Timeline of Derby
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Derby, England.
Prior to 18th century
- 9thC. – Danes take town.
- 917
- * Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians wins sweeping conquests to oust the Danes.
- * Market active.
- 1160 – Derby School established.
- 1206 - First extant charter granted to Derby.
- 1229
- * A second charter granted by Henry III.
- * Derby fair active.
- 1294 – Parliamentary representation begins.
- 1337 - Edward III. on the petition of the burgesses grants them two bailiffs.
- 1530 – All Saints' Church tower built.
- 1592 – Plague.
- 1611 - Derby incorporated by James I.
- 1638 – Henry Mellor becomes mayor.
- 1660 – County Hall built.
- 1665 – Plague.
- 1675 – Derby Company of Mercers formed.
- 1696 – Osmaston Hall built.
18th century
- 1717 - Silk “throwing” or spinning introduced by John Lombe.
- 1721 – Lombe's Mill built.
- 1726 – Derby Postman newspaper begins publication.
- 1731 – Town Hall built.
- 1732 – Derby Mercury newspaper begins publication.
- 1735 – 9 July: Samuel Johnson marries at St Werburgh's Church.
- 1745
- * 4 December: Jacobite army arrives.
- * 5 December: Jacobites meet at Exeter House and decide that Bonnie Prince Charlie, the young Pretender should return to Scotland instead of going on to London.
- 1750
- * Derby Porcelain Company in business.
- * Markeaton Hall built.
- * Manufacture of hosiery profited by the inventions of Jedediah Strutt.
- 1756 – County prison built in Nun's Green.
- 1772 – New Jerusalem Chapel built.
- 1773 – Theatre built.
- 1774 – Assembly room built.
- 1783 – Derby Philosophical Society founded.
- 1796 – Derby Canal constructed.
19th century
- 1802 – General Baptist Chapel built.
- 1805 – King Street Wesleyan Methodist Chapel built.
- 1808
- * Derby Literary and Philosophical Society established.
- * Friends' Meeting House built.
- 1809 – Cox and Co. shot mill built.
- 1810 – Infirmary built.
- 1811
- * Permanent Library established.
- * Population: 13,043.
- 1817 – Derby Choral Society established.
- 1820 – Swedenborgian Chapel built.
- 1823 – Derby Reporter newspaper begins publication.
- 1824 – New Connexion Chapel built.
- 1825 – Mechanics' Institution established.
- 1828
- * Town Hall rebuilt.
- * St. John's Church opens.
- 1832 – Town and County Library established.
- 1833 – Labour strike.
- 1835 – Joseph Strutt elected mayor.
- 1836
- * Police force and Derby Town and County Museum and Natural History Society established.
- * Trinity Church consecrated.
- 1837 – Mechanics' Hall opens.
- 1839
- * May: The founding companies of the Midland Railway begin operating.
- * Derby Exhibition held.
- * St Mary's Church built.
- 1840
- * Derby railway station, Derby Arboretum, and Christ Church open.
- * Athenaeum built.
- 1841
- * Derby Baptist Chapel, St Mary's Gate opens
- 1842 – Arboretum Festival begins.
- 1843
- * General Cemetery and Vernon Street Prison in operation.
- * Primitive Methodist Chapel built.
- * Agricultural Show held.
- 1844 – Midland Railway company formed.
- 1846 – St Alkmund's Church built.
- 1850 – Derby Co-operative Society established.
- 1856 – John Smith clockmaker in business.
- 1862 – Corn Exchange opens.
- 1863 – County Cricket Ground established.
- 1866 – Market hall opens.
- 1870 – Derbyshire County Cricket Club formed.
- 1878 – April: Great Northern Railway opens its Derbyshire extension through Friargate railway station.
- 1879
- * Derby Free Library and Museum opens.
- * Derby Daily Telegraph and Reporter begins publication.
- 1882 – Art gallery opens.
- 1884 - Derby County F.C. established as an offshoot of Derbyshire County Cricket Club
- 1886 – 6 May: Grand Theatre burns down.
- 1887 – Derby Sketching Club formed.
- 1888 - Derby becomes a County Borough
- 1891 - Population: 94,146.
- 1895
- * Midland Railway Institute built.
- * Derby County move to play at the Baseball Ground
- 1899 – Derby Technical College founded.
20th century
- 1901 - Population: 114,848.
- 1902 – Derby Municipal Secondary School for Boys opens.
- 1908 – Rolls-Royce Limited headquartered in Derby on Nightingale Road.
- 1910
- * Victoria Electric Theatre opens.
- * Cosmopolitan Public Hall built.
- 1918 – British Cellulose and Chemical Manufacturing Company plant built.
- 1927 - Derby Cathedral established for the newly created Bishop of Derby
- 1930 – Bemrose School opens.
- 1971
- * Rolls-Royce Limited enters receivership before being nationalized
- * BBC Radio Derby begins broadcasting.
- 1972 - Derby County are Football League Champions for the 1971-72 season
- 1974 – Derby Industrial Museum opens.
- 1975
- * Derby Playhouse opens.
- * Eagle Centre shopping centre in business.
- * Derby County are League Champions again
- 1977 - Derby is awarded City status as part of the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II
- 1981 - Social unrest.
- 1988 – Pickford's House Museum of Georgian Life and Costume established.
- 1992
- * University of Derby established.
- * Derby Heritage Centre in business.
- 1995 – Derby Grammar School founded.
- 1997 – Pride Park Stadium opens.
- 1998 – Bronze Age Hanson Log Boat discovered near town.
21st century
- 2007 – Saint Alkmund's Way Footbridge opens.
- 2009 – Cathedral Green Footbridge opens.
- 2011 – Population: 248,700.
- 2012
- * 11 May: Allenton house fire.