Timeline of Derby explained

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Derby, England.

Prior to 18th century

• 9thC. – Danes take town (approximate date).
• 917
  • Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians wins sweeping conquests to oust the Danes.
  • Market active.
• 1160 – Derby School established (approximate date).
• 1206 - First extant charter granted to Derby.
• 1229
  • A second charter granted by Henry III.
  • Derby fair active.
• 1294 – Parliamentary representation begins.^[1]
• 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.^[2]
• 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 (approximate date).^[3]
• 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 (approximate date).
  • 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.^[4]
• 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.^[5]
• 1824 – New Connexion Chapel built.
• 1825 – Mechanics' Institution established.^[6]
• 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 (approximate date).
• 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.^[7]
• 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.^[8]
• 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.^[9]
  • Cosmopolitan Public Hall built.
• 1918 – British Cellulose and Chemical Manufacturing Company plant built.
• 1927 - Derby Cathedral established (formerly All Saints Church) for the newly created Bishop of Derby
• 1930 – Bemrose School opens.
• 1971
  • Rolls-Royce Limited enters receivership before being nationalized ^[10]
  • 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^[11]
• 1981 - Social unrest.^{[12] [13]}
• 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.

See also

• History of Derby
• Timelines of other cities in East Midlands: Leicester, Lincoln, Nottingham

Bibliography

Published in the 19th century

1800s-1840s

• • Book: History of Derby . William Hutton . London . Nichols, Son, and Bentley . 1817 . 2nd . William Hutton (historian) .
  • Book: Derbyshire: Derby . https://books.google.com/books?id=hdMHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA125 . Pigot & Co.'s National Commercial Directory for 1828-9 . 3 September 2023 . London . James Pigot .
    • Book: Gem of the Peak; or, Matlock Bath and its Vicinity . William Adam . 1843 . 3d . London . Logman & Co. . Derby . https://books.google.com/books?id=qAEHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1 .

1850s-1890s

• Book: Adam and Charles Black . Edinburgh . Black's Tourist's Guide to Derbyshire . Llewellynn Jewitt . 1857 . 2nd . Derby . https://books.google.com/books?id=DAIHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA6 . Black's Guides .
  • • Book: 1867 . Charles Knight . . Geography . London . Bradbury, Evans, & Co. . Derby . 2027/nyp.33433000064794 .
• Book: Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire . 1881 . Derby . https://books.google.com/books?id=5kUTAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA972 .
• Book: Visitors' Guide and Handbook to Derby and to the Royal Agricultural Show . Derby . 1881 .
  • Book: History, Topography, and Directory of Derbyshire . T. Bulmer & Co. . 1895 . Preston . Derby . https://books.google.com/books?id=eD0JAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA842 .
• Book: Bibliography of British Municipal History . 1897 . New York . Longmans, Green, and Co. . Charles Gross. Derby . https://archive.org/stream/bibliographyofbr00grosiala#page/206/mode/2up .

Published in the 20th century

• • • • Derby (England) . 8 . 69 - 70 . 1910 . . 1.

External links

• . Includes Derby area directories, various dates.

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Notes and References

1. Book: History, Gazetteer and Directory of Derbyshire . 1846 . Samuel Bagshaw . Sheffield . History of the Town and Borough of Derby . https://books.google.com/books?id=GvoGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA41 .
2. Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society . 15 . 1893 . Derby Company of Mercers . H. Arnold-Bemrose .
3. Book: Edinburgh Encyclopædia . David Brewster . Philadelphia . Joseph and Edward Parker . 1832. Derby . 2027/mdp.39015068302770 . Edinburgh Encyclopædia .
4. Book: . 1817 . 5 . Derbyshire . Daniel Lysons . Samuel Lysons .
5. Book: Derby . https://archive.org/stream/newspaperpressdi00lond#page/174/mode/2up . Charles Mitchell . 1847 . London . Newspaper Press Directory .
6. Book: History and Directory of the Borough of Derby . S. Glover and Son . Derby . Stephen Glover . 1843 . Stephen Glover (antiquary) .
7. Derby: A Railway Town and Regional Centre . E.C. Vollans . Transactions and Papers (Institute of British Geographers) . 93–112 . 15 . 1949 . 621033 . 10.2307/621033 .
8. Web site: Derby (England) Newspapers . Main Catalogue . British Library . 20 September 2013.
9. Web site: Movie Theaters in Derby, England . CinemaTreasures.org . Cinema Treasures LLC . Los Angeles . 20 September 2013 .
10. Rolls-Royce collapse: state takeover move. The Times, Friday, 5 Feb 1971; pg. 1; Issue 58091
11. Patrick O'Leary, "Derby's long road to city status", The Times, 29 July 1977, p.14
12. Web site: New violence hits 10 English cities but is less serious . 12 July 1981 . New York Times . 20 September 2013.
13. Web site: British History Timeline . 1945 to Present . BBC . 20 September 2013 .