BED AND BREAKFAST VICENZA

1806 - Ironwork of bridge carrying new Bath road across rerouted Avon collapses. Death of Ann Yearsley, the Bristol milkwoman poet.

1807 - Slave trade abolished.

1818 - McAdam appointed surveyor of Bristol roads.

1820 - Albion Dock laid out by Hilhouse, Sons & Co (originally known as New Dockyard)

1821 - Census: population 87, 779. Steam packet service to Ireland. Harvey family wine business begins. Bristol Gas Light Company opens new works
at St Philips.

1822 - New turnpike, Coronation Road, opened in Bedminster. St Andrew’s, Clifton, consecrated. Old Hotwell House removed to make way for new Bridge Valley Road. Failed attempt to build tramway to Gloucester.

1824 - Prospectus for Bath and Bristol Railway company published. First proposal for Bristol – London railway (meeting chaired by Thomas Wilson MP). Foundation stone of Council House in Corn Street lain (completed 1827). Thomas soap company founded.

1825 - Opening of Mechanics’ Institute in Prince’s Street. Bristol Dock Company taken to Court to force them to improve condition of sewers.

1827 - Bristol & Gloucestershire railway begun. First publication of The Bristolian. Branch of Bank of England opens in Bridge Street.

1828 - Bristol & Gloucestershire and Avon & Gloucestershire Railway Acts. Mr Pocock’s experiments with kite power. Brunel injured in second flood at Thames Tunnel in January. Brunel learns of plans to build bridge across the Avon at Clifton while convalescing in Clifton (previously went to Brighton).

1829 - Old mill on Clifton Down fitted with camera obscura. Gathering in Queen Square to protest plan to allow Catholics to sit in both Houses of Parliament. Telford faults all submissions to first Clifton Bridge competition. Brunel commissioned to carry out drainage works at Tollesbury.

1830 - Cattle market opens at Temple Meads. Princess Victoria visits city.

1831 - Census: population 103, 886. The Bristol riots (29 - 31 Oct), witnessed by Brunel, a special constable. Bush warehouse (now Arnolfini) completed. Opening of Bristol College. Meeting to propose creation of General Hospital.

1832 - Meeting to revive interest in London-Bristol railway held in office at Temple Back. Parliamentary boundaries enlarged to include Clifton and outlying areas of St Philip’s, St Paul’s and St James’. Cholera epidemic. Trials of Bristol rioters and suicide of Lt Col Brereton.

1833 - Deaths of Raja Ram Mohun Roy and Hannah More. Partnership of Wills with Ricketts, Leonard, and Ricketts. Birth of E W Godwin, architect and artist. First session of Bristol Medical School.

1834 - Bristol, Clifton and West of England Zoological Society formed. First Great Western Railway Bill rejected in Parliament (25 July). Underfall sluices constructed at Bristol docks. First drag boat in operation.

1835 - Horse traction Bristol-Gloucestershire Railway in operation, (reduced price of coal in Bristol from 16s to 11s per ton).

1836 - Bristol & Exeter Railway Act. Steam tug begins operation. Bristol Steam Navigation Company formed. Conrad Finzel arrives in Bristol to establish steam-driven sugar refinery. Great Western Cotton Works Company formed. Arnos Vale laid out. Zoological Gardens open to the public. Appointed engineer of Great Western Steam Ship Company. Brunel marries Mary Horsley (5 July) and moves to Westminster. Foundation stone for Leigh Woods abutment of Clifton Bridge laid (27 Aug). Work starts on ss Great Western in Bristol. Work starts on Box Tunnel.

1837 - New Custom House opens. Election of Hon F H F Berkeley MP (Lib) who campaigned for a secret ballot (held seat til death in 1870). William West opens Giant’s Cave passage.

1838 - Great Western Cotton Works mill in operation at Barton Hill. Foundation stone of Victoria Rooms lain.

1839 - Royal Western Hotel opens. St Mary on the Quay completed. Bristol & Gloucestershire Railway absorbed into Bristol & Gloucester Railway and converts from a horse tramway to a locomotive. Foundation stone for Chatterton Memorial lain.

1840 - Bristol Cathedral reopened after restoration. Hall of Science opens in Broadmead. Great Britain’s hull redesigned for screw propeller. Opening of GWR sections from London to Hay Lane, and from Bristol to Bath (31 Aug). Gooch chooses Swindon to be main base for engines.

1841 - Census: population 123, 188. Christ Church Clifton consecrated. Amalgamation of Fripp & Fry and Thomas soap companies. Marc Brunel knighted. Box Tunnel and Bristol Temple Meads station completed. Full London – Bristol route opened (30 June). GWR associate company Bristol & Exeter Railway formed. Appointed engineer of Oxford Railway. Eight passengers killed at Sonning cutting (24 Dec).

1842 - Victoria Rooms completed. Major exhibition at the Mechanics Institute.

1843 - Foundation stone of new Guildhall lain. Founding of Crew’s Hole tar and creosote works. Stage coaches between Bristol and London withdrawn (reinstated 1849). Death of Robert Southey (at Keswic

Bordeus (Bordeu en occita; Bordeaux en frances), es una ciutat portuaria del Sud-oest de Franca, capital de la regio d'Aquitania i del departament de Gironda. Va ser fundada en el segle III aC sota el nom de Burdigala pels Bituriges Vivisques, un poble gal de la regio de Bourges, dels que fou la capital. El primer emplacament va estar situat en la desembocadura del Deveze, un afluent del Garona. El naixement de la ciutat no esta associat a les qualitats del lloc, ja que en la desembocadura estava sobre un pla amb aiguamolls pestilents. Sota els romans fou un centre comercial. Ausoni (segle IV) era nascut a la ciutat i va escriure sobre ella un poema titulat Ordo Nobilium Urbium. Esmenta una font anomenada Divona que preveia d'aigua a la ciutat. Un aqueducte subterrani tambe li portava aigua. Tetric, governador d'Aquitania, fou proclamat emperador a la ciutat. Fou la capital de la provincia Aquitania Secunda (Metropolis Civitas Burdegalensium). Fou ocupada pels visigots i inclosa al regne visigot de Tolosa i fou despres possessio dels francs amb els que va sorgir el ducat d'Aquitania. Es conserva d'aquesta epoca l'amfiteatre (conegut com les Arenes o Palais Gallien). Un temple que es conservava va ser demolit durant el regnat de Lluis XVI de Franca.Va ser saquejada per les tropes d'Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi en 732, despres d'haver derrotat al duc Eudes. Fou un comtat del ducat d'Aquitania. Vegeu Comtat de Bordeus. Del segle XII al XV va ser feu d'un rei angles. El segle XVIII va ser la seva epoca daurada, a causa del comerc amb les Indies orientals. Els hotels dels molls procedeixen d'aquest periode. Durant la Primera Guerra Mundial el govern frances es va retirar a aquesta ciutat. La regio de Bordeus es llar dels mes prestigiosos productors de vi del mon. Existeixen al voltant de 14.000 productors de vi, 117.514 hectarees de vinyers, 400 comerciants i un volum de negoci de 14.500 milions d'euros----- BORDEAUX (in Gascon: Bordeu) is a port city in the south-west of France, with 925,253 inhabitants in the metropolitan area at the 1999 census. It is the capital of the Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture of the Gironde department. Its inhabitants are called Bordelais. Bordeaux is known to be Europe's main military space and aeronautics research and construction complex. Bordeaux wine draws its name from the city around which it has been produced since the 8th century. The city is considered the world's wine capital,[citation needed] hosting Vinexpo, the wine industry's biggest event worldwide.[citation needed] With almost 100,000 students, the city's university is renowned for its research units in crop science, new materials and nanotechnology. Between 30,000 and 90,000 years ago the area of Bordeaux was inhabited by the Homo neanderthalensis, whose remains have been found at a famous cave known as Pair-non-Pair, near Bourg sur Gironde, just north of Bordeaux.In historical times, around 300 BC it was the settlement of a Celtic tribe, the Bituriges Vivisci, who named the town Burdigala, probably of Aquitainian origin. The name Bourde is still the name of a river south of the city. The city fell under Roman rule around 60 BC, its importance lying in the commerce of Tin and Lead towards Rome. Later it became capital of Roman Aquitaine, flourishing especially during the Severan dynasty (3rd century). In 276 it was sacked by the Vandals. Further ravage was brought by the same Vandals in 409, the Visigoths in 414 and the Franks in 498, beginning a period of obscurity for the city.In the late sixth century, the city reemerged as the seat of a county and an archdiocese within the Merovingian kingdom of the Franks. The city fell into obscurity as royal power waned in southern Gaul in the late seventh century. The city was plundered by the troops of Abd er Rahman in 732, after he had defeated Duke Eudes and before he was killed during the Battle of Tours on October 10. Under the Carolingians were appointed a series of Counts of Bordeaux who served to defend the mouth of the Garonne from the Vikings. Eventually, the city was inherited by the Dukes of Gascony in the late tenth century.From the 12th to the 15th century, Bordeaux regained importance as part of the English realm, following the marriage of Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine with the French-speaking Count Henri Plantagenet, born in Le Mans, who became, within months of their wedding, King Henry II of England. The city flourished, primarily due to wine trade, and the cathedral of St. Andre was built. It was also the capital of an independent state under Edward, the Black Prince (1362-1372), but in the end, after the Battle of Castillon (1453) it returned to France. The Chateaux Trompette (Trumpet Castle) and the Fort du Ha, built by Charles VII of France, were the symbols of the new domination, which however deprived the city of its richness by halting the wine commerce with England. In 1462 Bordeaux obtained a parliament, but regained importance only in the 16