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2017
Society’s 400th Anniversary. Two academic Faculties, seven Diplomas and five courses including an International Advanced Assessment Course are flourishing
2005
Society founds the Faculty of Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine
2003
Final award of the LMSSA (formerly the LSA)
1995
Sir John Chalstrey is Master Apothecary and Lord Mayor
1994
Diploma in the Medical Care of Catastrophes starts
1978
Diploma in the Philosophy of Medicine established
1970
Diploma in the History of Medicine established
1962
Diploma in Medical Jurisprudence introduced
1959
Society founds the Faculty of History of Medicine later expanded to the Faculty of History and Philosophy of Medicine and Pharmacy
1948
National Health Service Introduced
1946
Diploma of Industrial Health introduced
1941
Second World War – Hall survives the Blitz largely unscathed
1928
Society institutes a new examination, the Mastery of Midwifery.
1921
Society’s Laboratory and pharmacy shop finally close
1917
Agatha Christie passes the Assistants’ Examination (equivalent to a Pharmacy Technician)
1915
Nobel Prizewinner and malaria pioneer Sir Ronald Ross LSA, awarded the Honorary Freedom of the Society
1914
Great War
1911
Sir Thomas Boor Crosby becomes Master Apothecary and Lord Mayor
1899
Society passes responsibility for the Physic Garden to City Parochial Foundation
1865
Elizabeth Garrett (Garrett Anderson) becomes the first woman to gain the LSA
1841
Pharmaceutical Society (later the Royal Pharmaceutical Society) formed
1833
Christopher Penfold, passes the LSA and later founds Penfolds wines in Australia
1822
United Stock founded which supplied medicines to the Army
1816
John Keats, poet, gains the LSA
1815
Apothecaries’ Act passes into law giving the Society the power to grant a licence (the LSA) to practice medicine
1806
Barge used at Nelson’s funeral
1766
Stock company contracted to supply drugs to the East India Company.
1765
Third barge built
1745
Company of Surgeons, later the Royal College of Surgeons, is separated from the Barbers’ Company by Act of Parliament
1727
Second barge built
1722
Physic Garden at Chelsea conveyed to the Society “in perpetuity” by Sir Hans Sloane
1705
“Navy Stock” company founded in the Hall. It supplies medicines to the navy including for Captain Cook’s expedition to Australia
1704
Rose Case confirms the right of Apothecaries to give medical advice
1688
Glorious Revolution. William of Orange lands at Torbay
1673
Chelsea Physic Garden established
1672
Elaboratory established. The “Laboratory Stock” joint stock company is founded to make and sell medicines.
1670
Hall Rebuilt After The Fire
1666
Great Fire of London
1665
Great Plague in London – Most Apothecaries stay in London and treat the sick
1642
City sides with Parliament and the Hall is garrisoned by Parliamentary troops
1632
Society buys “Cobham House” the former guest house of Blackfriars Priory as its first Hall
1617
After representations from a group of apothecaries led by De Laune, James I & VI grants a Charter separating the Apothecaries from the Grocers
1607
Separate section of Apothecaries created in the Grocers’ Company
1588
Spanish Armanda defeated
1565
Birth of Gideon de Laune, primary founder and benefactor of the Society
1540
Company of Barbers and Surgeons of London created by Act of Parliament
1538
Dissolution of the Dominican Priory of Blackfriars by Henry VIII.
1518
Henry VIII grants a Charter to the College of Physicians
1376
Pepperers become the Company of Grocers St Anthony
1345
Pepperers found the Fraternity of St Anthony
1328
Spicers join with the Pepperers
1316
A “Mistery“or Guild of Apothecaries elects their own leaders in London
1180
Guild of Pepperers first recorded
1130
Earliest records of Livery Companies or “Guilds” in London