1800
| Architecture | Holme Mill, Thornton Road {1804} Eastbrook House, 99 East Parade [LG] |
Map of Bradford
[Flickr] 4-6 All Alone, Idle [c] 403-405 Allerton Road [c] |
| Events | ||
| National | Act of Union (Great Britain and Ireland) Elgin Marbles brought from Parthenon in Greece |
Royal College of Surgeons founded Criminal Lunatics Act |
| International | USA - Thomas Jefferson | USA Governmnent moves to Washington. |
| Sport | ||
| Firsts | Electric Light (Sir Humphry Davy) High pressure steam used (Richard Trevithick) Ordnance Survey Map - Kent (1/1) |
Battery - Alessandro Volta Library of Congress, Washington |
| Arts/Media | 1st Symphony in C Major - Beethoven |
1801
| Architecture | ||
| Events | Population 13,624 Market moved from Westgate to Market Street (1824) |
One worsted mill in Bradford |
| East Riding | Population of Hornsea 533 | |
| National | PM - Henty Addington - Tory {1804} Act of Union - England & Ireland in force (1/1) |
Treaty of St Petersburg Census in Britain (29/6) |
| International | USA - Thomas Jefferson | Battle of Copenhagen (2/4) - Nelson used blind eye |
| Firsts | Submarine - Robert Fulton | White Ensign - flag of the Royal Navy |
| Arts/Media | 1st and 2nd Piano Concertos - Beethoven | The Four Seasons - Haydn |
| Products | Chivas Regal, Whisky |
1802
| Architecture | 72/74 Market Street, Thornton modernised (Bronte home) | |
| Events | Map of Bradford | |
| National | First British Factory Act | |
| International | Ceylon became a British colony Alexander Dumas born |
Minorca returned to Spain |
| Firsts | Steamboat - Charlotte Dundas (W Symington) | Table of Atomic Weights - John Dalton |
| Arts/Media | Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven | 2nd Symphony - Beethoven |
1803
| Architecture | ||
| Events | Sir Titus Salt born - Morley (20/8) Lighting and Watching Commissioners |
Bradford Old Bank founded (2/5) |
| National | Robert Stephenson born The Times newspaper changed the typeface (10/9) [Flickr] |
Lighting and Watching Act |
| International | Britain declares war against France US purchases Louisiana & New Orleans |
Balearic Islands ceded to Spain |
| Firsts | Debretts Peerage Semaphore signalling (Admiral Popham) Caledonian Canal - start of construction |
Railway locomotive - Trevithick Public railway (Wandsworth to Croydon) Ferris Wheel - Chicago Expo (George WG Ferris) |
1804
| Architecture | Holme Mill (first worsted) destroyed by fire - rebuilt later (26/3) | |
| Events | Richard Cobden born | |
| National | PM - William Pitt - Tory {1806} | |
| International | Napoleon - Emperor of France US Constitution - 12th Amendment |
Spain declares war against Britain |
| Firsts | Caledonian Canal - start of construction [1822] | Rochdale Canal opened (John Rennie) |
| Arts/Media | 3rd (Eroica) Symphony - Beethoven | Jerusalem - William Blake |
1805
| Architecture | ||
| Events | ||
| National | Grand Junction Canal |
Battle of Trafalgar (21/10)
[Flickr] Lord Nelson died (21/10) [Flickr] |
| International | USA - Thomas Jefferson |
Battle of Austerlitz (2/12) Hans Christian Andersen born (2/4) {1875} |
| Firsts | Trooping of the Colour (4/6) Grand Union Canal completed |
Percussion detonator - Alexander Forsyth Aquaduct over Ellesmere Canal - Brunel |
| Arts/Media | 4th Piano Concerto - Beethoven Fidelio - Beethoven |
The Lay of the Minstrel - Walter Scott The Prelude - William Wordsworth |
1806
| Architecture | Clayton Heights Chapel | |
| Events | Fire Brigade formed (3 horse-drawn engines) | Blind man races the mail coach (15/3) [Flickr] |
| National | PM - Lord Grenville - Whig {1807} Isambard Kingdom Brunel born (9/4) |
William Pitt
the Younger died (23/1) [Flickr] |
| International | Britain declares war against Prussia | |
| Firsts | Carbon Paper patented (Ralph Wedgwood) Arc de Triomphe - construction commences |
Potassium & Sodium - Humphrey Davey Illustration in The Times newspaper |
| Arts/Media | Symphony No. 4 in B Flat - Beethoven | Violin Concerto (Op 61) - Beethoven |
1807
| Architecture | ||
| Events | Isaac Holden born (7/5) | |
| National | Slaver trade abolished by Parliament | |
| International | PM - Duke of Portland - Tory {1809} | |
| Firsts | Ascot Gold Cup horse race Ship to shore lifeline using a mortar (G Manby) |
Mumbles railway, Swansea {1960} Gas Lighting - London (29/1) |
| Arts/Media | Coriolanus - Beethoven | Leonara No. 3 - Beethoven |
1808
| Architecture | Low Moor chapel | Bell Chapel, Great Horton |
| Events | First Sunday School in Bradford | |
| National | ||
| International | USA - James Madison US prohibits import of slaves from Africa |
Sierra Leone became a British colony |
| Firsts | ||
| Arts/Media | 5th Symphony - Beethoven 6th (Pastoral) Symphony - Beethoven |
Faust (part 1) - Goethe |
1809
| Architecture | ||
| Events | ||
| National | PM - Spencer Perceval - Tory {1812} Arthur Wellesley becomes Duke of Wellington |
WE Gladstone born Dartmoor Prison (24/5) [Flickr] |
| International | USA - James Madison Napoleon divorced from Josephine (16/12) "Kit" Carson born (24/12) Joseph Haydn died (31/5) [Flickr] |
Abraham Lincoln born (12/2) {1865} Louis Braille born (4/1) Charles Darwin born (12/2) |
| Firsts | Two Thousand Guineas horse race Pall Mall, London is lit by gas |
Dartmoor Prison - French prisoners (24/5) |
| Arts/Media | 5th Piano Concerto - Beethoven |
| Architecture | Idle Chapel 124 Main Street, Wilsden |
Albion Mill, Wilsden (George Tweedy) {19??} |
| Events | Five worsted mills in Bradford | Hannah Green "witch of Wilsden" - died |
| National | Luddites, machine wreckers {1818} | |
| International | Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria | |
| Firsts |
1811
| Architecture | Kirkgate Wesleyan Chapel (13/5) | |
| Events | Population 16,012 Bishop Blaize Festival |
Henry Francis Lockwood (architect) born |
| National | George III incapacitated by insanity Prince of Wales became Prince Regent |
William Makepeace Thackeray born Paper money became legal tender (10/5) |
| International | ||
| Firsts | Regent Street, London building commenced (Nash) | Paper banknotes become legal tender in UK (10/5) |
| Arts/Media | Hansard | Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen |
1812
| Architecture | Woodhouse Grove School (12/1) | |
| Events | ||
| National | PM - Earl of Liverpool - Tory {1827} Restrictions on Prince Regent removed |
Prime
Minister Spencer Perceval assassinated (11/5) [Flickr] Robert Browning born (7/5) Charles Dickens born (7/2) {1870} |
| International | USA declares war on Britain (18/6) Battle of Queenston Heights (13/10) |
Napoleon enters Moscow (14/10) |
| Firsts | Goodwood Cup horse race | Gas company (Gas Light & Coke Company) |
| Arts/Media | 7th & 8th Symphony - Beethoven | Children's & Household Tales - Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm (Grimm Brothers) |
1813
| Architecture | ||
| Events | ||
| National | USA - James Madison | |
| International | Mexico declares independence from Spain (6/11) | |
| Firsts | "Puffing Billy" locomotive - William Hedley | |
| Arts/Media | Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (28/1) [Flickr] | |
| Products |
1814
| Architecture | Great Horton Chapel | Bingley Elementary School |
| Events | . | |
| National | . | |
| International | Treaty of Paris (Fontainbleu) Napoleon banished to Elba Malta annexed to Britain |
Battle of New Orleans End of 1812 war against USA Washington captured (24/8) |
| Firsts | Plastic surgery Marylebone Cricket Club - MCC (22/6) |
Gas lighting in streets (London) Steam locomotive - George Stephenson. |
| Arts/Media | Waverley - Sir Walter Scott Swiss Family Robinson - Jonathan Wyss |
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen Star Spangled Banner |
1815
| Architecture | Christ Church, Darley Street {1879} | |
| Events | Samuel Cunliffe Lister born Black Dyke Mills band formed |
Bronte family moved to Thornton |
| National | Corn Law | |
| International | Battle of Waterloo (18/6) Napoleon surrenders (15/7) [Flickr] Napoleon banished to St Helena |
Richelieu Prime Minister of France Battle of New Orleans (8/1) [Flickr] Napoleon returns to France (28/2) [Flickr] |
| Firsts | Miners Safety Lamp - Sir Humphry Davy Telegraphic link between London and Paris (13/11) |
John Macadam's road construction method adopted |
1816
| Architecture | Independent Chapel, Chapel Row, Wilsden {?} | |
| Events | Leeds Liverpool Canal opened Widow of William Brown opened shop - 11 Market Street - see 1834 |
Charlotte Bronte born (21/4) |
| National | ||
| International | USA - James Monroe | Indiana becomes an American state |
| Firsts | Portable fire-extinguisher (Manby) Macadamized roads (J Macadam) Regent's Canal, London - phase one |
Kaleidoscope (D Brewster) Cigarette lighter |
| Arts/Media | Emma- Jane Austen Kubla Khan - Coleridge (written 1797) |
Barber of Seville - Rossini 5th Symphony - Schubert |
1817
| Architecture | ||
| Events | Patrick Branwell Bronte born | |
| National |
Jane Austen died
(18/7) [Flickr] The Scotsman (25/1) |
Captain Bligh died (7/12) |
| International | USA - James Monroe | Mississippi becomes ans American state |
| Firsts | Waterloo Bridge, London | |
| Arts/Media | Flatford Mill - John Constable |
1818
| Architecture | ||
| Events | William E Forster born Bradford Savings Bank opened (22/8) |
Emily Bronte born (30/7) Bishop Blaize Festival |
| National | Church Building Act | |
| International | Canadian border established - 49th Parallel Illinois becomes 21st American state |
Venezuela independent of Spain - Simon Bolivar Karl Marx born (5/5) |
| Firsts | Professional horse racing - USA | |
| Arts/Media | Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Persuasion - Jane Austen (posthumous) Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen (posthumous) Don Juan - Lord Byron |
6th Symphony - Franz Schubert Heart of Midlothian - Walter Scott Rob Roy - Walter Scott |
1819
| Architecture | ||
| Events | East Morley & Bradford Savings Bank (15/1) | |
| National |
Queen Victoria born (24/5) (Flickr) Prince Albert born (26/8) (Wikipedia) Peterloo Massacre, Manchester (16/8) (Flickr) |
Joseph Bazalgette
born (28/3) (Wikipedia) Charles Kingsley born (12/6) (Wikipedia) George Eliot born (22/11) (Wikipedia) James Watt died (19/8) (Flickr) |
| International | USA purchases Florida from Spain (22/2) (Flickr) | Alabama becomes 22nd American state (14/12) (Flickr) |
| Firsts |
Atlantic crossing by steam -
SS Savannah (24/5-20/6) (Flickr) Piccadilly Circus, London (Wikipedia) |
Electromagnetism - Hans Christian Oersted
(21/04) (Wikipedia) Burlington Arcade, London (Flickr) |
| Arts/Media | Ivanhoe - Walter Scott (23/12) (Flickr) |
1820
| Architecture |
31 Manor Row [c]
(Flickr) 33 Manor Row [c] 37 Manor Row [c] 32 Manor Row [c] Bradford Grammar School, Manor Row - see 1871 |
Barkerend Mills - W&J Garnett Well Hole Mills, Wilsden Alderscholes Lane, Thornton (2-30) [c] Old Kings Head, Allerton Lane [c] (Flickr) 392-470 Allerton Road [c] |
| Events | Twenty worsted mills in Bradford Dacre Son & Hartley founded William Denby & Sons, Baildon founded |
Anne Bronte born (17/3) Bronte family moved to Haworth |
| National | King George IV {1830} King George III died (29/1) [Flickr] |
British settlers in South Africa |
| International | Maine becomes an American state | Spanish Inquisition abolished |
| Firsts | Royal Astronomical Society Regent's Canal, London - phase two |
Life insurance policy for a woman - UK (19/11) |
| Arts/Media | Venus de Milo discovered |
1821
| Architecture | ||
| Events | Population 26,309 Bradford Musical Friendly Society founded |
Bradford Gas Light Company formed |
| National |
George IV coronation (19/7) [Flickr]
Manchester Guardian (5/5) |
John Keats died (23/2) |
| International | USA - James Monroe Napoleon died on St. Helena (5/5) Missouri becomes an American state |
Richelieu resigns as French Prime Minister British West Africa formed Spain handed over Florida to USA (17/7) |
| Firsts | Theory for electric motor - Michael Faraday | |
| Arts/Media | Manchester Guardian (5/5) Weekly (Wikipedia) | Hay Wain - John Constable |
1822
| Architecture | 135/137 Main Street, Wilsden - Spring Hill | |
| Events | Bronte family moved to Haworth Bradford Gaslight Company formed |
List of Hotels, Inns and
Taverns |
| National | Percy Shelley drowned (8/7) [Flickr] | Three prisoners escape from York Castle (6/6) [Flickr] |
| International | Louis Pasteur born | Liberia founded as colony for released slaves |
| Firsts | Caledonian Canal opened (Thomas Telford) False teeth patented [Charles M Graham] (9/3) |
Tetleys Brewery - Leeds |
| Arts/Media | Sunday Times (20/10) | Symphony No 8 (Unfinished) - Franz Schubert |
1823
| Architecture | Dudley Hill Chapel Sion Chapel, Bridge Street fnd stone (28/2) |
Greenhill Chapel Shipley Church foundation stone (30/11) |
| Events | Gas first used - street lights (15/9) | |
| National | ||
| International | ||
| Firsts | Waterproof coat - Charles Macintosh Dynamo - William Sturgeon |
Rugby played at Rugby School |
| Arts/Media | The Lancet | |
| Products | Ninth Symphony - Beethoven |
1824
| Architecture | Kirkgate (Butter) Market (16/9) {?} Thornton Chapel St Mary's Church, Stott Hill (27/7)? - see 1825 St John's Church, Bierley consecrated (3/8) |
Sion Chapel St Matthews, Wilsden foundation stone (23/10) Bradford Infirmary founded? - see 1844 |
| Events | ||
| National | Lord Byron died (19/4) Imperial standard measure of the gallon legalised |
Trade Unions made legal |
| International | USA - John Quincy Adams | |
| Firsts | RSPCA founded Royal Naval Lifeboat Institution founded |
National Gallery, London Portland Cement patented (Joseph Aspdin) |
| Arts/Media | 9th Symphony (Choral) - Beethoven |
1825
| Architecture | Shoulder of Mutton, Kirkgate Eastbrook Chapel - rebuilt 1904 (2/9) Leeds Road (mid 1820s) |
St Mary's Church, Stott Hill (27/7)? - see 1824 Keighley-Bradford turnpike |
| Events | Bradford Strike Power Loom introduced First Building Society (Union) |
Bishop Blaize festival - last (3/2) Bradford Dispensary opened (19/4) Bradford Courier (14/7) {1828} |
| National | Financial crisis | Thames Tunnel (Marc Brunel) construction commenced |
| International | USA - John Quincy Adams | |
| Firsts | Railway - Stockton to Darlington Joe Smith founder of Mormons has "vision" |
Electromagnet - Sturgeon |
| Arts/Media | Boris Godunov - Pushkin |
1826
| Architecture | St Matthew's Church, Wilsden {1962} | St Paul's Church, Shipley |
| Events | Riot of unemployed & weavers (1/5) | Bradford Banking Company established |
| National | ||
| International | ||
| Firsts |
Menai Suspension Bridge - Thomas Telford
(30/1) [Flickr] Railway tunnel - Liverpool to Manchester railway |
Royal Zoological Society founded |
| Arts/Media | Burke's Peerage A Midsummer Night's Dream - Mendelssohn |
Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper |
1827
| Architecture | Bradford & Thornton Road Bradford & Eccleshill Road |
Shipley & Bramley Road Bradford Dispensary, Darley Street |
| Events | Bradford Banking Company founded (7/7) Antonio Fattorini took stall in Leeds market Gas meters introduced |
Flower show - Bradford Florist Society (15/8) Central Market - Leeds |
| National | PM - George Canning - Tory {1827} PM - Viscount Goderich - Tory {1828} |
William Blake died |
| International | Ludwig Van Beethoven died (27/3) [Flickr] | |
| Firsts | Wooden friction matches - John Walker Ohm's Law - George Ohm |
Plymouth Brethren founded Theakston Brewery |
| Arts/Media | Evening Standard , London | |
| Products |
1828
| Architecture | Exchange Rooms, 1 Piccadilly ? Sackville Street [JHI=Jonas Illingworth] |
Sunday School, Wilsden |
| Events | Population approximately 42,000 | |
| National | PM - Duke of Wellington - Tory {1830} | Sir Robert Peel became Home Secretary |
| International | USA - Andrew Jackson Franz Schubert died (19/11) |
Jules Verne born |
| Firsts | Marble Arch, London Regents Park Zoo, London (27/4) |
Cocoa first sold London University |
| Arts/Media | The Spectator | C Major Symphony - Franz Schubert |
1829
| Architecture | ||
| Events | ||
| National | Catholic Emancipation Act Metropolitan Police formed (19/6) George Stephenson's Rocket won Rainhill Steam Trials (8/10) [Flickr] |
Sir Humphry Davy died (29/5) Scotland Yard (6/10) [Flickr] |
| International | USA - Andrew Jackson | |
| Firsts |
Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race (10/6)
[Flickr] Accordion manufactured - C Damian of Vienna |
St Katharines Dock, London (Thomas Telford) Omnibus service in London (Horse drawn) |
| Arts/Media | William Tell - G Rossini |
1830
| Architecture | 2 Piccadilly/30 Kirkgate [c] 14-16 Piccadilly [c] 18-24 Piccadilly [c] 17-19 Piccadilly [c 1820-30] |
Bents Foot, Wilsden Cranford Place, Wilsden Malt Shovel, Harden - as farmhouse Holy Trinity Church, Idle Alderscholes Lane, Thornton (3-29) [c] |
| Events | First Temperance Society in UK founded (2/2) | FM Rimmington, chemist founded |
| National | PM - Earl Grey - Whig {1834} King William IV {1837) |
George IV died (26/6) |
| International | ||
| Firsts | Liverpool to Manchester Railway Principles of induction - Faraday |
Royal Geographical Society founded Mormon Church, Fayette, New York |
| Arts/Media | Symphony Fantastique - Hector Berlioz |
1831
| Architecture | ||
| Events | Population 43,527 | First Anglican Day School |
| National | Truck Act - prohibiting payment in kind | |
| International | British Guiana became Crown Colony | |
| Firsts |
London Bridge - John Rennie (1/8)
[Flickr] HMS Beagle sailed - Charles Darwin |
North magnetic pole located (James Clark Ross) French Foreign Legion (10/3) |
| Arts/Media | Notre Dame de Paris - Victor Hugo |
1832
| Architecture | 71/77 Main Street, Wilsden (J
Emmott) Bolton Royd. Manningham Lane (circa) |
Spring Mill, Wilsden |
| Events | Mechanics Institute formed (13/2) Cholera epidemic - 30 died |
First MP's - J Hardy & EC Lister |
| National | Reform Act |
Lewis Carroll born (27/1) Sir Walter Scott died (21/9) |
| International | ||
| Firsts | Electroplating - George Elkington Book jackets used in England |
Slavery Abolition Society founded in Boston |
| Arts/Media | Mazurkas (op 6) - Chopin |
1833
| Architecture | Piccadilly | Allerton Chapel |
| Events | Bradford Commercial Bank founded | James Berry appointed as the public hangman |
| National | Factory Act - minimum age for working 10 | |
| International | USA - Andrew Jackson Alfred Nobel born (21/10) |
Falkland Islands claimed by Britain |
| Firsts | Electric Telegraph - Weber & Gauss | Garrick Club, London |
| Arts/Media | 4th Symphony in A - Mendelssohn | 12 Etudes (op 10) - Chopin |
1834
| Architecture | Court House, Hall Ings {1958} | Clayton Chapel |
| Events | 39 Worsted mills in Bradford Henry Brown took over shop from mother - see 1845 |
Bradford Observer - weekly (6/2)
(Flickr) Map of Bradford (Flickr) |
| National | PM - Viscount Melbourne - Whig (16/7) {1834} PM - Duke of Wellington - Tory (14/11) {1834} PM - Sir Robert Peel - Tory (9/12) {1835} Poor Law Act - introduction of workhouses (8/8) |
Tolpuddle Martyrs John Coleridge died Thomas Telford died ((2/9) Richard Mawson (architect) born |
| International | Slavery abolished in the British Empire (1/8) [Flickr] | St Helena became a Crown Colony |
| Firsts |
Birmingham Town
Hall (7/10) (Wikipedia) Hair Straightener patented - Sarah Breadlove (23/12) |
Braille - Louis Braille Hansom Cab patented - Joseph Hansom (23/12) |
| Arts/Media | Rookwood - W H Ainsworth [Robin Hood legend] |
1835
| Architecture | Black Dyke Mills, Queensbury | Salem Chapel/Kenburgh House, Manor Row |
| Events | Temperance Festival, Wilsden (20/4) | Rev Thomas Rawson Taylor (poet) died (7/3) |
| National | PM - Viscount Melbourne - Whig {1841} Municipal Corporations Act John Nash died (13/5) [Flickr] |
Highway Act Bear and bull baiting prohibited |
| International | Mark Twain born | |
| Firsts | Madam Tussauds Waxworks, London |
Halley's Comet first sighted Revolver patented - Samuel Colt |
| Arts/Media | Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Anderson (-1872) |
1836
| Architecture | Holy Trinity Church, Low Moor - enlarged Ling Bob, Wilsden - rebuilt Britannia Mills foundation stone (4/10) |
Tetley Street Baptist Church Daisy Hill Chapel (18/9) |
| Events | Titus Salt discovered practical use for alpaca Manoah Rhodes started at 6 Westgate - see 1876 |
Post Office introduced private boxes |
| National | First Registrar General (T Lister) | Building Societies Act |
| International | Arkansas becomes American state |
Alamo - General Bowie & Colonel David Crockett killed (6/3)
[Flickr] Texas independence - Mexico defeated |
| Firsts | London Bridge station Arc de Triomphe, Paris Grand National - Liverpool Grand Steeple-Chase (29/2) [Flickr] |
Acetylene discovered - Edmund Davy Hansom Cab patented - Joseph A Hansom Screw propeller - Frances Pettit Smith |
1837
| Architecture | Oddfellows Hall, Thornton Road Mechanics Institute, Wilsden |
Temperance Hall, Chapel Street (28/2) {1935} Black Dyke Mills, Queensbury - John Foster |
| Events | Visit by HRH Prince George (20/11) First Temperance Hall in England Bradford Union instituted |
Flood - "Bradford Deluge" (20/12) Riot because of Poor Law Act (20/11) Extraordinary Flood (23/2) (Flickr) |
| National | Queen Victoria (until 1901) King William IV died (20/6) [Flickr] Queen Victoria coronation |
Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths John Constable died (31/3) [Flickr] |
| International | USA - Martin Van Buren Michigan becomes American state |
Wild Bill Hickock born {1876} |
| Firsts | Great Yorkshire Show Euston Railway Station, London Shorthand - Isaac Pitman Electric Telegraph demonstrated - Samuel Morse (6/1) |
Telegraph Line patented - Cooke & Wheatstone Vaux Brewery Dry Soap Powder - Robert Hudson |
| Arts/Media | Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens |
1838
| Architecture | Manningham Mills - original {1871} Bridge Street Chapel {cinema 1910) White Abbey Chapel (31/8) Temperance Hall, Leeds Road (27/2) (Flickr) |
Station House St James Church, Manchester Road St Pauls Church, Buttershaw Moravian Chapel, Little Horton Lane |
| Events | Decision to build Mechanics Institute (24/01) (Flickr) | Fire at Illingworth's mill, Thornton Road (21/10) [Flickr] |
| National | Anti Corn League (Cobden & Bright) | Queen Victoria - Coronation (28/6) [Flickr] |
| International | ||
| Firsts | National Gallery, London (8/4) Bicycle - Kirkpatrick Macmillan |
Steamship service to USA Trains used to convey mail {2004} |
| Arts/Media | Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens |
1839
| Architecture | Infants School, Wilsden | Ebenezer Chapel, Horton Lane |
| Events | Bradford Waterworks Company | Rev Henry Heap - Vicar of Bradford died (17/1) |
| National | Cunard Company formed | |
| International | General Custer born {1876} | |
| Firsts | Indian Tea arrives in Britain Steam hammer - James Nasmyth Henley Regatta Photographic negative - William Henry Fox Talbot Railway Guide (UK) |
Cesarewitch Stakes horse race Grand National horse race at Aintree (26/2) Silver image on copper plate - Louis Daguerre Baseball - Cooperstown, New York - Abner Doubleday (12/6) |
| Arts/Media | Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens |
1840
| Architecture | 30 Manor Row [c] 6 Piccadilly [c 1830-40] Bowling School Bowling Church foundation stone (7/4) |
St John's Church, Manchester Road Mechanics Institute, Leeds Road (11/8) Heaton School W. Wyhill Emporium - 137 Westgate [Flickr] |
| Events | Chartist Army marched into market place (27/1) | Bradford Exhibition (12/8) [Flickr] |
| National |
Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert
(10/2) [Flickr] |
Thomas Hardy born (2/6) Beau Brummel - Regency Dandy - died (30/3) |
| International | Opium War with China started Beau Brummell died (30/3) [Flickr] |
Transportation of convicts to Australia ended New Zealand became British Colony |
| Firsts | Postage
Stamp - Penny Black (1/5) [Wikipedia] P&O steamer run to India |
Saxophone - Adolf Sax |
1841
| Architecture | Eccleshill School Stott Hill School |
Providence Mill, Wilsden Theatre Royal, Duke Street {1867} |
| Events | Population 66,715 83 worsted mills in Bradford |
WE Forster arrived in Bradford |
| National | PM - Sir Robert Peel - Tory {1846} Punch (17/7) |
Thomas Cook's founded |
| International | USA - William Harrison (died in office) USA - John Tyler |
Hong Kong ceded to Britain by China (20/1) New Zealand becomes British colony |
| Firsts | Standard screw threads - Joseph Whitworth Paperback book Carbon zinc battery - James Bunsen |
Joules Law - James Joule Hypnotism - James Braid |
| Arts/Media | Barnaby Rudge - Charles Dickens Punch Magazine (17/7) [Flickr] |
The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens New York Tribune - newspaper (10/4) |
1842
| Architecture | Lumby Street School Manningham School |
St John's Church, Manchester Road (8/2) |
| Events | Waterworks Act | Bradford Herald (16/1) |
| National | Coal Mines Act (children working in mines) Queen Victoria made first train journey Lieutenant-General Henry Shrapnel died (13/3) [Flickr] Illustrated London News (27/11) |
Thomas Arnold died Income Tax was 7d in the pound Queen Victoria receives four Arabian horses (12/6) [Flickr] |
| International | Opium War ended (China) | |
| Firsts | Blueprint process for copying - Sir John Herschel | Ether used as anaesthetic - Crawford Long |
| Arts/Media | Illustrated London News (14/5) Morte de Arthur - Lord Tennyson |
Builder - magazine |
| Products/Words | Vegetarian |
1843
| Architecture | St Jude's Church, Manningham {1966} St Paul's Church, Buttershaw Denton Well Cottage, Harrogate Road |
Royd Mill, Wilsden Primitive Methodist Chapel, Wilsden ? Crack Lane, Wilsden |
| Events | Board of Highway Surveyors Three ton steel hammer installed at Low Moor Iron Co Tender for erection of Thornbury Barracks [Flickr] Royal Oak Inn, Kirkgate refurbished (4/2) #[] |
Yorkshire Banking Company established branch Bradford to Manchester Coach (Flickr) Advert for Theatre, Thornton Road (3/3) [Flickr] |
| National |
William Wordsworth - offered post of Poet Laureate (6/4) [Flickr] News of the World (1/10) |
Economist (2/9) |
| International | Gambia became a Crown Colony | Natal declared British |
| Firsts |
Nelson's Column, London (4/11)
(Flickr) Royal College of Surgeons founded SS Great Britain launched - Brunel (19/7) (Flickr) Thames Tunnel (Marc & IK Brunel) opened (25/3) (Wikipedia) |
Hydro-electricity - Thomas Faraday Cigarettes produced commercially Christmas cards in Britain Royal Hunt Cup, Ascot - horse race |
| Arts/Media | News of the World (1/10) The Economist - magazine |
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (17/12) Flying Dutchman - Richard Wagner |
1844
| Architecture | Bradford Infirmary, Westgate {1936} (Flickr) | Daisy Hill School |
| Events | Leeds and Bradford Railway Act | Gordons solicitors |
| National | Joint Stock Companies Act Factory Act - working day for children reduced |
Fleet Prison demolished |
| International | ||
| Firsts | YMCA founded - George Williams Imperial standards - pound/yard |
First Co-operative store (Rochdale) Samuel Morse transmits first message |
| Arts/Media | Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens | The Three Musketeers - Alexander Dumas |
1845
| Architecture | Daisy Bank, Girlington - for Alfred Illingworth Melbourne Alms Houses, Sawtrey Place, Little Horton |
Eldon Place |
| Events | First directory issued [Wood & Ibbotson] (31/1) C Pratt and Sons, furnishers founded |
Henry Brown took on partner - TP Muff "Brown & Muff, Linen and Wool Drapers" |
| National | Irish potato crop failed resulting in famine |
Lunatics Act County Asylums Act |
| International | USA - James Knox Polk |
Florida becomes American state Texas becomes American state |
| Firsts | Pneumatic tyre patented - Robert Thompson Tonic sol fa musical notation (Sarah Glover) Trafalgar Square fountains |
SS Great Britain maiden voyage (26/7) Elastic band - Stephen Perry |
1846
| Architecture | St Luke's Church, Eccleshill Bradford (Market Street) Station (1/7) {1890} Zoar Chapel, Westgate |
Apperley Bridge Station (1/7) {1965} Shipley Station - first (?/9) {1875} St Mary's Church, Wyke |
| Events | Leeds to Bradford Railway (1/7) Melbourne Brewery [Leeds] |
Fattorini moved to Bradford |
| National | PM - Lord John Russell - Whig {1852} Standard railway gauge introduced |
Repeal of the Corn Laws |
| International | USA at war with Mexico Iowa becomes American state |
William "Buffalo Bill" Cody born |
| Firsts | Gun cotton - Christian Schonbein Albert Dock, Liverpool |
Nitroglycerine - A Sobrero Baseball game - New Jersey (19/6) |
| Arts/Media | Book of Nonsense - Edward Lear Man in the Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas Daily News - edited by Charles Dickens (21/1) |
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas Damnation of Faust - Berlioz |
| Products | Peroni (Nostro Azzurro) - Lager, Italy |
1847
| Architecture | Bingley Station - 1st (16/3) {1892} Keighley Station - 1st (16/3) {1883} |
Steeton Station - 1st (?/12) {1892} Boundary Place, Queensbury [Black Dyke Mills] |
| Events | Population 103,778 Borough Charter granted (1/6) Bingley Improvement Act Railway extended from Shipley to Keighley (16/3) (Flickr) |
Mayor - Robert Milligan Fire Station becomes "Town Hall" 16 foundries/ironworks in Bradford Willliam Leverett - Chief Constable [first] |
| National | Ten Hours Act (Richard Oastler) | |
| International | Mexico occupied by USA troops | Gold discovered in California |
| Firsts | Chloroform used as anaesthetic - James Simpson Salt Lake City founded by Mormons |
USA - adhesive postage stamps (1/7) Leeds - Armley Jail |
| Arts/Media | Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Agnes Grey - Anne Bronte |
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray |
| Products | Tom Smith's crackers |
1848
| Architecture | Bankfield, Bingley - for William Murgatroyd St Luke's Church, Eccleshill Low Moor parsonage |
Low Moor Station (9/7) {1965} St Paul's Church, Manningham Wyke parsonage |
| Events | Emily Bronte died (19/12) |
Mayor - Titus Salt
(9/11) (Flickr) Chartist demonstration |
| National | Public Health Act | George Stephenson died (12/8) [Flickr] |
| International | Wyatt Earp born
(19/3) {1929}(Wikipedia) Gold discovered in California (24/1) Wisconsin becomes American state |
Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx Slavery abolished by France |
| Firsts | Bloomers - Amelia Bloomer (19/7) International Morse Code (Gerke) - qv 1865 (Wikipedia) |
Waterloo
Station, London (11/7) (Flickr) Decorated Christmas Tree - Victoria & Albert [Flickr] |
| Arts/Media | Dombay and Son - Charles Dickens | Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Emily Bronte |
1849
| Architecture | St Matthew's Church, Bankfoot (12/12) | St Andrew's Chapel, Simes Street (Bombay Brasserie) |
| Events | Cholera epidemic - 426 died Anne Bronte died in Scarborough (28/5) [Flickr] Map of Bradford city centre (Flickr) |
Mayor - Henry Forbes Lockwood & Mawson formed List of "taxi" ranks (27/3) [Flickr] |
| National | Cock fighting made illegal Florin introduced (two shillings) |
Edgar Alan Poe died Marc Isambard Brunel died (12/12) |
| International | USA - Zachary Taylor (died in office) | |
| Firsts | Pillar boxes for mail | Safety pin patented |
Early to Mid 19th
century
| Architecture | Cock & Bottle public house | |
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