| 400,000 | BC | Earliest evidence of man living in Surrey - flint handaxes found on upper river terraces near Farnham | |
| 150,000 | BC | Start of continuous period of settlement. After the last Ice Age (180,000-110,000 BC), hunters moved back into the Surrey area | |
| c. 20,000 | BC | Flint tools, from late Upper Palaeolithic era, found in Littlewick area | |
| c. 3000 | BC | Flint handaxes, from neolithic or early bronze age, found in Maybury area (in the Lightbox collection) | |
| c. 2000 | BC | One disc barrow and two bell barrows constructed on Horsell Common (early Bronze Age) | |
| c. 675 | Monks of Medehamsted found daughter-house at Woking | ||
| c. 710 | Earliest reference to Woking in a letter from Pope Constantine | ||
| 1086 | Woking recorded in Domesday Book as 'Wochinges' | ||
| 1100 | s | Chapel built on site of Horsell church | |
| 1200 | King John granted manor of Woking and manor of Sutton to Alan Bassett | ||
| 1260 | Manor of Woking passed to Hugh le Despenser | ||
| 1272 | Royal residence (Woking Palace) sited by River Wey | ||
| 1416 | Alice, Duchess of Kent, bequeaths manor of Woking to Margaret Beaufort, Duchess of Somerset | ||
| 1485 | Lady Margaret Beaufort (dau of the Duchess) granted manor of Woking by Henry VII | ||
| 11 Sep | 1490 | Treaty of Woking (a non-aggression pact) signed by Henry VII with Maximilian of Austria | |
| 1509 | Manor passes to Henry VIII | ||
| 1515 | Thomas Wolsey, at Woking Palace, made a Cardinal | ||
| 1521 | Manor of Sutton granted to Sir Richard Weston | ||
| 1530 | ish | Sutton Place built | |
| 1561 | Elizabeth I grants a charter for a market | ||
| Nov | 1620 | James I grants manor and lordship to Sir Edward Zouch | |
| Jun | 1634 | Woking manor and lordship passes to James Zouch | |
| 1645 | Woking manor and lordship passes to James Zouch's 5 year old son, Edward | ||
| 1658 | Edward Zouch dies and the manor and lordship passes to his brother, James | ||
| 1653 | Wey Navigation opened | ||
| 1665 | James Zouch obtains charter for weekly Woking market | ||
| 1665 | James Zouch builds Woking market house | ||
| 1708 | James Zouch dies | ||
| 1713 | Woking manor sold to John Walter | ||
| 1718 | Brew-house built | ||
| 1724 | Defoe describes the Surrey commons as "a vast tract of land which is not only poor, but even steril … horrid and frightful to look on … much of it is a sandy desert, and one may frequently be put in mind here of Arabia Deserta" | ||
| 1736 | Woking manor passes to Abel Walter on death of his father John Walter | ||
| 1752 | Abel Walter sells Manor and Lordship sold to Richard Onslow | ||
| 1760 | Goldsworth Nursery established by James Turner | ||
| 1788 | -94 | Building of Basingstoke Canal started | |
| 1791 | Basingstoke Canal open to Horsell | ||
| 1795 | Knaphill Nursery established by Michael Waterer | ||
| 1808 | Enclosure of Sutton completed | ||
| 1811 | Horsell Common Baptist chapel built | ||
| Nov | 1830 | Civil unrest in Woking parish over tithe payments | |
| 1834 | London-Southampton Railway construction begins | ||
| Guildford and Chertsey Poor Law Unions formed | |||
| 21 May | 1838 | Woking Common Station opened | |
| 1840 | Railway Hotel built (later Cardinal, Sovereigns) | ||
| Building work starts on St John's Church (as a chapel of ease) | |||
| 1845 | Guildford Branch railway opened | ||
| 1848 | Church Street School built | ||
| 1849 | Necropolis proposed for Woking parish by Board of Health | ||
| First Westfield School built | |||
| 1854 | London Necropolis Company buy Woking common land | ||
| 1855 | Act for permission to sell surplus Necropolis land | ||
| 1856 | Albion Hotel built | ||
| 1858 | Kemishford bridge built | ||
| 1859 | Invalid Prison built at Knaphill | ||
| Proposal to pump London sewage to Woking Common, which might have prevented development of modern Woking | |||
| Apr | 1859 | Prisoners moved into Invalid Prison | |
| 1860 | -65 | Construction of Royal Dramatic College | |
| 1862 | First residents admitted to Royal Dramatic College | ||
| 1863 | Work starts on Surrey County Lunatic Asylum (Brookwood Hospital) | ||
| 1864 | Post Office, previously in Ripley, moves to Old Woking High St opposite the White Hart | ||
| Jun | 1864 | Brookwood railway station opened | |
| 1865 | Sub-Post Office opens at corner of High St and Church Path opposite station | ||
| Jun | 1867 | First patients admitted to Brookwood Hospital | |
| 1868 | Beacon tower on Monument Hill falls in a storm | ||
| 1869 | Red House Hotel built | ||
| Woking College founded | |||
| May | 1869 | Female Invalid Prison opened | |
| Jan | 1870 | Surrey Advertiser first uses term 'Old Woking' to decribe Woking village | |
| Apr | 1874 | Woking School Board formed | |
| 1877 | Walter Slocock buys Goldsworth Nursery | ||
| Woking Station Sub-Post Office then in Walton Road, becomes the Woking's main Post Office | |||
| 10 Nov | 1887 | Duchess of Albany lays foundation stone for Christ Church | |
| Dec | 1877 | Royal Dramatic College closes | |
| 1879 | Woking Crematorium built | ||
| 1880 | Knaphill School built | ||
| 1882 | Public piped water supplied introduced | ||
| 1883 | St John's chapel of ease becomes fully-fledged church | ||
| Building starts on St Peter's Convent | |||
| 1884 | -93 | Christ Church built | |
| 1885 | Oriental Institute opened in former Royal Dramatic College building | ||
| Electric Street lighting in Woking town centre | |||
| St Peter's Convent opened | |||
| Knaphill church constructed in Chobham Road | |||
| Mar | 1885 | First legal cremation in modern times. ‘A lady well-known in literary and scientific circles’ was the only clue The Times gave to the identity of the woman (Mrs Pickersgill) who was cremated by the Cremation Society. | |
| 1887 | Woking Police Station opens | ||
| Claremont Avenue completed | |||
| Surrey Industrial School moves to Maybury Farm | |||
| West Byfleet station opens | |||
| 1888 | Ashby's Bank, of Staines, opens branch in Commercial Road | ||
| Capital & Counties Bank opens branch in High Street | |||
| 1889 | Shah Jehan Mosque opens | ||
| Woking Crematorium rebuilt in brick | |||
| Woking Electrical Supply Company formed | |||
| Woking Football Club founded | |||
| Male convict prison closed | |||
| 1890 | Electricity supplies started | ||
| Abbey Farm, Horsell, sold for development | |||
| National Rifle Association (NRA) moves from Wimbledon to Bisley; Bisley branch line built from Brookwood to Bisley Camp | |||
| 1891 | Woking College closed | ||
| 1891 | -2 | Old wooden Elm Bridge rebuilt in brick | |
| 1892 | Gasworks opened in Boundary Road | ||
| Conversion of Woking Prison to Army Barracks begins | |||
| Ashby's build new bank on corner of Chertsey Road and what would later be the Broadway | |||
| 1893 | Woking Golf Club founded | ||
| Woking Local Board established | |||
| First hospital in Woking opens in Bath Road | |||
| 14 Jun | 1893 | Christ Church consecrated by Bishop of Winchester | |
| 1894 | Woking Urban District, local government district created | ||
| Woking News first published | |||
| Woking, Horsell and Woodham Cottage Hospital started | |||
| 1895 | Woking Public Halls completed | ||
| Woking Mail first published | |||
| First Infantry regiment quartered at Inkerman Barracks | |||
| First street lighting in Woking | |||
| New Post Office built in Chertsey Road | |||
| Woking Urban District Council formed | |||
| St Johns fire station opened | |||
| St Paul's church Maybury built | |||
| H G Wells moves to Woking; Writes The War of the Worlds | |||
| H G Wells writes The Time Machine | |||
| Dec | 1895 | Woking Fire Brigade established | |
| Female convict prison closed | |||
| 1896 | Red House Hotel enlarged (Saloon bar, coffee & billiard rooms) | ||
| Home and Colonial Tea Stores opens in Chertsey Road | |||
| H G Wells leaves Woking | |||
| 1897 | Mains gas reaches Horsell | ||
| Claremont Avenue constructed | |||
| Hugh Butcher's shop opens in the Broadway | |||
| New Westfield School built | |||
| 1898 | Conservative Club built | ||
| Woking-Basingstoke railway line widened; | |||
| Goldsworth Schools open | |||
| 1899 | Methodist Church completed | ||
| Oriental Institute closes (and with it the Mosque) | |||
| Albion Hotel rebuilt | |||
| Victoria Cottage Hospital opened; | |||
| Woking sewerage system inaugurated; | |||
| 1899 | Tunnelling for the sewerage system under the Basingstoke canal at Horsell Moor causes the canal bed to collapse closing it to traffic for 6 months | ||
| Horsell Nurseries sold for development | |||
| Mains gas reaches West Byfleet | |||
| Oriental Institute closes after death of Dr Leitner | |||
| Woking & District Co-Operaive Society starts trading | |||
| 1899 | Kiln Bridge rebuilt | ||
| St Dunstan's church opened in Percy Street | |||
| 1900 | Waldens Farm, Horsell, sold for development | ||
| Princess Christian Home built at Stafford Lake | |||
| 1901 | Woking and District Water Company incorporated | ||
| 1902 | Co-Op opens at junction of Percy St and Church St | ||
| Electric street lighting replaced with gas | |||
| Mains gas reaches Mayford & Hook Heath | |||
| 1903 | Victoria Gardens aka 'Sparrow Park' established | ||
| Brookwood School built | |||
| 1904 | Hockering Estate laid out | ||
| Fox and Hounds PH built at Sutton Green | |||
| 1905 | New Mayford Arms built; old Mayford Arms converted to private house | ||
| Emmanuel Chapel built in Saunders Lane | |||
| 1906 | Council Offices opened | ||
| Hermitage Bridge collapes | |||
| Brookwood volunteer fire brigade formed | |||
| 1907 | Victoria Arch rebuilt/widened | ||
| Mains electricity reaches Woking Village | |||
| Old Chertsey Road bridge demolished | |||
| Building of Holy Trinity Church, Knaphill begins | |||
| St Mary of Bethany Church built in Mount Hermon Rd | |||
| 30 Jun | 1907 | Storm hits Woking; Cecil Terrace hit by lightning | |
| 1908 | Mains electricity reaches Knaphill | ||
| Market House in Woking village demolished and replaced with cottages | |||
| 1909 | LSWR Servants Orphanage opens | ||
| St Saviour's Church built in Brookwood | |||
| 1910 | Outdoor swimming pool (timber-lined) built in Woking Park | ||
| Wheatsheaf Bridge demolished | |||
| Salvation Army hall built in Church Street | |||
| 1911 | Recreation Ground laid out | ||
| 1912 | Woking Co-Op Society Garden Suburb built in Horsell as a mini 'garden city' | ||
| Shah Jehan Mosque reopened | |||
| 1913 | Co-Op store built at Knaphill, at junction of Broadway and High Street | ||
| 1914 | Woking County School for Boys opened | ||
| Mains electricity reaches Pirbright, Ripley, Bisley | |||
| Stumps Bridge, Brookwood rebuilt | |||
| 1915 | Martinsyde moved to former Oriental Institute | ||
| New Broadmead Bridge built | |||
| by | 1916 | Former Womens' prison becomes Military Detention Barracks | |
| 1917 | Muslim Cemetery built | ||
| 1919 | J Sainsbury opens shop in Chertsey Rd | ||
| 1920 | Woking's first council house completed | ||
| 1920s | White Horse Inn in Old Woking demolished for 'road widening' (still not happened) | ||
| 1921 | Barley Mow PH, Knaphill closes | ||
| 1921 | -2 | Widening of Hermitage Hill | |
| 24 May | 1922 | War memorial unveiled | |
| 1923 | Part of Maybury Road renamed 'Broadway' | ||
| New Chertsey Road bridge built | |||
| 1925 | Woking County School for Girls opened | ||
| Anchor Hill brickworks closed | |||
| New St Dunstan's church opened in White Rose Lane | |||
| 1926 | James Walker take over Martinsyde site to be renamed 'Lion Works' | ||
| 1928 | Fire brigade move to new station in Church Street | ||
| Floods in Old Woking | |||
| 1929 | Woking Library opened in former RC Church in Percy St | ||
| 1930 | Woking Urban District Council granted a coat of arms | ||
| 1931 | Conversion of street lighting from gas [back] to electricity | ||
| 1933 | Byfleet & Pyrford joined with Woking Urban District | ||
| 1934 | Sainsbury moves to High St | ||
| Library moved to former Methodist Chapel | |||
| Roundabout completed at Turnoak Corner | |||
| 1935 | New lido-style swimming pool | ||
| Co-Op redeveloped as a department store | |||
| 1936 | -7 | Railway station rebuilt | |
| 1937 | Council car park opens in Commercial Road | ||
| Ritz (later A.B.C.) Cinema built | |||
| 1945 | Woking hit by V2 Rocket | ||
| 1946 | Woking Masonic Lodge constituted and consecrated | ||
| Sep | 1947 | RMP make Inkerman their home | |
| Nov | 1948 | Construction starts on Sheerwater Estate | |
| 15 Mar | 1949 | Final commercial load carried on Basingstoke canal delivered to Spantons' Yard. | |
| Sep | 1951 | First house in Sheerwater Estate ready for occupation | |
| 1957 | Woking Water Company move from Commercial Way to Guildford Road | ||
| 1960 | Closure of Inkerman Barracks announced | ||
| 1960 | s | Albion House development | |
| 1963 | McLaren Racing Team formed | ||
| 1965 | Inkerman Barracks closes | ||
| 1966 | Methodist church in Commercial Road destroyed by fire. | ||
| 1967 | Winston Churchill School established | ||
| 1968 | Floods in Old Woking | ||
| 12 Jul | 1969 | Woking Round Table held first Woking Whirl carnival in Egley Road | |
| 1972 | New Salvation Army Hall built in Walton Road | ||
| 1973 | Victoria Way version 1 opened | ||
| Jun | 1973 | Goldsworth Park plan approved by Government | |
| Oct | 1973 | Building starts in Goldsworth Park | |
| 1974 | Atalanta Ballroom closes | ||
| Wolsey Place shopping arcade opened | |||
| 1975 | Woking Centre Pools opened | ||
| War Memorial moved to Town Square | |||
| Woking Centre Library opened | |||
| Conservation area designated at Old Woking | |||
| 14 Oct | 1975 | Official opening of Wolsey Place | |
| 1976 | BAT building completed | ||
| Conservation area designated at Pyrford | |||
| 1977 | Boys Grammar School closed | ||
| Woking College founded, as Woking Sixth Form College | |||
| Oct | 1978 | Fine Fare Supermarket opens | |
| 1978 | Crown Life House completed | ||
| Conservation area designated at Horsell | |||
| 1981 | Fire station in Church St rebuilt | ||
| 1983 | Woking Civic Offices opened | ||
| Knaphill School demolished | |||
| 1984 | Prince of Wales PH, St John's, closed | ||
| 1988 | Goldsworth Park completed | ||
| 2 Jul | 1988 | Woking Round Table held nineteenth and last Woking Whirl carnival | |
| 1989 | Pool in the Park opened | ||
| 1992 | Peacocks centre opened | ||
| Ambassadors & New Victoria Theatre opened | |||
| Woking Centre Pools demolished | |||
| Queen's Head PH, Knaphill closed | |||
| 1993 | Woking Mural unveiled | ||
| 1997 | Surrey History Centre building starts | ||
| 1998 | Surrey History Centre opens | ||
| 2007 | County Council moves to Woking | ||
| 2010 | Brookwood Hotel closed | ||
| 2011 | Goldsworth Arms PH closed | ||
| Mar | 2012 | Building of Living Planet Centre starts | |
| 25 Jun | 2012 | Revamped Library opens | |
| Nov | 2013 | Living Planet Centre, the home of the UK branch of the World Wildlife Fund opened by David Attenborough | |
| 2015 | Goldsworth Arms PH demolished | ||
| 2018 | Robin Hood PH closed | ||
| Victoria Square development starts | |||
| 2020 | Surrey County Council scraps plans to move to Woking and instead moves to Reigate | ||
| Jun | 2023 | Woking Borough Council declares itself bankrupt | |