Timeline of Liverpool

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

Prior to 18th century

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• 1089. The West Derby Hundred is recorded in the Domesday Book^[1]
• 1207 Liverpool founded by King John.^[2]
  • Market active.^[3]
• 1292 – John De More becomes mayor.
• 1298 – Liverpool fair active.^[3]
• 1349 - The Black Death Plague hits Liverpool.^[4]
• 1424 - Riots between the rival Stanley and Molyneux families near Liverpool Castle.^[5]
• 1598 – Speke Hall (house) built.
• 1662 – Population: 775.^[6]
• 1644 – Town besieged by forces of Prince Rupert of the Rhine.^[7]
• 1674 – Town Hall rebuilt.^[6]

18th century

• 1700
  • Liverpool Merchant slave ship begins operating.^[8]
  • Population: 5,714.^[6]
• 1702 – Croxteth Hall (house) built.
• 1704 – Woolton Hall (house) built.
• 1708 – Blue Coat School founded.^[6]
• 1717 – Bluecoat Chambers built.
• 1718 – Blue Coat hospital opens.^[9]
• 1720 – Population: 10,446.^[10]
• 1722 – Ranelagh Gardens open.
• 1749 – Royal Infirmary opens.^[9]
• 1753 – Salthouse Dock opens.^[7]
• 1754 – Liverpool Town Hall built.^[9]
• 1756 – Liverpool Advertiser newspaper begins publication.^[11]
• 1758 – Circulating library established.^[12]
• 1766 - City directory published.^[13]
• 1771
  • Bidston lighthouse built.^[7]
  • George's Dock opens.
• 1772 – Theatre built.^[6]
• 1779 – Medical Library founded.^[6]
• 1784 - Liverpool Musical Festival begins.^[14]
• 1788 – St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church built.
• 1790
  • Lime Street laid out.
  • Consulate of the United States, Liverpool established.
• 1791 – School for the Blind founded.^[6]
• 1792 – Trinity Church consecrated.
• 1797 – Liverpool Athenaeum founded.

19th century

1800s-1840s

Map of Liverpool, 1836

• 1801 – Population: 77,653.^[10]
• 1802 – Liverpool Library founded.^[15]
• 1803 – Botanical Gardens open.^[16]
• 1805 - Extension to Liverpool Town Hall completed providing Main Ballroom and Council Chamber
• 1807 – Liverpool Cricket Club formed.
• 1809 – Exchange Buildings constructed.^[6]
• 1810 – Borough Gaol built.^[6]
• 1812 – Literary and Philosophical Society founded.
• 1815 – Manchester Dock built.
• 1816 – Leeds and Liverpool Canal constructed.^[6]
• 1817 – Liverpool Royal Institution established.^[9][17]
• 1822 – Apprentices' Library founded.^[6]
• 1823 – Marine Humane Society founded.^[16]
• 1825 – Liverpool Mechanics' School of Arts^[6] and Philomathic Society^[11] established.
• 1826 – St James Cemetery laid out.
• 1827 – Law Society established.^[11]
• 1828 – Borough Sessions House built.^[6]
• 1829 – Canning Dock opens.^[18]
• 1830
  • Liverpool and Manchester Railway begins operating.^[6][19]
  • Liver Theatre active.^[20]
• 1831 – Population: 165,175.^[6]
• 1832
  • Church of St Luke built.
  • John Swire and Sons in business.^[17]
• 1833 – Zoological gardens open.^[11]
• 1835 – City boundaries expand.^[9]
• 1835 - First elected Town Council replaces Common Council.
• 1836
  • Liverpool Anti-Slavery Society active (approximate date).
  • Literary, Scientific and Commercial Institution^[6] and Liverpool Town Borough Police established.
  • Liverpool Lime Street railway station opens to the public.
• 1837 – Liverpool Chess Club formed.^[21]
• 1838 – Brougham Institute^[6] and Polytechnic Society established.^[11]
• 1839
  • Customs House built.^[6]
  • Northern Mechanics' Institution and Tradesmen's Institution founded.^[6]
• 1840
  • Liverpool College^[22] and Liverpool Philharmonic Society^[14] founded.
  • Cunard's steamship Britannia sails from Liverpool to Boston.^[23]
• 1842
  • St. Francis Xavier's College established.^[22]
  • Robertson Gladstone becomes mayor.
• 1843 – Princes Park laid out.^[9]
• 1844 – Canning Half Tide Dock opens.^[18]
• 1845 – Liverpool Observatory built.^[11]
• 1846 – Albert Dock opens.^[24]
• 1848
  • Liverpool Financial Reform Association; Architectural and Archaeological Society;^[11][25] and Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire formed.^[11]
  • Cope Bros & Co in business.
  • Church of Saint Francis Xavier consecrated.
• 1849 – Philharmonic Hall opens.

1850s-1890s

• 1850 – Catholic Institute established.^[22]
• 1851
  • Derby Museum opens.
  • Balfour Williamson in business.
• 1852
  • African Steamship Company in business.
  • Liverpool Free Public Library^[26] and sailors' home^[9] open.
  • Hebrews' Educational Institution founded.^[11]
  • A quarter of the city's population is Irish, a legacy of the Great Irish Famine.
• 1854 – St George's Hall built.^[9]
• 1855 – February: Economic unrest.^[16]
• 1856 – Lewis's shop in business.
• 1857 – Mersey Docks & Harbour Board established.^[27]
• 1859 – Thomas Royden & Sons in business.
• 1860 – William Brown Library and Museum building opens.^[26]
• 1862 – Grand Olympic Festival begins.
• 1863 – Liverpool Amateur Photographic Association founded.^[28]
• 1864 – Oriel Chambers built.
• 1866 – Star Music Hall opens.
• 1867 – Alliance Israélite Universelle branch founded.^[29]
• 1868
  • Elder Dempster and Company in business.
  • Newsham Park opens.
• 1869 – Fowler's Buildings constructed.
• 1870
  • Stanley Park opens.
  • Greek Orthodox Church of St Nicholas built.
  • Incorporated Society of Liverpool Accountants formed.
• 1871 – North Western Hotel built.
• 1872
  • Sefton Park opens.^[9]
  • Midland Railway Goods Warehouse built.
• 1874
  • Liverpool Central railway station opens.
  • Liverpool Institute High School for Girls established.
  • Princes Road Synagogue consecrated.
• 1877 – Walker Art Gallery opens.
• 1878 Everton football club founded
• 1879
  • Picton Reading Room built.^[26]
  • Liverpool Echo newspaper begins publication.^[30]
  • Salvation Army active.^[31]
• 1880
  • Liverpool attains city status.
  • Aigburth Cricket Ground built.
• 1881 – University College Liverpool chartered.^[9]
• 1884
  • Anfield (athletic space) opens.^[32]
  • County Sessions House, Gustav Adolf Church, and Picton Clock Tower built.
  • Everton Road drill hall completed.^[33]
• 1886
  • Mersey Railway Tunnel opens;^[9] Mersey Railway (Birkenhead-Liverpool) begins operating.
  • Liverpool and Birkenhead Women's Peace and Arbitration Association organized.^[34]
• 1887 – Liverpool Muslim Institute founded.
• 1888 – Shakespeare Theatre opens.^[20]
• 1890
  • Liverpool Union of Girls' Clubs formed.^[35]
  • Bowes Museum of Japanese Art Work opens.^[36]
• 1892
  • Goodison Park (athletic field) inaugurated.
  • Victoria Building, University of Liverpool constructed.
  • Robert Durning Holt becomes mayor.
  • Liverpool Football Club formed.
• 1893 – Liverpool Overhead Railway begins operating.
• 1895 – City boundaries expand.^[9]
• 1897 – Gregson Memorial Institute built.^[17]
• 1898
  • Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine founded.^[17]
  • White Star Building constructed.
• 1899 – Liverpool University Press founded.

20th century

1900s-1940s

• 1901 – Population: 684,958.^[9]
• 1902
  • City boundaries expand.^[9]
  • Sefton Park Gazette begins publication.^[37]
• 1904 Foundation stone of the Anglican Cathedral is laid by King Edward VII.
• 1906 – Liverpool Cotton Exchange Building constructed.
• 1907
  • August: 700th anniversary of city founding.^[38]
  • Dock Office built.^[39]
• 1908 – Meccano Ltd in business.
• 1909 – June: Catholic-Protestant conflict.^[40]
• 1911
  • 1911 Liverpool general transport strike.
  • Royal Liver Building constructed.
  • Rodewald Concert Society founded.
• 1912 – Lime Street Picture House opens.^[41]
• 1913 – Crane's Music Hall opens.
• 1914 – Adelphi Hotel opens.
• 1917
  • Cunard Building constructed.^[17]
  • Liverpool Commercial Reference Library opens.^[42]
• 1919 – Racial conflict.^[43]
• 1922 – African Churches Mission, and African and West Indian Mission organized.^[44]
• 1925 – Empire Theatre opens.
• 1930 – Speke Airport begins operating.
• 1931 – Population 855,688.^[45] This is the peak size of Liverpool's population.
• 1934 – Queensway Tunnel, Walton Hall Park, and Paramount Theatre^[41] open.
• 1940 – August: Aerial bombing by German forces begins.
• 1942 – January: Aerial bombing by German forces ends.
• 1944 – Merseyside Unity Theatre active.
• 1949 – 19 March: Cameo Murder

1950s-1990s

• 1952 – City twinned with Cologne, Germany.
• 1953 – Liverpool Muslim Society founded.
• 1957
  • The Cavern Club opens as a jazz club.
  • The Quarrymen, a skiffle group which is the predecessor of The Beatles, play their first gigs and Paul McCartney joins them.
• 1960 – The Beatles pop group first performs under this name, initially as The Beatals.
• 1961 – Mersey Beat begins publication.
• 1964 – Everyman Theatre founded.
• 1967
  • The Mersey Sound anthology of Liverpool poets published.^[46]
  • Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral built.
• 1968 – Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive established.
• 1969
  • Radio City Tower built.
  • St. John's Shopping Centre and Clayton Square Shopping Centre in business.
• 1970 – Harrison Barnard & Co. headquartered in city.
• 1971 – Kingsway Tunnel opens.
• 1972 – Seaforth Dock opens near city in the area of Seaforth, Lancashire.
• 1974
  • City becomes a metropolitan borough within the newly created metropolitan county of Merseyside; Merseyside County Council established.
  • Post & Echo Building and New Hall Place constructed.
  • Al-Rahma Mosque established.
• 1978 – Construction of the Anglican Cathedral is completed.
• 1980 – Merseyside Maritime Museum opens.^[47]
• 1981 – July: Toxteth riots.^[48]
• 1984 – International Garden Festival held.
• 1988 – Tate Liverpool (museum) opens.
• 1989- Hillsborough Disaster
• 1991 – Population: 452,450 residents.^[49]
• 1992
  • Africa Oyé music festival begins.
  • Liverpool Community College established.
• 1993
  • Museum of Liverpool Life opens.
  • Liverpool Mathew Street Music Festival begins.^[50]
• 1995 – Liverpool dockers' strike begins.^[51]
• 1996 – National Conservation Centre opens.
• 1998 – Mike Storey becomes Liverpool City Council leader.
• 1999 – Liverpool Biennial begins.

21st century

• 2001 – Liverpool Wall of Fame unveiled.
• 2004
  • Liverpool Culture Company formed.
  • Homotopia (festival) begins.
• 2006 – Liverpool Science Park and Royal Standard art gallery established.^[52]
• 2007
  • International Slavery Museum opens.
  • West Tower built.
  • Liverpool Shakespeare Festival begins.
• 2008
  • City designated a European Capital of Culture.
  • Echo Arena Liverpool, BT Convention Centre, and Liverpool One open.
  • One Park West and Alexandra Tower built.
• 2010 – National Oceanography Centre established.
• 2011 – Museum of Liverpool opens.
• 2012 – Joe Anderson becomes mayor.^[53]

See also

• History of Liverpool
• List of Lord Mayors of Liverpool

References

Further reading

Published in the 18th century

• Liverpool Directory, for the Year 1766. Liverpool: Printed by W. Nevett and Co. for J. Gore. 
• William Enfield (1774), An essay towards the history of Leverpool (2nd ed.), London: J. Johnson 
• W. Bailey (1781). "Liverpool Directory". Bailey's Northern Directory. Warrington: Printed by William Ashton. 
• William Moss (1796). Liverpool Guide. Liverpool: Crane and Jones. 
• James Wallace (1796), A general and descriptive history of the ancient and present state, of the town of Liverpool, Liverpool: J. McCreery 

Published in the 19th century

1800s-1840s

• "Liverpool", Kearsley's Traveller's Entertaining Guide through Great Britain, London: George Kearsley, 1803 
• John Britton (1807), "Liverpool", Beauties of England and Wales, 9, London: Vernor, Hood & Sharpe 
• Picture of Liverpool; or, Stranger's Guide (2nd ed.), Liverpool: Printed by Jones and Wright, and sold by Woodward and Alderson, 1808 
• John Corry (1810), The history of Liverpool, from the earliest authenticated period down to the present time, Liverpool: William Robinson 
• "Liverpool". Commercial Directory for 1818-19-20. Manchester: James Pigot. 1818. 
• Robert Watt (1824). "Liverpool". Bibliotheca Britannica. 4. Edinburgh: A. Constable. OCLC 961753. 
• Henry Smithers (1825), Liverpool, its Commerce, Statistics, and Institutions, Liverpool: Printed by T. Kaye, OCLC 4587553 
• "Liverpool". Pigot & Co.'s National Commercial Directory for 1828-9. London: James Pigot. 
• "Liverpool", Cities and Principal Towns of the World, Cabinet Cyclopaedia, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1830, OCLC 2665202 
• Stephen Reynolds Clarke (1830), "Liverpool", New Lancashire Gazetteer, London: H. Teesdale and Co., OCLC 6704104 
• Gore's Directory and View of Liverpool (PDF). Liverpool: J. and J. Mawdsley. 1834.  External link in |publisher= (help)
• "Liverpool". Cornish's Grand Junction, and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Companion. Birmingham: J. Cornish. 1837.  External link in |publisher= (help)
• Picture of Liverpool. Liverpool: T. Taylor. 1837. 
• Francis Coghlan (1838). "Liverpool". Iron Road Book and Railway Companion from London to Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool. London: A.H. Baily & Co. 
• Arthur Freeling (1838), "Liverpool Guide", Freeling's Grand Junction Railway Companion to Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham, H. Lacey 
• "Liverpool", Osborne's Guide to the Grand Junction, Or Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester Railway, Birmingham: E.C. & W. Osborne, 1838 
• "Liverpool", Leigh's New Pocket Road-Book of England and Wales (7th ed.), London: Leigh and Son, 1839 
• Liverpool as It Is. 1840. 
• Alexander Brown (1843), Smith's Strangers' Guide to Liverpool, Liverpool: Benjamin Smith 
• John Thomson (1845), "Liverpool", New Universal Gazetteer and Geographical Dictionary, London: H.G. Bohn 
• "Liverpool". Slater's National Commercial Directory of Ireland; including ... English Towns of Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, West Bromwich, Leeds, Sheffield and Bristol, and in Scotland, those of Glasgow and Paisley. Manchester: I. Slater. 1846. 
• Samuel Lewis (1848), "Liverpool", Topographical Dictionary of England (7th ed.), London: S. Lewis and Co. 

1850s-1890s

• Thomas Baines (1852). History of the Commerce and Town of Liverpool. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 
• "Liverpool", Black's Picturesque Tourist and Road-book of England and Wales (3rd ed.), Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1853 
• Richard Brooke (1853), Liverpool as it was during the last quarter of the eighteenth century. 1775 to 1800, Liverpool: J. Mawdsley and Son, OCLC 4612147 
• Thomas Baines (1859), Liverpool in 1859, London: Longman 
• George Measom (1859), "Liverpool", Official Illustrated Guide to the North-Western Railway, London: W.H. Smith and Son 
• Recollections of old Liverpool, Liverpool: J. F. Hughes, 1863 
• A. Green & Co.'s Directory for Liverpool and Birkenhead, 1870 
• James Stonehouse (c. 1870). Streets of Liverpool. Liverpool: E. Howell. 
• Black's Guide to Liverpool, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1871 
• "Liverpool Section". Commercial Directory and Shippers' Guide (3rd ed.). Liverpool: R.E. Fulton & Co. 1871. 
• James Picton (1875), Memorials of Liverpool, London: Longmans, Green  v.2
• "Liverpool", Official Guide and Album of the Cunard Steamship Company, S. Sharpe, 1877 
• John Parker Anderson (1881), "Lancashire: Liverpool", Book of British Topography: a Classified Catalogue of the Topographical Works in the Library of the British Museum Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, London: W. Satchell 
• Lewis's Handy Guide to Liverpool and Neighbourhood. Liverpool: Lewis's. 1884. 
• Liverpool a few years since (3rd ed.), Liverpool: A. Holden, 1885 
• City of Liverpool: Municipal archives and records, from A. D. 1700 to the passing of the municipal reform act, 1835, Liverpool: G. G. Walmsley, 1886 
• Frederick Dolman (1895), "Liverpool", Municipalities at Work: the Municipal Policy of Six Great Towns and its Influence on their Social Welfare, London: Methuen & Co., OCLC 8429493 

Published in the 20th century

1900s-1940s

• Ramsay Muir (1907), A History of Liverpool (2nd ed.), London: Pub. for the University Press of Liverpool by Williams & Norgate 
• George T. Shaw; Isabella Shaw, eds. (1907). Liverpool's First Directory. A Reprint of the Names and Addresses from Gore's Directory for 1766. Liverpool: Henry Young & Sons. 
• Robert Donald, ed. (1907). "Liverpool". Municipal Year Book of the United Kingdom for 1907. London: Edward Lloyd. 
• William Dean Howells (1909), "A Modest Liking for Liverpool", Seven English Cities, New York: Harper & Brothers 
• "Liverpool", Great Britain (7th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1910 
• Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Liverpool", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co. 
• William Farrer; J. Brownbill, eds. (1911). "History of the County of Lancaster". Victoria County History. University of London, Institute of Historical Research.  (includes Liverpool)

1950s-1990s

• Richard Hawes (1998). "Municipal Regulation of Smoke Pollution in Liverpool, 1853–1866". Environment and History. 4. JSTOR 20723060. 

Published in the 21st century

• Richard Lawton (2002). "Components of demographic change in a rapidly growing port-city: the case of Liverpool in the nineteenth century". In Richard Lawton and W. Robert Lee. Population and Society in Western European Port Cities, c.1650-1939. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-0-85323-435-7. 
• John Belchem (2007). Irish, Catholic and Scouse: The History of the Liverpool-Irish, 1800–1939. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Liverpool.

• "Liverpool". Port Cities UK. UK: New Opportunities Fund. Archived from the original on 15 April 2012. 
• Caryl Williams. "History Timeline". Old Liverpool. UK. 
• "Lancashire", Historical Directories, UK: University of Leicester . Includes digitized directories of Liverpool, various dates
• Digital Public Library of America. Works related to Liverpool, various dates
• "(Liverpool)". Discovering Britain: Walks: North West England. Royal Geographical Society. c. 2013. 

Coordinates: 53°24′N 3°00′W / 53.4°N 3°W / 53.4; -3