Note: There maybe some overlap between these and the Liverpool Firsts thread.
432 St Patrick sailed from River Mersey on mission to Ireland?
916 Runcorn castle built
1050 West Derby castle built?
1125 Benedictine monks at Birkenhead Priory begin rowing people across the river (Monk’s Ferry)
1150 Benedictine monastery founded at Birkenhead by Hamo de Mascy, 3rd Baron of Dunham.
1172/73 Embarkation point for conquest of Ireland by Henry II?
1207 28th August Liverpool Charter (King John)
1220 Everton beacon?
1229 Henry III charter confirming 1207 charter
1235 Royal assent given to William de Ferrers to build Liverpool castle
1237 Liverpool castle completed
1272 First Liverpool census? 840 population.
1280 Bank Hall built (demolished 1770)
1282 Woodside Ferry established
1295 Liverpool’s 1st MPs Adam, son of Richard and Robert Pinklowe
1330 Edward III grants charter to Birkenhead Priory allowing it to charge for ferry crossings
1333 Edward III charter
1351 William de Lyverpull? (son of Adam) becomes first recorded mayor of Liverpool
1361 Plague
1382 Richard II charter
1413 Henry V charter
1442 Castle extended
1510 Start of coal mining in Prescot area
1515 1st Town Hall built in Dale Street
1521 1st mention of coal mining in Whiston area
1522 Liverpools first grammar school built (founded by John Crosse of Crosse-hall)
1530s Dissolution of monasteries – ferry service provided by Birkenhead Priory sold to Thomas Worsley
1540 Plague
1544 Prescot Grammar School founded
1548 Plague
1556 Philip and Mary charter
1558 Plague
1561 November storm destroyed harbour
1565 138 inhabited houses
1578 John Midleton (the child of Hale) born – allegedly grew to 9’3” tall (died 1623)
1580 Liverpool Common Council established (survived until 1835)
1600 Introduction of watch-making to Prescot
1611 Salt works established at bottom of Chapel Street
1618 Puritan chapel established (now Ancient Chapel of Toxteth)
1626 Charles I charter
1632 Purchase of Crown Rights over town by Lord Molyneux
1639 Liverpool born astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks predicts and observes the orbit of Venus
1641 First trade contact with the West Indies?
1643 Parliamentarians take control of town during Civil War
1644 Cavaliers re-capture Liverpool (but re-taken by Roundheads six months later)
1647 Liverpool becomes free port (no longer under control of Chester)
1648 First reported cargo to arrive from America
1673/1674? Exchange & Council Hall built
1679 First seamen’s charity in England opened in Liverpool (founded by Mayor)
1689 Liverpool castle seized by forces of William of Orange
1691 William and Mary charter
1693 Capt. Grenville Collins publishes first known charts of the Dee and Mersey
1695 2nd William and Mary charter
1699 Liverpool becomes an independent parish (previously part of Walton)
1700 8th June reference in Illustrated to Marlborough, 1st ship in ‘old dock’
1700 Customs House built (up to this point Liverpool had been under authority of port of Chester)
1704 Woolton Hall
1708/09 Blue Coat School founded
1708 First reference to scouse (in Ned Ward’s The Wooden World Dissected)
1709 1st vessel sails from Liverpool to Africa
1709 Act of Parliament giving permission for 1st dock at Liverpool
1712 First Liverpool newspaper the Liverpool Courant established
1715 1st Liverpool dock fully opened (closed 1826)
1716 First Liverpool borough treasurer appointed
1717/1718 Blue Coat School moves to new premises in School Lane (now art centre)
1719 Completion of dock walls
1721/1725? Liverpool castle demolished
1724 Artist George Stubbs born (died 1806)
1725 Chadwick map of Liverpool
1726 Work starts on St George’s Hall
1726 Road from Liverpool to Prescot improved by turnpike trust
1732 New workhouse built near Blue Coat School
1738 Act for improvement of tidal basin
1740 Administration of Liverpool docks transferred to Dock Trustee’s (therefore docks became public rather than private)
1743 Dry pier (sea wall of tidal basin) completed
1743 First public parks provided by Common Council
1745 Lime Kiln Road first laid out (renamed Lime Street 1790) – Lime Street station built on site of former kilns
1748 Exchange building foundation stone laid
1749 25th March Infirmary opened – situated on present site of St George’s Hall (demolished 1826)
1752 26th March - George II charter
1752 Seamen’s Hospital completed (as detached wing of infirmary) (demolished 1826)
1753 2nd wet dock opened (renamed Salthouse Dock)
1754 New Town Hall built – the third one (replacing earlier Exchange and Council Hall)
1755 2oth March Bill to improve navigation of Sankey river introduced to Parliament
1756 25th May Liverpool Advertiser begins publication
1756 John Sadler invents art of transferring print to pottery
1757/1758? St Helen’s canal and Sankey navigation (first still water canal in England)
1757 23rd September 1st direct postal delivery from Liverpool to Preston
1757 18th October (St Lukes Day) a mob stops the mayoral elections taking place
1758 1st May earliest circulating library in Europe
1760 1st September first ever stage coach from Liverpool
1761 First Dock committee set up by Common Council
1762 October storm destroys large part of newly built wall on eastern side of North Dock
1763 Leasowe lighthouse opened
1763 Liverpool Dock Master builds first lighthouses to use parabolic mirrors (Hoylake and Bidston)
1765 27th December John Gore’s first newspaper published
1766 1st Liverpool directory published (Gore’s)
1769 Carr colliery opened
1770 5th November 1st sod cut for Leeds & Liverpool Canal (junction with Mersey is at Stanley Dock)
1771 North Dock (later George’s Dock) opened
1772 Theatre Royal, Williamson Square opened (demolished 1970)
1773 Bridgewater Canal extended to Runcorn
1773 Duke’s Dock built by Duke of Bridgewater to accommodate coal vessels coming from Manchester via Bridgewater Canal
1773 Pilkingtons opened glassworks, St Helen’s
1774/1776? Liverpool physician Matthew Dobson discovers link between sugar and diabetes
1774 18th February 1st boat on Leeds – Liverpool canal
1774 2nd August Liverpool races start at Crosby
1776 Establishment of first marine life-saving station in UK at Southport
1776 Ether first publically used as an anaesthetic
1780 Childwall Hall built by Bamber Gasgoyne (designed by architect John Nash) (demolished 1949 and new structure built – now HQ for Mersey TV)
1780 Derby horse race first run at Lord Derby’s private racecourse at Liverpool (now run at Epsom)
1786 Castle Street widened
1783 New St John’s church built
1785 20th July & 9th August Lunardi ascends in balloon from Liverpool Fort
1785 25th July 1st mail coach from Liverpool to London
1786 Europe’s first purpose-built prison (Great Howard Street)
1786 12th June Music Hall in Bold Street opened
1787 Samuel Cunard born Halifax, Nova Scotia
1787 Welsh Methodist chapel in Pall Mall opened
1788 3rd October Kings Dock completed
1788 Polish church in Seel Street – (city’s oldest Catholic church)
1788 Liverpool Corporation petition Parliament against abolition of slavery proposals
1789 Lunatic asylum built (in garden behind Infirmary) (demolished 1826)
1789 Chamber and ballroom added to Town Hall
1790 America’s first overseas consul appointed to Liverpool (James Laury – was consul until 1819)
1791 Liverpool School for the Blind, Commutation row founded (1st in England)
1792 Liverpool Lunatic Asylum opened
1793 Liverpool Corporation issues ‘bank’ notes
1794 Rack lever escapement invented by Liverpool watch-maker Peter Litherland
1795 Ellesmere Canal opened
1795 18th January Town Hall fire (documents lost in fire)
1796 17th April Queens Dock completed (extended 1816)
1797 4th June Liverpool Town Hall reopened after fire and dome added
1797 Liverpool Athenaeum founded
1797 Arms granted to Liverpool
1797 Bootle Water company established
1799 Liverpool Corporation waterworks established
1800 Lyceum, Bold Street built (as gentlemen’s club, later became first circulating library in Europe, then a post office)
1800 School for blind people moves to London Road
1801 American Chamber of Commerce founded in Liverpool
1802 Liverpool Botanical Gardens founded at Calderstones Park
1802 15th September Goree warehouse fire at Liverpool docks
1802 Whiston colliery opened (closed 1890)
1802 Halsread colliery opened (closed 1895)
1802/03 The Lyceum opened, Europe’s first circulating library
1803 First underwriters association (Liverpool Underwriters’ Association)
1807 Jewish synagogue built in Seel Street. Abolition of slavery in the British Empire
1808 19th January George III charter
1808 4th August new Corn Exchange building opened (corner of Fenwick Street & Brunswick Street)
1809 1st January new Exchange opened
1809 29th December William Ewart Gladstone born at 62 Rodney Street
1809 2nd lifeboat station built at Southport (demolished 1965)
1809 Society for the Suppression of Wanton Cruelty to Brute Animals founded (first animal welfare organisation in the country – forerunner of RSPCA)
1811 Portico added to Town Hall
1812 May Prime Minister Spencer Perceval assassinated by Liverpool man John Bellingham
1813 ‘Seaforth’ built by Sir John Gladstone MP, father of William Gladstone
1813 19th April foundation stone laid for first cast-iron built church (St George’s Everton)
1814 The Kingsmill is first Liverpool ship to trade with India
1815 Soapworks established at Warrington by Joseph Crosfield
1815 First steamships introduced on the Mersey
1816 23rd October Leeds & Liverpool canal completed
1817 First steamship ferry from Woodside (‘Etna’)
1819 12th July Orange Parade riot
1819 18th July Tower demolished
1819 20th June ‘Savannagh’ 1st steam ship to cross Atlantic arrived at Liverpool
1821 Actor Julius Brutus Booth emigrates. His son John Wilkes Booth assassinates Abraham Lincoln
1821 Prince’s Dock opened
1822 Williams Roscoe becomes 1st President of the Liverpool Royal Institution
1822 St Mary’s church, Birkenhead built (demolished 1977)
1823 Liverpool Mechanic’s & Apprentices’ Library (became Liverpool Polytechnic 1970)
1823 Liverpool Oil Gas Company established
1824 25th September Infirmary opened (Brownlow Street)
1824 Iron works established at Birkenhead by William Laird
1825 18th January Institute for the Deaf & Dumb, world’s first school for deaf people opened
1825 1st February Necropolis cemetery opened
1826 31st August? 1st ‘old’ dock filled in
1826 Hamilton Square, Birkenhead developed
1826 29th August 1st post office steam packet between Liverpool & Ireland
1827 28th April King George IV charter
1827 25th July Liverpool races start at Maghull
1828 18th July 1st regatta on Mersey
1828 Laird’s first order for iron ship (from Irish Inland Steam Navigation Co.)
1829 7th July races at Aintree
1829 6th October Rainhill trials
1829 Canning Dock opened (converted to wet dock from ols tidal basin ‘dry dock’)
1830s Liverpool Medical School established
1830 15th September William Huskinson run over and killed by Rocket (first steam passenger engine fatality)
1830 21st September William Huskinson buried at St Jomes
1830 12th may 1st omnibus in Liverpool
1830 Liverpool Crown Street station
1830 September Clarence Dock
1832 Brunswick Dock
1832 May Cholera outbreak
1833 Great Fire
1833 27th may Liverpool zoo opened
1834 17th April St Nicholas Church lit by gas
1834 6th September Waterloo Dock
1835 New lunatic asylum built in Ashton Street
1836 30th July Trafalgar Dock
1836 30th July Victoria Dock
1836 March William IV charter
1836 15th August? Lime Street railway terminus opened (Liverpool & Manchester railway)
1836 Liverpool Police first to use helmets
1837 1st March 1st grand steeple chase at Liverpool
1837 31st may Medical institution (Hope Street) opened
1838 1st stone laid of St George’s hall
1838 6th January first travelling Post Office ran between Liverpool and Birmingham (horse box fitted out as sorting office)
1838 19th October ‘Ironsides’ 1st iron ship built in Liverpool launched
1839 Samuel Cunard comes to England
1839 24 hour hurricane hits Liverpool
1840 Mersey charted for the Admiralty by Capt. Henry Mangles Denham
1840 Britain’s first Borough Engineer
1840 23rd September railway from Chester opened at Birkenhead
1840 Cunard ship Britannia made first scheduled transatlantic crossing (to Boston)
1840 Liverpool Philharmonic Society formed
1840 Dr R Bickersteth first physician to use carbolic spray and anti-septic cat gut in operations. Also first surgeon to use a special gown while operating
1841 Grange Beacon, West Kirkby
1841 Society for the PrDATEion of Cruelty to Animals founded in Liverpool (later became the RSPCA)
1841 First British purpose-built office block (Brunswick Buildings)
1841 3rd June Salem Welsh independent chapel opened
1842 Princes Park
1842 June world’s first public baths and wash houses founded by Kitty Wilkinson during great cholera epidemic (Upper Frederick Street)
1843 First official Grand national steeplechase
1843 Birkenhead Dock Co formed
1844 Mean Sea level first taken at Victoria Dock
1844 First English girls high school (day grammar school) opened in Blackburne House, Hope Street
1844 Prescot Union Workhouse opened (later Whiston Hospital)
1844 Monk’s Ferry railway terminus opened by Prince Albert
1845 30th July Albert Dock opened by Prince Albert
1845 ‘Dock Cottages’ – built to house labourers working on construction of Birkenhead docks
1845 12th July Birkenhead market opened
1845 Start of great influx of Irish due to famine
1847 7th July electric telegraph opened in Exchange Buildings
1847 5th April Birkenhead Park opened
1847 Samuel Cunard takes up permanent residence in England
1847 5th April 1st stage of Birkenhead Docks opened – Egerton and Morpeth
1847 1st January Liverpool appoints country’s first Medical Officer of Health (Dr William Duncan, physician to th Infirmary)
1847 Liverpool Corporation Waterworks Act
1847 1st December Greenwich time adopted by Liverpool
1848 22nd June Historic Society of Lancashire & Cheshire formed
1848 4th August docks opened – Salisbury, Collingswood, Stanley, Nelson and Bramley Moore –linked via cut and docks to Leeds & Liverpool Canal
1849 1st White Star ship
1849 Wellington Dock opened
1849 Cholera outbreak
1849 Philharmonic Hall
1850 13th May Exchange railway terminus opened (Liverpool & Bury railway)
1850 Liverpool first borough to establish Library Committee
1850 17th January Liverpool Chamber of Commerce founded
1851 Sandon Dock opened
1851 10 April Great Float dock at Birkenhead officially opened
1852 First Liverpool city public library opened (Duke Street)
1852 Huskinsson Dock opened (extended 1860)
1853 25th January/12th June? New Corn Exchange Building opened for business
1853 Nathaniel Hawthorne becomes US Consul (until 1857)
1853 Bromborough Pool village built
1853 21st June Garston Dock opened (built by St Helens Canal & Railway Company)
1854 14th March temporary dam built to enable work on tidal basin and graving docks at Birkenhead collapsed
1854 Cholera outbreak
1854 18th September St George’s Hall foundation stone
1855 August takeover of Birkenhead docks by Liverpool Corporation
1856 Lewis’s department store (first ever)
1856 John Sadler invents transfer printing to pottery
1857 15th April foundation stone laid for public library and museum
1857 9th September Jewish synagogue opened in Hope Place
1858 Liverpool Steam Ship Owners Association formed
1858 1st January 1st meeting of Mersey Docks & Harbour Board – formed to take over operation of docks on both sides of the estuary
1858 Wapping Dock opened – and joined to Salthouse by a cut
1858 St George’s Hall completed
1858 11th January new registry office opened
1859 16th September Canada dock opened
1860 Street tramways introduced in Birkenhead (1st in Europe) (electrified 1901; tramway system closed 1937)
1860 Altcar Rifle Ranges – led to foundation of National Rifle Association
1860 Central Library & Museum opened in William Brown Street
1860 27th June ‘William Singer’ 1st cotton ship arrives in Liverpool
1860 29th August death of Jesse Hartley, dock engineer
1860 1st November Great Float at Birkenhead opened
1861 11th February Wirral directory first published
1862 Canada half-tide dock built (renamed Brocklebank)
1862 8th October Garibaldi riots at Birkenhead
1864 Oriel Chambers designed by Peter Ellis (cast iron frame used)
1864 January Lottie Sleigh blew up after taking on board gunpowder from magazine ships at Tranmere
1864 Sebastian Ferranti born in Liverpool
1864 Herculaneum floating dock opened
1864.1865? 15th May excavations to lay water pipes in London Road near Commutation Row uncover remains of prince Rupert’s army trenches dug during Civil War siege of Liverpool
1865 Playhouse Theatre, Williamson Square opened (oldest in country)
1865 Last Confederate ship to surrender at the end of American Civil War does so, to Mayor at Liverpool Town Hall
1866 19th September Great Eastern arrives in Mersey after laying Atlantic cable
1866 Oriel Chambers, Water Street built (important architecturally)
1866 Sefton Park bought for £251,000 from Lord Sefton
1866 Hooton to West Kirkby railway line opened
1866 Alfred Dock (Birkenhead)
1866 May Cholera outbreak
1867 Prescot Local Government Board
1867 26th March Sefton Park bought by Liverpool Corporation
1868 Runcorn railway bridge
1868 First borough to secure an Act of Parliament to establish a tram system
1869 1st municipal/council housing – St Martin’s Cottages, Silvester Street, Vauxhall opened (demolished 1977)
1869 White Star Line formed (Oceanic Steam Navigation Co.)
1870 Meyer Library, Bebington
1870 Liverpool School Board set up
1872 Sefton Park opened
1872? Tate & Lyle sugar refinery opened in Love Lane (closed 1981)
1873 Stanley Park
1874 West Lancashire Golf Club founded at Blundellsands
1874 Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire railway line extended from Garston to Central railway station
1875 2nd Garston dock opened
1876 Royal Liverpool’s Seamen Orphanage Institution, Newsham Park opened (closed 1949)
1876/1877 Walker art Gallery opened (first British public art gallery)
1877 Birkenhead incorporated – John Laird 1st mayor
1877 Huyton Local Government Board established
1878 Everton FC founded at Stanley Park
1878 Death of Samuel Cunard
1879 Langton Dock built
1879 Picton reading room added to Central Library
1880 11th May Charter granting Liverpool city status
1880 Cunard Steam Ship Company becomes a public company
1880 Granton Road School opened
1880 Prince’s food company founded
1881 University College (granted charter in 1903)
1881 14th July foundation stone of Vyrnwy laid by Earl of Powis
1881 Attempt by Fenians to blow up Town Hall
1881 8th September Langton Docks opened
1882 Liverpool Home for Aged Mariners built at Egremont
1882 10th April Bootle Town Hall opened
1883 Municipal Buildings opened in Dale Street
1883 19th April Liverpool Society for the PrDATEion of Cruelty to Children (later NSPCC)
1883 21st June Wirral Children’s Home, Oxton officially opened
1884 17th January, borings for Mersey tunnel meet
1884 Britain’s first qualified woman doctor starts practice in Liverpool
1884 January, Hornby Dock built
1884 Wallasey dock
1886 Liverpool International Exhibition of Navigation, Travelling, Commerce & Manufacturing opened in Liverpool by Queen Victoria
1886 Mexico disaster at Horse Bank off Southport – 27 lifeboat men killed
1886 20th January rail tunnel under Mersey declared open by Prince of Wales (first tunnel under water in world)
1886 Hamilton Square railway station, Birkenhead opened
1887 10th February Birkenhead Town Hall opened
1887 22nd June Bootle free library & museum opened
1887 Oldest mosque in UK set up at house in Vernon Street, Liverpool (moved to Brougham Terrace 1889)
1887 11th November, 1st sod of Manchester Ship Canal cut at Eastham
1888 Poet and critic Matthew Arnold died at Dingle
1888 3rd March 1st sod cut at Port Sunlight
1888 Liverpool Overhead Railway Company formed
1888 Barnham & Bailey visit
1889 Royal Infirmary, Pembroke Place opened (designed with advice from Florence Nightingale)
1889 15th July, Death of Sir James Picton, local historian & antiquarian
1889 Britain’s first mosque (a gathering in Brougham Terrace)
1889 Lancashire Watch Company founded at Prescot
1889 First epileptic hospital founded at Maghull
1889 First pre-payment gas meters introduced in Cazneau Street, Liverpool by Liverpool Gas Company
1890 First steam lifeboat Duke of Northumberland had trials in Albert Dock
1891 Manchester Ship Canal
1891 British Insulated Wire Company (later BIHC/BICC) founded at Prescot
1890/1892 Ex-Liverpool City Engineer John Brodie invented football goal nets
1892 First John West canned goods arrive in Liverpool
1892 29th September Aintree Racecourse grandstand destroyed by fire
1892 Everton FC move to Goodison Park
1892 John West
1893 14th August Queen Victoria charter allows Liverpool to have a Lord Mayor
1893 4th February, Overhead Railway opened
1894 First radio transmission (by Sir Oliver Lodge)
1894 Huyton UDC formed
1894 21st May or 25th? Manchester ship Canal officially opened by Queen Victoria
1895 Albert Dock built
1895 10th July, new Riverside railway station, Prince’s Dock formally opened
1896 First ever feature film Liverpool Scene’s by Lumiere Brothers
1896 5th October Palm House, Sefton Park officially opened
1896 X-rays first used in Liverpool for medical diagnosis
1896 Canada dock branch 1 built
1896 4th January Liverpool Cotton Exchange opened
1896 Liverpool Self-Propelled Traffic association formed
1897 Liverpool is first to employ women health visitors
1897 William Crawford starts biscuit manufacture in Binns Road, Liverpool
1898/1899 22 April, School of Tropical Medicine opened (world’s first)
1898 Philharmonic pub
1898 1st April Birkenhead Municipal Borough formed into one civil parish
1898 Crosby lighthouse burnt down
1898 First electric trams run in city
1899 Canada graving dock built
1899 6th September 1st sailing of ‘Oceanic’
1900 World’s biggest bonded warehouse built at Stanley Dock
1900 31st July George’s Dock closed
1900 18 – 21st September start of Eisteddfod at Liverpool
1900 Liverpool Exhibition
1901 Sandon half-tide dock
1901 First escalator in a railway station
1901 1st August Victoria Park, Birkenhead opened
1901 14th August electrification of Birkenhead tramway system
1902 June 1st, use of illuminated tram car(for Edward VII coronation)
1902 Huskinsson dock branch 1 built
1903 Canada dock branch 2 built
1903 Work starts on Liverpool’s first ring road Queen’s Drive
1903 3rd May electrification of Mersey railway line
1903 Hamilton Square gardens opened to public (previously private)
1903 15th July University granted charter status
1904 19th July foundation stone of Anglican Church laid
1905 Runcorn transporter bridge
1905 Queen’s dock branch 2
1906 Statue of Queen Victoria unveiled in Derby Square
1906 Blue Coat school moves to Wavertree
1906 King’s dock branches 1 and 2 opened
1906 Queen’s graving dock
1906 30th November opening of new Cotton Exchange
1907 Garston public baths opened
1907 Meccano registered by Frank Hornby
1907 15th July opening of new Mersey Docks & Harbour Board offices
1907 August 28th commemoration of Liverpool’s First Charter
1907 16th November maiden voyage of Maurentania from Liverpool
1907 7th September maiden voyage of Lusitania from Liverpool
1908 First scout troop in world formed in Birkenhead
1908 20th October new south dock at Garston opened
1909 Wellington memorial
1909 Britain’s first woman councillor (Eleanor Rathbone)
1909 First Woolworth’s in Britain opened in Church Street
1910 19th July Royal charter granted to Wallasey
1910 29th November plane flight across Mersey and back
1910? Alder Hey Children’s Hospital
1910 Estate bought for development of Liverpool Garden Suburb (Wavertree)
1911 20th July Royal Liver Friendly Society building opened – Liver building clock started at exact moment of coronation of King George V (22 June)
1911 28th June Liverpool dock workers strike
1911 Bowring Park (Roby) becomes first municipal golf course in England
1913 11th July King’s visit
1913 4th June Old Swan Library opened by Cllr EC Given
1913 Liverpool Exhibition
1913 6th December new reservoir (connected to Vyrnwy) opened
1915 1st coal raised from Cronton colliery
1916 Cunard building opened
1916 29th October inauguration of Jewish centre at 6 Princes Road
1917 Airfield created at Hooton Park (site closed 1957)
1919 First ever police strike in Liverpool
1920 30th August Liverpool Courier fails to appear for first time in 112 (due to printers strike)
1921 15th August Alwen reservoir opened (supplying Birkenhead)
1922 2nd October former city cathedral (St Peter’s) demolished
1922 16th December Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight opened
1923 Littlewoods founded
1924 Carnegie Welfare Centre, Oxford Street opened
1924 30th April new air service between Belfast & Liverpool
1924 19th July Anglican cathedral consecrated by Archbishop of Canterbury
1925 4th May first juvenile court in the country opened in Liverpool
1925 Stoves Ltd, gas appliance manufacturers opened (Whiston/Rainhill)
1925 December construction work starts on Liverpool side of Mersey (Queensway) Tunnel
1926 10th March, digging work starts on Birkenhead side of Queensway Tunnel
1926 Start of Norris Green housing estate
1926 Sir Henry Seagrave raises world speed record on Birkdale Sands
1927 Liverpool’s first ever woman mayor (Margaret Bevan)
1927 19th July Gladstone Docks opened
1927 Work on Liverpool’s first ring road at Queens Drive completed
1928 March work starts on East Lancs Road
1928 December Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead opened
1928 3rd April Boreholes from Birkenhead and Liverpool sides for Mersey Tunnel works meet midway
1928 3rd July 1st meeting of Liverpool & District Aero Club at Hooton
1929 5th August Eistedfood opens at Sefton Park
1929 First Boy Scouts International Jamboree held at Arrowe Park
1930 Start of Dovecot housing estate
1931 Britain’s first training centre for guide dogs opened at Wallasey
1931 17th April Bromborough Dock officially opened
1932 22nd April Trafalgar Dock opened
1933 28th April Bidston Dock opened
1933 1st July Speke airport opens as the UK’s first provincial airport (owned by Corporation)
1933 British Interplanetary Society founded in Liverpool (first in world)
1933 5th June foundation stone of roman Catholic Cathrdral laid
1934 18th July Queensway Road tunnel opened under Mersey by King George V
1934 18th July East Lancs Road officially opened by King George V
1934 Walton Hall Park opened by King George V
1934 Merger of Cunard & White Star
1935 King & Queen visit to celebrate 25th anniversary of reign
1936 Myrtle Gardens flats built (on site of Liverpool Orphanage)
1936 Work starts on first purpose-built municipal industrial estate (Speke)
1936 1st round trip Atlantic fight- UK takeoff at Birkdale Sands
1937 13th April ‘Ark Royal’ launched at Birkenhead
1938 Royal Visit
1938 Fazakerley Day Open air School for Delicate Children opened
1939 19th June new Philharmonic Hall opens
1939 31st August Instructions for evacuation of children given
1939 Royal ordnance factory at Kirkby
1940 Hawker hurricane plane crashes into Mersey
1940 Internment camp set up at Huyton
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1941 8th – 15th May Liverpool blitz
1944 Britain’s first Chinese newspaper (Hua Chow Pao)
1947 End of illuminated tram car
1948 Ness Gardens given to Liverpool University
1948 14th March ceremony for electrification of Wirral railway line (also last day of steam trains)
1950 Britain’s first scheduled passenger helicopter service ran from Speke airport (Liverpool’s to Cardiff)
1955 May – June seaman’s strike (Liverpool and London)
1956 30 December Closure of overhead railway
1957 Cavern Club opens
1957 14th September Last trams in Liverpool
1958 7th May – visit of Queen Mother
1958 Kirkby UDC
1959 19th November – visit of Princess Margaret to Liverpool
1960 Martin’s bank, Liverpool first in country (or world?) to use a computer
1961 Runcorn Road bridge
1963 Car plant completed by Ford at Halewood
1967 Liverpool Roman Catholic Cathedral consecrated
1970 Liverpool polytechnic (formally Liverpool ‘Mechanic’s & Apprentices’ Library) (later became JMU)
1970 Britain’s first public planetarium (Liverpool Museum)
1971 Knowsley Safari Park
1972 M52, M62 motorway
1972 Kingsway Road Tunnel under Mersey opened
1973 Croxteth Park given to public by Countess of Sefton
1977 21st June consecration of Anglican Cathedral by Queen Elizabeth II
1978 Princess Anne visit
1979 Visit of Queen Elizabeth II
1981 Toxteth riots
1981 Liverpool police first to use tear gas against rioters
1982 Papal visit
1984 8th May International Garden Festival
1989 Liverpool Film Office
1989 Hillsborough disaster
1989 Pyramid Shopping Centre, Birkenhead opened
1992 Mural in James Street station – largest work of art in a British railway station
1994 17th May Royal Philharmonic plays inside Queensway tunnel to commemorate 60th anniversary of tunnel
1995 Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts opened
1996 Work begun on world’s first lung cancer research centre
1997 Conservation Centre opened in former Midland Railway goods depot (country’s only conservation centre for public art)
1997 Liverpool University offers Master of Business Administration Football Industries degree
1997 Grand National disrupted by bomb scare
1998 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine granted Freedom of the City on it’s centenary
2001 Production of hard soap ends at Port Sunlight
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