Up to 1700

910
The victory of Edward the Elder over the Danes near Tettenhall.

985
King Aethelred granted lands at Heantun (Wolverhampton) to Lady Wulfruna.

994
Lady Wulfruna made a grant of land to the Monastery of St. Mary.

1067
William the Conqueror granted the Collegiate Church, with its lands and customs, to Samson, his Chaplain; and also made him Bishop of Worcester.

1210
The Collegiate Church was rebuilt.

1258
A Charter was granted by Henry III allowing a weekly market to be held in Wolverhampton.
The dedication of the Collegiate Church was changed to St. Peter.

1480
Wolverhampton’s Deanery was annexed to that of Windsor.

1512
The Grammar School was founded by Sir Stephen Jenyns, a native of Wolverhampton.

1540
The bells from Wenlock Abbey were placed in the tower of St. Peter’s Church.

1552
A Market Cross was erected. It was pulled down in 1779 .

1555
The Old Hall was erected by the Levesons who were wealthy wool merchants. They lived there until about 1684 when the building and the estate were sold to the Earl of Bradford. From him it descended to the Pultney Family who leased the building to John Turton, a celebrated iron master. It was known as "Turton's Hall." The works closed and the building was demolished in 1883.

1560
Richard Leveson was appointed High Sheriff for the County of Stafford and the Assizes were held in the Town. They were transferred to Stafford in 1578.

1572
The Collegiate Church received pews and the rood-loft was removed. The galleries are supposed to have been erected about the same time.

1575
John Leveson, founder and proprietor of the Old Hall died. His remains, and those of his wife Joyce are entombed in the interior of St. Peter’s Church in the Leveson's Chapel.

1590
A great fire commenced in Barn Street (Salop Street), which lasted several days, and consumed a great portion of that part of the town.

1606
27^th January. Two of the people involved in the gunpowder plot, Thomas Smart and John Holyhead were tried and convicted in Wolverhampton. They were executed at High Green, now Queen Square.

1610
The Gallery for the Grammar School Scholars was erected in St. Peter’s Church by the Merchant Tailors' Company, London, then the trustees of the school.

1642
Charles the 1st visited Wolverhampton with his two sons, Charles, Prince of Wales, and James, Duke of York. He stayed at the house of Madame St. Andrew in Cock Street, now Victoria Street.
The town was garrisoned by the Parliamentary Soldiers under the command of Colonel Brereton.

1645
Charles the 1st passed through Wolverhampton again in his flight from Lichfield to Bridgnorth.

1655
The Deanery House was rebuilt. It was demolished 1925.

1666
The Leveson family leave Wolverhampton.

1684
Roger Hinton's Charity founded.

1696
The Blue Coat School was founded in Berry Street.