Timeline of Derby
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
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.
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
1840
1841
1842 – Arboretum Festival begins.
1843
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
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
1899 – Derby Technical College founded.
References
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Glover, Stephen (1843). History and Directory of the Borough of Derby . Derby: S. Glover and Son.
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Bibliography
Published in the 19th century
1850s-1890s
Llewellynn Jewitt, ed. (1857). "Derby" . Black's Tourist's Guide to Derbyshire (2nd ed.). Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black.
"History of the Borough of Derby" . History, Gazetteer, and Directory of the County of Derby . Sheffield: Francis White & Co. 1857.
Measom, George Samuel (1861). "Derby" . Official Illustrated Guide to the Great Northern Railway . London: Griffin, Bohn. OCLC 12433505 .
Knight, Charles, ed. (1867). "Derby". English Cyclopaedia . Vol. II: Geography. London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co. hdl :2027/nyp.33433000064794 .
"Derby" . Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire . 1881.
Visitors' Guide and Handbook to Derby and to the Royal Agricultural Show . Derby. 1881.{{cite book }}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link )
"Derby" . Handbook for Travellers in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, and Staffordshire (3rd ed.). London: J. Murray . 1892. OCLC 2097091 .
"Derby" . History, Topography, and Directory of Derbyshire . Preston: T. Bulmer & Co. 1895.
Gross, Charles (1897). "Derby" . Bibliography of British Municipal History . New York: Longmans, Green, and Co.
Published in the 20th century
Firth, J. B. (1905). "Derby" . Highways and byways in Derbyshire . London: Macmillan and Co. OCLC 882321 .
Davison, A.W. (1906). Derby: its rise and progress . London: Bemrose & Sons.
"Derby". Great Britain (7th ed.). Leipzig: Karl Baedeker. 1910. hdl :2027/mdp.39015010546516 .
"Derby (England)" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 8 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 69– 70.
Eccleshare, C.F. (1934). Derby; a study in urban development . University of London.
Heath, J. (1979). "The borough of Derby between 1780 and 1810". Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological Society .
Delves, A. (1981). "Popular recreation and social conflict in Derby, 18000-1850". In Yeo, E.; Yeo, S. (eds.). Popular Culture and Class Conflict 1850–1914 . Brighton. {{cite book }}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link )