Timeline of Derby

• 9thC. – Danes take town (approximate date).[1]
• 917
  • Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians wins sweeping conquests to oust the Danes.[2]
  • Market active.[3]
• 1160 – Derby School established (approximate date).
• 1206 - First extant charter granted to Derby.[2]
• 1229
  • A second charter granted by Henry III.[2]
  • Derby fair active.[3]
• 1294 – Parliamentary representation begins.[4]
• 1337 - Edward III. on the petition of the burgesses grants them two bailiffs.[2]
• 1530 – All Saints' Church tower built.
• 1592 – Plague.[5]
• 1611 - Derby incorporated by James I.
• 1638 – Henry Mellor becomes mayor.
• 1660 – County Hall built.[4]
• 1665 – Plague.
• 1675 – Derby Company of Mercers formed.[6]
• 1696 – Osmaston Hall built.

• 1717 - Silk “throwing” or spinning introduced by John Lombe.[2]
• 1721 – Lombe's Mill built.
• 1726 – Derby Postman newspaper begins publication.[7]
• 1731 – Town Hall built (approximate date).[8]
• 1732 – Derby Mercury newspaper begins publication.[9]
• 1735 – 9 July: Samuel Johnson marries at St Werburgh's Church.[10]
• 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.[2]
• 1750
  • Derby Porcelain Company in business.[11]
  • Markeaton Hall built (approximate date).
  • Manufacture of hosiery profited by the inventions of Jedediah Strutt.[2]
• 1756 – County prison built in Nun's Green.[4]
• 1772 – New Jerusalem Chapel built.[4]
• 1773 – Theatre built.[8]
• 1774 – Assembly room built.[8]
• 1783 – Derby Philosophical Society founded.[5]
• 1796 – Derby Canal constructed.

• 1802 – General Baptist Chapel built.[4]
• 1805 – King Street Wesleyan Methodist Chapel built.[4]
• 1808
  • Derby Literary and Philosophical Society established.[8]
  • Friends' Meeting House built.[4]
• 1809 – Cox and Co. shot mill built.[1]
• 1810 – Infirmary built.[8]
• 1811
  • Permanent Library established.[7]
  • Population: 13,043.[8]
• 1817 – Derby Choral Society established.[7]
• 1820 – Swedenborgian Chapel built.[7]
• 1823 – Derby Reporter newspaper begins publication.[9]
• 1824 – New Connexion Chapel built.[4]
• 1825 – Mechanics' Institution established.[7]
• 1828
  • Town Hall rebuilt.[4]
  • St. John's Church opens.[4]
• 1832 – Town and County Library established.[7]
• 1833 – Labour strike.[5]
• 1835 – Joseph Strutt elected mayor.
• 1836
  • Police force[4] and Derby Town and County Museum and Natural History Society established.
  • Trinity Church consecrated.[4]
• 1837 – Mechanics' Hall opens.[7]
• 1839
  • May: The founding companies of the Midland Railway begin operating.[10]
  • Derby Exhibition held.
  • St Mary's Church built.
• 1840
  • Derby railway station, Derby Arboretum,[7] and Christ Church[4] open.
  • Athenaeum built (approximate date).
• 1841
  • Derby Baptist Chapel, St Mary's Gate opens
• 1842 – Arboretum Festival begins.[12]
• 1843
  • General Cemetery[4] and Vernon Street Prison in operation.
  • Primitive Methodist Chapel built.[4]
  • Agricultural Show held.[13]
• 1844 – Midland Railway company formed.[13][14]
• 1846 – St Alkmund's Church built.
• 1850 – Derby Co-operative Society established.[15]
• 1856 – John Smith clockmaker in business.
• 1862 – Corn Exchange opens.[13]
• 1863 – County Cricket Ground established.
• 1866 – Market hall opens.[5]
• 1870 – Derbyshire County Cricket Club formed.
• 1878 – April: Great Northern Railway opens its Derbyshire extension through Friargate railway station.[10]
• 1879
  • Derby Free Library and Museum opens.
  • Derby Daily Telegraph and Reporter begins publication.[16]
• 1882 – Art gallery opens.[10]
• 1884 - Derby County F.C. established as an offshoot of Derbyshire County Cricket Club
• 1886 – 6 May: Grand Theatre burns down.[10]
• 1887 – Derby Sketching Club formed.
• 1888 - Derby becomes a County Borough
• 1891 - Population: 94,146.[2]
• 1895
  • Midland Railway Institute built.[13]
  • Derby County move to play at the Baseball Ground
• 1899 – Derby Technical College founded.[13]

• 1901 - Population: 114,848. [2]
• 1902 – Derby Municipal Secondary School for Boys opens.
• 1908 – Rolls-Royce Limited headquartered in Derby on Nightingale Road.[13]
• 1910
  • Victoria Electric Theatre opens.[17]
  • Cosmopolitan Public Hall built.[17]
• 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 [18]
  • 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[19]
• 1981 - Social unrest.[20][21]
• 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.

• 2007 – Saint Alkmund's Way Footbridge opens.
• 2009 – Cathedral Green Footbridge opens.
• 2011 – Population: 248,700.
• 2012
  • 11 May: Allenton house fire.

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

• Daniel Defoe; Samuel Richardson (1778), "(Derby)", A Tour Through the Island of Great Britain (8th ed.), London: J.F. and C. Rivingdon

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• "Derbyshire", Historical Directories, UK: University of Leicester. Includes Derby area directories, various dates.

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