Timeline of Derby

Prior to 18th century

917 – Market active.

918 – Danes take town (approximate date).

1160 – Derby School established (approximate date).

1229 – Derby fair active.

1294 – Parliamentary representation begins.

1530 – All Saints' Church tower built.

1592 – Plague.

1638 – Henry Mellor becomes mayor.

1660 – County Hall built.

1665 – Plague.

1675 – Derby Company of Mercers formed.

1696 – Osmaston Hall built.

18th century

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.

1750

Derby Porcelain Company in business.

Markeaton Hall built (approximate date).

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 – 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).

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.

1886 – 6 May: Grand Theatre burns down.

1887 – Derby Sketching Club formed.

1888 - Derby becomes a County Borough

1895 – Midland Railway Institute built.

1899 – Derby Technical College founded.

20th century

1902 – Derby Municipal Secondary School for Boys opens.

1908 – Rolls-Royce Limited headquartered in Derby.

1910

Victoria Electric Theatre opens.

Cosmopolitan Public Hall built.

1918 – British Cellulose and Chemical Manufacturing Company plant built.

1930 – Bemrose School opens.

1971 – BBC Radio Derby begins broadcasting.

1974 – Derby Industrial Museum opens.

1975

Derby Playhouse opens.

Eagle Centre shopping centre in business.

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.

The Free Derby begins publication.