History of Tonbridge
- Introduction
- Tonbridge Timeline
- Events
- People
- Places
- Pictures - pre-1950
- Pictures - 1963-80
- How Tonbridge has grown
- From the archives
- Made in Tonbridge
- Miscellany
- Links
Events
- 1610: Murder at the Playhouse
- 1643: The Civil War comes to Tonbridge
- 1740: The Medway Navigation
- 1813: The Great Galvanic Battery
- 1829: The Penshurst Canal
- 1842: A criminal caught
- 1842: The coming of the railway
- 1849 & 54: Cholera comes to Tonbridge
- 1850: Dickens and the Telegraph
- 1850: Tonbridge Races
- 1913: Votes for Women
- 1930: Tonbridge mourns its R101 victim