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Birmingham

city in the West Midlands, England

20 dated entries naming Birmingham, drawn from 18 separate years between 1154 CE and 2022 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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12th century

  • 1154Peter de Bermingham has a charter to hold a market in Birmingham, origin of the Bull Ring.source

18th century

  • 1741Summer – Upper Priory Cotton Mill is opened in Birmingham, England, as the world's first mechanised cotton mill by Lewis Paul and John Wyatt; although this is not a commercial success, other Paul-Wyatt cotton mills follow.source
  • 1741Summer – Upper Priory Cotton Mill is opened in Birmingham as the world's first mechanised cotton mill by Lewis Paul and John Wyatt; although this is not a commercial success, other Paul-Wyatt cotton mills follow.source
  • 1757May – the Baskerville typeface, designed by John Baskerville of Birmingham, is first used in a wove paper quarto edition of Virgil.source
  • 1761Industrial Revolution: Establishment of Matthew Boulton's Soho Manufactory near Birmingham to serve the "Birmingham toy industry", considered as the first factory for the production of metal goods in Britain.source
  • 1765Taylors & Lloyds Bank established in Birmingham.source
  • 177221 September – Birmingham Canal Navigations main line open for traffic, linking Birmingham to the River Severn via the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal.source
  • 177327 May – Parliament passes the Plate Assay (Sheffield and Birmingham) Act 1772 (13 Geo. 3. c. 52) permitting assay offices in Birmingham and Sheffield.source
  • 17813 December – first known building society established, in Birmingham.source
  • 1791July 14–17 – Priestley Riots against Dissenters in Birmingham, England.source
  • 1794St Mary's College is established at Old Oscott, near Birmingham, the first Roman Catholic seminary in England since the Reformation.source

19th century

  • 181327 December – 3 January 1814 – A thick fog blankets London causing the Prince Regent to turn back from a trip to Hatfield House and a mail coach to take 7 hours to reach Uxbridge on its way to Birmingham.source
  • 1850Bingley Hall, the world's first purpose-built exhibition hall, opens in Birmingham, England.source
  • 1875Association football team Birmingham City F.C. is founded as Small Heath Alliance in Birmingham by a group of cricketers from Holy Trinity Church, Bordesley, playing its first match in November.source
  • 1875September – English Association football team Birmingham City F.C. is founded as Small Heath Alliance in Birmingham by a group of cricketers from Holy Trinity Church, Bordesley, playing its first match in November.source
  • 18923 September – Three years after the formation of the Football League, a Second Division is created. Its twelve members are: Small Heath of Birmingham, Sheffield United, Darwen of Lancashire, Grimsby Town, Ardwick of Manchester, Burton Swifts of Staffordshire, Northwich Victoria of Cheshire, Bootle of Liverpool, Lincoln City, Crewe Alexandra, Burslem Port Vale of Staffordshire and Walsall Town Swifts.source

20th century

  • 1954May 29 – Diane Leather becomes the first woman to run a sub-five minute mile, in Birmingham, England.source
  • 1974November 21 – Birmingham pub bombings: In Birmingham, England, two pubs are bombed, killing 21 people in an attack widely believed at the time to be linked to the Provisional Irish Republican Army. The Birmingham Six are later sentenced to life in prison for this, but their convictions are quashed after a lengthy campaign.source
  • 1981July 10 – 1981 Handsworth riots in Birmingham begin, followed by further 1981 England riots in several urban areas including Liverpool and Leeds.source

21st century

  • 2022July 28–August 8 – The 2022 Commonwealth Games is held in Birmingham, England.source

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