1086: The manor of Biddenham in possession of William Speck or Le Espec at the time of the Domesday Survey. His tenants were Ralph and Serlo de Ros
1281: The Dunstable Chronicle records that during a severe frost an ice flow carried a woman from Biddenham to Bedford "when she was seen no more", a distance of four miles!
1303: Henry Bobbe of Lower Caldicote hanged Robert de Bole on Biddenham Gallows. They were taken down in 1801.
1349: Vicar of Biddenham Church dies of the plague
1675: Bromham Mill built
1700 (approx.): Village pond built. It was originally the Carp Pond for Manor Farm House (now Manor Hospital)
1706: Dovecote built close to the pond. It would have provided a source of pigeons for Biddenham Manor House
1766: Biddenham Houses built. According to tradition it was once the hunting lodge of a Duke of Marlborough
1832: St. James's V.A. Lower School built. It originally consisted of one classroom. The school was enlarged in 1966
1847: The 'Three Tuns' becomes a public house (it was once a family cottage dating back to the 17th century)
1857: A 40ft shaft discovered containing a Roman sculpture, pottery and a skeleton north of Bromham Road
1861: James Wyatt finds old stone age (palaeolithic) implements and remains of long extinct animals in Biddenham river gravels
1880: First village post office opened
1894: Biddenham Parish Council formed with seven members
1900-1901: 'Three Gables', no. 17 Biddenham Turn built. The house was included in Gertrude Jekyll and Lawrence Weaver's 'Gardens for small country houses (1912) as a good example of a house that had a close connection between house and garden. The house was designed by Charles Edward Mallows and George Grocock in the arts and crafts style
1902: Lectern designed by Charles Edward Mallows for St. James's Church in the arts and crafts style
1911: Kempston-Biddenham detachment of the Red Cross formed by Lady Ampthill
1914-18: Scottish and Welsh regiments billeted in the village
1922: Biddenham Women's Institute founded
1930-32: Electricity supply installed for the village
1934: Piped water supplied to the village
1952: St. Gregory's Middle School opened
1957: Main sewer installed
1961: Biddenham Society founded
1961: Biddenham Guides founded
1966: Biddenham dovecote demolished. It had been built in the 18th century and stood in a field near the village pond. The building was timber framed and could house 461 nests
1966: Biddenham Manor sold on the open market for £24,500. In the latter part of the nineteenth century it was owned by Charles Howard (son of the industrialist John Howard). It became a nursing home and is now a private hospital
1967: Parts of Biddenham designated a conservation area under the Civic Amenities Act 1967
1967: The village smithy demolished on the village green. The last blacksmith was Mr. Herbert who died in 1966
1967: Biddenham Cricket Club founded
1971: The census records 730 inhabitants in the parish of Biddenham, 84% of which own a car.
1972: Bromham Mill purchased by Bedfordshire County Council
1974: Bromham Mill destroyed by fire
1980: Biddenham House and its contents auctioned
1988: Biddenham Upper School opened
1990: Biddenham Rugby Club founded
1991: Biddenham Tennis Club founded
1993: Cricket pavilion and leisure centre opened costing £450,000. The complex was funded by Beazer and Twigden Homes
1995: Bovis Homes Ltd gain permission to build an 18 hole golf course, country park and 100 detached houses, representing the first phase of the Biddenham Loop development
1995: A medieval manuscript dating to 1280 is discovered in Biddenham Church. The British Museum examine it and find it to be a page from a lectionary (a book read out loud by monks over dinner). It is not known how it came to be in the church.
1998: Biddenham Loop Country Park opened. The park was developed by Bovis Homes and covers 75 acres
2003: On 26th October H.M. Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire Mr S.C. Whitbread unveiled a commemorative plaque to Bedford Group Royal Observer Corps who had occupied premises on the edge of Day's Lane from 1942-1992. Before the purpose built headquarters were built in 1942 the Royal Observer Corps had operated from what was the Post Office in Dame Alice Street, Bedford