1789	The French Revolution. More than twenty years of war between Britain & France follow.	The Royal Navy needs new dockyards to build warships. The Paterchurch area offers a suitable site.
1814		First houses, public house & dockyard development.
1815	Battle of Waterloo. Napoleon I  finally defeated.
1816		Pembroke Dockyard's first ships launched - HMS Valorous, HMS Ariadne, both 28 guns. Naval shipbuilding continues until 1926.
1818		Bethany chapel - many other places of worship follow.
1826-1827		Market opens, with river landing for traders at Front Street "hard".
1830- 1832		Hobbs' Point pier built as landing stage for Irish packet boats. Mail coaches arrive here (1830s-40s). Later,  Hobbs' Point is used for river ferry boats & for installing heavy equipment in Dockyard-built vessels.
1832	The Great Reform Bill entitles more people to vote. Later bills continue this process - particularly the 2nd Reform Act of 1867.
1833		HMS Royal William completed, 120 guns. Pembroke Dockyard's first 100+ gun ship.
1834		HMS Tartarus completed, Pembroke Dockyard's first steam warship.
1835		Shortly after, Pembroke Borough is split into Pembroke & "Pater" wards. Pembroke Dock is allocated its own borough councillors.
1837-1901	Reign of Queen Victoria.	Pembroke Dock grows. "Victoria Road" and "VR" initials above gun tower & Defensible Barracks entrances mark the Victorian age. Queen Victoria's Royal Yachts are built at Pembroke Dockyard.
1840s		British & National Schools open.
1843		RY Victoria and Albert I launched, Pembroke Dock's first Royal Yacht
1845-6		The Temperance Hall,  a non-alcoholic meeting place.
c. 1844		Defensible Barracks, housing troops & protecting Dockyard.
1848		St John's Church consecrated.
1848-1851		Front St & Fort Rd gun towers, for close quarter defence of Dockyard .
1851	The Great Exhibition in London displays the fruits of British commerce & industry.
1850s		Mechanics' Institute offers library and reading rooms. The Institute building, opened in 1862, later included a fine billiards hall.
1852		HMS Duke of Wellington launched, 140 guns, 3 decks, steam power, screw driven.
1854-1856	Crimean War.	Shipwrights work long hours on urgently needed vessels. Soldiers leaving Pembroke Dock for "the seat of the war" include the 31st Regiment and Lt (later General) Gordon.
c. 1855		Llanion Hut camp.
1859-1862	France launches her first ironclad warship, La Gloire. Armoured vessels used in American Civil War.
1861	HMS Warrior completed, the Royal Navy's first ironclad.
1862		HMS Prince Consort launched, Pembroke Dockyard's first ironclad screw ship.
1864		Pembroke and Tenby Railway reaches Pembroke Dock. In 1866 the line links with Whitland.
1865		Cholera epidemic in Pennar
1870	"Forster's Education Act" introduces board schools.	Pennar, Albion Square and Llanion schools follow.
1874		Sir Edward Reed, chairman of Milford Haven Shipbuilding ... Co., elected MP for Pembroke Boroughs.
1877		Japanese corvette Hi Yei launched at Jacob's Pill private yard.
1882-1888		Battleships Edinburgh, Collingwood, Howe, Anson, constructed in Royal Dockyard.
1888	Local Government Act - Pembrokeshire County Council follows.	Pembroke Dock to elect County Councillors.
1889	Welsh Intermediate Education Act permits County Councils to  establish secondary schools, eg .	Pembroke Dock County Intermediate School (1895-9).
1891-1896		Battleships Empress of India, Repulse, Renown, Hannibal, constructed in Royal Dockyard.
1897-1899		Meyrick Wards.
c. 1901		Carr Jetty. It is now possible to install ships' engines & heavy equipment within the Dockyard.
1901-1907		Armoured (heavy) cruisers Drake, Essex, Cornwall, Duke of Edinburgh, Warrior, Defence  constructed in Royal Dockyard.
1902	"Balfour Education Act" abolishes school boards. Borough & County Council education committees now responsible for  elementary & secondary schools.
c. 1903		Llanion Barracks (brick).
1905		Town water supply is complete, with reservoirs & street hydrants. Drainage scheme, begun 1900, under way.
1906	HMS Dreadnought launched, the standard for future battleships.	Pembroke Dockyard lacks capacity to construct such vessels.
1908-1912		Scout cruisers Boadicea, Bellona, Blanche, Bolnde, Active, Amphion, Fearless constructed in Royal Dockyard.
1914		Pembroke Dock's centenary: Albion Square lamp standard commemorates, and giant  procession celebrates, the town's first hundred years.
1914-1918	World war I.	Dockyard builds light cruisers, submarines & tanker, with larger workforce. War may have postponed closure. Bush Camp makes Pembroke Dock an even larger Army depot, with more than 4000 soldiers in town.
1926	Against a background of national economic depression, in the year of the General Strike ...	Closure of Pembroke Dockyard brings mass unemployment. Many craftsmen seek work elsewhere.
1930		RAF Pembroke Dock established. Biplane flying boats arrive.
1939-1945	World War II.	RAF Pembroke Dock becomes world's largest operational flying boat base. Sunderland & Catalina flying boats seek out enemy submarines.
1940-1941		Air raids. Enemy bombers ignite Pennar oil tanks, & bring massive destruction to town.
1944	Education act plans reshaped secondary education, particularly grammar and secondary modern schools - shortly after which ...	County Intermediate School becomes Pembroke Grammar School, and Coronation school becomes "secondary modern" school.
1945-		Postwar developments include ... - Council housing - Pennar & Bush      estates - Factories at Kingswood, later along   Ferry Lane. - Marine industries in Dockyard,   particularly R.S. Hayes group of   companies.
1949-c.1955		Dock Leaves, arts magazine, published from Pembroke Dock.
1955-7		Pater Hall built on site of bombed Temperance Hall.
1957- 1959		Rundown & closure of RAF Pembroke Dock.
1957- 1971	Development of larger oil tankers, for which Milford Haven is an ideal harbour.	Boom in building oil refineries & heavy industry along Milford Haven. This brings  work & prosperity for Pembroke Dock.
1961- 1971		Sunderland ML824 exhibited next to motor museum in Dockyard.  The aircraft is now at RAF Hendon.
1967		Last regiment leaves Llanion Barracks.
1973	Secondary education reorganized	Pembroke Grammar School and Coronation secondary modern merge into Pembroke Comprehensive School.
1974	Local government reorganization.	End of Pembroke Borough Council. Many functions are taken over by South Pembs District Council, with office at the old Llanion Barracks - until further changes establish a new Pembrokeshire County Council, 1996.
1975		Haven Bridge opens - end of Hobbs' Point - Neyland ferry service.
1979 -		Irish ferry terminal in Dockyard
Later 20th c.		Developments include: - Port of Pembroke in Dockyard - Supermarkets in London Road area -     Co-op, Lidl, Tesco, Kwiksave. - New library on reclaimed land. - Pembroke power station closes after much debate on pollution & orimulsion  fuel. - Call centre opens next to bridge. - Golf course on Barrack Hill. - Housing on old Pennar Barracks site.
1986		The new Pembroke Dock Town Council takes office.
2001		Gun tower museum opens, presenting Pembroke Dock's shipbuilding and military history.
2006		August 8th The Captain Superintendents house , an imposing residence adjoining the dockyard gate and lately the Commodore Hotel was gutted by fire in the early hours