| Date | National events | Childrey events | Date |
| | | Childrey given to Cilla | 632 |
| | | Bequest to Childrey Church | 995 |
| 1086 | Domesday Book compiled | | |
| | | Present Church building started | 1207 |
| | | Transepts added to Church | 1325 |
| | | Frethorne chantry consecrated | 1325 |
| 1348–9 | The Black Death | | |
| | | Fynderne brass | 1444 |
| | | Wm Fettyplace moved to Rampanes Manor | 1480 |
| 1509 | Accession of Henry VIII | Fettyplace School opened | 1515 |
| | | Muster Roll compiled | 1522 |
| | | Fettyplace chantry consecrated | 1526 |
| | | Death of Wm Fettyplace | 1528 |
| | | First almsmen appointed | 1528 |
| 1536-9 | Dissolution of monasteries | | |
| 1547 | Accession of Edward VI | | |
| 1547 | Chantries abolished | | |
| 1553 | Accession of Mary Tudor | | |
| 1558 | Accession of Elizabeth I | Church Registers start in Childrey | 1558 |
| 1601 | Poor Law Act | Corpus Christi College buys advowson | 1607 |
| 1625 | Accession of Charles I | Subsidy Roll | 1628 |
| 1642 | Civil War started | | |
| 1644 | King’s Council at Oxford | Charles I spent a night in Childrey | 1644 |
| | | Cedar of Lebanon planted at Rectory | 1646 |
| 1649 | King surrenders | | |
| 1649-61 | Commonwealth | King’s arms erected in Church | 1661 |
| 1665 | Plague | | |
| 1666 | Fire of London | Quaker Meeting at Penn House | 1673-5 |
| 1678 | St Paul’s rebuilt | | |
| | | ‘The Crown’ opened for business | 1708 |
| | | New Boys School built | 1732 |
| | | Smallpox epidemic | 1741 |
| 1761 | Rocque’s map of Berkshire | | |
| | | Church Clock installed | 1763 |
| 1772 | Inclosure Act passed | Inclosure Award allotments made | 1775 |
| | | Wantage-Faringdon turnpike opened | 1792 |
| 1795-1815 | Napoleonic Wars | Small pox epidemic | 1802 |
| | | First Methodist service | 1809 |
| | | Canal opened | 1810 |
| 1835 | Accession of Queen Victoria | Railway station opened | 1840 |
| 1841 | First detailed Census | Girls School built | 1840 |
| | | Methodist Chapel dedicated | 1849 |
| | | Methodist School opened | 1855 |
| | | Primitive Methodist Chapel built | 1857 |
| | | Almshouses rebu8ilt by Queens’ College | 1867 |
| 1870 | Forster’s Education Act | First Parish Council meeting | 1894 |
| 1897 | Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee | Reading Room built | 1896 |
| | | Coventry Almshouses built | 1912 |
| | | Schools moved to West Street | 1913 |
| 1914-18 | World War I | War Memorial erected | 1920 |
| | | Methodists united | 1934 |
| 1939-45 | World War II | Evacuees arrived | 1939 |
| 1952 | Accession of Queen Elizabeth II | | |
| | | ‘Childrey: a village in the Vale of White Horse’ written by June Maxwell Drummond first published | 1989 |
| 2000 | New Millennium celebrations | Childrey school extended | 2000 |
| | | Childrey War Memorial re-dedication Childrey Millennium sign erected | 2001 |
| 2002 | Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee | Childrey Jubilee celebrations | 2002 |
| | | Childrey book republished | 2003 |
| | | Church bells repaired and increased from 6 to 8 Bell tower and roof repaired - new steelwork put in to support the extra bells | 2005 |
| | | Pond renovated and replanted | 2006 |
| | | Further, major roof repairs due to be carried out | 2007 |
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