Timeline of Derby

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Derby, England.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Prior to 18th century

• 9thC. – Danes take town (approximate date).^[1]
• 917
  • Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians wins sweeping conquests to oust the Danes.^[2]
  • Market active.^[3]
• 1160 – Derby School established (approximate date).
• 1206 - First extant charter granted to Derby.^[2]
• 1229
  • A second charter granted by Henry III.^[2]
  • Derby fair active.^[3]
• 1294 – Parliamentary representation begins.^[4]
• 1337 - Edward III. on the petition of the burgesses grants them two bailiffs.^[2]
• 1530 – All Saints' Church tower built.
• 1592 – Plague.^[5]
• 1611 - Derby incorporated by James I.
• 1638 – Henry Mellor becomes mayor.
• 1660 – County Hall built.^[4]
• 1665 – Plague.
• 1675 – Derby Company of Mercers formed.^[6]
• 1696 – Osmaston Hall built.

18th century

• 1717 - Silk “throwing” or spinning introduced by John Lombe.^[2]
• 1721 – Lombe's Mill built.
• 1726 – Derby Postman newspaper begins publication.^[7]
• 1731 – Town Hall built (approximate date).^[8]
• 1732 – Derby Mercury newspaper begins publication.^[9]
• 1735 – 9 July: Samuel Johnson marries at St Werburgh's Church.^[10]
• 1745
  • 4 December: Jacobite army arrives.
  • 5 December: Jacobites meet at Exeter House and decide that Bonnie Prince Charlie, the young Pretender should return to Scotland instead of going on to London.^[2]
• 1750
  • Derby Porcelain Company in business.^[11]
  • Markeaton Hall built (approximate date).
  • Manufacture of hosiery profited by the inventions of Jedediah Strutt.^[2]
• 1756 – County prison built in Nun's Green.^[4]
• 1772 – New Jerusalem Chapel built.^[4]
• 1773 – Theatre built.^[8]
• 1774 – Assembly room built.^[8]
• 1783 – Derby Philosophical Society founded.^[5]
• 1796 – Derby Canal constructed.

19th century

• 1802 – General Baptist Chapel built.^[4]
• 1805 – King Street Wesleyan Methodist Chapel built.^[4]
• 1808
  • Derby Literary and Philosophical Society established.^[8]
  • Friends' Meeting House built.^[4]
• 1809 – Cox and Co. shot mill built.^[1]
• 1810 – Infirmary built.^[8]
• 1811
  • Permanent Library established.^[7]
  • Population: 13,043.^[8]
• 1817 – Derby Choral Society established.^[7]
• 1820 – Swedenborgian Chapel built.^[7]
• 1823 – Derby Reporter newspaper begins publication.^[9]
• 1824 – New Connexion Chapel built.^[4]
• 1825 – Mechanics' Institution established.^[7]
• 1828
  • Town Hall rebuilt.^[4]
  • St. John's Church opens.^[4]
• 1832 – Town and County Library established.^[7]
• 1833 – Labour strike.^[5]
• 1835 – Joseph Strutt elected mayor.
• 1836
  • Police force^[4] and Derby Town and County Museum and Natural History Society established.
  • Trinity Church consecrated.^[4]
• 1837 – Mechanics' Hall opens.^[7]
• 1839
  • May: The founding companies of the Midland Railway begin operating.^[10]
  • Derby Exhibition held.
  • St Mary's Church built.
• 1840
  • Derby railway station, Derby Arboretum,^[7] and Christ Church^[4] open.
  • Athenaeum built (approximate date).
• 1841
  • Derby Baptist Chapel, St Mary's Gate opens
• 1842 – Arboretum Festival begins.^[12]
• 1843
  • General Cemetery^[4] and Vernon Street Prison^{[citation needed]} in operation.
  • Primitive Methodist Chapel built.^[4]
  • Agricultural Show held.^[13]
• 1844 – Midland Railway company formed.^[13][14]
• 1846 – St Alkmund's Church built.
• 1850 – Derby Co-operative Society established.^[15]
• 1856 – John Smith clockmaker in business.
• 1862 – Corn Exchange opens.^[13]
• 1863 – County Cricket Ground established.
• 1866 – Market hall opens.^[5]
• 1870 – Derbyshire County Cricket Club formed.
• 1878 – April: Great Northern Railway opens its Derbyshire extension through Friargate railway station.^[10]
• 1879
  • Derby Free Library and Museum opens.
  • Derby Daily Telegraph and Reporter begins publication.^[16]
• 1882 – Art gallery opens.^[10]
• 1884 - Derby County F.C. established as an offshoot of Derbyshire County Cricket Club
• 1886 – 6 May: Grand Theatre burns down.^[10]
• 1887 – Derby Sketching Club formed.
• 1888 - Derby becomes a County Borough
• 1891 - Population: 94,146.^[2]
• 1895
  • Midland Railway Institute built.^[13]
  • Derby County move to play at the Baseball Ground
• 1899 – Derby Technical College founded.^[13]

20th century

• 1901 - Population: 114,848. ^[2]
• 1902 – Derby Municipal Secondary School for Boys opens.
• 1908 – Rolls-Royce Limited headquartered in Derby on Nightingale Road.^[13]
• 1910
  • Victoria Electric Theatre opens.^[17]
  • Cosmopolitan Public Hall built.^[17]
• 1918 – British Cellulose and Chemical Manufacturing Company plant built.
• 1927 - Derby Cathedral established (formerly All Saints Church) for the newly created Bishop of Derby
• 1930 – Bemrose School opens.
• 1971
  • Rolls-Royce Limited enters receivership before being nationalized ^[18]
  • BBC Radio Derby begins broadcasting.
• 1972 - Derby County are Football League Champions for the 1971-72 season
• 1974 – Derby Industrial Museum opens.
• 1975
  • Derby Playhouse opens.
  • Eagle Centre shopping centre in business.
  • Derby County are League Champions again
• 1977 - Derby is awarded City status as part of the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II^[19]
• 1981 - Social unrest.^[20][21]
• 1988 – Pickford's House Museum of Georgian Life and Costume established.
• 1992
  • University of Derby established.
  • Derby Heritage Centre in business.
• 1995 – Derby Grammar School founded.
• 1997 – Pride Park Stadium opens.
• 1998 – Bronze Age Hanson Log Boat discovered near town.

21st century

• 2007 – Saint Alkmund's Way Footbridge opens.
• 2009 – Cathedral Green Footbridge opens.
• 2011 – Population: 248,700.
• 2012
  • 11 May: Allenton house fire.

See also

•  Derbyshire portal

• History of Derby
• Timelines of other cities in East Midlands: Leicester, Lincoln, Nottingham

References

1. Daniel Lysons; Samuel Lysons (1817). Derbyshire. Vol. 5. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
2. Britannica 1910.
3. Samantha Letters (2005), "Derbyshire", Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516, Institute of Historical Research, Centre for Metropolitan History
4. Samuel Bagshaw (1846). "History of the Town and Borough of Derby". History, Gazetteer and Directory of Derbyshire. Sheffield.
5. George Henry Townsend (1867), "Derby", A Manual of Dates (2nd ed.), London: Frederick Warne & Co.
6. H. Arnold-Bemrose (1893). "Derby Company of Mercers". Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. 15.
7. Stephen Glover (1843). History and Directory of the Borough of Derby. Derby: S. Glover and Son.
8. David Brewster, ed. (1832). "Derby". Edinburgh Encyclopædia. Philadelphia: Joseph and Edward Parker. hdl:2027/mdp.39015068302770.
9. "Derby". Newspaper Press Directory. London: Charles Mitchell. 1847.
10. Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Derby", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
11. Walter F. Tiffin (1874), Chronograph of the Bow, Chelsea, & Derby porcelain manufactories, Salisbury: Brown & Co., OL 22863671M
12. George Revill (1999), "Liberalism and Paternalism: Politics and Corporate Culture in 'Railway Derby', 1865-75", Social History, 24 (2): 196–214, doi:10.1080/03071029908568062, JSTOR 4286563
13. E.C. Vollans (1949). "Derby: A Railway Town and Regional Centre". Transactions and Papers (Institute of British Geographers) (15): 93–112. doi:10.2307/621033. JSTOR 621033.
14. "Midland Railway Locomotive Works at Derby", English Illustrated Magazine, 1891–1892
15. George Jacob Holyoake (1900), Jubilee history of the Derby Co-operative Provident Society Limited, 1850–1900, Manchester: Co-operative Printing Society Limited, OL 24139106M
16. "Derby (England) Newspapers". Main Catalogue. British Library. Retrieved 20 September 2013.
17. "Movie Theaters in Derby, England". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 20 September 2013.
18. Rolls-Royce collapse: state takeover move. The Times, Friday, 5 Feb 1971; pg. 1; Issue 58091
19. Patrick O'Leary, "Derby's long road to city status", The Times, 29 July 1977, p.14
20. "New violence hits 10 English cities but is less serious". New York Times. 12 July 1981. Retrieved 20 September 2013.
21. "1945 to Present". British History Timeline. BBC. Retrieved 20 September 2013.

Bibliography

• Daniel Defoe; Samuel Richardson (1778), "(Derby)", A Tour Through the Island of Great Britain (8th ed.), London: J.F. and C. Rivingdon

Published in the 19th century

1800s-1840s

• John Britton; Edward Wedlake Brayley (1802), "Derbyshire: Derby", Beauties of England and Wales, vol. 3, London: Vernor & Hood, hdl:2027/nyp.33433075909014
• William Hutton (1817). History of Derby (2nd ed.). London: Nichols, Son, and Bentley.
• James Dugdale (1819), "Derbyshire: Derby", New British Traveller, vol. 2, London: J. Robins and Co.
• "Derbyshire: Derby". Pigot & Co.'s National Commercial Directory for 1828-9. London: James Pigot. 3 September 2023.
• "Derby", Midland Counties' Railway Companion, Nottingham: R. Allen, 1840, OCLC 38701673
• "Derby Railway Station", Derbyshire, Journey-Book of England, London: C. Knight & Co., 1841
• William Adam (1843). "Derby". Gem of the Peak; or, Matlock Bath and its Vicinity (3d ed.). London: Logman & Co.
• Samuel Lewis (1848), "Derby", Topographical Dictionary of England (7th ed.), London: S. Lewis and Co.

1850s-1890s

• Llewellynn Jewitt, ed. (1857). "Derby". Black's Tourist's Guide to Derbyshire (2nd ed.). Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black.
• "History of the Borough of Derby", History, Gazetteer, and Directory of the County of Derby, Sheffield: Francis White & Co., 1857
• George Samuel Measom (1861), "Derby", Official Illustrated Guide to the Great Northern Railway, London: Griffin, Bohn, OCLC 12433505
• Charles Knight, ed. (1867). "Derby". Geography. London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co. hdl:2027/nyp.33433000064794. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
• "Derby". Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. 1881.
• Visitors' Guide and Handbook to Derby and to the Royal Agricultural Show. Derby. 1881.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• "Derby", Handbook for Travellers in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, and Staffordshire (3rd ed.), London: J. Murray, 1892, OCLC 2097091
• "Derby". History, Topography, and Directory of Derbyshire. Preston: T. Bulmer & Co. 1895.
• Charles Gross (1897). "Derby". Bibliography of British Municipal History. New York: Longmans, Green, and Co.

Published in the 20th century

• J. B. Firth (1905), "Derby", Highways and byways in Derbyshire, London: Macmillan and Co., OCLC 882321
• A.W. Davison (1906), Derby: its rise and progress, London: Bemrose & Sons
• "Derby", Great Britain (7th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1910, hdl:2027/mdp.39015010546516
• "Derby (England)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 69–70.
• C.F. Eccleshare (1934), Derby; a study in urban development, University of London
• J. Heath (1979), "The borough of Derby between 1780 and 1810", Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological Society
• A. Delves (1981), "Popular recreation and social conflict in Derby, 18000-1850", in E. Yeo and S. Yeo (ed.), Popular Culture and Class Conflict 1850–1914, Brighton{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

External links

 

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• "Derbyshire", Historical Directories, UK: University of Leicester. Includes Derby area directories, various dates.

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