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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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