Timeline of Derby

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Derby, England.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by editing the page to add missing items, with references to reliable sources.

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.

See also

• History of Derby
• Timelines of other cities in East Midlands: Leicester, Lincoln, Nottingham

External links

• . Includes Derby area directories, various dates.