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Timeline
| 1013 | Ethelred "The Unready" is defeated by the Danish king Sven Forkbeard |
| 1041 | Edward the Confessor succeeds to the throne upon the death of his Danish half brother Hardicanute, and founds Westminster Abbey |
| 1066 | Harold, Earl of Wessex is chosen as King but is defeated by the invading army of William, Duke of Normandy. + Wall paintings are introduced in Churches |
| 1086 | The Doomsday Book is compiled |
| 1100 | (approx year) The first (Parish) church recorded was built and the Parish founded by Lord of the manor William de Lovetot |
| 1150 | The first original Sheffield Castle built by William de Lovetot at Castle Hill |
| 1170 | Thomas Becket is murdered in canterbury Cathedral |
| 1190 | Introduction (imported from Europe) of the Early English style of churches with pointed arches and lancet windows |
| 1215 | King John agrees to Magna Carta - the backbone of English liberty. |
| 1265 | First Parish church destroyed during the Barons War |
| 1265 | Englands first Parliment meets at Westminster Hall |
| 1270 | The second Sheffield castle was built by Thomas de Furnival replacing the original which was burned down by rioting Barons |
| 1277 | Edward I invades Wales |
| 1280 | (approx year) A second Parish church reconsecrated by the Archbishop of York |
| 1290 | Edward I claims overlordship of Scotland |
| 1294 | Edwards conquest of Wales is complete |
| 1297 | Thomas de Furnival granted a charter to his Free Tenants which created the Burgery of Sheffield |
| 1297 | William Wallace defeats English at Stirling, but is defeated the following year at Falkirk |
| 1300 | Many churches are being rebuilt on the proceed from the Wool trade |
| 1301 | Edwards I declares his son Prince of Wales |
| 1306 | Robert Bruce murders Comyn, his chief rival as leader of the Scots |
| 1311 | Robert Bruce harries the north of England |
| 1314 | Scots victory at Bannockburn leads to Scottish Independance |
| 1327 | Edward II murdered at Berkley Castle on the orders of his Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer |
| 1330 | Firearms begin to play a limited part in warfare. The English lonbow establishes its superiority over crossbows |
| 1348 | The Black Death (Bubonic Plague) arrives in England, eventually killing between one-third and a half of the population. |
| 1382 | John Wycliffe produces the first complete English translation of the Bible |
| 1434 | Sheffield's first water supply established by a man named Mr Barker who built a reservoir in Barkers Pool. (the City Hall now occupies the site) |
| 1435 | Parish church replaced by a Perpendicular church building |
| 1455 | Yorkist victory at St Albans opens Wars of the Roses |
| 1461 | Yorkist victory at Mortimers Cross brings Edward IV to the throne |
| 1476 | William Caxton, the first English printer, sets up printing press at Westmister. + For the first time, books gradually become available to ordinary Englishmen |
| 1485 | Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, defeats Richard III at Bosworth Field, and ends the Wars of the Roses |
| 1497 | Lady's Bridge (still going strong today )was rebuilt replacing an older existing (probably wooden) one |
| 1501 | (to 1503) James IV of Scotland agrees to marry daughter of Henry VII and signs treaty of perpetual peace with England |
| 1513 | Scots invade England and suffer a bloody defeat at Flodden |
| 1530 | George Talbot 4th Earl of Shrewsbury entertains Cardinal Wolsey the Manor Lodge, Park |
| 1533 | Henry VIII divorces first wife Catherine of Aragon in defiance of the Roman Catholic Church and marriess his mistress Anne Boleyn |
| 1534 | Henry devlares himself head of Church of England. In 1536 he begins the Dissolution of the Monasteries |
| 1536 | Act of Union annexes Wales to England |
| 1538 | Fearing an invasion on behalf of the pope, Henry begins a string of forts, including Walmer, Deal and St Mawes. These are the last coastal forts , if not castles, built for military purposes |
| 1553 | Queen Mary attempts to restore Roman Catholicism |
| 1554 | Queen Mary granted the Royal Charter incorporating the Twelve Capital Burgesses and Commonalty of the Town and Parish of Sheffield |
| 1556 | Archbishop Cranmer burned as a heretic, one of many Protestant martyrs executed during Mary's reign |
| 1557 | Lord Darnley, husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered |
| 1558 | Elizabeth I succeeds to the throne |
| 1559 | In Scotland John Knox incites Protestants to attack churches |
| 1568 | Mary escapes to England where Queen Elizabeth imprisons her |
| 1570 | Mary Queen of Scots is imprisoned at Sheffield Castle until 1584, spending much of her time at Manor Lodge |
| 1577 | Fransis Drake begins his voyage around the world |
| 1587 | Mary, Queen of Scots executed. + Drake raids the Spanish coast |
| 1588 | Spanish Armarda sent by Philip II to launch a Catholic invasion of England is defeated by English fleet |
| 1593 | The Cock, High Street public house (earliset to be traced in Sheffield) |
| 1600 | Foundation of East India Company. + London becomes a major financial centre. With 2000,000 people its the largest city in the world. + William Shakespeare begins to write his great tragic plays, Hamlet, Othello and King Lear |
| 1603 | Union of Scotland and England under James VI of Scotland and I (1st) of England after the death of Elizabeth I |
| 1605 | Guy Fawkes and his Gunpowder Plot fail to blow up Parliament. |
| 1606 | The Union Jack becomes Britain's national flag. |
| 1607 | First American English settlement at Jamestown Virginia. |
| 1611 | English, Scots colonise Ulster. + Authorised Version of Bible published |
| 1620 | The Pilgrim fathers cross the Atlantic in the Mayflower. |
| 1624 | Act of Parliament to create The Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire |
| 1624 | Britain and Spain go to war. |
| 1625 | Charles I becomes King of England, and the plague sweeps London, killing 41,000 people. |
| 1630 | The English settle Massachusetts. |
| 1637 | The first "Sheffield Towne Halle" referred to in "Survey of the Manor of Sheffield" was said to have had eleven shops beneath it |
| 1642 | Civil War breaks out between Parliment and Charles I, who insists on preserving the Divine Right pf Kings |
| 1648 | Sheffield Castle demolished by decree of the House of Commons |
| 1649 | After defeat in battle and trial for treason, Charles I is beheaded on the orders of Oliver Cromwell + England governed as Commonwealth |
| 1651 | Victory overr Charles II at Battle of Worcester makes Oliver Cromwell master of Britain |
| 1653 | Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliment and declares himself Lord Protector, governing the Commonwealth with a Council of State. |
| 1660 | Charles II invited home by Parliment to restore the monarchy |
| 1665 | The Great Plague strikes England, killing 20,000 in London |
| 1666 | Great Fire of London destroys 13,200 houses and 89 churches but also helps end the plague |
| 1672 | Shrewsbury Hospital, (alms houses) Sheaf Street is completed |
| 1675 | Christopher Wren begins work on new St Paul's Cathedral |
| 1685 | James II becomes King of England. |
| 1688 | Glorious Revolution replaces the Catholic James II with his daughter Mary and her husband William of Orange. James flees to France with his son. |
| 1690 | The English establish Calcutta. |
| 1692 | Campbells massacre Macdonalds at Glencoe |
| 1694 | Bank of England founded and circulates first paper money |
| 1696 | Window Tax introduced in England! |
| 1698 | The Stock Exchange is founded in England. |
| 1700 | Town Hall erected on the south east corner of the Parish Churchyard, Church Lane (later Street). Described in David Bentley's "Sheffield Hanged" as being "a mean soot blackened brick building with two floors and a pitched roof, astride which sat a belfry topped by a gilded ball. On the first floor was a dismal hall". + |
| 1700 | Tea and Coffee become popular + Fashion encourages imports of Chinese porcelain |
| 1701 | England, Holland, and Austria form the Grand Alliance. |
| 1704 | The Grand Alliance defeat France. |
| 1705 | Thomas Newcomen's steam pumping engine makes deep coal-mining possible |
| 1707 | The Act of Union unites England and Scotland. |
| 1709 | Abraham Darby develops iron-smelting by means of coke |
| 1715 | George I becomes King of Britain. + First Jacobite rising under the Old Pretender defeated at Preston and Sheriffmuir |
| 1720 | The Baroque Anglican Church of St Paul, built at the edge of town between Norfolk Street / Pinstone Street, |
| 1721 | Robert Walpole, a Norfolk squire, becomes Britain's first Prime Minister |
| 1727 | George II becomes King of England. |
| 1730 | Methodism is started by the Wesley brothers. |
| 1731 | 10 Downing Street becomes the home of British Prime Ministers. |
| 1733 | John Kay invents the Flying Shuttle. |
| 1734 | Lighting of the town with oil lamps |
| 1736 | Redevelopment of Paradise Square areas begins |
| 1740 | Wallpapers much used in fashionable houses + Sash windows introduced |
| 1744 | War erupts between France and Britain. |
| 1745 | Second Jacobite rising under "Bonnie Prince Charlie", who defeats English at Presonpans, but is then defeated himself at Culloden the following year |
| 1746 | Battle of Culloden where the English defeat the Jacobites. |
| 1753 | Thomas Chipendale opens his furniture shop in London |
| 1754 | James Wilkinson appointed vicar of Sheffield town |
| 1756 | The Start of the Seven Years War |
| 1759 | James Brindley begins Worsley - Manchester canal. Over the next 80years a 4,000 mile network of navigable inland waterways is built + British troops defeat the French at the Battle of Quebec. |
| 1760 | George III becomes King of England. |
| 1762 | The Earl of Sandwich creates the first sandwich. |
| 1763 | France gives up Canada to the British. End of the Seven Years War. |
| 1764 | James Watt develops his steam engine (a greatly improved version is patented in 1781). + James Hargreaves invents the "spinning jenny". |
| 1766 | Issac Turner hanged at Tyburn for theft from a linen store in Market Place, Sheffield |
| 1767 | James Hargreaves invents the Spinning Jenny. |
| 1769 | James Cook charts the East coast of Australia. + Richard Arkwright invents water powered frame for spinning. |
| 1773 | Sheffield Assay Office established |
| 1773 | Boston Tea Party occurs to protest British Taxes. |
| 1775 | American War of Independence begins. |
| 1776 | John Vickers of Attercliffe, hanged at Tyburn for robbery in Attercliffe |
| 1777 | James Watt develops the first Steam Engine. |
| 1779 | The Reindeer, Waingate opens (later named the Royal Hotel, then in 1841 renamed the Royal) |
| 1779 | Samuel Crompton invents "spinning mule". |
| 1780 | Norfolk Street Chapel is built |
| 1781 | Sculpturer Sir Francis Chantrey born 7th April at Norton |
| 1781 | World's first bridge made entirely of cast iron, by Abraham Darby of Coalbrookdale, opens over Severn gorge at Ironbridge, Salop. |
| 1782 | Frank Fearne of Bradfield, an 18yr old filesmith, hanged at Tyburn for murder in Kirk Edge, Bradfield. His body was gibbeted on Loxley Common |
| 1783 | William Pitt the Younger becomes British Prime Minister. + John McAdam begins experiments that lead to macadam road surfacing |
| 1784 | India Act for Britain to control India. |
| 1785 | The Tontine Inn, Dixon Lane, opens |
| 1785 | Edmund Cartwright invents "power loom" |
| 1786 | The first steam driven grinding wheel in Sheffield was started up on Sheaf Street, near Broad Street + The "Charity School for poor girls" St James Row was built by public subscription |
| 1788 | First fleet of British convicts arrive in Australia. |
| 1789 | St James Church, St James Row built |
| 1789 | Outbreak of French revolution |
| 1790 | Thomas Lastley, of Burgess Street and John Stevens, lodger at The Barrel, Pinchers Croft Lane, both Button Makers, hanged at Tyburn for robbery at Lady's Bridge |
| 1791 | Mobs rioting against the Enclosure of land act attack the Debtors Gaol in Pudding Lane (now King Street). Later the same day, Broom Hall the home of Rev Wilkinson (town magistrate) was attacked and set ablaze. Following the riots John Bennet an 18 yr old Apprentice of Waingate was found guilty of rioting and arson. he was hanged at Tyburn in September |
| 1792 | Spence Broughton born in Marton near Sleaford, occupation given as Highwayman hanged for Mail Robbery in Iccles. His body was gibbeted at Attercliffe Common |
| 1792 | Edmund Cartwright invents his Power Loom. |
| 1793 | The reservoir, Barkers pool which has existed since 1434 having been built by a Mr "Barker of Balme" is filled in. A new reservoir is to be built nearby |
| 1794 | The "Iris" newspaper was started by James Montgomery at Hartshead |
| 1795 | Assay Office opens on the south side of Fargate |
| 1796 | The Royal Infirmary Hospital opened (built by public subscription) |
| 1798 | Nelson defeats the French at the Battle of the Nile. |
| 1800 | Population of Britain has grown 150% in 50 years. One third of population living in towns and the "Industrial centres" rapidly expanding. |
| 1801 | Est., population of Sheffield Parish 46,000 |
| 1801 | Act of Union unites Britain with Ireland. |
| 1802 | Charlotte Dundas among earliest steamships on inland waterways |
| 1804 | Richard Trevithick produces earliest steam engine for railway use |
| 1805 | Rev James Wilkinson Vicar of Sheffield and Town Magistrate dies aged 74 yrs old |
| 1805 | Neson defeats French at Trafalgar. + Walter Scott's Lay of the Minstrel makes him the most popular poet of the age |
| 1807 | Slave trade abolished in British Empire, though slavery itself will last for another 30 years. |
| 1808 | Sheffield's original Town Hall at the corner of the Parish Church, Church Lane (later Street) was closed. The new and larger Town Hall was opened at Waingate this same year |
| 1808 | The Peninsula War begins. |
| 1811 | Sheffield population estimated at just over 52,000 + Pensioners residing in the Shrewsbury Hospital, Sheaf Street drowned after thunderstorms swelled the rivers Sheaf and Porter |
| 1811 | The Luddite riots begin. + John Nash lays out Regents Park (London) with elegant terraced houses |
| 1814 | Napoleon and Paris surrender. |
| 1815 | Norton Hall built by Samuel Shore, banker (Church Street) |
| 1815 | Napoleon returns to power, but is defeated at the Battle of Waterloo by the Duke of Wellington. + From 1811, unemployment encourages Luddites to smash the machines they believe have robbed them of work. |
| 1816 | The first stone in the building of the Canal Basin is laid + Allen Street, Methodist Sunday School is opened + The Angel Hotel, Angel Street is rebuilt |
| 1818 | Act was passed which enabled the setting up of Commissioners to oversee policing ,lighting, and cleansing of Sheffield |
| 1819 | Sheffield Canal from the Basin to Tinsley is completed. The Canal Basin was built on the former site of the Castle Orchards + The Glossop turnpike road, Broomhill is built |
| 1820 | Sheffield Wednesday Cricket Club formed |
| 1820 | George IV becomes the King of England. |
| 1821 | Sheffield population estimated at just over 66,000 + Joseph Rodgers & Sons, opens a cutlery works on Norfolk Street |
| 1822 | Alhambra Theatre, Union Street burned down |
| 1823 | Ebenezer Wesleyan Chapel, Ebenezer Place, Shalesmoor is opened |
| 1824 | Darnall cricket gound opens in August, superseding the 1st Darnall cricket ground opened 2 yrs earlier |
| 1825 | St George Church, Portobello opened. (first of the "Million Act" churches to be built in Sheffield) |
| 1825 | George Stephenson's Stockton-Darlington Railway becomes worlds first steam hauled passenger service, the line is 27 miles long. By 1835 Britain has 338 miles of railway track, by 1850 there is 6,600. |
| 1826 | Cricket ground at Hyde Park is opened |
| 1827 | Shrewsbury Hospital (alms houses), Norfolk Road, Park, is completed |
| 1828 | St Philips Church, Infirmary Road is opened + Sheffield Medical Institution founded |
| 1829 | T B & W Cockayne opens a drapers store on Angel Street |
| 1829 | Robert Peel establishes the first London police force. |
| 1830 | St Mary church, Bramall Lane is built |
| 1830 | William IV becomes King of Britain. |
| 1831 | Sheffield population estimated at just under 92,000 |
| 1832 | Cutlers Hall built + The Cholera epidemic July until December claimed 402 lives + Public Dispensary (later to become the Royal Hospital) opens |
| 1832 | The parliamentary Great Reform Act. |
| 1833 | Slavery abolished within the British Empire. |
| 1835 | Sheffield had been established as the centre of tool-steel manufacturer in Britain + Municipals Corporation Act passed |
| 1836 | St John's Church, Park was built by subscription + Sheffield General Cemetery, Sharrow opened + Botanical Gardens, Clarkehouse Road opens |
| 1837 | Wesley Proprietory School (later to become King Edward Vll Grammer School) was built 1837-1840 |
| 1837 | Victoria becomes Queen of England. |
| 1838 | Christ Church, Fulwood built |
| 1839 | Sheffield Water Company formed |
| 1840 | Chartist riots in Sheffield + St Thomas, Crookes built by subscription |
| 1840 | (- 1867) Charles Barry and his assistant A W Pugin rebuild the Houses of Parliment. + Penny Post introduced. |
| 1841 | Holy Trinity Church, Darnall built by subscription |
| 1842 | The Opium War ends, and Britain annexes Hong Kong. |
| 1843 | Under the Municipals Corporation Act , Sheffield obtained a Charter of Incorporation as a Borough + School of Art founded + Sheffields first Town Council elected |
| 1844 | Daily post from Sheffield to London begins |
| 1846 | The Pack House Hotel, West Bar (bottom of Snig Hill) is built |
| 1846 | Repeal of the Corn Laws. |
| 1847 | Anaesthetics first used in surgery. + Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights published. + Ten Hours Act restricts working day. |
| 1848 | Wicker Viaduct opens and the first train passes over the Wicker Arches + 1848 Holy Trinity, Heeley opened + Holy Trinity, Wicker built |
| 1849 | The Tontine Inn closes |
| 1850 | Christ Church, Pitsmoor built + St. Marie's, Norfolk Row opened |
| 1851 | Population of Sheffield estimated at around 136,000 + The Norfolk Market Hall, Haymarket opens in December + Victoria Railway Station opens in September replacing Bridgehouses as a passenger station |
| 1851 | The Great Exhibition opens in London and symbolises material progress of the 19th century |
| 1853 | Tapton Hall erected at Fulwood by Edward Vickers |
| 1854 | Sheffield United Cricket club founded + Ebeneezer Elliot (the Corn Law Rhymer) dies at The Mount in Broomhill (his home since 1835). A statue was erected in front of Fitzalan Market (later moved to Weston Park) + St Thomas, Brightside built |
| 1854 | Crimean War begins. |
| 1855 | Bramall Lane opens + Sheffield Telegraph newspaper first published + St Jude's, Moordields built |
| 1856 | The Temperance Hall (later the Playhouse) Townhead Street built |
| 1856 | Henry bessemer invents process for large scale manufacture of steel. |
| 1857 | Sheffield FC, (the oldest football club in the world) was founded |
| 1858 | Charles Dickens stays at the Kings Head, Change Alley (which years later made way for Arundel Gate) |
| 1859 | Charles Darwin's Origin of Species propounds the Theory of Evolution |
| 1860 | St Lukes, Holiis Croft built + Sheffield Royal Engineer Volunteers, Convent Walk are established in connexion with the Sheffield College of Art + Burngreave cemetery created by the Brightside Burial Board + |
| 1861 | The Independent was introduced |
| 1862 | The Victoria Hotel opens (later to become the Royal Victoria Hotel now the Holiday Inn) + The first football game is played at Bramall Lane |
| 1864 | The Sheffield Flood occurs in March, after the Dale Dyke Reservoir burst. Approx 240 people were drowned |
| 1865 | Est., "back to back" houses is 38,000 with population densities of up to 260 persons per acre, mostly concentrated near the steelworks and factories where the inhabitants were employed |
| 1865 | William Booth founds the Salvation Army. |
| 1867 | Sheffield Wednesday FC founded Water Company build new premises on Division Street (later to become NUM Headquarters) |
| 1869 | Cole Brothers department store opens on the corner of Church Street and Hight Street + Evening Star founded + St Mary's Walkley built + St Andrew's, Sharrow built |
| 1870 | Midland Railway Station opens in February + Sheffield Board of Education is set up (within the next 32 yrs, 51 elementary (Board) schools will be built |
| 1871 | Population of Sheffield estimated at around 240,000 + St. Mark's Broomhill opened + The Post Office move from High Street into premises on the corner of Haymarket and Commercial Street (now the Yorkshire Bank) |
| 1871 | The Trade Union Act re - establishes the legal basis of unions. |
| 1873 | Newhall school along with Weston Street school were the first Board schools opened in Sheffield + The Great Hurricane of Sheffield occurred + The Albert Hall, Barkers Pool opens |
| 1874 | Weston Park opened + Banners department store, Attercliffe Road opens |
| 1875 | Firth Park opened in August by Edward, Prince of Wales and Princess Alexandra + The Construction of Pinstone Street, Leopold Street and Surrey Street takes place + Sheffield United Gaslight Company, Commercial Street / Shude Hill opens + John Walsh opens a shop selling baby linen and ladies outfitting on the north side of High Street |
| 1876 | The former City General Hospital (now Northern General) opened as the Fir Vale Infirmary + Childrens Hospital, Western Bank is built |
| 1878 | The foundation stone of the Fir Vale Workhouse (later to become City General then Northern General Hospital) was laid 16th September + Bramall Lane staged the first floodlit football match in history + Jessops Hospital for Women built |
| 1879 | Firth College, West Street opened by Prince Leopold |
| 1880 | Fir Vale Workhouse building is completed + Central Secondary School, Orchard Lane opens + Extensive restoration and rebuilding of the Parish Church takes place |
| 1881 | Est., population of Sheffield 285,000 + The formal opening of Fir Vale Workhousetook place September 22nd + The Corn Exchange, Sheaf Street is rebuilt by the Duke of Norfolk + G H Hovey's, Angel Street, was the first shop in Sheffield to use electricity + Assay Office move to new premises in Leopold Street. The old premises in Fargate is demolished |
| 1882 | Gladstone Buildings, Church Street built |
| 1884 | Electoral "Reforms Act" lowers the the age of voting to 21 years old and enables the working class to vote. |
| 1886 | Sheffield Technical School opened + The Hallamshire Rifles take over Hyde Park cricket ground to use as their drill ground |
| 1887 | Ecclesfield FC reach the FA Cup second round where they lost 6-0 to Derby County + Evening Telegraph and The Star introduced + Sheffield Wednesday FC adopts professionalism and aquires Olive Grove as their home ground + Montgomery Hall, Surrey Street built + Meersbrook Park opens. |
| 1888 | Fargate is widened to accommodate the expected growth in transport + Council takes control over local Waterworks services + Lodge Moor Hospital is built + The Mappin Art Gallerey, Weston Park is opened |
| 1889 | Bramall Lane stages the Preston v West Brom FA Cup Final + Sheffield United FC founded and turn professional + Yorkshire Bank, Fargate opens |
| 1890 | Telephone link with London is established + Main road Toll Bars begin to disappear + Street widening takes place on Church Street |
| 1891 | The YMCA opens in Fargate |
| 1892 | Sheffield Football Clubs are elected to the football league, Wednesday to the 1st division United to the 2nd + Hillsborough Park opens |
| 1893 | Sheffield is granted a City status + The City Theatre (Later the Lyceum) opens in December + Slum clearance of the Crofts, an area extending from the rear of the parish church to West Bar. + Troops are called to help police after violent clashes occur with locked out miners. The dispute lasted four months |
| 1894 | Salvation Army open Citadel, corner of Pinstone Street and Cross Burgess Street in January + Three cottages to accommodate the poor, infirm and over 60s, A Childrens Hospital and a Headquarters was built in grounds around Fir Vale Workhouse |
| 1894 | (-1895) Introduction of the earliest British built car, the "Bremer", with a top speed of 15 mph. |
| 1895 | Street widening takes place on High Street + "Vulcan" the bronze statue was erected on the Town Hall tower in December + Empire Theatre, Charles Street opens in November + High Hazels Park opens |
| 1896 | The old shop buildings on the south side of High Street are demolished + Sheffield Wednesday are the first Yorkshire team to win the FA Cup, beating Wolverhampton Wanderers 2-1 at Crystal Palace |
| 1897 | The City Theatre is renamed The Lyceum in January + Sheffield's new Town Hall was officially opend by Queen Victoria |
| 1898 | The Old Tilt Forge, Lady's Bridge demolished to make way for street improvements + Sheffield United win the League Championship + Attercliffe Palace built + Council take control over the Markets |
| 1899 | John Walsh's High Street store opened (it was later to be destroyed in the Blitz of 1940. Reopened in 1953) + Sheffield United win the FA Cup + Queen Victoria Statue erected in Town Hall Square + Sheffield Wednesday move to Owlerton football ground + Sheffield United captained by Ernest Needham and also included the legendary "Little Willie Foulke win the FA Cup - Great Central Railway line opens + Electric trams introduced in September + Council takes control over the Electric Light and Power services |
| 1899 | Anglo-Boer War begins. |
| 1900 | John Walsh's High Street is enlarged + West Bar Green fire station is opened + City Council clearance program takes place on Snig Hill |
| 1900 | Labour Party founded in Britain. The Relief of Mafeking takes place in the Boer War. |
| 1901 | Queen Victoria dies. + British population has doubled in 60 years, to 32 million. Two thirds of the people now live in towns, only one third in the countryside. |
| 1902 | Last of the horse-drawn Trams withdrawn from service |
| 1902 | Edward VII becomes king. |
| 1903 | Sheffield Wednesday win the League Championship + Building begins of the University at Western Bank |
| 1904 | Sheffield Wednesday win the League Championship + Pack Horse Hotel, West Bar is demolished + An eight foot stuffed white polar bear is given to Weston Park Museum by Mr John Maclauchlan of the Albert Institute, Dundee + Officially opend in this year were, George lV Inn, Infirmary Road; Brightside Recreation ground; Greystones, Hammerton, and Ranmoor Council Schools; Neepsend Power station; Park Baths and Library, Duke Street; and Woodburn Road Wesleyan Reform Chapel + The Wicker lift to Victoria Station platform was first used Nov 7th |
| 1905 | The "University of Sheffield" established by Royal Charter + Sheffield University opened by King Edward Vll in July + Midland Station's new arcaded stone frontage is completed + The first motor taxi cab in Sheffield was aquired |
| 1905 | First public cinema shows in London. + First motor buses |
| 1906 | The Tower Wheel, Blonk Street closed down + Wesleyan Chapel, Norfolk Street is demolished to make way for Victoria Mission Hall + The hospital at Fir Vale Workhouse is seperated from the other buildings and renamed Sheffield Union Hospital |
| 1906 | The General Election returns 54 Labour MPs, marking the Labour Party's arrival as a political force. |
| 1907 | Sheffield Wednesday win the FA Cup + The Hippodrome, Cambridge Street opened in December |
| 1907 | Baden-Powell starts the Boy Scout movement. |
| 1908 | Victoria Mission Hall, Norfolk Street opens in September Adelphi Theatre, Attercliffe opens |
| 1910 | General Post Office, Fitzalan Square, opens in July + The Grand Hotel, Balm Green to Leopold Street, opens in April + The Palace, Union Street opened in August is the first purpose built cinema in Sheffield |
| 1911 | The Electra Palace, Fitzalan Square, opens (later, the News Theatre then the Classic) + The Council buy the rights for the last surviving Sheffield Toll Bar at Meadow Hall |
| 1911 | George V becomes King. |
| 1913 | Park Picture Palace, South Street, Park is opened + The Cinema House, Barkers Pool opened in May + Kelmsley House, High Street is completed |
| 1914 | Parish Church becomes the Cathedral church of St Peter and St Paul + Owlerton (Sheffield Wednesday's home ground) was renamed Hillsborough + The Alexandra Theatre, (corner of Blonk St and Exchange St) is demolished |
| 1914 | 1918 - The First World War. |
| 1915 | Sheffield United win the FA Cup |
| 1920 | League of Nations is established following World War I. |
| 1923 | Town Hall Extended |
| 1925 | Sheffield United win the FA Cup + War Memorial, Barkers Pool, unveiling ceremony in October |
| 1926 | General Strike |
| 1927 | The Regent, Barkers Pool, opened in December (later to become the Gaumont) |
| 1928 | Woolworths store built on the former site of the Yellow Lion, Haymarket + The Old Killing Shambles demolished |
| 1929 | Sheffield Wednesday win the League Championship + The first complete talking picture was shown at the Regent, Barkers Pool + New Abattoir opens on Cricket Inn Road, Wybourn |
| 1930 | Sheffield Wednesday win the League Championship + Fitzalan Market Hall (Shambles), Haymarket is demolished ending 700 yrs of market trading on the same site + Workhouse system is ended and the institutions at Fir Vale are renamed the City General Hospital and Fir Vale Infirmary |
| 1932 | The City Hall, Barkers Pool opened |
| 1934 | The Duchess of York (the late Queen Mother) opens Central Library & Graves Art Gallery |
| 1935 | Sheffield Wednesday, captained by Ronnie Starling win the FA Cup + Theatre Royal, Tudor Street is gutted by fire |
| 1936 | St James church is closed (it was later to be gutted by fire bombs in 1940) |
| 1936 | Edward VIII becomes king but abdicates to marry Wallis Simpson. |
| 1937 | The Albert Hall, Barkers Pool is destroyed by fire |
| 1937 | George VI becomes King. |
| 1938 | St Pauls Church, Pinstone Street is demolished + The Forum Cinema, (later the Essoldo) Sheffield Lane Top is opened |
| 1939 | 1945 - The Second World War. |
| 1940 | St Philips, Church, Infirmary Road closes + Sheffield Blitz of December 12th and 15th |
| 1940 | Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister. |
| 1946 | Between 1946 -1949 the City Council build over 3,000 new homes |
| 1947 | The Old Corn Exchange gutted by fire |
| 1948 | Start of the National Health Service. The Berlin Airlift begins. |
| 1949 | NATO is formed. |
| 1950 | 1953 - The Korean War. |
| 1952 | St Philips Church, Infirmary Road is demolished |
| 1952 | Elizabeth II becomes Queen. |
| 1955 | Sheffield becomes an Assize Town. |
| 1956 | Clean Air Act passed + Pond Street bus station is transformed into a covered bus station |
| 1959 | The Norfolk Market Hall, Haymarket closes, Its demolished and building starts this same year on the Castle Market + Empire Theatre, Charles Street demolished + The first Atlantean double decker bus entered service |
| 1960 | Sheffield Tram # 510 makes the very last journey in October + Burtons Store, High Street is demolished |
| 1961 | Hugh Gaitskell MP opens Park Hill flats in June + Cinema House, Barkers Pool closes |
| 1963 | Sheffield Industries Exhibition Centre in Carver Street opened + Cole Brothers, Barkers Pool opened + The Hippodrome, Cambridge Street closed |
| 1964 | The Palace, Union Street is demolished. The last film shown was the King and I. |
| 1965 | Work starts on the building of the "Hole in the Road" underpass in High Street |
| 1966 | The Queen Mother officially opens Hyde Park Flats in June |
| 1967 | Hole in the Road opened in the renamed Castle Square (formerly Market Place) + Park Hill won the Department of Environment Design in Housing award + City General Hospital is renamed Northern General Hospital |
| 1971 | The Grand Hotel, Balm Green closes in February + Fargate is pedestrianised + Victoria Station is closed |
| 1971 | Decimal currency introduced. |
| 1972 | Britain imposes direct rule on Northern Ireland. |
| 1973 | Cricket at Bramall Lane ends with the last match between Yorkshire v Lancashire in August + The new Sheaf Market opens |
| 1977 | Construction of the Town Hall extension (Egg Box) is completed |
| 1978 | The Royal Hospital, West Street closes |
| 1979 | The Moor is pedestrianised |
| 1979 | Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister. |
| 1980 | The Royal Infirmary Hospital, Infirmary Road closes + Banners of Attercliffe Road closes after 106 years of trading |
| 1981 | The old Royal Hospital building on West Street is demolished |
| 1982 | Falklands War between Britain and Argentina. |
| 1984 | Classic Cinema, Fitzalan Square gutted by fire |
| 1985 | Gaumont Cinema, Barkers Pool closes |
| 1990 | The Lyceum Theatre reopened in December + Meadowhall Shopping Centre, built on the former site of Hadfields East Hecla Works opened in September |
| 1990 | The Gulf War begins. |
| 1992 | Single European market comes into effect. |
| 1993 | Hillsborough football ground converted to all seating + Tennants Exchange Brewery, Bridge Street (later to become Whitbreads) closes |
| 1994 | The Hole in the Road underpass at Castle Square is closed. It will be filled in with the rubble from the demolishion of the Hyde Park flats. |
| 2002 | Winter Gardens, Surrey Street built on the former Town hall extention site (the Egg Box) opens 12th December |
| 2003 | Hillsborough's Sheffield Wednesday's 1950-60s legend Redfern Froggatt dies 26th December |
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