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Derby : Its Rise and Progress
By H.W. Davison
Transcriptions by Rosemary Lockie, © Copyright 2016
Derby - Its Rise and Progress CHAPTER VIII.
DATES OF LOCAL EVENTS
| Saxon town founded | c. | 600 |
| St. Werburgh's Church founded | c. | 700 |
| Danes occupy the town | | 874 |
| Saxons re-take it | | 917 |
| Danes re-occupy it | | 943 |
| St. Alkmund's founded | c. | 950 |
| All Saints', St. Michael's, and St. Peter's founded | a. | 1066 |
| St. James's monastery founded | a. | 1140 |
| Nunnery founded | | 1160 |
| King John passed through Derby | | 1200 March. |
| Third Charter granted | | 1204 |
| King Edward I. at Darley Abbey | 1291 & 1292 |
| Friary founded | | 1292 |
| Assizes first held at Derby | | 1328 |
| St. Mary's Bridge re-built of stone | c. | 1330 |
| St. James's monastery destroyed by fire | c. | 1335 |
| Town riot | | 1341 |
| St. Peter's Church re-built | c. | 1350 |
| Fire at Nunnery | c. | 1400 |
| Borough Recorder appointed | | 1460 |
| All Saints' Tower re-built | c. | 1509-27 |
| Monastery, Nunnery and Friary dissolved | | 1537-9 |
| | DATES OF LOCAL EVENTS. | 317 |
| Joan Waste burned to death in Windmill Pit | | 1556 Aug. 1. |
| Mary Queen of Scots passed through the town | | 1585 Jan. |
| Flood | | 1587 |
| Romish priests executed | | 1588 |
| Riots re Common Lands, | 1590, 1603, 1604 |
| Devonshire Almshouses founded | | 1599 |
| Election riot | | 1610 |
| Municipal Charter | | 1611 |
| Flood (exceptional) | | 1611 |
| Wilmot Almshouses built (rebuilt 1814) | | 1630 |
| Charter enlarged (Mayor appointed) | | 1637 |
| King Charles I. passed through | | 1642 Sept. 13-16. |
| Sir Jno. Gell came to Derby | | 1642 Oct 31. |
| Plague | | 1645 |
| Flamsteed born | | 1646 |
| George Fox imprisoned | | 1650-1 |
| Flood | | 1659 |
| Booth's insurrection | | 1659 Aug. 26. |
| County Hall built | | 1660 |
| Flood | | 1673 |
| Mercers' Company established | | 1674 |
| Gisborne Mansion built (Wardwick) | c. | 1677 |
| Earl of Devonshire declared for William of Orange | | 1688 Nov. |
| St. Michael's Waterworks erected | c. | 1690 |
| Meeting House built (Friar Gate, now Unitarian Chapel) | | 1698 |
| Dr. Sacheverell preached at All Saints' | | 1709 Aug. 15. |
| Old Assembly Rooms built | | 1714 |
| Large's Almshouses established | | 1716 |
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| Lombe's Silk Mill built | c. | 1717 |
| Derby Postman (first Derby newspaper) established | | 1719 |
| All Saints' Church demolished | | 1722 |
| Hutton born | | 1723 Sept. 30. |
| All Saints' re-opened | | 1725 Nov. |
| Buck's View of Derby published | | 1728 |
| Town Hall built | | 1730 |
| Derby Mercury established | | 1732 |
| "Wright of Derby" born | | 1734 |
| Dr. Samuel Johnson married at St. Werburgh's | | 1735 July 9. |
| First coach from Derby to London | | 1735 |
| Meeting re Turnpikes | | 1738 |
| Flour Riot | | 1740 |
| Flood | | 1740 |
| Scotch rebels in Derby | | 1745 Dec. 4-6, |
| China Works established | c. | 1750 |
| Millstone Riot | | 1756 |
| County Prison built (Nun's Green) | | 1756 |
| Cavendish Bridge built (Shardlow) | | 1758 |
| French prisoners of war came to Derby | | 1759 |
| Ribbed stocking-frame invented | | 1759 |
| New Assembly Rooms built | | 1764 |
| Rev. John Wesley mobbed | | 1764 March. |
| Wesley's Meeting House built (St. Michael's Lane) | | 1765 |
| Food Riots | | 1766 |
| Theatre opened (Bold Lane) | | 1773 |
| Flood | | 1774 |
| First fireproof mill in England built by Messrs. Strutt near the present Corn Exchange | c. | 1775 |
| Election trial | | 1776 |
| | DATES OF LOCAL EVENTS. | 319 |
| French prisoners of war came to Derby | c. | 1779 |
| Brookside Meeting House built | | 1783 |
| Philosophical Society founded | | 1783 |
| Meeting at Guildhall re circulation of bad halfpence | | 1786 |
| Sadler Gate Bridge built | | 1787 |
| Howard, the philanthropist, in Derby | | 1787 |
| St. Mary's Bridge, re-building began | | 1789 Nov. |
| Oil Lamps placed in streets | | 1792 |
| First coach-stand (Corn Market) | | 1793 |
| Canal from Derby to Trent | | 1795 |
| Baptist Chapel built (Brook Street) | | 1803 |
| Military Depot built (Rose Hill) | | 1805 |
| Methodist Chapel built (King Street) | | 1805 |
| Friends' Meeting-House (St. Helen's Street) built | | 1808 |
| Rejoicings re Jubilee of George III. | | 1809 Oct. |
| Shot Tower built | | 1809 |
| Infirmary opened | | 1810 June. |
| Peace Party held meeting | | 1812 Oct. |
| Lancasterian and Bell's Schools opened | | 1812 |
| Roman Catholic Chapel built (Chapel Street) | | 1813 |
| Peace rejoicings | | 1814 June. |
| Four men hanged for rick-burning | | 1817 Aug. |
| Brandreth, Ludlam, and Turner executed | | 1817 Nov. 7. |
| Primitive Methodist Chapel built (Albion Street) | | 1817 |
| Britannia Foundry established | | 1818 |
| Baths at Infirmary opened | | 1819 |
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| Thos. Hopkinson hanged before County Gaol for rick-burning, etc. | c. | 1819 April. |
| Herbert Spencer born | | 1820 April 21. |
| Mrs. Fry visited the County Gaol | | 1820 Nov. |
| Market Place lighted with gas | | 1821 Feb. 19. |
| Depôt (Rose Hill) sold | | 1822 |
| Derby Reporter established | | 1823 |
| Daniel Parker Coke, Esq., died | | 1825 Dec. 6. |
| New County Prison built, Vernon Street | | 1823-6 |
| St John's Church opened | | 1828 |
| Cobbett lectured in Theatre | | 1829 |
| New Market opened | | 1830 |
| Flood | | 1830 |
| Riot re Reform Bill | | 1831 Oct. 8-10. |
| Lunatic Asylum opened (Green Hill) | | 1831 |
| Streets partly lighted with gas | | 1831 |
| Town meeting re Board of Health | | 1831 |
| Trinity Church built | | 1832 |
| Royal Commission re Corporations | | 1833 Dec. |
| Trade strike (five months) | | 1833-4 |
| All Saints' Church lighted with gas | | 1836 |
| Lecture Hall built | | 1837 |
| Athenæum and Royal Hotel built | | 1839 |
| Roman Catholic Church, Bridge Gate, opened | | 1839 Oct. |
| Workhouse built (Osmaston Road) | | 1839 |
| Railway opened to Nottingham | | 1839 May 30. |
| Railway opened to London (via Hampton-in-Arden) | | 1839 Aug. 12. |
| Railway opened to Leeds | | 1840 June 30. |
| Christ Church built | | 1840 |
| Arboretum opened | | 1840 Sept. 16. |
| | DATES OF LOCAL EVENTS. | 321 |
| Town Hall destroyed by fire | | 1841 Oct. 21. |
| Great Flood (see page 324) | | 1842 April 1. |
| First Cemetery opened, Uttoxeter Road | | 1842 |
| Town Hall restored | | 1842 |
| St. Alkmund's Church rebuilt | | 1846 |
| Football suppressed | | 1846 |
| Derbyshire Advertiser established | | 1846 |
| China Works closed | | 1849 |
| Water Works completed | | 1850 |
| St. Paul's Church, Chester Green, built | | 1850 |
| County Asylum, Mickleover, opened | | 1851 |
| Training College for School-mistresses established | | 1851 |
| Exeter Bridge built | | 1852 |
| Temperance Hall built | | 1853 |
| Exeter House demolished | | 1854 |
| New Cemetery opened, Nottingham Road | | 1855 |
| St Michael's Church rebuilt | | 1858 |
| Public Baths, Full Street, established | | 1858 |
| Derby Gazette established | | 1860 |
| Baptist Chapel, Osmaston Road, built | | 1861 |
| Corn Exchange opened | | 1862 |
| Market Hall opened | | 1866 May 29 |
| St. James's Church built | | 1866 |
| Iron Gate widened | c. | 1867 |
| Recreation Grounds presented to town by Mr. Bass, M.P. | | 1867 |
| Infirmary enlarged | | 1869 |
| Drill Hall opened | | 1869 |
| St. Luke's Church built | | 1871 |
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| Free Baths, on the Holmes, built | c. | 1873 |
| Children's Hospital built | | 1877 |
| Free library and Museum opened | | 1879 |
| Deaf and Dumb Institute founded | | 1879 |
| Corporation purchased Water Works | | 1880 |
| Mechanics' Institution rebuilt (Enlarged 1894) | | 1882 |
| Corporation Art Gallery established | | 1883 |
| Railway Servants' Orphanage opened | | 1887 |
| Rowditch Recreation Ground opened | | 1889 |
| Infectious Diseases Hospital established | | 1889 |
| Poor Law Offices built in Becket Street | | 1893 |
| St. Werburgh's Church rebuilt | | 1893-4 |
| Deaf and Dumb Institution opened, Friar Gate | | 1894 |
| Midland Railway Institute established | | 1895 |
| Government Offices, St. Peter's Churchyard, opened by Lord Chancellor Halsbury | | 1897 April 9. |
OCR/transcript by Rosemary Lockie in November 2016.
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