A very subjective list of historical dates important to Hythe and the Waterside.
971: A church is first recorded at Fawley.
1086: Fawley listed in the Domesday book, as part of lands held by the Bishop of Winchester.
1170 - 1340: The present Fawley church constructed and extended.
1293: Hythe first mentioned in a Parliamentary Roll.
1539: Henry VIII ordered the construction of Calshot Castle, to defend Southampton from invaders.
1575: "Hithefery" marked on a map produced by Christopher Saxton.
1780: Luttrell's Tower built at the Eaglehurst estate at Calshot, for Temple Simon Luttrell.
1837 - December 23rd: The Hampshire Advertiser reports the death of John Richards of Hythe, noting that 'the father of the deceased founded the neat little village of Hythe: previous to his time there was no building there of greater pretensions than the huts of a few fishermen. The elder Mr Richards, when he established a shipbuilding yard at Heath (as it was then called) built houses for his workmen and the village soon sprang up.'
1874: The Church of Saint John the Baptist erected, replaced a previous church built in 1824.
1881 - January 1st: Hythe Pier was opened, having taken two years to construct, at a cost of £7,000.
1909: A narrow-gauge railway was installed on the northern side of Hythe pier.
1912: Guglielmo Marconi used Luttrell's Tower to conduct wireless experiments.
1913: Hythe joined the parish of Dibden, having previously been part of the civil parish of Fawley.
1913: The Royal Flying Corps established Calshot Naval Air Station (later RNAS Calshot and RAF Calshot).
1921: Oil refinery at Fawley first developed by the Atlantic Gulf & West Indies Petroleum Company (AGWI).
1922: The electrified railway, which is still in place, was installed, on the southern side of the pier.
1922 - November 25th: Hythe & Dibden Memorial Hospital was opened and dedicated, in memory of those from Dibden parish who gave their lives in the Great War. A second dedication was later added to commemorate the lives lost in World War 2.
1923: British Mexican Petroleum bought out the AGWI refinery.
1925: The Anglo-American Oil Co., the British affiliate of Esso, acquired the refinery.
1927 - September 30th: British Power Boat Company formed, by Hubert Scott-Paine, on the site of the old Hythe Shipyard.
1931 - 32: T. E. Lawrence lodged in Hythe (at Myrtle Cottage) and worked with Scott-Paine on the design and operation of RAF200, a 37-ft seaplane tender.
1948: Hythe & Dibden Cricket Club formed (by amalgamating the separate Hythe and Dibden Purlieu clubs).
1951 - September 14th: The extended Esso oil refinery at Fawley was officially opened, by the Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
1961: Population of Tristan da Cunha evacuated due to volcanic eruption, and residents were housed at Calshot.
1965 - 1969: Fawley power station constructed.
1968: The US Army took over RAF Hythe.
1970: Calshot Lifeboat Station established.
1971: Fawley power station commissioned.
1999 - June 1st: Sir Christopher Cockerell, Hythe resident, and inventor of the hovercraft, died in Hythe.
2006: US Army vacated the RAF Hythe site, which was bought by the South East England Development Agency and turned into Hythe Marine Park.
2013 - March 31st: Fawley power station officially closed.
