* 1978 – The Taunton sleeping car fire occurs in Taunton, Somerset killing twelve people.

* Taunton train fire, a fire in a sleeping car train on 6 July 1978

In March 1812, the structure was burnt down by a fire, caused, according to the Taunton Courier, by " the excessive friction excited in the stones used in the process of shelling clover seeds ".

The Taunton sleeping car fire occurred in a sleeping car train at Taunton, England in the early hours of 6 July 1978.

A major fire developed and the train was stopped at 02: 41 near Silk Mill signal box about a mile short of the station in Taunton, Somerset, by the communication cord being pulled.

* July 6-A plastic bag of dirty linen carelessly placed against the electric heater in the vestibule of a sleeping car traveling between Penzance and London Paddington, England causes the Taunton train fire.

A previous significant accident occurred here on 10 November 1890 and the Taunton train fire of 1978 was also within 2 miles.

In March 1812, the structure was burnt down by a fire, caused, according to the Taunton Courier, by " the excessive friction excited in the stones used in the process of shelling clover seeds ".

The Siege of Taunton occurred during the English Civil War.

The Norton Fitzwarren rail crash occurred on 4 November 1940 between Taunton and Norton Fitzwarren in the English county of Somerset, when the driver of a train misunderstood the signalling and track layout, causing him to drive the train through a set of points and off the rails.

The Quequechan River breaks out of its bed in the west part of the South Watuppa Pond, just west of The Narrows, and flows through the city ( partially underground in conduits ) where it falls to a channel leading to what is now Heritage State Park at Battleship Cove on the Taunton River.

Bypassed a few years ago, the town now lies just east of the junction of the A303 ( London to Exeter ) and the A358 ( Taunton to Chard and Axminster ).

It crosses the Old Colony Railroad lines and County Road, the former alignment of Route 140, before crossing the current route at Exit 10 just over the Taunton line.

Early in the 2008 season, Langer and Marcus Trescothick put on a 272 second wicket partnership during the second innings against Hampshire at the County Ground, Taunton ; falling just 18 short of the 1924 ground record.

An Act of Parliament was obtained in June 1834, authorising the raising of £ 57, 000, with an additional £ 20, 000 if required, but local enthusiasm for the scheme was muted, and most of the capital was provided by just five men, all of whom were involved in the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal.

Edward William Bastard was born in Wilton, a parish just outside Taunton, the second son of Henry Horlock Bastard.

Browne was then chosen to contest the marginal seat of Taunton which had been gained by the Conservative Adrian Flook in 2001 from the Liberal Democrat Jackie Ballard by just 235 votes.

In December 2007, First Great Western changed the services operated at Bristol Parkway, introducing a new service to Westbury and Weston-Super-Mare in place of the service to Taunton, but a few services a day still operate to Taunton.

Dare was a goldsmith from Taunton and a Whig politician, a man of considerable wealth and influence who had been jailed during a political campaign calling for a new parliament.

The new Minehead Railway too was leased to the B & ER which then operated the two railways as a single branch from Taunton.

In May, a new West Somerset Railway Company was formed to acquire the line and operate a year-round commuter service from Minehead to Taunton alongside which a limited summer steam service could also run.

£ 1, 000 was used to build a new wing for the Taunton and Somerset Hospital, and £ 1, 000 was invested in the Taunton Market Trust, in line with the intentions of the 1699 act.

Scott Taunton was previously the Business Development Director at UTV, responsible for radio and new media.

In August 2002, BBC Somerset moved to new premises in Park Street, Taunton, and acquired a more robust frequency of 1566AM.

Responding to a Middlesex first innings of 600, Somerset set a new ground record at the County Ground, Taunton with 850-7 declared.

A new Chard Railway Company was constituted in 1860, and another Company was formed in 1861, to construct a branch from Taunton to Chard.

The new arrivals in Boston, Brockton, Taunton and Scituate, Massachusetts, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Waterbury, Connecticut, Brooklyn, and Yonkers, New York, and other communities on the East Coast met a Cape Verdean-American ethnic group whose members looked like them, but differed culturally.

Dorchester, Massachusetts, Brockton, Massachusetts, Taunton, Massachusetts, New Bedford, Massachusetts and Pawtucket, Rhode Island are the fastest growing new immigrant communities in the United States.

Originally opened on 1 July 1842 as part of the Bristol and Exeter Railway, Taunton was the terminus of the line until a new temporary terminus was opened on 1 May 1843 further west at Beambridge.

The bridge was highlighted in a report made by William Armstrong in 1824, as a factor which would prevent the River Tone Navigation competing with the new Bridgwater and Taunton Canal, then being built.

The high School classes were moved to the second floor of Taunton City Hall in the mid-1850s and remained there until 1885 when a new High School was built on Washington Street on the site of a popular picnic grounds called ' King's Grove '.

The building was in need of replacement and city officials purchased the Baylies estate on Williams Street to construct a new and current Taunton High School complex in 1975.

Mark Turner ( cricketer ) | Mark Turner executes a sliding stop at Taunton during a Twenty20 match.

* March 3 – The early settlement of Taunton, Massachusetts is incorporated as a town.

This course was adopted, even though the King's army had to be weakened by leaving a detachment ( including 3, 000 cavalry ) under Lord Goring, the Lieutenant General of Horse, to hold the West Country and maintain the Siege of Taunton, in Somerset.

All 3 of these buildings are located on one Wrentham Elementary School campus located off of Taunton St & Randall Rd in the center of Wrentham.

Hugh Montague Trenchard was born at Windsor Lodge on Haines Hill in Taunton, England on 3 February 1873.

A former market and administrative centre, North Petherton is now largely a dormitory town for workers in Bridgwater, 3 miles ( 5 km ) to the north east, and Taunton, 8 miles ( 13 km ) to the south west.

William ( Bill ) Edward Alley ( 3 February 1919 in Sydney, Australia – 26 November 2004 in Taunton, Somerset, England ) was a cricketer who played 400 first-class matches for New South Wales, Somerset and a Commonwealth XI.

Taunton 26. 0 inches ( 66 cm ), 3: 31 p. m. January 23, 5 Ft ( 1. 5 m ) Drifts

The second incarnation of the riding was initially defined to consist of the Town of Newcastle, the townships of Scugog and Uxbridge, Scugog Indian Reserve No. 34, the part of the City of Oshawa lying north of Rossland Road and the allowance for road in front of lots 1, 2, 3 and 4, Concession 3, and the part of the Town of Whitby lying north of Taunton Road.

In the 2010 general election, Browne defended his renamed seat of Taunton Deane and increased his majority to 3, 993.

Prideaux attended school at Queen's College, Taunton, Somerset where she obtained 3 A-levels.

The maximum schedule was to be 4 hours 15 minutes for the, but the " Cornish Riviera Express " would be retimed for 3 hours 45 minutes with stops at Taunton and Exeter only.

: Attleboro, Berkley, Dighton, Easton, Fall River: Ward 4, Precinct C ; Ward 5, Precinct B1 and C ; Ward 6, Precinct C1 ; and Wards 7, 8, and 9, Freetown, Mansfield, North Attleboro, Norton, Raynham: Precincts 1A, 2A, 3, and 4, Rehoboth, Seekonk, Somerset, Swansea, and Taunton.