The city of Bristol was founded in 318 BC by Brennus, duke of Britons as it is written on the book of the Chronicles of Alfred, King of England.
Gildas a British monk, of the sixth century mentions Broto, in his list of eminent British cities in the year 430. By 1216 Bristol was influential enough to have an elected mayor.
During the reign of Harold and the Conqueror, there mints established at this place and in 1696 William III, struck half crowns here.
The slave and sugar trades in the Caribbean made Bristol the second city of England for the first three-quarters of the eighteenth century.
During the industrial revolution Bristol expanded its manufacturing base and with it population, and by the mid 1800s public transport in the city in the shape of Brunel’s Great Western Railway.
Nowadays Bristol is a regional centre for industry, commerce, education and culture, and serves as a major transportation hub providing a gateway to the southwest region of the United Kingdom via the M4 andM5 motorways.
Modern history of Bristol
