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Anniversary Timelines for 2021Rather than type them all out I have found a couple of excellent timeline websites. Why repeat al the excellent work on the following website: Anniversaries 2021 Also a website about 2020 the year our Forum was formed. Its from Wikipedia and goes through the year month by month Anniversary Timeline for 2020795 Viking attack on Iona 1120 Sinking of the White Ship 1170 Murder of Thomas a Becket 1295 Model Parliament 1520 Field of the Cloth of Gold 1570 Queen Elizabeth 1 declared an heretic 1620 The Pilgrim Fathers 1645 Battle of Naseby 1670 Hudson's Bay Company 1695 Foundation of the Bank of Scotland 1720 South Sea Bubble 1745 Jacobite Rising 1770 NS Wales claimed for Britain 7/ 4/1770 William Wordsworth born 1795 Pontycysyllte Aqueduct built 17/ 1/1820 Birth of Anne Bronte 1820 Cato St Conspiracy 1845 The Great Famine (Ireland) 1870 - Forster's Education Act 1895 The National Trust 1920 Inauguration of the League of Nations 1945 VE Day Born 1945 1950 Nato was created 1960 President Kennedy was elected 1970 VCR and Floppy discs 1970 ½ crown and 2/- ceased to be legal tender, Born
- Andy Burnham, 1975 Microsoft appears on the scene, 1980 Rubiks Cube and Pacman 1990 Release of Nelson Mandela 1995 Collapse of Baring's Bank, LOCAL ANNIVERSARIES - Nico Ditch running from Ashton-under-Lyne, through Audenshaw and Denton and on to Stretford. Legend claims it was built in a single night in 869 or 870 as a defence against Viking invaders - 1730 a parish workhouse was established which consisted of a house and two cottages on Dungeon street in Ashton-under-Lyne. - John Chapman (1810-1877) was MP for Grimsby, High Sheriff of Cheshire, JP and Chairman of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway. He lived in Broadbottom. - Stalybridge St George's is the parish church on the Lancashire side of the river in the Diocese of Manchester. It is known as New St George's and its foundation stone was laid on 24 June 1840 - 1895 Opening of the Albion United Reformed Church in Ashton. Worship started in a house on Church Street in 1780 and after several moves of premises culminating in the present building, built almost in opposition to the parish church and its spire is 5 feet higher. - E Taylor Electrical in Stalybridge, shop and business, opened in 1920, four generations of the family are celebrating its centenary this year - Harry Pollitt, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain, was born in Droylsden in 1890 - died 1960 The communist Party of great Britain was formed in 1920. He appears on a Soviet Union stamp of 1970. In 1945 he was within a thousand votes of taking Rhonda East from the Labour Party - Ada Jane Summers MBE JP (née Broome; 1861-1944) was the first British woman to sit as a magistrate. She was also the first female councillor, mayor and freeman of Stalybridge near Manchester. She was also a philanthropist. In October 1920 she was appointed a Justice of the Peace in the borough in her own right, again the first woman in Britain to do so - Stalybridge town's war memorial was extended after the war, to bear the names of an extra 124 men from the town; it was unveiled on 23 April 1950. - Mrs Bowman published her epic "England in Ashton-uner-Lyne" in 1960 - Tameside Local History Forum was founded in 2000 - Tameside Family History Group was founded in 2000. One of the branches of the Family history Society of Chesire Many thanks to Kate Booth and my joint effort finding these 02/02/2020 Anniversary Timeline to 201979 Romans build a wooden fort at Mamucium 1069 The Harrying of the North by William the Conquerer 20/8/1619 the start of the British slave trade 1669 Christopher Wren got the job of designing St Paul's Cathedral 1719 The publication of Robinson Crusoe 1729 the first Cotton Exchange built in Manchester 1759 James Brindley apointed by the Duke of Bridgewater to build his canal 1769 both the Duke of Wellington and Napoleon were born. 1769 Wedgewood factory opened in Stoke on Trent 1769 Arkwight patented his spinning frame 1769 Captain Cook discovered New Zealand 22/11/1819 birth of George Eliot - Mary Ann Evans. Author, poet, journalist and translator. 1819. 20th anniversary since the birth of Queen Victoria 1819 200th Anniversary of the birth of Joseph Bazalgette (Engineer of the London Sewers) 1819 The Peterloo Massacre 1819 Charles Kingsley author of The Water Babies was born 1839 Manchester to Salford Junction canal opens through the centre of Manchester 1869 The Co-operative Union decided to establish a central body 1869 Suez Canal opens 1869 The Cutty Sark was launched 1869 Henry Wood the Founder of the Proms was born 1869 Arthur Brooke opens his tea dealing business Brooke Bond at 23 Market Street 1869 Mahatmat Ghandi was born 1879 The first Provincial Telephone Exchange opens on Faulkner Street 1889 RSPB founded at Didsbury 1919 The first translatlantic Flight by Alcock and Brown 1919 Hundred years of the caravan June 1919 The League of Nations was formed July 1919 the first Airship crosses the Atlantic 1919 The Treaty of Versailles was signed following the end of the 1st World War 12/4/1919 - Amritsar Massacre 1919 - Homes fit for Heroes Housing Act 1919 - Womens' Engineering Society 1919 - Egyptian Revolution 12/5/1919 - The charity Combat Stress was founded. 1919 - NASUWT founded, the union for ordinary teachers 15/11/1919 - Nancy Astor elected to Parliament 1939 The Daily Express building designed by Sir Owen William is completed 6/6/1944 75th anniversary of the D Day Landings 1949 The Manchester Mark 1 computer is operable at Manchester University 9/11/1989 the fall of the Berlin Wall 20/7/1969 1st Moon Landing 20/7/1969 the last public performance by The Beatles 1969 The Family History Society of Cheshire was formed 1969 Concorde's maiden flight 1969 The Kray Twins convicted 1969 voting age lowered to 18 1969 First Solo sailing around the world Robin Knox Johnson 1969 First Troops sent to Northern Ireland 1969 The 50 pence coin issued 1969 Drilling for North Sea Oil began 1979 The start of Denton local History Society 1979 Major fire at Woolworths Manchester Piccadilly Store 1989 The Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989 The release of Nelson Mandella 1999 The opening of Portland Basin Museum Anniversary Timeline to 2018July 918 Aethelflaed daughter of King Alfred, leader of Mercians, dies at Tamworth, Staffs. 1348 7 July - the first case of the Black Death 1588 7 January - England loses its last possession in France (Calais) 1658 3 September - Oliver Cromwwell dies 1668 - Birth of Thomas Coram, seaman and philanthropist and founder of the London Foundling Hospital 1688 21 May - Birth of Alexander Pope, poet 1708 - The First Hyde Chapel built 1718 18 March - Birth of Thomas Chippendale, cabinet maker 1718 - British Convicts start being transported to penal colonies oversees 1728 3 July - Birth of Robert Adam, architect and interior designer 1728 7 November - Birth of James Cook, sea captain and explorer 1788 31 January - Death of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, 'Bonny Prince Charlie' 1788 31 January - Death of Thomas Gainsborough, portrait and landscape artist 1798 26 May - Irish Rebel Uprising 1808 - British West African Squadron is formed to suppress the Slave Trade 1812-1818 - Hampden Clubs are formed to advocate for Parliamentary Reform 1818 22 August - death of Warren Hastings first de factor Gov. General of India 1818 - construction of what is now the A57 road from Taylor Lane, Denton, to Reddish Bridge- replacing a circuitous route via Windmill Lane, Cornhill Lane etc. See "About Denton", by Frank Brown, p35 1838 - Oliver Twist is published 1838 8 May - The Peoples Charter advocates Social and Political reform 1868 - First publication of Louisa May Alcott's 'Little Women' 1918 6 February - Limited Vote for Women 1918 11 November Armistice bringing about end of hostilities in World War One 1918 Early Spring - Start of Spanish Flu Pandemic. 4th November 1918 Wilfred Owen of the Manchester Regiment and First World War poet dies at the Sambre-Oise canal, France. 1918 - Frank Hampson, illustrator and creator of Dan Dare, was born on 21 December 1918, in Audenshaw. See People who made Tameside and Oxford dictionary of National Biography 1928 7 September - All Women over 21 given the Vote 1938 12 February - The first Kinder Transport 1948 22 June - Post War Immigration Starts 1958 5 December - First motorway opens - The Preston Bypass 1968 Jan/Feb - Hull Triple Trawler disaster. 59 men of Hull fishing community lose their lives at sea. Women of community protest about safety at sea laws and bring about 88 safety measure 1958 6 February - The Munich Air disaster 1968 4 April - Martin Luther King, Civil Rights leader is shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee USA 1978 - the first Test Tube Baby born in Oldham - Louise Brown 1978 - Denton Local History Society is 40 years old in 2018 - more information about events to celebrate this later Anniversary Timeline to 20171707 The first Old Chapel is built in Dukinfield. http://www.ukunitarians.org.uk/dukinfield/index.htm 1717 John "Blind Jack" Metcalfe of Knaresborough was born. Yorkshire's most extraordinary son and an ancestor of my husband. http://gayandmike.co.uk/blindjack.htm 1747 Liverpool overtakes Bristol as the nations busiest Slaveport. 1787 13th May The First Fleet of Convicts sails for Australia 1807 The Slave Trade in Britain is abolished 1817 The March of the Blanketeers 10 March forerunner to Peterloo in 1819 http://spartacus-educational.com/PRblanketeers.htm Hugh Mason 1817 - 1886 Industrialist, Mill owner, Philanthropist. There is a statue of him in Trafalgar Square, Ashton 1837 20th June Queen Victoria ascends the Throne 1847 Ashton-under-Lyne becomes a Borough Council 1857 5th March Stalybridge Corporation is formed Francis Thompson 16th December 1859 - 13th November 1907 local poet 1917 Ashton Munitions disaster 1917 The Imperial War Museum is created. 5 March 2017 will mark 100 years since the founding of the Imperial War Museum. MRT's Miles Rowland takes a look at how the museum has changed since its foundation. https://www.martinrandall.com/iwm-anniversary 1917 100th Anniversary Battle of Passchendaele.The terrible battle commenced on 31st July, continuing until 10th November. 1927 1st January The BBC created Brian Wilde 1927 - 2008 Actor. Appeared in many programmes, his most famous being Last of the Summer Wine. Lived on Montague Road, Ashton Coronation date of King George VI 12th May 1937. Randal Mundy 1862 - 1937 - teacher at Albion School, Poet, Linguist. Lived on Mellor Road, Ashton 1967 1st January The Beatles release Sergeant Pepper 1967 A British Midland flight full of holidaymakers was returning from Mallorca when the pilot suddenly lost power and the aircraft ploughed into a small patch of waste land at Hopes Carr in Stockport town centre at 10.09am on Sunday 4th June, 1967. 1997 1st May Labour Party Elected Ronald Fraser 1930 -1997 - Actor, lived in Cockbrook. Appeared in more than 50 films and TV programmes 50th Anniversary of Mossley RNLIBranch RNLI Fund Raising Committee is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year with a display in the George Lawton Hall during October and a book is being produced by Alison Wild and Shirley Howard recording past events. The Celebration Day is Thursday 5th October in the George Lawton Hall. Albion United Reformed Church
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