Andrew's Lane and spread across to Old High Street) destroyed 24 dwellings

Headington Manor House was built

The New London Road was cut through fields between Headington Hill and Wheatley

Tom Paine's effigy was burnt at Headington on 4 January 1793/4

Bury Knowle House was built

Population of Headington: 669

Headington Enclosure Act

Free School opened in Headington Quarry

The Lords of the Manor of Headington soldl 315 outlying acres of Headington manorial land, comprising most of Headington Quarry and land to the south-west of Old Road and the north-west of Dunstan Road.

First phase of Headington Hill Hall was completed for James Morrell

Warneford Asylum (Headington's first hospital) was built

Headington's first nonconformist chapel (Methodist) opened in Trinity Road, Quarry

The Headington Union of 22 parishes was set up under Poor Law Amendment Act

Headington's second nonconformist chapel (Baptist) opened in the Croft

The 345 remaining acres of the lands of Headington Manor were put up for auction on 3 August 1836; all the land was finally sold in 1846

New Union Workhouse was built on London Road near Gladstone Road

Old Headington Infant School opened in North Place

Population of Headington: 1,668

Headington National School opened on London Road

Headington Quarry became a separate parish on opening of Holy Trinity Church

The building of New Headington village began with New High Street and the roads to the south

A new, larger Methodist Chapel opened in Headington Quarry

Headington Quarry National School opened

All Saints Mission Chapel opens in Church (now Perrin) Street

Wingfield Convalescent Home opened on present site of Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre)

New Headington Infant School opened in Church (now Perrin) Street

Land for on top of Headington Hill was purchased for a reservoir to serve Oxford (but not Headington)

The Revd John Taylor of the Rookery started to sell off the lands of Highfield Farm. The development of the Highfield estate began with a villa on London Road (first known as Ellerslie, later as Dorset House)

The London Road was disturnpiked

The development of Pullen's Lane started with The Pullens

The windmill on Windmill Road was pulled down

The toll-gates were removed from the central Headington carfax

Headington cemetery opened

Following the Local Government Act of 1888, the Municipal Borough of Oxford was extended eastwards to match the parliamentary borough. As a result, the part of Headington to the west of the Boundary Brook (now west of Headley Way) became part of Oxford

Population of Headington: 3,005
(Old Headington 879, Headington Quarry 1,080, New Headington 1,046)

The Co-op opened in a new building (now Buckell & Ballard) built on site of former toll-house on corner of London and Windmill Road

Stones were set up on Boundary Brook by Cuckoo Lane and Headington Road to mark the new boundary of Headington. The area to the west of this boundary (including the Warneford Hospital) was no longer included under Headington in Kelly's Directory

Headington Football Club (later Headington United and eventually Oxford United) was founded

The Local Government Act of 1894 annexed Headington Road and Pullen's Lane (which had been taken into the City of Oxford in 1892) to the parish of St Clement's, Oxford

Headington Rural District (all to the east of the Boundary Brook) was created

Cecil Sharp saw William Kimber morris-dancing at Sandfield Cottage on London Road, and this led to the revival of English folk music

Headington's first council school opened on Margaret Road

Joe Pullen's Tree, Headington's famous landmark, was burnt down

All Saints Church in Lime Walk opened, and New Headington village and the houses built on the former Highfield Farm became a separate parish from St Andrew's, known as Highfield

Population of Headington: 4,488

The 1½-mile residence limit for members of Congregation was abolished, causing an influx of dons' families to Old Road and Old Headington

The brickfields in Quarry ceased operation

Many Headington men died at the Somme. The eventual total of Headington dead in World War I was 123

Most of Headington got piped water for the first time (from Shotover)

The last Lord of the Manor of Headington (Colonel James Hoole) died, and the Trustees of the Radcliffe Infirmary bought the Manor House and its lands

C.S. Lewis came to lodge in Headington and stayed for the rest of his life

Headington was connected to the city sewage system

Population of Headington: 5,328

101 council houses (the first in Oxford) were built on the north-east side of the London Road in Headington

Shirley Hall in Lime Walk (provided by Mr J. Shirley of the London Road) opened as a central Headington meeting place (now Church of St  Ebbe's in Headington)

Headington Urban District Council was formed at the request of the parish council. It only lasted one year, but in that time purchased land on the Barton estate for 60 homes, acquired land fora public open space in Windmill Road (now St Leonard's Road car park), passed more than 200 plans to erect homes, and granted nearly 40 private enterprise subsidies

The whole of Headington to the east of Gipsy Lane (1,529 acres) was incorporated into the City of Oxford. Headington Urban District Council was dissolved in August 1929, and the City Council took over the new suburb. Headington was quickly brought up to city standards, getting electricity and telephone for the first time, and better pavements

C.S. Lewis bought The Kilns in Risinghurst with his brother and Mrs Moore

Headington School moved into its present site on Headington Road

314 council houses werebuilt on the new Gipsy Lane estate

The Headington population was 79% larger than ten years before, mostly because of the development of Morris Motors

Headington Workhouse became a hospital called The Laurels

Oxford Preservation Trust bought 50 acres of South Park (handing it over to the city in 1959 to be preserved as an open space)

Bury Knowle Library was the first branch library to be opened in Oxford

The Northern Bypass from Headington roundabout to Banbury Road roundabout was built as unemployment relief work

Oxford Youth Hostel opened in Jack Straw's Lane

Headington's first Roman Catholic Church (Corpus Christi) opened in Margaret Road

Oxford Crematorium opened in Bayswater Road

The Churchill Hospital was built to provide wartime medical services

Building of council houses at Barton started

Building of 570 council houses at Northway started, including Plowman Tower, Oxford's first multi-storey block

Building of 510 council houses started at Wood Farm

J. R. R. Tolkien moved to 76 Sandfield Road

Oxford city council bought Headington Hill Park

Lord Nuffield laidy thefoundation stone of Oxford College of Technology at Gipsy Lane (now Oxford Brookes University)

Oxford City Council adopted the first green-belt outside London. This offered some protection to Headington, although building continued in the green-belt at Barton

260 council houses built at Town Furze

The Laurels housing estate (including William Kimber Crescent) were built on the site of the old workhouse

St Mary's Church opened, and Barton ceased to be part of the parish of St Andrew's Church

Part of the grounds of Headington School was purchased for the creation of Headley Way

80 council houses were built at Headington Quarry

Robert Maxwell started to rent Headington Hill Hall

Old houses on the Green Road in Headington Quarry were demolished to make room for the new eastern bypass linking Headington and Rose Hill

Planning application for Forester's Tower at Wood Farm approved

A subway was installed in Headington shopping centre

All Saints Church House was opened by Princess Margaret on 24 March

Building started on Phase 1 (maternity department) of the John Radcliffe Hospital

Oxford College of Technology was designated Oxford Polytechnic

Old Headington was designated a Conservation Area

On 12 November1971 the Marston Ferry Road was opened, replacing the old ferry and providing a new route to Headington

150 council houses were built on site of the Laurels (former workhouse) in Gladstone Road

The number of houses built at Barton reached 1600

Council housing was built on the lands of Laurel Farm in Old Headington

The shark was erected on roof of 2 New High Street

Oxford Polytechnic became Oxford Brookes University, named after John Henry Brookes

Oxford United played its last game on the Manor Ground

Oxford City Council's North-East Area Committee (comprising Headington and Marston) was formed

A Street Party for the Queen's Golden Jubilee was held in Old Headington

The return to a two-tier system of education was completed.
Headington Middle School, Bayswater Middle School, and Headington Quarry First School closed down. Windmill Primary School moved into the Headington Middle School buildings, Bayards Hill Primary School (the new name for Barton First School) into the former Bayswater School buildings, and Headington Nursery School into the Headington Quarry School buildings

First Headington Festival

The Manor Hospital opened on the former Manor Ground

Headington sorting office closed down

Headington Baptist Church opened its new building on its Old High Street site in November

The Radcliffe Infirmary completed its move to Headington

The Oxford Children's Hospital opened on the John Radcliffe site

St Ebbe's Church opened in the former Shirley Hall (later the Exclusive Brethren Church) in Lime Walk

Work started on widening and improving the Headington and London Road

The Oxford Cancer Hospital opened on the Churchill site

20mph speed limit came into operation in Headington centre and on all minor roads in Headington and Marston on 1 September

Warneford Meadow registered as a Town Green

Headington subway filled in as part of second phase of London Road scheme