Glasgow

city in Scotland, United Kingdom

43 dated entries naming Glasgow, drawn from 40 separate years between 1134 CE and 2021 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.

Also written as Glaswegians, West End of Glasgow in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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12th century

1134The Church of St. James is dedicated in Glasgow.source

14th century

1305August 3 – William Wallace, Scottish rebel leader and knight, is captured near Glasgow at Robroyston, by English troops led by John de Menteith. He is transported to London and led, crowned mockingly with laurel, in procession to Westminster Hall.source

16th century

15913 April – Brian O'Rourke is arrested in Glasgow and delivered to the English.source

18th century

1749March 6 – A "corpse riot" breaks out in Glasgow after a body disappears from a churchyard in the Gorbals district. Suspicion falls on anatomy students at the Glasgow Infirmary "had raised a dead body from the grave and carried it to the college" for dissection. The city guard intervenes after a mob of protesters begins breaking windows at random buildings, but groups of citizens begin to make regular patrols of church graveyardssource
1749June 4 – A fire in Glasgow leaves 200 families homeless.source
176326 June – stagecoach service between Glasgow and Greenock initiated.source
1769John Maxwell (of Dargavel) begins to practice as a lawyer in Glasgow, origin of McGrigors which continues as an independent firm until 2012.source
17831 January – Glasgow Chamber of Commerce is founded by Patrick Colquhoun – the first in Britain.source

19th century

181212 July (The Twelfth) – first Protestant Orange march in Scotland held in Glasgow, attracting hostile Catholic crowds.source
1817A typhus epidemic occurs in Edinburgh and Glasgow.source
181818 September – the original Theatre Royal in Glasgow becomes the first theatre in Scotland to be lit by gas.source
1819The publisher Collins is founded as a printer of religious literature in Glasgow by William Collins.source
1834March – John Scott Russell's Scottish Steam Carriage Company begins operating a regular passenger service in west central Scotland on the open road between Glasgow and Paisley, Renfrewshire.source
18382 March – Clydesdale Bank founded in Glasgow.source
1849The drapers' store of Arthur & Fraser, predecessor of the House of Fraser, is established in Glasgow by Hugh Fraser and James Arthur.source
1865Joseph Lister begins to experiment with antiseptic surgery in Glasgow using carbolic acid.source
1872May – Rangers F.C., founded in March as an Association football club in Glasgow (Scotland) by brothers Moses and Peter McNeil, Peter Campbell and William McBeath, play their first ever game on the public pitches of Glasgow Green, a 0 to 0 draw against Callander.source
1873October 2 – The British ship SS Ismailia, an Anchor Line steamer that departed from New York on September 30 with 52 people disappears while en route to Glasgow.source
188112 March – Andrew Watson of Glasgow's Queen's Park F.C. (from a mixed Scottish/British Guianese background) captains the Scotland national football team in a 6–1 victory against England, becoming the world's first mixed race international Association football player.source
1882St Andrew's Ambulance Association is founded in Glasgow, Scotland; St. John Ambulance Canada is also founded this year.source
1883July 3 – The SS Daphne sinks on launch in Glasgow, Scotland, leaving 124 dead.source
1883October 4 – The Boys' Brigade (the first uniformed youth organization in existence) is founded in Glasgow, Scotland.source
188514 March Scotland 8–2 Ireland (in Glasgow)source
1887November 6 – The Association football club Celtic F.C. is formed in Glasgow, Scotland, by Irish Marist Brother Walfrid, to help alleviate poverty in the city's East End by raising money for his charity, the 'Poor Children's Dinner Table'.source
1888May 8 – The International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry in Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow opens (continues to November).source
189727 March Scotland 5–1 Ireland (in Glasgow)source
1900Charles Rennie Mackintosh designs the White Dining Room for Catherine Cranston's tearooms in Ingram Street, Glasgow.source

20th century

19025 April – The original Ibrox disaster: a stand at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow collapses during an England versus Scotland football match. 25 people die and 517 are injured.source
19025 April – the first Ibrox disaster: a stand at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow collapses during an England versus Scotland football match. 25 people die and 517 are injured.source
1906June 7 – Cunard liner RMS Lusitania is launched in Glasgow, as the world's largest ship.source
1908St Mary's Episcopal Church in Glasgow is raised to the status of St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow, within the Scottish Episcopal Church.source
190917 April – 58 police officers and sixty other people are injured as 6,000 fans invade the pitch and brawl with rival fans and the police at the end of the drawn Scottish Cup Final replay between Rangers and Celtic at Hampden Park, Glasgow. The 1909 Scottish Cup and all medals are withheld.source
192013 March – Scotland 3–0 Ireland (in Glasgow).source
193226 September – first contingent of the National Hunger March leaves Glasgow.source
193717 April – A crowd of 149,415 spectators officially (and at least 20,000 more unofficially) watch the Scotland national football team defeat England 3-1 at Hampden Park, Glasgow, an all-time European record for an international match.source
193816 March – Belfast Harbour Airport at Sydenham is opened, with the inaugural commercial flight to Glasgow.source
194319 June – Jackie Paterson wins the world flyweight boxing title by a knockout in the first minute at Hampden Park in Glasgow.source
1960May 18 – Real Madrid beat Eintracht Frankfurt 7–3 at Hampden Park, Glasgow, and win the 1959–60 European Cup in Association football, their 5th successive victory in the competition.source
1964April 16 – In the Assize Court at Buckingham, England, sentences totalling 307 years are passed on twelve men who stole £2,600,000 in used bank notes, after holding up the night train from Glasgow to London in August 1963 – a heist that becomes known as the Great Train Robbery.source
1990January 1 – Glasgow begins its year as European Capital of Culture.source

21st century

2013November 29 – A police helicopter crashes into The Clutha, a pub in Glasgow, Scotland, killing 10 people and injuring 31.source
2014July 23–August 3 – The 2014 Commonwealth Games takes place in Glasgow, Scotland.source
2021October 31–November 13 – The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference is held in Glasgow, after being postponed in 2020 due to COVID-19. A deal is agreed by world leaders, which includes a "phasedown" of unabated coal power, a 30% cut in methane emissions by 2030, plans for a halt to deforestation by 2030, and increased financial support for developing countries.source