Year	What Was Happening ?
« 1865	At St John's	In & Around Stratford	In The Church	In The World
1866	William Jay Bolton becomes Perpetual Curate of St John's.	Stratford Express founded		The Earl of Derby becomes Prime Minister
1867			Barking Deanery is transferred to Rochester diocese and Stratford loses the support of the London Fund.	Working men in towns get the vote
1868	St John's Stratford becomes a separate parish from West Ham. William Jay Bolton become Vicar.	The Roman Catholic Church of St Francis of Assisi, in Grove Crescent Road, opened.		Derby retires, Benjamin Disraeli becomes Prime Minister William Gladstone becomes Prime Minister Ulysses S. Grant is elected president of the United States. Louisa May Alcott publishes 'Little Women'. The skeleton of Cro-Magnon man is found in France.
1869		Stratford Town Hall opened.		The Suez Canal opens. Imprisonment for debt is abolished.
1870		St James, Forest Gate, opened	The Bishop of Rochester's Fund takes over support of Barking Deanery, with the Vicar of Barkingside as Secretary.	Forster's Elementary Education Act
1871		Population of Stratford: 23,286 West Ham School Board established. North Metropolitan Tramways open horse tram service from Aldgate to Stratford.		Bank holidays introduced. Stanley meets Livingston in Africa at Ujiji.
1872	Chant Square Mission Hall opened			Ulysses S. Grant is re-elected as US president.
1873				First typewriter invented Cable cars begin running in San Francisco.
1874		West Ham Park opened.		Benjamin Disraeli becomes Prime Minister Winston Churchill is born. The Impressionist painters stage their first exhibition in Paris. The first zoo in American is established in Philadelphia. Pressuring cooking is introduced in the food canning process.
1875				Britain purchases 176,602 shares in the Suez Canal. Hans Christian Anderson dies. Mark Twain publishes 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'. London's first roller skating rink opens.
1876		St Mark Mission Church, Windmill Lane opened		The telephone is invented by Alexander Graham Bell. Korea becomes a nation. Robert Koch discovers anthrax bacillus Rutherford B. Hayes is elected president of the United States
1877			A new diocese of St Albans is formed covering the counties of Essex and Hertfordshire. Essex and Herts have little in common and communications is bad. The first Bishop of St Albans, translated from Rochester, is Thomas Legh Claughton	Edison invents the phonograph. Wimbledon is the venue for the All-England Lawn Tennis Championship for the first time.
1878		The 'West Ham, Stratford, and South Essex Dispensary' opened in West Ham Lane. Charles William Servante becomes vicar of Christchurch. St Thomas Mission Church, Rokeby Street opened	The Bishop of St Albans' Fund takes over from Rochester with the same Secretary	The microphone is invented. Electric street lighting in London. The Paris World Exhibition is held.
1879	The Martyrs' Memorial built.	Stratford Fruit and Vegetable Market opens.		Zulu warriors massacre British soldiers in Isandhlwana. First electric tram is debuted by E. W. Seimens in Berlin Exhibition. The British Museum grants access to the public. London's first telephone exchange is created.
1880				William Gladstone becomes Prime Minister James Garfield is elected as US president. Auguste Rodin sculpts 'The Thinker' in bronze.
1881 »	Raymond Percy Pelly becomes vicar of St John's