Year |
Event |
0150 |
Ptolemy refers to Liverpool as "port of the Setanti", whose people later formed part of the bigger Celtic tribe the Brigantes |
0432 |
St.Patrick thought to have left Liverpool for Ireland - a cross marks the spot where he is said to have preached beforehand |
1086 |
Domesday Book records a settlement called Lytherpool comprising a church, a tower and a few huts |
1170 |
Prince Madoc, son of King Owain of Gwynedd, ruler of North Wales, discovers America |
1207 |
King John makes "Liverpul" a borough |
1235 |
A new stone castle is completed at Liverpool |
1272 |
First census takes place in Liverpool giving a population of 840 |
1282 |
First Mersey ferry is started by Monks at Birkenhead Priory |
1292 |
John de More is the first identified mayor on record |
1296 |
Liverpool's population estimated as 800 |
1314 |
First mention of the Norris family in connection with Speke Hall |
1323 |
The king visits Liverpool staying in the Castle for a week [B12] |
1328 |
The streets of Liverpool are first paved [B12] |
1333 |
The king grants a charter allowing the burgesses of Liverpool to resume self government [B12] |
1335 |
The Sherriff, Sir William Blount is murdered [B12] |
1351 |
William, son of Adam de Liverpool is first recorded Mayor of Liverpool |
1360 |
A mass burial of plague victims takes place at the Chapel of St.Nicholas |
1372 |
Ships as large as 200 tons ordered to assemble in Liverpool for transportation to Ireland |
1374 |
Thomas Moore tries to get William of Liverpool's bakery in Castle Street and his fishing near Toxteth Park [B12] |
1379 |
A list of poll tax contributers provides the earliest record of Liverpool residents names |
1383 |
The first recorded mayor, William son of Adam of Liverpool dies [B12] |
1406 |
Henry IV grants the Isle of Man to Sir John Stanley |
1410 |
The lease of lordship rights granted to the burgesses by John of Gaunt expires [B12] |
1413 |
The burgesses get a new charter from King Henry V restoring the trade monopoly abolished by Richard II [B12] |
1415 |
Richard Molyneux fights at Agincourt |
1441 |
Sir Richard Molyneux made Constable of Liverpool Castle and Ranger of Toxteth, Croxteth and Simonswood parks [B12] |
1442 |
A new tower is built at Liverpool Castle |
1495 |
Henry VII and his queen visit the Stanley estates at Lathom and Knowsley and Thomas Stanley receives the Earldom of Derby |