MARDEN TIMELINE
| 2007 | First commercial vineyard planted, Plain Road |
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| 2003 | Marden holds first Village Festival |
| 2000 | Millenium Walk planted |
| 1995-96 | Sutton Forge, Barnes Walk, Roundel Way built |
| 1995 | Restricted parking (yellow lines) throughout village |
| 1994 | Parish Council Centenary celebration |
| 1993 | First bottle banks in Car Park January - Fire destroys M J Pallets & Inprint Printers in Pattenden Lane July - Tyre dump fire in Pattenden Lane pollutes River |
| 1992-93 | Extension to Cemetery |
| 1990-92 | School extension |
| 1987 | New railway station building and Meades Close built |
| 1986 | Chantry Place demolished Bramley Court built |
| 1985 | Lime Close built |
| 1984 | Saw Mill demolished New village sign unveiled, to replace the original |
| 1983 | Medical Centre and Ballard Close built |
| 1982 | Public Conveniences officially opened |
| 1981 | Village sign competition held |
| 1980 | New railway bridge, Pattenden Lane |
| 1977 | New Library and Car Park built, opened by Councillor TW Kemsley on 4th April Sovereigns Way, Barrel Arch Close, Lucks Way and Cockpits Estate built |
| 1971 | Electric street lighting installed |
| 1969 | January 4th - Train crash in fog, 4 people killed, 11 injured |
| 1968 | New Playing Field opens |
| 1965 | New Vicarage built |
| 1962 | Stained glass East window and North and South Sanctuary lancets designed by Patrick Reytiens made for the Parish Church |
| 1953 | Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, visits Fruit Show |
| 1951 | Chantry Road built |
| 1950 | Beginning of Pattenden Lane Industrial Estate Library transfers to Memorial Hall |
| 1949 | South Road built |
| 1944 | July 3rd - Flying bomb shot down by anti-aircraft fire falls on Army Camp in Pattenden Lane, killing 11 & seriously injuring 8 |
| 1943-44 | Laying of the PLUTO pipeline |
| 1941 | Feb 4th - Two bombs fall on houses and shops in Maidstone Road killing 5 & seriously injuring 3 |
| 1940 | Sept 5th - Franz von Werra (German ace pilot) shot down over Marden Sept 15th - At climax of Battle of Britain, Hurricane pilot bales out over Church Farm Oct 25th - During attack on Maidstone, Messerschmidt plane is brought down by British planes, pilot injured |
| 1937 | Council Houses in Howland Road built |
| 1934 | Church School converted to Memorial Hall as a memorial to Mr Edward Day |
| 1933 | First sewers in Marden |
| 1930 | Marden Market closes Feb 10th - plane crashes in Marden en route from Paris to London, honeymoon couple killed, 4 people survive |
| 1928 | Hop Pickers Hospital opens |
| 1926 | Marden Womens' Institute inaugurated |
| 1922 | A Library Service opens in Village School |
| 1913 | Maidstone and District Bus Co. open bus line from Maidstone to Goudhurst and Hawkhurst via Marden - Service 6 |
| 1909 | Church bells recast from 6 to 8 bells |
| 1907 | Parish Pump locked up due to contamination Founding of Working Men's Club |
| 1904 | Gas street lighting |
| 1899 | Parish Pump erected by Parish Council |
| 1896-7 | New school buildings erected to accomodate 500 children |
| 1895 | 3 deliveries of mail and 3 dispatches daily, 1 on Sundays |
| 1887 | To mark Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, Vestry at south east corner of Church is built, with a generous contribution from the Cornwallis family |
| 1882 | Stocks removed from ancient Court House to the Church |
| 1874 | Letters arrive at 7am and are despatched at 7pm |
| 1871 | Population is 2333 |
| 1864 | Roman gold coin found at Boy's Spur Farm |
| 1859 | Church School built by public subscription of £1600 |
| 1851 | Undersea cable from Dover to Calais completed, telegraph in railway station can communicate with Paris |
| 1842 | South Eastern and Chatham Railway comes to Marden - there are 6 trains a day |
| 1841 | Population is 2676, with 2 inns, 6 beerhouses, 7 grocers |
| 1840-41 | Mammoth fossil found in cuttings for the railway |
| 1839 | Letters arrive at 8am and are dispatched at 6pm |
| 1838 | Henry Newish and John Hurt and their families emigrate to New South Wales assisted by the Parish |
| 1821 | Population is 2051, with 1100 males and 951 females living in 353 dwellings |
| 1804 | Parish is divided into 4 districts for Poor Relief - Beech, Plain, Pattenden, Stilebridge and Wadhurst Green |
| 1799 | Approximately 1500 inhabitants living in 300 houses |
| 1794 | Marden described as "3 streets badly paved" and the houses "but meanly built" |
| 1793 | Money raised from the Turnpike was £21.11s.3d |
| 1790 | Workhouse erected at a cost of £529.2s.8d |
| 1763 | Parish Church beautified by subscription, at a cost of £396.3s.9d |
| 1755 | Maplesden Charity is instituted |
| 1707 to 1725 | Mary Allen and her son leave money to the poor from the rent of land |
| 1666 | Pest House at Beech Farm is used to house victims of the Great Plague |
| 1653-58 | During Commonwealth St Michael's font is destroyed by the vicar |
| 1648 | The Earl of Pembroke purchases Marden |
| 1642-46 | During the Civil War cannon and cannon balls are made at the Weald iron foundry |
| 1640 | Three clothiers from the area invent a new process of dyeing |
| approx. 1635 | Marden passes from Charles I to Sir Edward Browne and Mr Christopher Favell |
| 1632 | Edward Maplesden leaves rents from a house and land to the poor |
| 1607 | James I makes Merdenne over to Sir Henry Brown |
| 1569 | 420 families are registered in Merdenne Richard Turner leaves proceeds of land to be devoted to the use of the poor |
| 1560 | Marriage and burial records begin in the Church |
| 1559 | Baptism registers begin in the Church |
| 1557 | 300 families with 500 adult communicants in Merdenne |
| 1554 | Fire destroys the chancel and chapel roof of St Michaels Church The Wyatt Rebellion - Sir Thomas Isley of Reed Court is executed and his land is given to Sir John Baker, the Attorney General |
| 1525 | Henry VIII takes money from Merdenne to be given to Cardinal Wolsey |
| 1400 | The Jack Cade rebellion march on London - Merdenne men John Rolf, John Nash and Thomas Peppymbury are later pardoned |
| 1381 | John Monselow found not guilty of plotting to burn down Maidstone in the Peasants Revolt |
| 1352 | First recorded vicar is William de Welde |
| 1348-9 | Black Death |
| 1336 | Beginnings of the cloth trade in Merdenne when Act of Edward III invites Flemish weavers to England |
| 1291 | Queen Eleanor, widow of Henry II dies and Merdenne with the Hundred of Milton is returned to her son Edward I, valued at £22.13s.8d per annum |
| 1283 | Edward I commands an annual market to be held in Merdenne which continues for 500 years |
| 1272-1307 | During reign of Edward I a man is fined half a mark for burning 32 trees for charcoal "in the wood of the Lord King" |
| 1235 | 20 tree trunks are cut from the woods of Henry III at Mereden and presented to the Abbot of St Radigund at Dover for the building of a Refectory |
| 1216-17 | Port Reeve of Milton, William Kensham, musters men of Maeredaen to harry French troops who were supporting the barons against King John |
| 1170 | Maeredaen is held for the Crown by Richard de Luci, Lord Chief Justice of England who retires to found the Abbey of Lesnes near Dartford |
| 1066 | At the Domesday survey the manor and hundred of Maere Denn are part of the King's manor of Milton |
| Dark Ages | Herdsmen bring their stock to feed on acorns in clearings (dens) in the forest of Anderida |
| Pre-history | 13 Bronze Age objects left in a pottery vessel Various Stone Age axes and tools deposited in the area Mammoth dies, leaving a fossil which was discovered during the cutting of the railway line in 1840-1 |