1422 - READ MORE - First stone of the Collegiate Church laid (28 Jul)

1520 - READ MORE - Free Grammar School founded

1573 - First register of the Collegiate Church. Records the burial of Robert Fisher (1 Aug)

1596 - READ MORE - Manor of Manchester purchased by Sir Nicholas Mosley (28 Mar)

1605 - READ MORE - Outbreak of plague in Manchester

1642 - READ MORE - Manchester besieged by Royalist troops (25 Sep)

1645 - Outbreak of a great plague. Many died

1693 - READ MORE - Cross Street Independent chapel founded

1712 - READ MORE - St. Ann's Church consecrated (17 Jul)

1745 - READ MORE - Prince Charles Edward Stuart arrives in Manchester (29 Nov)

1752 - READ MORE - First issue of The Manchester Mercury newspaper published (3 Mar)

1756 - READ MORE - St. Mary's Church consecrated (29 Sep)

1769 - READ MORE - St. John's Church consecrated (7 Jun)

1781 - READ MORE - Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society first meeting (28 Feb)

1787 - READ MORE - Angel Meadow Cemetery consecrated (21 Sep)

1788 - READ MORE - St. Michael and All Angels Church, Angel Meadow, consecrated (20 May)

1788 - READ MORE - St. James's Church, George Street consecrated (18 Aug)

1796 - READ MORE - Watts drapery store opened on Deansgate (becoming Kendal Milne & Faulkner in 1836)

1806 - READ MORE - Portico, Mosley Street opened

1810 - READ MORE - Thomas Henshaw died leaving £20,000 to establish an asylum for the blind (4 Mar)

1815 - Walker's Croft cemetery consecrated (1 Jan)

1819 - READ MORE - Peterloo massacre (16 Aug)

1821 - READ MORE - First issue of The Manchester Guardian published (5 May)

1821 - READ MORE - Rusholme Road Dissenters' Cemetery opened (16 May)

1823 - READ MORE - Royal Manchester Institution for the for the Promotion of Literature, Science and the Arts founded (1 Oct)

1824 - READ MORE - Vegetarian Society founded in Manchester

1825 - READ MORE - First issue of The Manchester Courier newspaper published (1 Jan)

1825 - Deaf and Dumb School, Stanley Street, Salford opened (9 Feb)

1830 - READ MORE - Manchester to Liverpool Railway opened (15 Sep)

1832 - READ MORE James Palfreyman becomes first victim of Asiatic Cholera epidemic in Manchester (24 May)

1832 - READ MORE - Manchester and Salford each awarded two Members of Parliament under the Reform Act (9 Aug). Mark Phillips and Rt. Hon. C. P. Thompson elected for Manchester and Joseph Brotherton and William Garnett for Salford (13/14 Dec)

1835 - READ MORE - Armenian silk merchants first arrive in Manchester

1836 - READ MORE Watts drapery store (1796) becomes Kendal Milne & Faulkner

1836 - READ MORE - Maria Malibran dies following performance at Manchester Music Festival (23 Sep)

1837 - Ardwick Cemetery opened (13 Apr)

1837 - The School for the Deaf and Dumb and Henshaws Asylum for the Blind opened at Old Trafford with a procession (21 Jun)

1837 - READ MORE - Manchester General Cemetery at Harpurhey opened (1 Sep)

1838 - Manchester constituted as a borough (1 Nov)

1838 - Chorlton-on-Medlock, Hulme, Cheetham and Ardwick incorporated into Manchester

1839 - READ MORE - The Manchester Athenaeum, Bond Street, designed by James Barry, opened (28 Oct)

1841 - READ MORE - Census Day (6 Jun)

1845 - Manchester Town Council purchased the manorial rights from Sir Oswald Mosley for £200,000 (24 Jun)

1847 - Manchester becomes a diocese separate from Chester (1 Sep).

1847 - READ MORE - James Prince Lee appointed the the first Bishop of Manchester (23 Oct)

1851 - READ MORE - Census Day (30 Mar)

1851 - Owens College opened (18 Mar) merged with Manchester Victoria University 24 Jun 1904)

1857 - READ MORE - Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition, Old Trafford. Possibly the largest art exhibition ever held in the world with 12,000 exhibits (5 May - 17 Oct)

1858 - READ MORE Manchester Great Synagogue consecrated (11 Mar)

1861 - READ MORE - Census Day (7 Apr)

1866 - READ MORE Votes for Women Petition, presented to parliament by John Stuart Mill, M.P. (7 Jun 1866)

1866 - Philips Park Cemetery opened (Roman Catholic section, 24 Aug; Unconsecrated section,1 May 1867; Consecrated section 2 Aug 1867)

1868 - READ MORE - First meeting of the Trades Union Congress held at the Mechanics Institute in David Street, Manchester (2-6 Jun)

1870 - READ MORE - James Fraser appointed second Bishop of Manchester (25 Mar)

1871 - READ MORE - Census day (2 Apr)

1872 - READ MORE The worst flood in Manchester's history caused widespread damage when the River Medlock burst its banks. Serious damage to the Roman Catholic section of Philips Park cemetery with several bodies being washed out of the ground (13 Jul) 

1877 - The present Manchester Town Hall opened (13 Sep)

1878 - Newton Heath Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Football Club formed, becoming Manchester United in 1902

1879 - Southern Cemetery opened (26 Sep)

1880 - St. Mark (West Gorton) Football Club formed, becoming Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887 and Manchester City in 1894

1881 - READ MORE - Census Day (3 Apr)

1885 - Rusholme incorporated into Manchester

1886 - James Moorhouse enthroned as third Bishop of Manchester (18 May)

1887 - READ MORE Artist Laurence Stephen Lowry born (1 Nov)

1887 - READ MORE - Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show at Salford Racecourse (14 Dec - 30 Apr 1888)

1890 - Blackley, Openshaw, Moston and Newton Heath incorporated into Manchester

1891 - READ MORE - Census Day (5 Apr)

1891 - Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, second visit to Manchester (July)

1892 - READ MORE Manchester Crematorium opened (2 Oct)

1896 - Bradford incorporated into Manchester

1901 - Edward VII becomes monarch on death of his mother, Victoria (22 Jan)

1901 - READ MORE - Census Day (31 Mar)

1902 - READ MORE - Manchester United F.C. is formed in a name change from Newton Heath (28 Apr)

1903 - Heaton Park is sold to Manchester City Council by the Earl of Wilton

1903 - READ MORE - Midland Hotel Opened (5 Sep)

1904 - Didsbury incorporated into Manchester

1906 - General Election; Liberals returned under Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman (12 Jan - 8 Feb)

1906 - READ MORE - Manchester Corporation Tramways begin motor bus services (Feb)

1907 - READ MORE - White City amusement park opened (20 May)

1908 - Manchester United win First Division title (18 Apr)

1908 - READ MORE - Whitworth Art Gallery opened (29 Jul)

1909 - Gorton and Levenshulme incorporated into Manchester

1910 - READ MORE - Alliott Verdon Roe and his brother Humphrey establish the Avro aircraft factory at Brownsfield Mill in Great Ancoats Street (1 Jan) - VIEW VIDEO

1910 - Death of King Edward VII. Succeeded by his son  reigning as George V (6 Jan)

1910 - General Election; Liberals form minority government under H. H. Asquith (voting 15 Jan - 2 Feb)

1910 - Second General Election in 1910; Liberals form minority government under H. H. Asquith replaced in 1916 by David Lloyd George (voting 3 - 19 Dec)

1911 - READ MORE - Census Day (2 Apr)

1911 – READ MORE - Ford Motor Company assembles its first Model T at Trafford Park (11 Oct)

1914 - READ MORE - War declared against Germany (4 Aug)

1914 - Manchester Regiment deployed to France (Aug)

1915 - Manchester Regiment moved to Mesopotamia (Dec)

1917 – READ MORE - Ernest Rutherford, working at the Victoria University of Manchester, creates first artificial nuclear reaction

1918 - Manchester Regiment moved to Egypt (Apr)

1918 - Manchester Regiment moved to Palestine

1918 - Armistice declared on Western front (11 Nov)

1918 - General Election; Liberals returned under David Lloyd George replaced in 1922 by Andrew Bonar-Law (14 Dec)

1919 - READ MORE First two-minute silence observed in Manchester (11 Nov)

1921 - READ MORE All motor vehicles required to display a vehicle excise duty (tax) disk (from 1 Jan). Abolished Oct 2014. See also our blog: Taxing Times READ BLOG 

1921 - READ MORE - William Temple appointed fifth Bishop of Manchester (15 Feb)

1921 - Education Act extended school leaving age to 14 and introduced free primary education

1921 - READ MORE - Marie Stopes opens Mothers' Clinic (first birth control clinic) at 61 Marlborough Road, Holloway, North London (17 Mar)

1921 - READ MORE - Austen Chamberlain appointed Leader of the House of Commons, succeeding Bonar Law. (1 Apr)

1921 - READ MORE - Manchester Guardian celebrates its centenary (5 May)

1921 - READ MORE - Clara Walkden, of Oldham Borough Police, became the first known female officer with powers of arrest (9 May)

1921 - Defence Force established to deal with expected general strike (9 Apr) Demobilised 9 Jul. See also our blog: Give Peace a Chance READ BLOG

1921 - READ MORE - Coal miners begin strike (15 Apr). Not supported by rail and transport workers (Black Friday). See also our blog: Baby It's Cold Outside READ BLOG

1921 - READ MORE - Census Day, postponed from 24 April owing to industrial unrest (19 Jun)

1921 - READ MORE - Hyde War Memorial unveiled (25 Jun)

1921 - Prince of Wales visits Manchester (7 Jul) - VIEW VIDEO

1921 - READ MORE - Dentists Act passes permitting only registered dentists to practice. Effective from 30 Nov 1922. (28 Jul)

1921 - READ MORE - Clayton War Memorial unveiled (21 Aug)

1921 - READ MORE - R38 Airship crashes due to structural failure. 45 killed, 5 survivors. (23 Aug)

1921 - READ MORE - Albert Einstein visits Manchester (30 Sep)

1921 - READ MORE - L. S. Lowry exhibited work alongside two other artists in an architect’s offices in Manchester (Oct)

1921 - READ MORE - Stalybridge War Memorial inaugurated (6 Nov)

1921 - READ MORE - Anglo-Irish Treaty signed (6 Dec)

1922 - READ MORE - Empire Settlement Act enacted (29 May). See also Exodus web site READ MORE  

1922 - READ MORE - First broadcast from Manchester (Metro-Vicks, Trafford park) by BBC station 2ZY (16 Nov)

1929 - READ MORE - Frederic Sumpter Guy Warman appointed sixth Bishop of Manchester - VIEW VIDEO

1931 - Wythenshawe incorporated into Manchester

1934 - READ MORE -Manchester Central Library opened by King George V (17 Jul) VIEW VIDEO

1936 - Death of King George V, succeeded by his son David, reigning as Edward VIII (20 Jan)

1936 - READ MORE - Census Day (26 Apr). Returns for England & Wales destroyed in accidental fire 1942.

1936 - READ MORE - Edward VIII abdicates as monarch, suceeded by his brother Albert, reigning as George VI (10 Dec)

1939 - READ MORE - Picasso's Guernica exhibited in Manchester (1 Feb)

1939 - War declared on Germany (1 Sep)

1940 - READ MORE - The Manchester Blitz. 684 people killed and extensive damage to the city (22-24 Dec)

1945 - End of war in Europe (2 Sep)

1947 - READ MORE - William Derrick Lindsay Greer appointed seventh Bishop of Manchester

1952 - HM Queen Elizabeth II becomes monarch (6 Feb)

1953 - Coronation of Elizabeth II (2 Jun) - VIEW VIDEO

1961 - READ MORE - Yuri Gagarin, the first cosmonaut, visited Manchester (14 Jul) - VIEW VIDEO

1964 - Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society established

1970 - Manchester Metropolitan University created from Manchester Polytechnic

1970 - READ MORE - Patrick Campbell Rodger appointed eighth Bishop of Manchester

1974 - Creation of Greater Manchester borough (1 Apr)

1976 - READ MORE - Artist Laurence Stephen Lowry died (23 Feb)

1978 - READ MORE - Stanley Booth-Clibborn appointed ninth Bishop of Manchester (5 Sep)

1986 - Greater Manchester borough abolished (31 Mar)

1992 - READ MORE - Manchester Metrolink opens between Bury and Manchester Victoria (6 Apr)

1996 - READ MORE - Provisional IRA bomb explodes in Corporation Street causing extensive damage, but fortunately no fatalities (15 Jun)

1997 - READ MORE - Christopher John Mayfield appointed tenth Bishop of Manchester

2002 -Nigel McCulloch appointed eleventh Bishop of Manchester

2002 - READ MORE - Urbis Museum opened (27 Jun). Closed and re-opened as the National Football Museum 6 Jul 2012

2002 - Manchester hosted Commonwealth Games (25 Jul - 4 Aug)

2004 - Manchester Victoria University and University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) merge to create University of Manchester (1 Oct)

2013 - David Stuart Walker enthroned as twelfth Bishop of Manchester (30 Nov)

2017 - Suicide bomber explodes bomb at Manchester Arena. 23 killed. (23 May)

2021 - READ MORE - HRH Prince Philip died aged 99 years (9 Apr)

2022 - HM Queen Elizabeth II died aged 96 years (8 Sep)