page_title: Timeline of Exeter
section_title: 19th century
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Exeter / 19th century
caption_attribution_description: View of Exeter, England
context_page_description: The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Exeter, Devon, England.
context_section_description: 1813
  Devon and Exeter Institution founded.
  Exeter Western Luminary begins publication.
  1814
  Iron Footbridge built.
  Exeter Medical Library founded.
  1821 – Besley's Exeter News begins publication.
  1823 – Cholera epidemic.
  1825
  Mechanics' Institution opens.
  Chichester Place laid out.
  1832 – Veitch plant nursery in business.
  1835 – Athenaeum instituted.
  1837 – Catacombs built.
  1840 – Exeter Diocesan Training College opens.
  1842 – Church of St Andrew built.
  1844 – Bristol and Exeter Railway begins operating to Exeter St Davids railway station.
  1847 – Polytechnic Institution founded.
  1848 – South Devon Railway begins operating from Exeter St Davids station.
  1853 – Prison built.
  1854 – School of Art founded.
  1860 – London and South Western Railway begins operating to Exeter Queen Street station.
  1862 – Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art established.
  1867 – November: Economic unrest.
  1870 – Royal Albert Memorial Museum established.
  1882 – Horse-drawn tram begins operating.
  1884 – 18 November: Sacred Heart Church opened.
  1887 – 5 September: Theatre Royal burns down with 186 fatalities.
  1889
  Theatre Royal rebuilt.
  Devon and Exeter Medico-Chirurgical Society founded.
  1896 – City of Exeter Electricity Company formed.
caption: View of Exeter, 1803
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