# Timeline of Derby

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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.
* 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 (approximate date).
* 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.
* 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 (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.
* 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 (formerly All Saints Church) 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.