Timeline of Liverpool

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

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Prior to 18th century

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

18th century

• 1700
  • Liverpool Merchant slave ship begins operating.
  • Population: 5,714.
• 1702 – Croxteth Hall (house) built.
• 1704 – Woolton Hall (house) built.
• 1708 – Blue Coat School founded.
• 1717 – Bluecoat Chambers built.
• 1718 – Blue Coat hospital opens.
• 1720 – Population: 10,446.
• 1722 – Ranelagh Gardens open.
• 1749 – Royal Infirmary opens.
• 1753 – Salthouse Dock opens.
• 1754 – Liverpool Town Hall built.
• 1756 – Liverpool Advertiser newspaper begins publication.
• 1758 – Circulating library established.
• 1766 - City directory published.
• 1771
  • Bidston lighthouse built.
  • George's Dock opens.
• 1772 – Theatre built.
• 1779 – Medical Library founded.
• 1784 - Liverpool Musical Festival begins.
• 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.
• 1792 – Trinity Church consecrated.
• 1797 – Liverpool Athenaeum founded.

19th century

1800s-1840s

Map of Liverpool, 1836

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

1850s-1890s

• 1850 – Catholic Institute established.
• 1851
  • Derby Museum opens.
  • Balfour Williamson in business.
• 1852
  • African Steamship Company in business.
  • Liverpool Free Public Library and sailors' home open.
  • Hebrews' Educational Institution founded.
• 1854 – St George's Hall built.
• 1855 – February: Economic unrest.
• 1856 – Lewis's shop in business.
• 1857 – Mersey Docks & Harbour Board established.
• 1859 – Thomas Royden & Sons in business.
• 1860 – William Brown Library and Museum building opens.
• 1862 – Grand Olympic Festival begins.
• 1863 – Liverpool Amateur Photographic Association founded.
• 1864 – Oriel Chambers built.
• 1866 – Star Music Hall opens.
• 1867 – Alliance Israélite Universelle branch founded.
• 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.
  • 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.
  • Liverpool Echo newspaper begins publication.
  • Salvation Army active.
• 1880
  • Liverpool attains city status.
  • Aigburth Cricket Ground built.
• 1881 – University College Liverpool chartered.
• 1884
  • Anfield (athletic space) opens.
  • County Sessions House, Gustav Adolf Church, and Picton Clock Tower built.
• 1886
  • Mersey Railway Tunnel opens; Mersey Railway (Birkenhead-Liverpool) begins operating.
  • Liverpool and Birkenhead Women's Peace and Arbitration Association organized.
• 1887 – Liverpool Muslim Institute founded.
• 1888 – Shakespeare Theatre opens.
• 1890
  • Liverpool Union of Girls' Clubs formed.
  • Bowes Museum of Japanese Art Work opens.
• 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.
• 1897 – Gregson Memorial Institute built.
• 1898
  • Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine founded.
  • White Star Building constructed.
• 1899 – Liverpool University Press founded.

20th century

1900s-1940s

• 1901 – Population: 684,958.
• 1902
  • City boundaries expand.
  • Sefton Park Gazette begins publication.
• 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.
  • Dock Office built.
• 1908 – Meccano Ltd in business.
• 1909 – June: Catholic-Protestant conflict.
• 1911
  • 1911 Liverpool general transport strike.
  • Royal Liver Building constructed.
  • Rodewald Concert Society founded.
• 1912 – Lime Street Picture House opens.
• 1913 – Crane's Music Hall opens.
• 1914 – Adelphi Hotel opens.
• 1917
  • Cunard Building constructed.
  • Liverpool Commercial Reference Library opens.
• 1919 – Racial conflict.
• 1922 – African Churches Mission, and African and West Indian Mission organized.
• 1925 – Empire Theatre opens.
• 1930 – Speke Airport begins operating.
• 1931 – Population 855,688. This would be the peak size of Liverpool's population.
• 1934 – Queensway Tunnel, Walton Hall Park, and Paramount Theatre open.
• 1940 – August: Aerial bombing by German forces begins.
• 1942 – January: Aerial bombing by German forces ends.
• 1944 – Merseyside Unity Theatre active.

1950s-1990s

• 1952 – City twinned with Cologne, Germany.
• 1953 – Liverpool Muslim Society founded.
• 1957 – The Cavern Club in business.
• 1960 – Long John & the Silver Beatles musical group formed.
• 1961 – Mersey Beat begins publication.
• 1964 – Everyman Theatre founded.
• 1967
  • The Mersey Sound (book) anthology of Liverpool poets published.
  • 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.
• 1981 – July: Toxteth riots.
• 1984 – International Garden Festival held.
• 1988 – Tate Liverpool (museum) opens.
• 1991 – Population: 452,450 residents.
• 1992
  • Africa Oyé music festival begins.
  • Liverpool Community College established.
• 1993
  • Museum of Liverpool Life opens.
  • Liverpool Mathew Street Music Festival begins.
• 1995 – Liverpool dockers' strike begins.
• 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.
• 2007
  • International Slavery Museum opens.
  • West Tower built.
  • Liverpool Shakespeare Festival begins.
• 2008
  • City designated an 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.

See also

• History of Liverpool
• List of Lord Mayors of Liverpool

Further reading

Published in the 19th century

1850s-1890s

• v.2

Published in the 20th century

1900s-1940s

• (includes Liverpool)

External links

• . Includes digitized directories of Liverpool, various dates
• Digital Public Library of America. Works related to Liverpool, various dates