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Industrial Revolution
begins 1730 |
1730-80's |
1711 Newcastle
Courant Newspaper formed. 1771 Great Flood. (River Tyne) 1771 b. Lord Collingwood. Collingwood's Fame! 1771 b. George Stephenson, Railway eng. 1781 Georgian Tyne Bridge. opens. 1789 Lifeboat invented South Shields. |
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First Ł1 banknotes |
1797 |
1797 b.Grainger architect, developer. |
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The Napoleonic wars |
1803 |
1803 Alfred Pit Open Jarrow. Colliery History |
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1805 |
1808 b. Hancock Botanist | |
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Abolition of the Slave
Trade. |
1807 |
1807 b. Charles Trevelyan. 1810 Ncle. corporation. buy Castle-Keep. 1814 Tyne Freezes over at Newcastle |
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Napoleon abdicates 1814 |
1814 |
1815 Grace Darling b. lifeboat
heroine. 1824 Ryton Boxing 2k.att.Boxer dies for Ł20 1824 Robert Stephenson b. Mining engineer. |
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1825 |
1828 Joseph Swan b. inventor
electric light 1832 Newcastle Police Force formed. 1835 Gateshead gets Mayor and Corp. |
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The accession of Queen Victoria |
1837 |
1837 b.Burt (mining engineer) 1838 Ncle-Carlisle Railway. 1838 Grace Darling lifeboat rescue. 1839 Grainger and Dobsons New Town. |
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Penny Black Stamp |
1840 |
1841 Bainbridge Dept. Store Opens. |
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1844 |
1844 London-Ncle Rail link. 1844 b.Hunter (shipbuilder). 1845 Clasper wins World rowing champ. |
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Repeal of the Corn Laws |
1846 |
1846 Lord Armstrong's Factories-Elswick |
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Factory Act. Industrial growth |
1850 |
1850 New Newcastle Central Railway
Stn. 1847 Newcastle-Berwick rail link. |
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Public Health Acts |
1848 |
1849 High Level Bridge Opened. |
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The Great
Exhibition |
1851 |
1851 25% of Newcastle Population
Irish. 1853 Cholera kills 1,500 in North. |
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1854 |
1854 Parson. b. Engineer 1854 Great Fire of Newcastle & Gateshead. |
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The
Indian Mutiny |
1857 |
1862 Blaydon Races song first sung
in public. 1862 204 die in Hester Colliery New Hartley. 1863 Newcastle Labour Club set up. |
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The Second Reform Act |
1867 |
1867 Spanish Gold found off Seaton Carew. |
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Foundat'n Trades Union Congress |
1868 |
1868 Saltburn develops-railway arrives. |
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1870 |
1871 Univ. Durham takes Ncle. Med.
School. 1871 9hr.day movement begins in Sunderland. 1880 First Football at St. James' Park. 1873 Leazes Park Opens.(Newcastle) |
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June 26th |
1876 | 1876 Newcastle’s Swing Bridge. Armstrong |
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The Third Reform Act |
1882 |
1882 Newcastle becomes City. 1884 Charles Parson patents SteamTurbine. 1883 Armstrong gives Jesmond Dene to city. 1844 Last public execution on Ncle Town Moor. |
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Gordon of Khartoum |
1885 |
1885 Berwick loses status.Parliament. |
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1886 |
1886 Tyne World's? first Oil Tanker Launched | |
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Jack the Ripper |
1888 |
1891 Newcastle Empire Theatre opens. |
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Ind. Labour Party founded |
1893 |
1892 Newcastle United formed. |
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Victoria's Diamond Jubilee |
1897 |
1897 Parson.Turbinia steam turbine ship. |
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1899-1902 |
1900 World's 1st police car chase
was by Newcastle Police. 1900 700 pubs in Newcastle. 1901 100,000 miners work in North. |
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Marconi
1st transatlantic message |
1901 |
1902 Robson F.Actress.b. 1906 RVI hospital opens.b.C.Cookson-Auth 1909 West Stanley pit 168 Killed. 1910 Ncle. win FA Cup. 1911 200,000 miners in North. 1911 Northern Small pox rife |
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The First World War |
1914-18 |
1914 Women get
jobs.factories.drive buses 1919 Ncle.1st Woman Counc. Mary Laverick. |
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Irish Free State established |
1921 |
1921 Miners locked out by owners. 3 m'ths. |
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Gen.
Strike. 2,000,000 unemployed. |
1926 |
1926 Mine owners cut pay-increase hours. |
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BBC is created. |
1927 | 1927 Newcastle Brown Ale. Beer first produced. |
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Penicillin-discovered by Alexander-Fleming |
1928 |
1928 Tyne Bridge opens. 1928 Flying Scotsman Lon-Edinb. rail route |
| Wall Street Crash |
1929 |
1929 NE Coast Exhibition 4 million
visitors. 1930 19 shipyards left on Tyne. |
| 3,000,000 unemployed |
1932 |
1934 Newcastle United relegated, first time. |
| Invention of radar |
1935 |
1935 Jack Charlton b. footballer 1936 Jarrow March. 1937 Bobby Charlton b. footballer |
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3 Sept.GB declares.war
on Germany |
1939-45 |
1939 54,000 Evacuated from
Tyneside. 1940 1st Enemy plane brought down Whitby 1941 Manors Goods Stn Newcastle bombed. 1944 Opencast mine on Town Moor. |
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Germany surrendered |
1945 |
1945 Tyneside Victory Celebrations |
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1947 |
1947 N.Towns Aycliffe. Peterlee. | |
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First civilian jet plane built |
1949 |
1951 81 die in Easington Colliery disaster. |
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Queen Elizabeth crowned |
1953 |
1959 Commercial TV in NE 'Tyne.Tees.TV' |
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London Music. Fashion
capital. |
1960's |
1963 D.Smith dev'lps Ncle by
demolition. 1963 New Eldon Sq. planned 1963 Durham Kings College becomes Uni. of Ncle 1963 95 Railway Stations closed in North. 1963 N.T'ns Killingwortth Cramlington Washington 1967 Tyne Tunnel open. 1969 Newcastle Polytechnic opens. 1970 Beamish Museum opens. |
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Prime Minister Heath. |
1973 |
1973 Work begins Metro Railway system |
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Concorde-1st commercial flight. |
1976 |
1976 Work begins Keilder Dam
1976 Eldon Sq. opened |
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Unemployment 1,600,000. |
1977 |
1977 Princess Anne visits Berwick. |
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Winter of Discontent. |
1978/9 |
1978 Only 8 Shipyards left on the Tyne. |
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IRA hunger strikes. Sunday football. Jogging and marathons. |
1980's |
1980 Metro Railway system opens. |
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Thames-Flood-Barrier. Satellite-television. |
1980's |
1980 Consett Steel Works (Durham)
close. 1987 Hottest Day recorded on Tyneside 37C. |
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M. Thatcher 1st woman PM. |
1979-90 |
1990 National Garden Festival Gateshead |
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The Gulf conflict |
1991 |
1991 Riots Ncle West End. North Shields |
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Blair Prime Minister New Labour |
1997 |
1997 Ncle 13th most attractive city in UK. |
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Conflict over Kosovo |
1999 |
1999 Gateshead 'Angel of the North' erected |
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Home rule suspended in
Ireland. |
2000 |
2000 Gateshead: Quays Development. 2000 Regional Music Centre. 2000 Millennium Bridge open. 2000 Ncle.8th best party city in World. |
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11th September New York
City World Trade Centre attack. |
2001 |
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Scientists report 22-47% of plant species in danger of extinction due to human activity. |
2002 |
2002 Metro new Sunderland link. 2002 Queen opens Gateshead. Millennium Bridge. |
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2003 |
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Madrid train bombings |
2004 |
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Scotland hosts G8
conference |
2005 |
Carlisle suffers severe flooding. |
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2006 |
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| 2007 | Northern Rock Bank liquidity support from the Bank of England | |
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Mass demonstrations on treatment of Tibet by China. |
2008 |
Conservatives hold yearly Conference in Gateshead. |
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The Credit Crunch. Swine Flu concerns World. M.P. Expenses. |
2009 |
Shipyard cranes leave the Tyne for China. Newcastle United relegated. |
