Year |
Event |
1806 |
William Roscoe returns to Parliament as a member for Liverpool [B12] |
1807 |
The "Mary" with Captain Hugh Crow is the last slave ship to leave Liverpool [B12] |
1809 |
William Ewart Gladstone is born at Rodney Street |
1815 |
Washington Irving arrive in Liverpool from New York to help with his brother's business |
1818 |
Washington Irving leaves Liverpool after 3 years to return to writing for a living after his brothers business goes bankrupt |
1820 |
George Holt marries Emma Durning of Liverpool |
1829 |
Alfred Holt, son of George Holt and Emma Durning is born in Liverpool |
1830 |
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway is officially opened |
1831 |
William Roscoe dies |
1832 |
Henry Tate starts a grocers apprenticeship in Liverpool |
1834 |
First Chinese arrive on the 'Duchess of Clarence' owned by John Bibby & Co and first non 'East India Company' ship to arrive in Liverpool from China |
1835 |
Benjamin Bowring sets-up a trading company in Liverpool under his name |
1839 |
Herman Melville visits Liverpool and reads in guidebook about the mythical Liverbird believing it to be real |
1840 |
The first company of 'Latter-day Saints' left Liverpool to sail to the USA under John Moon of Eccleston |
1841 |
Benjamin Bowring turns control of his Liverpool business to Charles Bowring |
1844 |
Robert Cain, future brewer, arrives in Liverpool |
1846 |
Benjamin Bowring dies in Liverpool |
1849 |
Herman Melville writes "Redburn : His first voyage", a novel, which mentions the Liverbird |
1854 |
Saint Georges Hall is opened [B07] |
1855 |
The Liverpool Daily Post newspaper is founded |
1857 |
John Rowlands aka Henry M Stanley leaves Liverpool for New Orleans onboard the Windermere |
1858 |
Robert Cain buys a brewery site at Stanhope Street |
1860 |
Thomas Ogden founds a tobacco company |
1861 |
Liverpool's first tramway was created by George F Train |
1862 |
The first of around 3000 trams (up to 1913) is built at the George Starbucks works at Birkenhead |
1863 |
Frank Hornby, inventor of Meccano is born in Liverpool on 15th May |
1865 |
Florence Nightingale who advises and supports William Rathbone works on plans for the Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary |
1866 |
Queen Victoria opens the Liverpool Shipperies Exhibition in Wavertree Park |
1868 |
Newsham Park, made on land purchased from the Molyneux family, is opened |
1870 |
Stanley Park is opened |
1871 |
Henry M Stanley says the words "Dr Stanley, I presume" when he comes across a white man in the crowd near Lake Tanganyika |
1872 |
Henry Tate builds a new sugar refinery in Liverpool and gets a patent for making sugar cubes |
1877 |
William Rathbone urges Florence Nightingale to examine the Liverpool Infirmary nursing model |
1878 |
Saint Domingo Football Club founded |
1879 |
Saint Domingo Football Club renamed Everton Football Club |
1868 |
Chinese officials arrive in Liverpool to establish a Chinese Embassy in Britain |
1880 |
Liverpool is granted 'city status' by Royal Charter' |
1884 |
First tunnel under the Mersey is completely cut through |
1888 |
Everton FC is one of 12 founder members of the Football League, first of it's type in the world |
1889 |
Henry Tate, Liverpool businessman donates his art collection to the nation |
1892 |
Liverpool Football Club is formed and Everton FC move from Anfield to Goodison Park in a split linked to a rent dispute |
1893 |
The Mayor becomes the Lord Mayor during the term of Robert Durning Holt |
1897 |
The Tate Art Gallery opens in London after Henry Tate donates his art collection to the nation |
1899 |
Frank Hornby, inventor of Meccano, begins making metal toys for his sons |