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Timeline of Manchester history

January 01, 1970

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Manchester in north west England.

Pre 1000 edit

  • c. 79 – Romans build a wooden fort at Mamucium[1] in the Castlefield area.[2]
  • 200 – Wooden fort is replaced by a stone one. A little town has grown up by the fort.[3]
  • 407 – Roman army leaves Britain and Roman forts and towns are abandoned.[3]
  • c. 870 – Nico Ditch dug.

1000–1299 edit

  • 1080s – The area around "Mamecester" is in the hands of Roger the Poitevin before being granted to Albert de Gresle.[4]
  • 1100s – Hulme Hall is in the ownership of John de Hulme.
  • 1227 – 19 August: Charter granted for an annual fair,[5] at Acresfield (the later St Ann's Square).

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1710s edit

  • 1712 – 17 June: St Ann's Church, sponsored by Ann, Lady Bland, is consecrated.
  • 1715 – Jacobite rising of 1715:
  • 1719 – Publication of the first newspaper to be printed in Manchester[3] and the first book, John Jackson's Mathematical Lectures read to the Mathematical Society in Manchester, printed by Roger Adams.[12]

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See also edit

References edit

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Further reading edit

Published before 1900
  • Britton, John (1807). "Manchester". Beauties of England and Wales. Vol. 9. London: Vernor, Hood & Sharpe. hdl:2027/mdp.39015063565736.
  • "Manchester". Black's Picturesque Tourist and Road-book of England and Wales (3rd ed.). Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. 1853.
  • Harland, John, ed. (1861). Mamecestre, being chapters from the early recorded history of the barony, the lordship or manor, the ville, borough or town of Manchester. Remains historical & literary connected with the Palatine counties of Lancaster and Chester. Manchester: Chetham Society. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  • Dolman, Frederick (1895). "Manchester". Municipalities at Work: the Municipal Policy of Six Great Towns and its Influence on their Social Welfare. London: Methuen & Co. OCLC 8429493.
  • "Manchester". Great Britain (4th ed.). Leipsic: Karl Baedeker. 1897. OCLC 6430424.
Published in the 1900s
Published in the 2000s
  • Parkinson-Bailey, John J. (2000). Manchester: an architectural history. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719056062.
  • Hartwell, Clare (2002). Manchester. Pevsner architectural guides (2nd ed.). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300096668.
  • Kidd, Alan (2006). Manchester: a history (4th ed.). Lancaster: Carnegie Publishing. ISBN 9781859361283.
  • Hylton, Stuart (2003). A History of Manchester. Chichester: Phillimore. ISBN 978-1-86077-240-5.
  • Kidd, Alan; Wyke, Terry, eds. (2016). Manchester: making the modern city. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 9781846318771.

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Manchester in north west England Contents 1 Pre 1000 2 1000 1299 3 14th Century 4 15th Century 5 16th Century 6 17th Century 7 18th Century 7 1 1710s 7 2 1720s 7 3 1730s 7 4 1740s 7 5 1750s 7 6 1760s 7 7 1770s 7 8 1780s 7 9 1790s 8 19th Century 8 1 1800s 8 2 1810s 8 3 1820s 8 4 1830s 8 5 1840s 8 6 1850s 8 7 1860s 8 8 1870s 8 9 1880s 8 10 1890s 9 20th Century 9 1 1900s 9 2 1910s 9 3 1920s 9 4 1930s 9 5 1940s 9 6 1950s 9 7 1960s 9 8 1970s 9 9 1980s 9 10 1990s 10 21st Century 10 1 2000s 10 2 2010s 10 3 2020s 11 Births 12 See also 13 References 14 Sources 15 Further readingPre 1000 editc 79 Romans build a wooden fort at Mamucium 1 in the Castlefield area 2 200 Wooden fort is replaced by a stone one A little town has grown up by the fort 3 407 Roman army leaves Britain and Roman forts and towns are abandoned 3 c 870 Nico Ditch dug 1000 1299 edit1080s The area around Mamecester is in the hands of Roger the Poitevin before being granted to Albert de Gresle 4 1100s Hulme Hall is in the ownership of John de Hulme 1227 19 August Charter granted for an annual fair 5 at Acresfield the later St Ann s Square 14th Century edit1300s probable Buckton Castle built 1301 Manchester is granted a charter from Thomas Gresley making it a baronial borough governed by a reeve 4 1315 Manchester is the starting point for Adam Banastre s rebellion 6 1330 Lady Chapel Chetham Chapel of St Mary s Church is built 4 1343 First reference to the Hanging Bridge 7 c 1350 Flemish weavers introduce the textile industry 1368 Salford Old Bridge is built across the River Irwell connecting with Manchester 8 15th Century edit1421 Thomas la Warre 5th Baron De La Warre lord of the manor and rector of Manchester raises St Mary s into a collegiate church 4 The adjacent Hanging Bridge is probably also rebuilt at this time 9 1465 Nave of St Mary s Church is begun 4 16th Century edit1515 2 July Manchester Grammar School is endowed by Bishop Hugh Oldham 3 the first free grammar school in England c 1538 The manor of Manchester passes from the De la Warres to the West family 1552 The building that becomes the Old Wellington Inn is constructed 17th Century edit1603 The plague strikes Manchester Up to a quarter of the population die 3 1620 Fustian is woven in Manchester for the first time 1637 Silk is woven in Manchester for the first time 3 1639 24 November Julian calendar William Crabtree is one of the two first and only scientific observers of a transit of Venus probably from his home in Broughton 1642 July September English Civil War Royalists try to capture Manchester but fail 3 On 12 July in a scuffle following Lord Strange s initial attempt to seize the militia magazine for the Royalists Richard Percival a linen weaver is killed reckoned as the first casualty in the war 10 1644 May Civil War Prince Rupert of the Rhine and his Royalist army camp at Barloe More near the fort of the River Mersey at Didsbury en route to the Battle of Marston Moor A year later Parliamentary troops under William Brereton muster at the same place 11 1654 3 September Major General Charles Worsley of Rusholme becomes the first Member of Parliament for Manchester in the First Protectorate Parliament 1656 Mid Chetham s Hospital founded by bequest of Sir Humphrey Chetham d 1653 as a school admits its first poor children the Chetham s Library opens in the same year as Britain s first free public library 4 1687 18 May First known Manchester Racecourse meeting on Kersal Moor 1694 24 June A Dissenters Meeting House the predecessor of Cross Street Chapel is opened by Henry Newcome 18th Century edit1710s edit 1712 17 June St Ann s Church sponsored by Ann Lady Bland is consecrated 1715 Jacobite rising of 1715 Early May James Stuart is proclaimed King James III in Manchester 28 May 23 June 1715 England riots by Jacobites extend to Manchester On 10 June a mob sacks the Cross Street Chapel in Manchester going on to destroy others in the area November Charles Wills assembles royal troops in Manchester to march against the Jacobites 1719 Publication of the first newspaper to be printed in Manchester 3 and the first book John Jackson s Mathematical Lectures read to the Mathematical Society in Manchester printed by Roger Adams 12 1720s edit 1724 1727 Daniel Defoe s A Tour thro the Whole Island of Great Britain is published describing Manchester as one of the greatest if not really the greatest meer village in England 2 1729 First Cotton Exchange is built 3 1730s edit 1730 Sawyer s Arms first licensed 13 1734 6 Mersey and Irwell Navigation completed up to Manchester where in 1735 a quay is built on the River Irwell 4 1740s edit 1745 25 November Jacobite rising of 1745 The rebel army of Prince Charles Edward Stuart enters Manchester on its march into England and a Manchester Regiment of around 300 is raised On 8 December the forces retreat through Manchester On both occasions the troops probably ford the River Mersey at Didsbury 1750s edit 1752 Foundation of what will become the Manchester Royal Infirmary as a cottage hospital in Garden Street Shudehill by surgeon Charles White 14 moving to Lever s Row Piccadilly in 1755 1753 The first theatre opens in Manchester 3 1759 23 March Francis Egerton 3rd Duke of Bridgewater is authorised to construct the Bridgewater Canal he appoints James Brindley as engineer 1760s edit 1760 Garratt Mill and Meredith s Factory early cotton mills water powered by the River Medlock are built and cotton is first exported from Manchester 4 1761 17 July The Bridgewater Canal is opened 3 to bring coal from the Duke of Bridgewater s Worsley Navigable Levels to Stretford Blackfriars Street footbridge is built across the River Irwell 8 Approximate date Cross Street Chapel becomes a Unitarian meeting house 15 1763 Manchester Lunatic Asylum built next to the Infirmary 1765 By 1 August The Bridgewater Canal is extended to Castlefield The first Duke s Warehouse here is built in 1771 1770s edit 1772 Sir Thomas Egerton commissions James Wyatt to rebuild Heaton Hall 4 First directory of Manchester published The Manchester Directory by Elizabeth Raffald 1774 6 St Chad s Roman Catholic chapel is established in Rook Street 1775 5 June The first Theatre Royal opens in Spring Gardens 16 1777 14 September Manchester is shaken by an earthquake powerful enough ring the bells of several churches 17 1778 Strangeways Brewery is founded by grain merchants Thomas Caister and Thomas Fry 18 1780s edit 1781 28 February The Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester is founded 19 Manchester Infirmary Lunatic Asylum and Public Baths opens near Piccadilly as the country s first public baths 20 1782 Shudehill Mill is opened as a cotton mill by Arkwright Simpson and Whitenburgh 1783 First guidebook to Manchester published A Description of Manchester by a native of the town James Ogden 1785 12 May James Sadler makes a balloon ascent from Manchester 11 17 July Fairfield Moravian Church is opened in Fairfield Droylsden With its surrounding settlement it has been founded by Benjamin La Trobe as a centre for evangelistic work for the Moravian Church in the Manchester area 21 New Bailey Bridge is completed across the River Irwell connecting with Salford 4 Borelle Dyeworks established at Blackley 1786 Following dissolution of the Warrington Academy the Manchester Academy is opened in Mosley Street by Presbyterian Dissenters It relocates to York between 1803 and 1840 to London in 1853 and to Oxford in 1889 History of the Jews in Manchester About 14 Jewish families settle in Manchester 1788 11 December First stone of St Peter s Church Peter Street is laid 22 1790s edit 1790 By 1 May Piccadilly Mill in Auburn Street is in operation owned by Peter Drinkwater it is the first cotton mill in Manchester to be directly powered by a steam engine 23 An attempt to introduce power weaving at a Knott Mill factory is resisted by the workers 24 St Mary s Hospital is founded as the Lying in Charity by Dr Charles White in a house in Old Bridge Street Salford in 1795 it becomes the Manchester Lying in Hospital 25 First Jewish burial ground leased 1792 Manchester and Salford Police Act creates Police Commissioners responsible for providing a night watch and fire engines and for maintaining cleaning draining and lighting by oil the streets within the ancient township 3 Workhouse opens in New Bridge Street 4 1793 15 April Manchester Penny Post launched the first such service in the English provinces 26 1794 6 September St Peter s Church on Peter Street is consecrated 22 31 October John Dalton delivers a pioneering paper on colour blindness a condition which he has inherited to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society a few weeks after joining 27 St Mary Our Lady of the Assumption Roman Catholic Church dedicated in Mulberry Street William Green s map of Manchester is published 28 1795 7 The first of the McConnel amp Kennedy Mills a steam powered cotton mill in Ancoats is built by James M Connel and James Kennedy 29 1796 30 Autumn The Manchester Bolton amp Bury Canal is substantially completed End The Ashton Canal opens from Ducie Street through Ancoats 1797 Food riots 1798 Old Mill the first part of the Murrays Mills cotton mill complex on Redhill Street Ancoats is completed the oldest mill in the city to survive 31 Nathan Mayer Rothschild moves from Frankfurt in the Holy Roman Empire to England settling up in business as a textile trader and financier in Manchester 1799 Soup kitchens provided 19th Century edit1800s edit 1800 The Ashton Canal is physically connected with the Rochdale Canal at Piccadilly 30 1801 10 March First national census The population of Manchester is 78 727 4 1803 21 October John Dalton s atomic theory and list of molecular weights are first made known at a lecture in Manchester 32 33 Volunteer militia formed 4 1804 21 December The Rochdale Canal opens from Dale Street throughout the first to cross the Pennines 30 1805 The Rochdale Canal is extended through Deansgate Tunnel to Castlefield 34 1806 The Portico Library designed in the Greek Revival style by Thomas Harrison opens as a subscription library and newsroom its first secretary is Dr Peter Mark Roget Galloway Bowman form a partnership as millwrights 1807 12 July The second Theatre Royal opens in Fountain Street 16 1808 December The Manchester Bolton amp Bury Canal is physically connected by locks with the river Irwell in Salford 30 1809 c 4 June New Cotton Exchange in Market Street opens 1808 Regent Bridge is completed across the River Irwell connecting Hulme with Regent Street Salford 4 1810s edit 1810 Independent Order of Oddfellows Manchester Unity formed Derryfield is renamed Manchester New Hampshire after its English counterpart 1812 Food riots in Shudehill and Deansgate 24 1814 Chorlton New Mills a cotton mill at Chorlton on Medlock is established the oldest mill of flameproof construction in Manchester to survive 8 1815 The number of cotton warehouses in Manchester s Cottonopolis reaches 1 819 1816 Manchester gains a piped water supply 3 Manchester Cricket Club is founded 1817 c 28 February Foundation stone laid for Strangeways toll Bridge across the River Irwell connecting Strangeways with Greengate Salford 35 10 March The Blanketeers set out to march to London on 11 March 160 are arrested at Stockport 4 November William Fairbairn who moved to Manchester in 1813 sets up his own business which becomes the Ancoats ironfoundry and engineering works of William Fairbairn amp Sons 36 The first Manchester gasworks is erected by the Commissioners of Police at St Mary s Parsonage Water Street the world s first municipal installation to sell gas to the public 11 it also provides street lighting 1818 First Manchester Golf Club founded 1819 16 August Peterloo Massacre in St Peter s Field a cavalry charge into a crowd of protesters results in 15 deaths and over 400 injuries 37 38 1820s edit 1820 The stone Blackfriars Street road bridge across the River Irwell replaces a footbridge 8 1821 5 May The Manchester Guardian newspaper is founded by John Edward Taylor and fellow members of the Portico Library and Little Circle 39 1822 Chios massacre and Greek War of Independence lead to establishment of a refugee Greek community in Manchester 1823 1 October Royal Manchester Institution established School for the deaf and dumb established in Stanley Street 4 Primitive Methodist chapel is opened in Jersey Street Ancoats 40 1824 1 January John Greenwood begins a horsebus service from Pendleton the first such regular service in the British provinces 41 7 April Mechanics Institute established predecessor of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology 96th Regiment of Foot re formed in Manchester 1825 1 January The Manchester Courier newspaper is founded by Thomas Fowler 4 Old Town Hall in King Street begun 1822 4 completed St Matthew s Church completed to the design of Charles Barry on Liverpool Road as a Commissioners church 24 1826 September Branch of the Bank of England opened in Manchester 1827 Botanical and Horticultural Society founded and establishes a botanical garden at Trafford Park Approximate date Little Ireland established as an immigrant community 1827 28 Merchants Warehouse at Castlefield built 24 1828 William Gaskell joins the Unitarian ministry at Cross Street Chapel where he will serve until his death in 1884 He will be active in social charities supported by his wife from 1832 novelist Elizabeth Gaskell 42 1830s edit 1830 Summer National Association for the Protection of Labour established by John Doherty 4 15 September The Liverpool amp Manchester Railway the world s first purpose built passenger railway operated by steam locomotives opens officially to Manchester Liverpool Road railway station 43 Eaton Hodgkinson s pioneering paper on the optimum cross section for cast iron structural beams based on his work with William Fairbairn on the design of the Liverpool and Manchester Railways Water Street Bridge is published by the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 44 The twin hulled iron paddle steamer Lord Dundas is built by Fairbairn amp Lillie in Manchester for service on the Forth amp Clyde Canal 45 Manchester Royal Infirmary is granted its Royal prefix 46 1831 30 May National census The population of Manchester reaches 142 000 3 1832 1829 51 cholera pandemic strikes Manchester and kills 674 people 3 It returns in 1848 24 Dr James Kay s study The moral and physical condition of the working class employed in the cotton manufacture on Manchester is published 8 December 8 January 1833 1832 United Kingdom general election the first following the Great Reform Act 1832 4 June Manchester elects its first MPs since 1656 Five candidates including William Cobbett stand and Liberals Charles Poulett Thomson and Mark Philips are elected Richard Cobden settles in Manchester to manage his interests in the textile industry 1833 Joseph Whitworth begins his precision machine tool manufacturing business in Chorlton Street 34 1834 Methodist New Connexion church opens in Peter Street 47 Wilson s Brewery established Approximate date Inventors Charles Macintosh and Thomas Hancock move the production of their waterproof fabric used for manufacture of the Mackintosh to Manchester 8 1835 Royal Manchester Institution building in Mosley Street completed as a natural history and art museum Manchester Athenaeum established 1836 June Belle Vue Zoological Gardens open 23 September Esteemed Spanish opera singer Maria Malibran dies in Manchester after collapsing while performing at a music festival here Manchester and Salford Bank building in Mosley Street completed 48 1837 First Corn Exchange opens in Hanging Ditch 3 Manchester Athenaeum building on Princess Street is opened 49 1838 18 September The Anti Corn Law League is founded by Richard Cobden and John Bright in Manchester embracing the cause of Manchester Liberalism 50 1 November Manchester is incorporated as a municipal borough under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 3 following a campaign by Cobden absorbing Beswick Cheetham Chorlton on Medlock and Hulme in December Thomas Potter becomes first mayor Victoria Bridge is built across the River Irwell on the site of Salford Old Bridge 8 A statue of chemist and physicist John Dalton in marble by Sir Francis Chantrey is erected in Manchester during the scientist s lifetime 1839 14 July First section of Manchester amp Leeds Railway opens 43 19 October George Bradshaw publishes the first national railway timetable Bradshaw s Railway Time Tables and Assistant to Railway Travelling in Manchester 28 October Manchester and Salford Junction Canal opens through the centre of Manchester 8 Upper Brook Street Chapel Unitarian designed by Charles Barry is completed Harvest House in Mosley Street is built as a textile warehouse for Richard Cobden by Edward Walters in the Italian palazzo style 48 1840s edit 1840 4 June Manchester amp Birmingham Railway opens to Stockport June The Royal Victoria Gallery for the Encouragement of Practical Science opens as a subscription institution in the Exchange Dining Room it operates only until 1842 11 December Manchester Poor law union is formally declared and takes responsibility for the administration and funding of the Poor Law in the area 51 The first temporary Free Trade Hall is built Approximate date Hulme Hall is demolished 1841 1 March Opening throughout of the Manchester amp Leeds Railway the first to cross the Pennines 52 17 November First section of Sheffield Ashton under Lyne and Manchester Railway opens 43 Scientific instrument maker John Benjamin Dancer moves to Manchester and takes the first photographs of it 53 1842 10 May Store Street modern day Manchester Piccadilly railway station is opened by the Manchester amp Birmingham Railway 54 7 27 August Riots in and around Lancashire protesting against the Corn Laws and in favour of Chartists 55 Manchester is garrisoned by 2 000 troops with field guns 4 December Friedrich Engels moves to Manchester to work for the family textile business The second Free Trade Hall is built Average age of death among Manchester s working class is 17 38 1843 23 March The Chetham Society the oldest historical society in North West England and second oldest in the North of England is founded during a meeting held at Chetham s Library Manchester Bridgewater Chester Road Viaduct built 8 1844 1 January Manchester Victoria railway station is opened by the Manchester amp Leeds Railway 54 it becomes headquarters of the Lancashire amp Yorkshire Railway 7 March The second Theatre Royal is destroyed by fire 16 27 July Death of chemist and physicist John Dalton his body lies in honour in the Town Hall and more than 40 000 people file past his coffin 26 August Albert Bridge is completed across the River Irwell on the site of New Bailey Bridge connecting with Salford Construction of new back to back houses is prohibited in Manchester Benjamin Disraeli s novel Coningsby is published describing Manchester as as great a human exploit as Athens 2 Joseph Whitworth introduces the thou measurement 56 1845 May Pomona Gardens open as commercial public pleasure grounds 57 July August Karl Marx makes the first of his visits to Friedrich Engels in Manchester the two study together in Chetham s Library 58 This year Engels The Condition of the Working Class in England based on his observations in Manchester the previous year is published in German in Leipzig 29 September The third Theatre Royal opens 16 1846 22 August Queen s Park Hendham Hall and Philips Park Clayton together with Peel Park Salford open as some of the world s first free public parks 4 The borough corporation purchases remaining manorial rights from the Mosley family and also acquires Smithfield Market in Shudehill 8 1847 1 September The Anglican Diocese of Manchester is created and the Church of St Mary is elevated to the status of Manchester Cathedral 3 leading to extensive restoration 1848 18 October Elizabeth Gaskell s first novel Mary Barton A Tale of Manchester Life is published anonymously Construction of the Longdendale Chain of reservoirs for Manchester by John Frederick Bateman begins 1849 20 July 1 August Manchester South Junction and Altrincham Railway opens to the public running out of Oxford Road station on a large brick viaduct through Castlefield the first suburban railway Manchester Royal Lunatic Asylum moves from Piccadilly to Cheadle Heald Green 19 miles 16 km south 1850s edit 1850 Belle Vue Gaol opens 1851 12 March Owens College predecessor of the University of Manchester is established under the bequest of John Owens merchant originally at Cobden House Quay Street October Visit of Queen Victoria 59 Population of Manchester has increased to over 300 000 60 1852 2 September The public library in Tonman Street is the first in England to offer free lending 61 under the Public Libraries Act 1850 62 1853 c January Boddingtons Brewery takes over the Strangeways Brewery 29 March Manchester is granted city status by letters patent 59 63 The number of cotton mills in Manchester s Cottonopolis peaks at 108 64 Westphalian born conductor Charles Halle first moves to Manchester to direct the orchestra for Gentlemen s Concerts 1854 2 September Elizabeth Gaskell s novel North and South begins publication set mostly in a fictionalised Manchester Beyer Peacock amp Company established at Gorton by Charles Beyer Richard Peacock and Henry Robertson to build steam locomotives 1855 The Manchester Lying in Hospital moves from Salford to a building in Quay Street erected at the expense of Dr Thomas Radford 25 Henry Bessemer experiments with his steelmaking process at W amp J Galloway s Knott Mill works 1856 8 October The third and last Free Trade Hall begun 1853 is completed 1857 5 May 17 October The Art Treasures of Great Britain exhibition is held in Trafford Park one of the largest such displays of all time 65 it is opened by Prince Albert and on 29 30 June visited by Queen Victoria The orchestra that plays for visitors becomes The Halle Manchester Cricket Club moves to Old Trafford Cricket Ground A new Manchester Union workhouse is built in Crumpsall with accommodation for about 2 000 4 1858 19 20 January High winds cause damage in the city 30 January The Halle gives its first concert as a permanent orchestra under Charles Halle at the Free Trade Hall March First new steam locomotive completed at the Gorton Locomotive Works of the Manchester Sheffield amp Lincolnshire Railway 1860s edit 1861 12 April The American Civil War breaks out leading to the Lancashire Cotton Famine 1861 1865 1863 November The North of England Co operative Wholesale Industrial and Provident Society Limited predecessor of The Co operative Group is registered in Manchester 66 Members of the Hulme Athenaeum Club for working men establish an association football club believed to be the earliest example in Manchester 67 1864 15 October Prince s Theatre opens in Oxford Road 16 1865 Albert Memorial in Albert Square is completed Timpson retailer opens as a shoe shop in Oldham Road 1867 January Lydia Becker convenes the first meeting of the Manchester Women s Suffrage Committee one of the first organisations to promote women s suffrage in the United Kingdom 68 23 November The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Salford for the murder of a policeman whilst attempting to rescue two Irish Republican Brotherhood members from imprisonment in Manchester on 18 September Co op Insurance is established at a meeting held at the Mechanics Institute The Crossley mechanical engineering business is established 1868 2 6 June Inaugural meeting of the national Trades Union Congress held at the Mechanics Institute 50 25 June Strangeways Prison opens First execution 29 March 1869 4 10 October The Manchester Evening News newspaper is first published 26 October The foundation stone of Manchester Town Hall is laid by the Mayor Robert Neill Approximate date The mechanical engineering business that becomes L Gardner amp Sons is established 1869 Arthur Brooke opens his tea merchant s business Brooke Bond at 23 Market Street 69 1870s edit 1870 6 August Alexandra Park opened to the public 70 c 20 September Friedrich Engels moves permanently to London from Manchester 71 1871 Barton Arcade built 48 1872 1 January Charles Prestwich Scott becomes editor of The Manchester Guardian a position he will hold until 1929 1874 The third Royal Exchange for cotton dealers is completed Manchester High School for Girls opens originally in Chorlton on Medlock the first girls school to provide an academic education in northern England Primitive Methodist chapel in Ancoats relocates to New Islington 40 1875 9 August The first new school erected by the Manchester School Board is opened in Vine Street Hulme 1876 Isabella Banks novel The Manchester Man is published 1877 17 May The Manchester Suburban Tramways Company begins the first horse tramway service in the city 41 9 July Temporary Manchester Central railway station opens 54 13 September New Manchester Town Hall designed by Alfred Waterhouse is officially opened by the mayor Abel Heywood 72 The Manchester Murals in the Great Hall are painted by Ford Madox Brown between 1879 and 1893 1878 26 January Telephony in Greater Manchester Telegraph manufacturer Charles Moseley instals a telephone between a hardware merchant Thomas Hudson Ltd on Shudehill to company offices on Dantzic Street the first such telephone in regular use in the country 73 Henry Gustav Simon establishes the mechanical engineering business that becomes Simon Carves Establishment of Newton Heath Lancashire amp Yorkshire Railway Football Club the team that will become Manchester United 4 1879 July or September Telephony in Greater Manchester The Lancashire Telephonic Exchange Ltd opens a telephone exchange in Faulkner Street the first provincial public exchange in Britain 74 9 October Southern Cemetery opens in Withington School meals provided for destitute and poorly nourished children 1880s edit 1880 20 April Victoria University chartered and incorporates Owens College 1 May The city s first municipal public baths open New Islington Baths 20 1 July Permanent Manchester Central railway station is officially opened by the Cheshire Lines Committee 54 13 November First recorded football match played by St Marks West Gorton the team that will become Manchester City 4 Lower Campfield Market hall opens to replace the open air fairs at this site abolished in 1876 24 Joseph Whitworth s precision machine tool manufacturing business moves to Openshaw 34 1881 1 July Manchester Regiment of the British Army formed 1882 Royal Manchester Institution building transferred to the city corporation to form the Manchester Art Gallery 4 Higher Campfield Market hall opens 24 The Crossley mechanical engineering business moves to Openshaw 34 1883 21 March The Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society is founded during a meeting held in the Rooms of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society George Street Manchester Women are first admitted to study regularly for degrees at Owens College initially in arts subjects only 1884 A new Gaiety Theatre opens as the Comedy Theatre 1885 6 August Manchester Ship Canal promoted by mechanical engineer Daniel Adamson is authorised September William Morris addresses an open air meeting in Albert Square on the subject of free speech 75 Harpurhey Bradford with Beswick and Rusholme are brought within the city boundaries 1887 3 May Royal Jubilee Exhibition is opened by Princess Alexandra including an Old Manchester and Salford reconstruction 11 November Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal begins 50 the engineer is Edward Leader Williams 1888 New Manchester Museum building opens to the public in Oxford Street 1889 17 February The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is founded in Didsbury originally as The Plumage League to campaign against the use of plumage in women s clothing 76 Victoria Square Dwellings tenement block built in Sharratt Street Manchester s first council housing 48 The Whitworth Art Gallery is founded by solicitor Robert Dukinfield Darbishire using funds bequeathed by Sir Joseph Whitworth as The Whitworth Institute and Park Whitworth Park opens to the public on 16 June 1890 77 1890s edit 1890 Crumpsall Blackley and Moston Newton Heath Clayton Openshaw and West Gorton are brought within the city boundaries 1891 5 April National census The population of Manchester reaches 505 368 4 10 October The first street charity collection in the UK is held in Manchester in aid of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution 78 1892 2 October Manchester Crematorium opens adjacent to the Southern Cemetery the UK s second crematory 1893 3 August Status of Lord Mayor conferred on the mayoralties of Manchester and Liverpool 79 October Royal Manchester College of Music established by Charles Halle admits its first students 1894 1 January The CWS s SS Pioneer becomes the first commercial ship to use the Manchester Ship Canal 3 unloading sugar in Manchester docks within the Port of Manchester The canal is formally opened on 21 May by Queen Victoria April Manchester s first football team Manchester City Football Club founded on 16th April Formerly known as Ardwick AFC and West Gorton St Marks 1 January Davyhulme Sewage Works begins to treat the city s waste 28 September The new partnership of Marks amp Spencer opens its first store in Cheetham Hill Road 80 13 October First water from Thirlmere in the Lake District is delivered to Manchester by the Thirlmere Aqueduct Corporation hydraulic power supply system begins operation 1895 Refuge Assurance Building on the Oxford Whitworth Street corner designed by Alfred Waterhouse opens 48 1896 17 August Trafford Park established as the world s first planned industrial park by fraudulent financier Ernest Terah Hooley 81 First cinema in Manchester 1897 Rebuilt Corn Exchange first opens 1898 3 May Manchester Liners established 1899 Hans Richter is appointed music director of The Halle a post which he will hold until 1911 20th Century edit1900s edit 1900 1 January John Rylands Library officially opens 4 Summer Olympics in Paris Osborne Swimming Club of Manchester represent Great Britain in water polo winning gold 1901 7 June Manchester Corporation Tramways begin a public electric service 41 Winser Bloom Street generating station begins operation The last horse trams run in 1903 7 October Hulme Hippodrome opens as Grand Junction Theatre and Floral Hall 82 Central Higher Grade School opens in Whitworth Street 83 CWS Manchester Band formed as the CWS Tobacco Factory Band 84 1902 February The British Cotton Growing Association is founded based in Manchester 85 28 April Manchester United F C is formed by John Henry Davies in a name change from Newton Heath the club that he recently saved from going out of business 86 Heaton Park is sold to Manchester City Council by Arthur Egerton Earl of Wilton for public recreation In 1903 it is brought within the city boundaries British Westinghouse begins manufacture at the Trafford Park industrial estate 1903 15 July The Victoria University of Manchester is independently chartered following dissolution of the federal Victoria University 3 by act of 24 June 1904 Owens College is merged into it 5 September The Midland Hotel begun 1898 is opened 10 October Foundation of the militant Women s Social and Political Union by Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst in Manchester 50 1904 23rd April F A Cup Final Manchester City beat Bolton Wanderers in the FA Cup final at Crystal Palace becoming the first Manchester side to win a major trophy 4 May Charles Rolls and Henry Royce meet for the first time at the new Midland Hotel Manchester the first Rolls Royce motor cars produced under their joint names in Manchester are launched in December Moss Side Chorlton cum Hardy Withington Burnage and Didsbury all to the south are brought within the city boundaries Ardwick Empire later Hippodrome opens as a music hall 87 Marie Stopes becomes the first woman academic member of staff of the University of Manchester as lecturer in Palaeobotany 1905 13 July Manchester Ship Canal Dock No 9 opens on the site of Manchester Racecourse at New Barns 13 October Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst interrupt a Liberal Party rally at the Free Trade Hall and choose imprisonment when convicted the first militant action of the national suffragette campaign 1906 February Manchester Corporation Tramways begin motor bus services 41 7 September Victoria Baths open 88 1907 20 May White City Amusement Park established on part of the botanical garden site 5 November Corpus Christi Priory opened in Miles Platting by Premonstratensians New Zealander Ernest Rutherford becomes chair of the Physics Department at Victoria University The following year he is awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements and the chemistry of radioactive substances 89 St Peter s Church Peter Street is demolished 22 1908 18 April Manchester United secure the Football League First Division title the first major trophy of their history 90 29 July The Whitworth Art Gallery building is formally opened 91 9 November Annie Horniman purchases the Comedy Theatre she has it reconstructed to plans by Frank Matcham and it reopens in 1912 as the Gaiety Theatre Britain s first regional repertory theatre 92 She champions contemporary dramatists of the Manchester School 3 December The Halle gives the world premiere of Elgar s Symphony No 1 under Hans Richter at the Free Trade Hall The Catenian Association an international Roman Catholic lay brotherhood is founded in Manchester Vimto is invented by John Noel Nichols in Manchester Originally sold under the name Vimtonic Nichols shortens it to Vimto in 1912 1909 Gorton and Levenshulme are brought within the city boundaries 1910s edit 1910 1 January Eccles born Alliott Verdon Roe and his brother Humphrey establish the Avro aircraft factory at Brownsfield Mill in Great Ancoats Street 19 February Manchester United F C play their first game at Old Trafford 93 28 April Frenchman Louis Paulhan completes the Daily Mail s 1910 London to Manchester air race in under 24 hours Kings Hall at Belle Vue Zoological Gardens opens Manchester Royal Infirmary moves from Piccadilly to Oxford Road 1911 11 October The Ford Motor Company assembles its first Model T automobile at its plant on the Trafford Park industrial estate 4 1912 26 December Manchester Opera House opens as the New Theatre in Quay Street The old town hall in King Street is demolished 4 1913 3 April Three suffragettes Lillian Williamson Annie Briggs and Evelyn Manesta smash the glass in more than a dozen paintings in Manchester Art Gallery 94 11 November Suffragette Kitty Marion plants a bomb that destroys the cactus house in Alexandra Park 95 1914 4 August Manchester Babies Hospital opened 96 7 August Manchester Municipal Secondary School for Boys taken over as headquarters of Second Western General Hospital for the military 1915 Manchester Corporation Tramways begins to employ conductresses due to the wartime shortage of men 41 1917 Nuclear fission Ernest Rutherford at the Victoria University of Manchester achieves nuclear transmutation the first observation of a nuclear reaction in which he also discovers and names the proton 97 1919 14 15 June Transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown Manchester born John Alcock and Manchester raised Arthur Whitten Brown make the first nonstop transatlantic flight The Avro aircraft factory moves to purpose built premises at Newton Heath H H Johnson joins the Unitarian ministry at Cross Street Chapel where he will introduce wayside pulpit messages to the UK 42 Citizens of Manchester support postwar reconstruction of Charleville Mezieres in France 1920s edit 1921 Rebuilding of the Royal Exchange for cotton dealers is completed 4 1922 15 November The British Broadcasting Company begins regular radio broadcasts from its Manchester station 2ZY at the Metropolitan Vickers works in Trafford Park It broadcasts the BBC s first children s programme 98 The 2ZY Orchestra predecessor of the BBC Philharmonic is formed 1923 25 August Manchester City F C play their first game at Maine Road in Moss Side having moved from Hyde Road stadium 1924 12 July Manchester Cenotaph designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens is unveiled 99 1926 3 12 May 1926 United Kingdom general strike Major disruption to public transport 41 24 July Greyhound racing meeting at Belle Vue Stadium the first track in Britain 55 Manchester City Council buys land which at this time is beyond its southern boundary to construct the Wythenshawe housing estate 1927 1 August Nesta Wells becomes police surgeon specifically to examine women and children for Manchester City Police the first woman appointed to this office in the UK 100 1928 16 July First motorcycle speedway meeting at White City 1929 22 April Manchester Wythenshawe Aerodrome opens for temporary use Britain s first municipal airport 55 1 July C P Scott retires after 57 years as editor of The Manchester Guardian and is succeeded by his son Ted Manchester Victoria and Exchange railway stations are linked by a platform 2238 ft 682 m long 101 1930s edit 1930 29 January Barton Aerodrome opens Britain s first permanent municipal airport 102 it will become City Airport amp Heliport First greyhound racing meeting at White City The academic economics journal The Manchester School is first published by the University of Manchester 1931 26 April National census The population of Manchester reaches an all time peak of 766 311 11 May Full electrified passenger train services begin on the Manchester South Junction and Altrincham Railway The parishes of Northenden Baguley and Northen Etchells beyond the River Mersey and previously in Bucklow Rural District in Cheshire are brought within the city boundaries 103 Parker Street bus station opens in Piccadilly Gardens 41 1934 Record attendance for an English club ground of 84 569 was set in 1934 at an FA Cup sixth round match between Manchester City and Stoke City 2 17 July The circular Manchester Central Library designed by Vincent Harris is opened 3 on the same day the foundation stone for the same architect s adjacent Manchester Town Hall Extension is laid The Northern Studio Orchestra is renamed the BBC Northern Orchestra 1935 7 March Sergei Rachmaninoff gives the English premiere of his Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with The Halle under Nikolai Malko at the Free Trade Hall 84 18 August Last service held in Mardale church in the Lake District prior to the village s flooding to create Manchester Corporation s Haweswater Reservoir 104 1937 Church of St Michael and All Angels Northenden designed by Nugent Cachemaille Day is completed 1938 1 March Trolleybuses in Manchester first operate 41 25 June Manchester Airport at Ringway opens 41 Manchester Town Hall Extension designed by Vincent Harris in 1927 is completed 1939 Daily Express Building designed by engineer Sir Owen Williams is completed 1 September Operation Pied Piper evacuation of children from Manchester and other major UK cities begins 105 1940s edit 1940 22 24 December Heaviest raids of the Manchester Blitz by the Luftwaffe 363 are killed and 1 183 wounded Cross Street Chapel is destroyed the Free Trade Hall is gutted and the Cathedral and Royal Exchange badly damaged public transport in the city centre is temporarily suspended 1941 9 January The Avro Manchester Mark III BT308 prototype of the Avro Lancaster heavy bomber first flies from RAF Ringway 106 11 March German air raids cause further extensive damage to the city a notable casualty being Old Trafford football stadium home of Manchester United F C which is severely damaged 107 June From now until 23 March 1946 30 400 Rolls Royce Merlin aircraft engines are manufactured in the Ford shadow factories at Trafford Park Noel Coward s comedy Blithe Spirit is premiered at Manchester Opera House prior to opening in London 1943 John Barbirolli is appointed principal conductor of The Halle a post which he will hold until 1968 1944 24 December Fifty German V 1 flying bombs air launched from Heinkel He 111 bombers flying over the North Sea target the Manchester area 55 1945 1 October Matt Busby takes over as manager of Manchester United F C a post which he will hold until 1971 with a break in 1969 70 1947 Mary Latchford Kingsmill Jones becomes the first woman Lord Mayor of Manchester 1948 17 January All time highest attendance for an English Football League game as 83 260 people watch Manchester United draw with Arsenal in a match played at Maine Road 108 18 March Release of first film produced at Mancunian Films Dickenson Road Studios a former Methodist chapel in Rusholme Cup tie Honeymoon 24 April Manchester United defeat Blackpool 4 2 in the 1948 FA Cup Final at Wembley Stadium 21 June World s first working program run on an electronic stored program computer the Manchester Baby 109 1949 9 January Manchester Corporation Tramways last run a regular service April The Manchester Mark 1 computer is operable at the University of Manchester 24 August Old Trafford football stadium home of Manchester United F C is re opened following a comprehensive rebuild due to bomb damage by the Luftwaffe eight years ago 110 1950s edit 1950 Manchester Chorlton Street coach station opens 1950s Some music students in Manchester informally constitute New Music Manchester 1951 February Ferranti deliver their first Mark 1 computer to the University of Manchester It is the world s first commercially available general purpose electronic computer 111 The Free Trade Hall rebuilt after bomb damage reopens as a concert venue Future architect Norman Foster begins work as an office junior in Manchester Town Hall 1952 29 September The Manchester Guardian prints news rather than advertisements on its front page for the first time The first autocode and its compiler are developed by Alick Glennie for the Manchester Mark 1 computer considered as the first working high level compiled programming language 112 1953 15 August Irk Valley Junction rail crash 10 killed Tom Kilburn at the University of Manchester completes a device called MEG which performs floating point calculations This machine evolves into the first transistorized computer the Metropolitan Vickers MV950 ultimately leading to the mass production of computers 1954 14 June The Manchester Sheffield Wath electric railway is inaugurated by the Eastern Region of British Railways out of London Road station Britain s first all electric main line official opening 14 September the locomotives have been built at Gorton Locomotive Works and Dukinfield with electrical equipment by Metropolitan Vickers 21 December Manchester Corporation v Manchester Palace of Varieties Ltd the only case held in the High Court of Chivalry in 200 years Excavation of Guardian telephone exchange as an underground Cold War facility largely completed on 7 December 1958 it begins to function as an exchange 1955 29 July The Manchester Municipal College of Technology is chartered as an independent university level institution Manchester College of Science and Technology 1956 3 May Granada Television launches 50 12 September Manchester United F C become the first English team to compete in the European Cup a competition for the champions of domestic leagues across Europe when they play the first leg of the preliminary round in Belgium beating R S C Anderlecht 2 0 113 6 October Bobby Charlton makes his first team debut for Manchester United F C he will make 759 appearances and score 249 goals for the team First Ferranti Pegasus computer manufactured 1957 14 March British European Airways Flight 411 operated by a Vickers Viscount 701 inbound from Amsterdam crashes into houses in Shadow Moss Road Woodhouse Park Wythenshawe while on final approach to Runway 24 at Manchester Airport All 20 onboard and two people on the ground are killed the crash is due to a flap failure caused by fatigue of a wing bolt 1958 6 February Munich air disaster 8 Manchester United F C players are among the 23 killed 1960s edit 1960 12 September The London Midland Region of British Railways inaugurates electrified passenger train services to London Road rebuilt and renamed Manchester Piccadilly station from Crewe and officially opens the reconstructed Manchester Oxford Road railway station 54 9 December The first episode of soap opera Coronation Street made by Granada Television in Manchester is aired on ITV 50 the series will still be running as of 2022 1961 12 July Yuri Gagarin appears on the Manchester Town Hall balcony to a rapturous reception 114 1962 21 October The first American Folk Blues Festival European tour plays its only UK date at the Free Trade Hall artists include Sonny Terry Brownie McGhee and T Bone Walker It will be influential on the British R amp B scene with the audience including Mick Jagger Keith Richards and Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones with Jimmy Page John Mayall and other musicians and with a second show filmed and shown on ITV 115 22 October Manchester Ringway Airport opens the first hub and pier terminal in Europe The CIS Tower designed by G S Hay and Gordon Tait is completed becoming the tallest building in the United Kingdom until 1963 The city is twinned with Saint Petersburg in the Soviet Union 4 1963 12 July First of the Moors murders 9 November Manchester Racecourse at Castle Irwell holds its last meeting 1964 13 August Gwynne Owen Evans is hanged at Strangeways Prison for the murder of John Alan West one of the two last executions to take place in the British Isles 116 1965 7 October Last of the Moors murders Ian Brady is arrested the following day and Myra Hindley a few days later They are convicted on 6 May 1966 of the murders of three of their five Manchester child victims The Piccadilly Plaza development at Piccadilly Gardens including the Sunley House tower block and an hotel is completed 1966 3 January The London Midland Region of British Railways inaugurates full electrified passenger train services throughout from London Euston to Manchester Piccadilly 5 May The Mancunian Way elevated motorway section of the A57 road is officially opened by the Prime Minister to form a by pass around the south of the Manchester city area 117 17 May Bob Dylan and the Hawks perform at the Free Trade Hall Dylan is booed by the audience because of his decision to play the second half with an electric band culminating in a famous shout of Judas July Beyer Peacock amp Company deliver their last diesel locomotive 31 December Trolleybuses in Manchester last operate 41 Manchester College of Science and Technology is renamed University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology 1967 4 June Stockport air disaster British Midland Canadair C4 Argonaut G ALHG on a charter flight from Palma de Mallorca crashes in Stockport on approach to Manchester Airport due to technical failures 72 are killed and the remaining 12 on board are seriously injured Manchester Chorlton Street coach station reopens with a multi storey car park on its upper levels 1968 29 May Manchester United become the first English winners of the European Cup beating Benfica 4 1 in extra time at Wembley Stadium 118 July Cotton trading at the Royal Exchange ceases 5 November Manchester Liners MV Manchester Challenge begins a regular Manchester Montreal service the first British built and owned oceanic cellular container ship 1969 1 April Co ordination of bus and other public transport in the area is passed to the SELNEC Passenger Transport Authority 41 5 May Manchester Central and Manchester Exchange railway stations are closed 54 20 October The North Western Museum of Science and Industry predecessor of the Museum of Science and Industry opens in the former Oddfellows Hall in Grosvenor Street 119 Chetham s Hospital becomes Chetham s School of Music 1970s edit 1970 3 July Dan Air Flight 1903 from Manchester Airport crashes in the Catalan mountains with the loss of all 112 on board 120 10 September BBC Radio Manchester opens as a local station Manchester Polytechnic formed 1972 c 19 July The John Rylands Library merges with the University of Manchester Library to form the John Rylands University Library of Manchester Hulme Crescents completed 1973 8 September A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes in Manchester October The Royal Manchester College of Music merges with the Northern School of Music to form the Royal Northern College of Music 1974 1 April The City of Manchester becomes a metropolitan borough of the new Greater Manchester County Council under terms of the Local Government Act 1972 Ringway and Manchester Airport are brought within the city boundaries Police forces covering the area are merged into Greater Manchester Police and the SELNEC Passenger Transport Executive becomes the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive 2 April Piccadilly Radio begins broadcasting 1975 Manchester Arndale shopping centre opens a bus station opens here on 24 September 1979 Poetry publisher Carcanet Press moves into Manchester 1976 15 September Royal Exchange Theatre opens 1977 11 September Belle Vue Zoological Gardens close as a zoo continuing until 26 October 1980 as an amusement park Restoration and cleaning of Albert Memorial in Albert Square is completed 1979 8 May A major fire at Woolworths Manchester Piccadilly Gardens store takes place resulting in the deaths of eleven people 121 27 May Museum of Transport opens to the public as a museum of local public transport in the former Queen s Road Boyle Street bus garage in Cheetham Hill official opening 4 May 41 Castlefield is designated as a conservation area 24 1980s edit 1981 8 11 July 1981 Moss Side riot 1982 May Rock band The Smiths formed 21 May The Hacienda opens as a nightclub in Whitworth Street 31 May Pope John Paul II s visit to the United Kingdom 200 000 attend Mass at Heaton Park Salford Docks closed to shipping the area will be redeveloped as Salford Quays White City Stadium closed the area will be redeveloped as a retail park The BBC Northern Orchestra is renamed the BBC Philharmonic 1983 15 September Museum of Science and Industry opens at the Liverpool Road station site with the Air and Space Museum in the adjacent Lower Campfield Market hall The city is twinned with Karl Marx Stadt Chemnitz in East Germany Rock band The Stone Roses are formed 1984 March Manchester Jewish Museum opens 3 in the former Sephardic Synagogue on Cheetham Hill Road Graham Stringer becomes Labour leader of Manchester City Council 122 serving until 1996 1985 22 August British Airtours Flight 28M a Boeing 737 bound for Corfu catches fire on the runway at Manchester Airport due to technical failure 55 killed 3 October Cornerhouse opens as a contemporary arts venue 1986 21 March G Mex Centre opens as an exhibition and concert venue in the former Manchester Central railway station trainshed 6 November Alex Ferguson takes over as manager of Manchester United F C a post which he will hold until 2013 The Chinese Arts Centre later the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art originates as Chinese View 86 123 and the city is twinned with Wuhan in the People s Republic of China 4 1988 16 May British Rail opens the Windsor Link Line between Salford and Deansgate connecting railway services across Manchester 41 30 June Formation of the Central Manchester Development Corporation dissolved in 1996 to kick start regeneration of the city centre 3 September At midday local station Piccadilly Radio splits into two services Piccadilly Radio is relaunched as an oldies station on MW called Piccadilly Gold with a new station Key 103 launching on FM 1990s edit 1990 1 25 April 1990 Strangeways Prison riot 18 September Manchester s is one of the losing bids for the 1996 Summer Olympics 1991 c 20 May Control of Manchester Ship Canal passes to The Peel Group 18 August Rock band Oasis play their first gig at the Boardwalk club 1992 6 April Manchester Metrolink light rail system opens for public service on its first stage over the former railway line from Manchester Victoria station to Bury Interchange on 27 April the second stage to G Mex opens the first street running new generation light rail route in Britain official opening 17 July 12 April Manchester United F C win the Football League Cup for the first time with a 1 0 win over Nottingham Forest in the Wembley final Brian McClair scores the only goal of the game 15 September Manchester Polytechnic in common with most British polytechnics is granted the power to award degrees in its own right giving it the status of a new university Manchester Metropolitan University 3 December 1992 Manchester bombing two Provisional Irish Republican Army bombs explode 124 1993 23 September Manchester s is one of the losing bids for the 2000 Summer Olympics 1994 31 March GM Buses North and South are sold initially in management employee buyouts 41 27 May The People s History Museum opens to the public in the former Water Street hydraulic pumping station 4 University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology achieves the status of an independent University with its own degree awarding powers 1995 26 May Pomona Lock opens connecting the Manchester Ship Canal with the Bridgewater Canal 15 July Manchester Arena opens at Victoria station 1996 15 June 1996 Manchester bombing A 1500 kg lorry bomb planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Corporation Street devastates the city centre 3 125 but the area is evacuated in time to avoid fatalities 11 September Bridgewater Hall opens as an orchestral concert venue The Free Trade Hall closes this year as a public venue and is subsequently redeveloped as an hotel 1997 10 May Hulme Arch Bridge opened The Spinningfields development begins The city is twinned with Faisalabad in Pakistan 4 1998 10 September Trafford Centre retail complex opens 3 125 1999 26 May Manchester United F C complete a continental treble association football 126 November Shambles Square is completed 21st Century edit2000s edit 2000 14 February Local television comes to Manchester with the launch of Channel M 127 October Final section of M60 Manchester Outer Ring Road opens Denton Middleton the last new publicly funded motorway in Britain 12 October The Lowry art gallery and theatre complex opens in Salford Quays 3 9 November The Printworks leisure and entertainment complex opens in Withy Grove 2002 5 July Imperial War Museum North designed by Daniel Libeskind opens in Trafford Park 25 July The City of Manchester Stadium opens inaugurating the 2002 Commonwealth Games 4 which continue until 4 August 21 October Largest earthquake in a swarm to hit Manchester 128 Piccadilly Gardens remodelling completed 2003 10 August Manchester City F C play their first match at the City of Manchester Stadium having moved from Maine Road 29 September A 15 year old orphaned girl dies while in the care of Manchester social services following which Greater Manchester Police launches Operation Augusta which identifies at least 57 children at risk of sexual abuse and up to 97 possible abusers but which is prematurely closed down 129 One Piccadilly Gardens office block opens 2004 29 March A fire in the Guardian telephone exchange causes 130 000 telephone lines to be cut off 130 August The annual gay pride event in the city is first officially known as Manchester Pride 1 October Victoria University of Manchester and University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology merge to form a new University of Manchester The John Rylands University Library of Manchester merges with the Joule Library of UMIST to form the John Rylands University Library 22 October Publication of the rediscovery isolation and characterization of graphene by Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov at the University of Manchester 131 132 2005 12 January Britain s tallest self supporting sculpture the B of the Bang is unveiled in Manchester 2006 9 October Opening of the Beetham Tower a landmark 168 metre 47 storey skyscraper with oversailing upper floors designed by Ian Simpson of SimpsonHaugh and Partners the tallest building in the UK outside London at this time and with its penthouse apartments above the Hilton Hotel being the highest residential addresses in the country 133 2007 28 June 15 July Inaugural Manchester International Festival 134 24 October Manchester Civil Justice Centre designed by Denton Corker Marshall opens in Spinningfields officially 28 February 2008 3 2008 1 August The Manchester College is established by merger of City College and Manchester College of Arts and Technology to form the largest further education college in the UK 2010s edit 2010 1 July Nancy Rothwell becomes the first woman President and Vice Chancellor of the University of Manchester 2011 1 April Greater Manchester Combined Authority established Its subsidiary Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive becomes Transport for Greater Manchester 9 10 August 2011 England riots spread to parts of Manchester EventCity is opened as an exhibition venue in TraffordCity by The Peel Group 2012 16 April After 12 years on air Channel M closes 135 Summer The John Rylands University Library is renamed as the University of Manchester Library 18 September Two female police officers are killed in Hattersley in a gun and grenade attack by quadruple murderer Dale Cregan 136 2013 6 November TNT Post begins door to door deliveries in Manchester 2014 3 November The Airport Line Manchester Metrolink opens to Manchester Airport station 2017 26 February Manchester Metrolink Second City Crossing opens throughout 4 May Andy Burnham becomes the first Mayor of Greater Manchester 22 May Manchester Arena bombing A Manchester born suicide bomber kills 22 as young people leave an Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena 10 December The Ordsall Chord is opened It provides a direct rail link between Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Oxford Road and Manchester Victoria for the first time 137 2018 November Topping out of South Tower in Deansgate Square a 200 5 metre residential development surpassing Beetham Tower as the tallest building in the UK outside London 2019 4 21 July Manchester International Festival 138 139 23 September Manchester child sex abuse ring members sentenced 140 November Manchester Museum returns 43 secret sacred and ceremonial items from Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders communities to Australia 141 142 2020s edit 2020 23 March COVID 19 pandemic in the United Kingdom Manchester goes into a nationwide lockdown 18 December The Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police resigns after publication of a critical report on its failure to record crimes 143 2023 10 June Manchester City F C complete a continental treble association football 144 c 28 June Factory International arts venue opens as Aviva Studios for previews officially 18 October 145 146 147 17 September The Bee Network an integrated route network for Greater Manchester composed of bus tram cycling and walking routes is launched with the start of franchised bus services across the city region The three phase roll out of bus franchising will be completed by 2025 148 149 Manchester is the first area of the UK to introduce such a system which is seen as a part reversal of bus deregulation in Great Britain which took place in the mid 1980s The network s main goal is to reduce the percentage of car journeys throughout the region from 60 to 50 by 2040 150 2024 24 March Bee Network bus franchising extended to areas on the north side of Manchester 151 May projected Co op Live the UK s largest capacity indoor arena officially opens in Manchester following several postponements Births edit1580 10 July Humphrey Chetham 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Manchester Seven English Cities New York Harper amp Brothers Kargon R H 1977 Science in Victorian Manchester Enterprise and Expertise Manchester University Press ISBN 978 0 7190 0701 9 Shercliff W H 1977 Manchester a Short History of its Development Haslam Dave 1999 Manchester England the Story of the Pop Cult City London Fourth Estate ISBN 978 1 84115 146 5 Published in the 2000s Parkinson Bailey John J 2000 Manchester an architectural history Manchester University Press ISBN 9780719056062 Hartwell Clare 2002 Manchester Pevsner architectural guides 2nd ed New Haven CT Yale University Press ISBN 9780300096668 Kidd Alan 2006 Manchester a history 4th ed Lancaster Carnegie Publishing ISBN 9781859361283 Hylton Stuart 2003 A History of Manchester Chichester Phillimore ISBN 978 1 86077 240 5 Kidd Alan Wyke Terry eds 2016 Manchester making the modern city Liverpool University Press ISBN 9781846318771 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Timeline of Manchester history amp 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