1567 Arwenack manor house built by John Killigrew.
1600 Ale-house called "Penny-come-quick," near Greenbank quay, established by Mr. Pendarves' servant."
1600 Arwenack House, and a few fishermen's huts, all that were built (1550 has also been mentioned as the date, possibly of the erection of the house).
1613 Date of the rise of Falmouth; Sir John Killigrew's plan.
1613 Petitions of Truro, Penryn and Helston to James I against its progress.
1619 Sir John established a lighthouse at the Lizard.
1642 Prince Charles (Charles II) at Pendennis Castle, protected by the Governor, John Arundel.
1644-5 Duke of Hamilton[1] confined in Pendennis Castle.
1644 Queen Henrietta Maria at Pendennis Castle on her way to France.
1646 Pendennis Castle besieged by Cromwell's forces under Sir Thomas Fairfax, in March, and Arwenack House partly destroyed by fire. Surrendered in August 1646.
1650 The Custom-house removed from Penryn to Falmouth, near the Market Strand.
1652 Markets established by Sir Peter Killigrew.
1655 George Fox (the founder of the Quakers) visited Falmouth.
1660 The names of Smithike and Penny-come-quick changed to Falmouth by Charles II's proclamation, 20 August.
1801 Cornwall Gazette and Falmouth Packet started.
1802 Richard Pidgeley bequeathed £5 per annum for distribution of bread to the poor, from the estate of Mulberry Square, for 1,000 years.
1802 Church Charity School founded for girls, and in 1804 for boys.
1803-5 Friends' Meeting-house built in Quay Street.
1803 Roman Catholic Mission founded.
1804 Baptist Chapel built in Webber Street; enlarged in 1807 and re-built in 1814; and enlarged by a gallery, 1834.
1805 Methodist Sunday School.
1806 Cornish Naval Bank (afterwards Cornish Bank), opened in Church Street.
1806 Second Jews' Synagogue built on Forhan Hill.
1807 April 3. Public Dispensary opened.
1807 Misericordia Society founded by Lieut.-Governor Melvill.
1808 October 9. Expedition under Sir David Baird of 150 transports carrying between 12,000 and 13,000 men, convoyed by H.M.S. Louis, Amelia and Champion. On 13th entered Corunna Harbour.
1809 Celebration of fifty years reign of George III.
1809 Church Sunday School founded by the Rev. R. H. Hitchins and Captain Melvill.
1809 The harbour pilots regulated by the Trinity Board.
1809 A Basking shark 31 feet (9.4 m) long caught at Penryn.
1809 Second Freemasons' Lodge founded, "Love and Unity." Other orders.
1819 Cornish Naval Bank carried on by Messrs. Praed, Rogers, Tweedy, and Williams.
1819 First Gas-Works established by Mr. Wynne.
1820 Roman Catholic Chapel built on Green Bank (formerly in Well Lane).
1821–1830[]
1821 850 houses, and 7,000 population.
1824 Classical and Mathematical School built, Headmaster, Rev. T. Sheepshanks. Endowed 1892 by a bequest from Miss Curgenven, aunt of H. M. Jeffery, F.R.S.
1825 Loss of the E.I.C. ship Kent[4] by fire in the Bay of Biscay, on 24 February: 547 persons rescued and brought in the Cambria to Falmouth.
1826 Public Reading and News Rooms built and opened in Church Street.
1827 National School on Mount Sion opened, including Church Charity School, through the exertions of the Rev. L.Mathias and Mr. B. B. Falck, jun.
1827 Fire at Quay Street, and another at Tregedna.
1827 900 houses, and over 8,000 inhabitants.
1827 Visit of H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence, Lord High Admiral, in the Royal Sovereign yacht, and inspection of the Packets.
1827-8 Penwerris Church built.
1828 Donna Maria da Gloria, second Queen of Portugal, landed at Falmouth, 27 September.
1828-9 Losses of the Redpole, Hearty, Arid, and Myrtle Packets.
1828 Disaster at a Falmouth ball.
1829 Falmouth Packet and Cornish Herald started (discontinued in 1848).[5]
1829 Wesleyan Chapel in Porhan Street built.
1830 Bible Christian Chapel built on Smithick Hill.
1831–1840[]
1831 The ex-Emperor and Empress of Brazil visited Falmouth (on board the Volage).
1832 United Borough of Penryn and Falmouth incorporated, returning two M.P.s. In 1885 Flushing added, and the representation reduced to one. St. Mawes disfranchised.
1832 Steam Packet to Lisbon twice a month.
1832 Primitive Methodist Chapel built in Chapel Terrace; enlarged by gallery in 1836.
1862 April 12. Great fire in High Street, destroying thirty houses. A smaller fire same year in Church Street.
1863 Falmouth adopted the Local Government Act.
1863 Gyllyngdune sold by Rev. W. J. Coope to Mr. Sampson Waters for £10,000.
1863 Old Rectory premises sold for £720.
1863 August 21. Railway opened to Falmouth; town decorated and illuminated; and great whale 75 feet (23 m) long, and 25 feet (7.6 m) round, towed in from Cadgwith.
1867 Falmouth Observatory established by the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society; (first Meteorological) maintained by grant from the Meteorological Council.
1867 Life-boat established; launched 29 August.
1867 Bible Christian Chapel built.
Bible Christian Chapel, now URC and Baptist church.
1867 Wesleyan Chapel built at Pike's Hill.
1867 Three wrecks at Gyllyngvase, and damage to shipping.
1867 Royal Cornwall Home for Destitute Girls built.
1869 Roman Catholic Church built in Killigrew Street.[13]
1869 Earle's Retreat built for aged persons, by Mr. George Earle, of Philadelphia, D.S.A., and Falmouth.
1870 June 5. Great Fire at Market Street.
1870 Harbour Board.
1871–1880[]
1871 New landing places at Fish Strand and Market Strand built. At the latter a sub-marine forest discovered. Foundation stones laid by Lord Kimberley.
1871 Penwerris Day Schools opened.
1871 The Killigrew Obelisk removed to green in front of Arwenack.
^The Poor Law Unions were bodies representing a group of Parishes, set up to run a "Union Workhouse" to deal with the poor of those parishes. Budock Hospital (recently closed: 2007) was formerly the Union Workhouse.
^HMS Astraea was a 36-gun fifth rater launched in 1810, on harbour service from 1823 and broken up in 1851.
^The Falmouth Packet newspaper, started 1855, is still in publication (2008).
^The National Maritime Museum Cornwall opened a permanent display on the effects of the telegraph on Falmouth: "Falmouth for orders" in 2008.
^So named in memory of action of the Portuguese ship Maria Camilla, which rescued 17 British seamen from a foundering ship. see The Times 13 March 1862; pg. 5; col B