Manchester

city in Greater Manchester, England

35 dated entries naming Manchester, drawn from 30 separate years between 79 CE and 2017 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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1st century

79Mamucium (the first Manchester) is founded as a frontier fort and settlement in the North West of England, a distance to the north of Chester.source

18th century

171510 June – A Jacobite mob sacks Cross Street Chapel in Manchester, going on to destroy another at Monton.source
1752Foundation of what will become the Manchester Royal Infirmary as a cottage hospital in Garden Street, Manchester, by Charles White (surgeon).source
1761July 17 – The first section of the Bridgewater Canal is opened, for the transportation of coal from local mines to Manchester.source
176117 July – James Brindley completes the Bridgewater Canal from Worsley to Manchester.source
178517 July – Fairfield Moravian Church is opened in Fairfield, Droylsden, Lancashire. With its surrounding settlement it has been founded by Benjamin La Trobe as a centre for evangelistic work for the Moravian Church in the Manchester area.source
179313 April – Manchester Penny Post launched, the first such service in the English provinces.source
1798Nathan Mayer Rothschild moves from Frankfurt in the Holy Roman Empire to England, settling up in business as a textile trader and financier in Manchester.source

19th century

1810General Union of Spinners organises strike action to raise wages in the smaller cotton centres to the Manchester level.source
181710 March – The Blanketeers set out to march from Manchester to London; on 11 March, 160 are arrested at Stockport.source
1818Besses o' th' Barn Brass Band is formed in Whitefield, near Manchester by this date.source
1819August 16 – Peterloo Massacre: A yeomanry unit charges into a crowd of radical protesters in Manchester, England, resulting in 15 deaths and over 600 injuries.source
181916 August – Peterloo Massacre in St. Peter's Field, Manchester: a cavalry charge into a crowd of radical protesters results in eleven deaths and over 400 injuries.source
1824April 7 – The Mechanics' Institution is established in Manchester, England at the Bridgewater Arms hotel, as part of a national movement for the education of working men. The institute is the precursor to two Universities in the city: the University of Manchester and the Metropolitan University of Manchester (MMU).source
1839March 9 – The Anti-Corn Law League is founded in Manchester, England.source
1841November 13 – Scottish surgeon James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism by Charles Lafontaine in Manchester, which leads to his study of the phenomenon that he (Braid) eventually calls hypnotism.source
1850The city of Manchester, England, reaches 400,000 inhabitants.source
1853March 29 – Manchester is granted city status in the United Kingdom.source
1857May 5 – October 17 – The Art Treasures of Great Britain exhibition is held in Manchester, one of the largest such displays of all time.source
18575 May–17 October – The Art Treasures of Great Britain exhibition is held in Manchester, one of the largest such displays of all time.source
1868June 2 – The first Trades Union Congress is held in Manchester, England.source
18682 June – the first Trades Union Congress is held in Manchester.source
1869The Co-operative Central Board (later Co-operatives UK) is founded in Manchester, England.source
1889February 17 – The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is founded in Manchester (England), originally known as "The Plumage League" to campaign against the use of plumage in women's clothing.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
1894May 21 – The Manchester Ship Canal and Docks are officially opened by Queen Victoria, linking the previously landlocked industrial city of Manchester, in north-west England, to the Irish Sea.source

20th century

1904May 4 – Charles Rolls and Henry Royce meet for the first time, in Manchester England to agree production of Rolls-Royce motor cars; the first produced under their joint names are launched in December.source
1905October 13 – Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst interrupt a Liberal Party (UK) rally at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England, and choose imprisonment when convicted, the first militant action of the suffragette campaign.source
190513 October – Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst interrupt a Liberal Party rally at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester and choose imprisonment when convicted, the first militant action of the suffragette campaign.source
1944December 24 – WWII: Fifty German V-1 flying bombs, air-launched from Heinkel He 111 bombers flying over the North Sea, target Manchester in England, killing 42 and injuring more than 100 in the Oldham area.source
1979May 8 – Ten shoppers die in a fire at the Woolworths department store in Manchester city centre in the UK.source
1990April 1 – Strangeways Prison riot: The longest prison riot in Britain's history begins at Strangeways Prison in Manchester, and continues for 3 weeks and 3 days, until April 25.source
1996June 15 – In Manchester, UK, an IRA bomb injures over 200 people and devastates a large part of the city centre.source

21st century

2002July 25–August 4 – The 2002 Commonwealth Games are held in Manchester, England.source
2017May 22 – An ISIL terrorist bombing attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, kills 22 people and injures more than 500 others.source