| AD71 | Foundation of the Roman fortress |
| c.211 | Provincial capital of Brittannia Inferior |
| 211 | African Septimius Severus, Emperor of Rome, died in Eboracum, at the end of four years' campaigning in Britain. |
| 306 | Roman Emperor Constantius dies in Eboracum. His son Constantine is acclaimed Emperor in the city |
| 590 to 879 | Capital of Northumbria. |
| 627 | King Edwin baptised by Paulinus in the Church of St Peter |
| 866 | Vikings first come to York |
| 874 to 958 | Viking Kingdom of York |
| 1068 | Construction of York Castle and Baile Hill by William of Normandy. |
| 1190 | York Castle keep burnt down in one of the first, most infamous pogroms against Jews in Europe |
| 1212 | York becomes an independent city with its own Charter and the right to raise its own taxes |
| 1220 | Work starts on York Minster – the largest Gothic cathedral in Northern Europe. |
| 1539 | Council of the North established at King’s Manor. |
| 1642 | Charles I and his Court seek refuge in York before the start of the Civil War. |
| 1686 | The Bar Convent founded by Frances Bedingfield, an early member of Mary Ward`s Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, providing education for girls. The oldest living convent in England. |
| 1732 | Building of the Assembly Rooms, a seminal building in English architectural history. |
| 1759 | Publication of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne, possibly the most influential novel published in Europe in the eighteenth century. |
| 1782 | York measures the universe! John Goodricke, astronomer, discovers the binary star Algol which laid the foundations for all future measurements of the universe. |
| 1792 | The Retreat founded by William Tuke, a Yorkshire Quaker, the first establishment in England with a humanitarian approach to mental illness. |
| 1822 | Founding of Yorkshire Philosophical Society leading to creation of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1831. |
| 1877 | York Station, then the largest railway station in the world opens. |
| 1901 | Important and pioneering study of poverty by Seebohm Rowntree. |
| 1902 | World’s first garden village created at New Earswick, funded by Joseph Rowntree. |
| 1984 | Opening of the Jorvik Viking Centre in April 1984. |