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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Derby, England. {{Dynamic list}}
==Prior to 18th century== * 9thC. – Danes take town (approximate date).<ref name=Lysons1817 /> * 917 ** Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians wins sweeping conquests to oust the Danes.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}} ** Market active.<ref name=fairs>{{cite book |publisher=Institute of Historical Research, Centre for Metropolitan History |title=Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516 |first=Samantha |last=Letters |year=2005 |chapter-url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40411 |chapter=Derbyshire}}</ref> * 1160 – Derby School established (approximate date). * 1206 - First extant charter granted to Derby.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}} * 1229 ** A second charter granted by Henry III.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}} ** Derby fair active.<ref name=fairs /> * 1294 – Parliamentary representation begins.<ref name=bagshaw1846>{{cite book |title=History, Gazetteer and Directory of Derbyshire |year=1846 |last=Bagshaw |first=Samuel |location=Sheffield |chapter=History of the Town and Borough of Derby |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GvoGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA41}}</ref> * 1337 - Edward III. on the petition of the burgesses grants them two bailiffs.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}} * 1530 – All Saints' Church tower built. * 1592 – Plague.<ref name=townsend1867>{{cite book |publisher=Frederick Warne & Co. |location=London |first=George Henry |last=Townsend |title=A Manual of Dates |date=1867 |edition=2nd |chapter=Derby |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/manualofdatesdic00townrich#page/324/mode/1up |author-link=George Henry Townsend}}</ref> * 1611 - Derby incorporated by James I. * 1638 – Henry Mellor becomes mayor. * 1660 – County Hall built.<ref name=bagshaw1846 /> * 1665 – Plague. * 1675 – Derby Company of Mercers formed.<ref>{{cite journal |journal=Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society |volume=15 |year=1893 |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009030441 |title=Derby Company of Mercers |first=H. |last=Arnold-Bemrose}}</ref> * 1696 – Osmaston Hall built.
==18th century== * 1717 - Silk “throwing” or spinning introduced by John Lombe.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}} * 1721 – Lombe's Mill built. * 1726 – ''Derby Postman'' newspaper begins publication.<ref name=glover1843 /> * 1731 – Town Hall built (approximate date).<ref name=edinburgh1832>{{cite book |title=Edinburgh Encyclopædia |editor-first=David |editor-last=Brewster |location=Philadelphia |publisher=Joseph and Edward Parker |year=1832|chapter=Derby |hdl=2027/mdp.39015068302770 |title-link=Edinburgh Encyclopædia}}</ref> * 1732 – ''Derby Mercury'' newspaper begins publication.<ref name=mitchell-1847 /> * 1735 – 9 July: Samuel Johnson marries at St Werburgh's Church.<ref name=haydn1910 /> * 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.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}} * 1750 ** Derby Porcelain Company in business.<ref>{{cite book |publisher=Brown & Co. |location=Salisbury |first=Walter F. |last=Tiffin |title=Chronograph of the Bow, Chelsea, & Derby porcelain manufactories |date=1874 |ol=22863671M}}</ref> ** Markeaton Hall built (approximate date). ** Manufacture of hosiery profited by the inventions of Jedediah Strutt.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}} * 1756 – County prison built in Nun's Green.<ref name=bagshaw1846 /> * 1772 – New Jerusalem Chapel built.<ref name=bagshaw1846 /> * 1773 – Theatre built.<ref name=edinburgh1832 /> * 1774 – Assembly room built.<ref name=edinburgh1832 /> * 1783 – Derby Philosophical Society founded.<ref name=townsend1867 /> * 1796 – Derby Canal constructed.
==19th century== * 1802 – General Baptist Chapel built.<ref name=bagshaw1846 /> * 1805 – King Street Wesleyan Methodist Chapel built.<ref name=bagshaw1846 /> * 1808 ** Derby Literary and Philosophical Society established.<ref name=edinburgh1832 /> ** Friends' Meeting House built.<ref name=bagshaw1846 /> * 1809 – Cox and Co. shot mill built.<ref name=Lysons1817>{{cite book |title=Magna Britannia |year=1817 |volume=5 |chapter=Derbyshire |last1=Lysons |first1=Daniel |author-link1=Daniel Lysons (antiquarian) |last2=Lysons |first2=Samuel |author-link2=Samuel Lysons |name-list-style=amp |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yAgVAAAAQAAJ}}</ref> * 1810 – Infirmary built.<ref name=edinburgh1832 /> * 1811 ** Permanent Library established.<ref name=glover1843 /> ** Population: 13,043.<ref name=edinburgh1832 /> * 1817 – Derby Choral Society established.<ref name=glover1843 /> * 1820 – Swedenborgian Chapel built.<ref name=glover1843 /> * 1823 – ''Derby Reporter'' newspaper begins publication.<ref name=mitchell-1847>{{cite book |chapter=Derby |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/newspaperpressdi00lond#page/174/mode/2up |publisher=Charles Mitchell |date=1847 |location=London |title=Newspaper Press Directory}}</ref> * 1824 – New Connexion Chapel built.<ref name=bagshaw1846 /> * 1825 – Mechanics' Institution established.<ref name=glover1843>{{cite book |title=History and Directory of the Borough of Derby |publisher=S. Glover and Son |location=Derby |first=Stephen |last=Glover |year=1843 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qu0GAAAAQAAJ |author-link=Stephen Glover (antiquary)}}</ref> * 1828 ** Town Hall rebuilt.<ref name=bagshaw1846 /> ** St. John's Church opens.<ref name=bagshaw1846 /> * 1832 – Town and County Library established.<ref name=glover1843 /> * 1833 – Labour strike.<ref name=townsend1867 /> * 1835 – Joseph Strutt elected mayor. * 1836 ** Police force<ref name=bagshaw1846 /> and Derby Town and County Museum and Natural History Society established. ** Trinity Church consecrated.<ref name=bagshaw1846 /> * 1837 – Mechanics' Hall opens.<ref name=glover1843 /> * 1839 ** May: The founding companies of the Midland Railway begin operating.<ref name=haydn1910 /> ** Derby Exhibition held. ** St Mary's Church built. * 1840 ** Derby railway station, Derby Arboretum,<ref name=glover1843 /> and Christ Church<ref name=bagshaw1846 /> open. ** Athenaeum built (approximate date). * 1841 ** Derby Baptist Chapel, St Mary's Gate opens * 1842 – Arboretum Festival begins.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Liberalism and Paternalism: Politics and Corporate Culture in 'Railway Derby', 1865-75 |first=George |last=Revill |journal=Social History |volume=24 |issue=2 |pages=196–214 |year=1999 |jstor=4286563 |doi=10.1080/03071029908568062}}</ref> * 1843 ** General Cemetery<ref name=bagshaw1846 /> and Vernon Street Prison{{citation needed|date=September 2013}} in operation. ** Primitive Methodist Chapel built.<ref name=bagshaw1846 /> ** Agricultural Show held.<ref name=vollans1949 /> * 1844 – Midland Railway company formed.<ref name=vollans1949>{{cite journal |title=Derby: A Railway Town and Regional Centre |first=E.C. |last=Vollans |journal=Transactions and Papers (Institute of British Geographers) |pages=93–112 |number=15 |year=1949 |jstor=621033 |doi=10.2307/621033}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b2935675;view=2up;seq=686 |title=The English Illustrated Magazine 1891–1892 |first=Charles Henry |last=Jones |page=673 |chapter=Midland Railway Locomotive Works at Derby |year=1892}}</ref> * 1846 – St Alkmund's Church built. * 1850 – Derby Co-operative Society established.<ref>{{cite book |publisher=Co-operative Printing Society Limited |location=Manchester |first=George Jacob |last=Holyoake |title=Jubilee history of the Derby Co-operative Provident Society Limited, 1850–1900 |date=1900 |ol=24139106M}}</ref> * 1856 – John Smith clockmaker in business. * 1862 – Corn Exchange opens.<ref name=vollans1949 /> * 1863 – County Cricket Ground established. * 1866 – Market hall opens.<ref name=townsend1867 /> * 1870 – Derbyshire County Cricket Club formed. * 1878 – April: Great Northern Railway opens its Derbyshire extension through Friargate railway station.<ref name=haydn1910 /> * 1879 ** Derby Free Library and Museum opens. ** ''Derby Daily Telegraph and Reporter'' begins publication.<ref name=BL>{{cite web |url=http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&vl(10130439UI0)=sub&scp.scps=scope%3A%28BLCONTENT%29&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1379654727694&srt=lso01&mode=Advanced&vl(1UIStartWith1)=contains&indx=21&tb=t&vl(41497491UI2)=any&vl(freeText0)=Derby++%28England%29++Newspapers&fn=search&vid=BLVU1&vl(freeText2)=&frbg=&ct=search&vl(10130438UI1)=any&vl(1UIStartWith2)=contains&dum=true&vl(1UIStartWith0)=exact&vl(46690061UI3)=all_items&Submit=Search&vl(freeText1)=|title=Derby (England) Newspapers |work=Main Catalogue |publisher=British Library |access-date=20 September 2013}}</ref> * 1882 – Art gallery opens.<ref name=haydn1910>{{cite book |publisher=Ward, Lock & Co. |location=London |title=Haydn's Dictionary of Dates |first=Benjamin |last=Vincent |edition=25th |date=1910 |chapter=Derby |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/haydnsdictionary00hayd#page/407/mode/1up |title-link=Haydn's Dictionary of Dates}}</ref> * 1884 - Derby County F.C. established as an offshoot of Derbyshire County Cricket Club * 1886 – 6 May: Grand Theatre burns down.<ref name=haydn1910 /> * 1887 – Derby Sketching Club formed. * 1888 - Derby becomes a County Borough * 1891 - Population: 94,146.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}} * 1895 ** Midland Railway Institute built.<ref name=vollans1949 /> ** Derby County move to play at the Baseball Ground * 1899 – Derby Technical College founded.<ref name=vollans1949 />
==20th century==
* 1901 - Population: 114,848. {{sfn|Britannica|1910}} * 1902 – Derby Municipal Secondary School for Boys opens. * 1908 – Rolls-Royce Limited headquartered in Derby on Nightingale Road.<ref name=vollans1949 /> * 1910 ** Victoria Electric Theatre opens.<ref name=cinema>{{cite web |url=http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/united-kingdom/england/derby |title=Movie Theaters in Derby, England |work=CinemaTreasures.org |publisher=Cinema Treasures LLC |location=Los Angeles |access-date=20 September 2013}}</ref> ** Cosmopolitan Public Hall built.<ref name=cinema /> * 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.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Rolls-Royce collapse: state takeover move |date=5 February 1971 |page=1 |issue=58091}}</ref> ** 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<ref>{{cite news |title=Derby's long road to city status |last=O'Leary |first=Patrick |date=29 July 1977 |newspaper=The Times |page=14}}</ref> * 1981 - Social unrest.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/12/world/new-violence-hits-10-english-cities-but-is-less-serious.html |title=New violence hits 10 English cities but is less serious |date=12 July 1981 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=20 September 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=British History Timeline: 1945 to Present |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/timeline/present_timeline_noflash.shtml |website=BBC History |access-date=20 September 2013}}</ref> * 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== {{portal|Derbyshire}} * History of Derby * Timelines of other cities in East Midlands: Leicester, Lincoln, Nottingham
==References== {{reflist|2}}
==Bibliography== * {{cite book |publisher=J.F. and C. Rivingdon |date=1778 |edition=8th |location=London |title=A Tour Through the Island of Great Britain |last1=Defoe |first1=Daniel |author-link1=Daniel Defoe |last2=Richardson |first2=Samuel |author-link2=Samuel Richardson |name-list-style=amp |chapter=(Derby) |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/tourthroughislan03defo#page/72/mode/2up}}
===Published in the 19th century ===
====1800s-1840s==== * {{cite book |publisher=Vernor & Hood |location=London |title=Beauties of England and Wales |last1=Britton |first1=John |last2=Brayley |first2=Edward Wedlake |date=1802 |volume=3 |chapter=Derbyshire: Derby |author-link1=John Britton (antiquary) |author-link2=Edward Wedlake Brayley |hdl=2027/nyp.33433075909014 |title-link=Beauties of England and Wales}} * {{cite book |title=History of Derby |last=Hutton |first=William |location=London |publisher=Nichols, Son, and Bentley |year=1817 |edition=2nd |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009711856 |author-link=William Hutton (historian)}} * {{cite book |publisher=J. Robins and Co. |location=London |last=Dugdale |first=James |title=New British Traveller |date=1819 |volume=2 |chapter=Derbyshire: Derby |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/newbritishtravel02dugduoft#page/40/mode/2up}} * {{cite book |chapter=Derbyshire: Derby |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hdMHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA125 |title=Pigot & Co.'s National Commercial Directory for 1828-9 |date=3 September 2023 |location=London |publisher=James Pigot}} * {{cite book |publisher=R. Allen |location=Nottingham |title=Midland Counties' Railway Companion |date=1840 |oclc=38701673 |chapter=Derby |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/midlandcounties00allegoog#page/n51/mode/2up}} * {{cite book |title=Derbyshire |series=Journey-Book of England |date=1841 |publisher=C. Knight & Co. |location=London |chapter=Derby Railway Station |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/derbyshire00knig#page/40/mode/2up}} * {{cite book |title=Gem of the Peak; or, Matlock Bath and its Vicinity |last=Adam |first=William |year=1843 |edition=3d |location=London |publisher=Logman & Co. |chapter=Derby |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qAEHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1}} * {{cite book |publisher=S. Lewis and Co. |location=London |last=Lewis |first=Samuel |title=Topographical Dictionary of England |date=1848 |edition=7th |chapter=Derby |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/topographicaldic00lewi2#page/34/mode/1up |author-link=Samuel Lewis (publisher)}}
====1850s-1890s==== * {{cite book |publisher=Adam and Charles Black |location=Edinburgh |title=Black's Tourist's Guide to Derbyshire |editor=Llewellynn Jewitt |year=1857 |edition=2nd |chapter=Derby |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DAIHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA6 |title-link=Black's Guides}} * {{cite book |publisher=Francis White & Co. |location=Sheffield |title=History, Gazetteer, and Directory of the County of Derby |date=1857 |chapter=History of the Borough of Derby |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/historygazetteer00fran#page/41/mode/2up}} * {{cite book |publisher=Griffin, Bohn |location=London |title=Official Illustrated Guide to the Great Northern Railway |last=Measom |first=George Samuel |date=1861 |oclc=12433505 |chapter=Derby |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NvzChcn_um0C&pg=PA185 |author-link=George Samuel Measom}} * {{cite book |year=1867 |editor-first=Charles |editor-last=Knight |title=English Cyclopaedia |volume=II: Geography |location=London |publisher=Bradbury, Evans, & Co. |chapter=Derby |hdl=2027/nyp.33433000064794}} * {{cite book |title=Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire |year=1881 |chapter=Derby |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5kUTAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA972}} * {{cite book |title=Visitors' Guide and Handbook to Derby and to the Royal Agricultural Show |location=Derby |year=1881}} * {{cite book |publisher=J. Murray |location=London |title=Handbook for Travellers in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, and Staffordshire |edition=3rd |date=1892 |oclc=2097091 |chapter=Derby |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/handbookfortra00john#page/n59/mode/2up}} * {{cite book |title=History, Topography, and Directory of Derbyshire |publisher=T. Bulmer & Co. |year=1895 |location=Preston |chapter=Derby |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eD0JAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA842}} * {{cite book |title=Bibliography of British Municipal History |year=1897 |location=New York |publisher=Longmans, Green, and Co. |last=Gross |first=Charles |chapter=Derby |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/bibliographyofbr00grosiala#page/206/mode/2up}}
===Published in the 20th century === * {{cite book |publisher=Macmillan and Co. |location=London |title=Highways and byways in Derbyshire |last=Firth |first=J. B. |date=1905 |oclc=882321 |chapter=Derby |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/highwaysbywaysin00firtiala#page/478/mode/2up}} * {{cite book |url=https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:derbyitsriseand00davigoog/Derby_its_rise_and_progress |title=Derby: its rise and progress |date=1906 |publisher=Bemrose & Sons |location=London |last=Davison |first=A.W.}} * {{cite book |publisher=Karl Baedeker |location=Leipzig |title=Great Britain |date=1910 |edition=7th |chapter=Derby |hdl=2027/mdp.39015010546516}} * {{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Derby (England) |volume=8 |pages=69–70 |date=1910 |ref={{harvid|Britannica|1910}} |short=1}} * {{cite book |last=Eccleshare |first=C.F. |title=Derby; a study in urban development |publisher=University of London |year=1934}} * {{cite journal |last=Heath |first=J. |title=The borough of Derby between 1780 and 1810 |journal=Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological Society |year=1979}} * {{cite book |last=Delves |first=A. |chapter=Popular recreation and social conflict in Derby, 18000-1850 |editor-last1=Yeo |editor-first1=E. |editor-last2=Yeo |editor-first2=S. |title=Popular Culture and Class Conflict 1850–1914 |location=Brighton |year=1981}}
==External links== {{Commons category|History of Derby}} * {{cite book |title=Historical Directories |publisher=University of Leicester |location=UK |chapter=Derbyshire |url=http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/findbylocation.asp}}. Includes Derby area directories, various dates.
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