Timeline of Nottingham

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Nottingham, England.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Prior to 17th century

• 868 – Danes take town.[1]
• 918 – Market active.[2]
• 1067 – Nottingham Castle built.
• 1156 – Town wall rebuilt.[3]
• 1232 – St Mary's hospital founded.[3]
• 1250 – Grey friary established.[1]
• 1276 – Carmelite friary established.
• 1284 – Nottingham Goose Fair begins.[2]
• 1330 – "Young king Edward III and a group of conspirators crept through a secret tunnel into the city's castle and took prisoner Roger de Mortimer, a nobleman who had until then effectively been England's ruler."[4]
• 1392 – Plumptre Hospital founded.
• 1474 – St Mary's Church built (approximate date).
• 1513 – Free grammar school founded.[5]
• 1539 – Bell alehouse active.
• 1588 – Wollaton Hall built.

17th–18th centuries

• 1642 – 22 August: Charles I raises royal standard at Castle Hill.[6]
• 1646 – Bubonic plague.
• 1650s – Smith's Bank established (approximate date).
• 1678 – St Nicholas' Church built.
• 1693 – Nottingham Waterworks Company established.
• 1723 – Bluecoat school built.[7]
• 1726 – Nottingham Exchange built.
• 1741 – Nottingham Journal newspaper begins publication.[8]
• 1752 – Bromley House built.
• 1760 – Theatre built in St. Mary's-gate.[9]
• 1780 – Nottinghamshire Gazette newspaper begins publication.[10]
• 1782 – Nottingham General Hospital founded.
• 1790 – J. & H. Bell booksellers in business.[11]
• 1796 – Nottingham Canal opens.

19th century

• 1808 – Nottingham Review newspaper begins publication.[8][12]
• 1812 – Labour unrest.[1]
• 1815 – Particular Baptist Chapel built.[13]
• 1816 – Nottingham Subscription Library founded.[14]
• 1824 – Artizan's Library established.[13]
• 1825 – Nottingham Mercury newspaper begins publication.[8]
• 1831
  • Political unrest.[15]
  • Waterworks open at Trent Bridge.
• 1835 – Henry Moses Wood becomes sheriff.
• 1837 – Nottingham Mechanics' Institution established.
• 1842 – Carrington Street bridge built over Nottingham Canal.
• 1843 – School of Design established.[7]
• 1844 – Nottingham Cathedral built.
• 1845 – Nottingham Inclosure Act passed.
• 1846 – People's College founded.[7]
• 1848 – New General Post Office building on Albert Street opened.[16]
• 1849 – Boots the Chemist in business.
• 1852
  • The Arboretum opens.
  • Richard Young bookseller in business.[11]
  • Nottingham Naturalists' Society founded.[17]
• 1855 – Adams Building opens.
• 1856 – Sacred Harmonic Society established.[9]
• 1861 – Nottinghamshire and Midland Merchants' and Traders' Association established.[7]
• 1864 – All Saints' Church and Christ Church, Peas Hill built.
• 1865
  • Nottingham Forest Football Club formed.
  • Theatre Royal built.[9]
• 1866 – August: Floral fête held in Nottingham Park.[18]
• 1868
  • Nottingham Free Library opens.[18]
  • New General Post Office built on Victoria Street replacing the Albert Street building.[19][7]
• 1871
  • Trent Bridge rebuilt.
  • July: Horticultural exhibition held in Nottingham Park.[18]
• 1876 – High Pavement Chapel built.
• 1877
  • Marble Skating Rink opens.[18]
  • John Player tobacconist in business.[20]
• 1878
  • Nottingham Castle Museum opens.
  • Nottingham Evening Post newspaper begins publication.[10]
• 1880 – Nottingham Corporation Water Department and Nottingham Society of Artists established.
• 1883 – Nottinghamshire Amateur Photographic Association established.[21]
• 1890 – Raleigh Cycles in business.
• 1897 – Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire established.
• 1900 – Nottingham Victoria railway station opens.

20th century

• 1901 – Population: 239,743.[5]
• 1910 – Derby Road drill hall opens.[22]
• 1912 – Picture House opens.[23]
• 1922 – Nottingham Playgoers Club founded.
• 1926
  • Nottingham Natural History Museum opens.
  • Nottingham Philodramatic Society founded.
• 1929 – Nottingham Council House (city hall) built.
• 1933 – Church of St Peter with St James formed.
• 1936
  • Capitol Cinema opens.[23]
  • Royal Ordnance Factory Nottingham in operation.
• 1937 – Metropole Cinema opens.[23]
• 1940 - New GPO Letter Sorting Office on Huntingdon Street opened.[24]
• 1941 – 8–9 May: Aerial bombing by German forces.
• 1945 – Nottingham and District Technical College established.
• 1946 – Nottingham Theatre Club formed.
• 1958 – Clifton Bridge (Nottingham) opens.
• 1962 – Nottingham Civic Society founded.
• 1963 – Nottingham Playhouse opens.
• 1964 – Nottingham Regional College opens.
• 1972
  • Lace Market Theatre opens.
  • Victoria Centre (shopping centre) in business.
• 1973 – Bridlesmith Gate (street) pedestrianised.
• 1974 – Brewhouse Yard Museum founded.[25]
• 1979 - Pedals cyclists' advocacy group formed.[26]
• 1980 – Nottingham Greyhound Stadium and Rock City (club) open.
• 1982 – Cycle route (to Clifton) opens.[26]
• 1985 – Green's Mill & Science Museum established.[25]
• 1989 – Broadway Cinema active.[23]
• 1990 – Nottingham Transport Heritage Centre active.[25]
• 1991 – Trent Concert Band established.
• 1992 – Nottingham Trent University established.
• 1993 – Galleries of Justice Museum established.[25]
• 1994 – Recycling centres open.[27]
• 1999
  • Nottingham Pride begins.
  • New College Nottingham established.
• 2000 – National Ice Centre (skating rink) opens.

21st century

• 2001 – Sky Mirror sculpture unveiled.
• 2004 – First phase of the new Nottingham Express Transit Opens
• 2009 – Centre for Contemporary Art Nottingham opens.
• 2015 – Phase 2 of the new Nottingham Express Transit Opens

See also

• History of Nottingham
• Timelines of other cities in East Midlands: Derby, Leicester, Lincoln

References

1. Samuel Tymms (1835). "Nottinghamshire". Midland Circuit. The Family Topographer: Being a Compendious Account of the ... Counties of England. 5. London: J.B. Nichols and Son. OCLC 2127940.
2. Samantha Letters (2005), "Nottinghamshire", Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516, Institute of Historical Research, Centre for Metropolitan History
3. John Potter Briscoe (1873). "History of the Trent Bridges at Nottingham". Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. 2: 212–221. JSTOR 3678008.
4. "Nottingham: The city where they keep finding caves", BBC News, May 2014
5. "Nottingham", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York: Encyclopædia Britannica Co., 1910, OCLC 14782424
6. "Civil War and Revolution". British History Timeline. BBC. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
7. "Nottingham". Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. 1881.
8. "Derby". Newspaper Press Directory. London: Charles Mitchell. 1847.
9. Allen's Illustrated Hand-Book and Guide, to ... Nottingham and its Environs. Richard Allen and Sons. 1866.
10. "Nottingham (England) Newspapers". Main Catalogue. British Library. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
11. James Clegg, ed. (1906), International Directory of Booksellers and Bibliophile's Manual
12. Charles Henry Timperley (1839), Dictionary of Printers and Printing, London: H. Johnson
13. Sutton and Son (1827). Stranger's Guide through the Town of Nottingham.
14. John Russell (1916), History of the Nottingham Subscription Library, Nottingham: Derry & Sons, Ltd., OCLC 12064347, OL 7172033M
15. "Empire and Sea Power". British History Timeline. BBC. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
16. book-The Post Office At Nottingham by Arthur W. G. Hall published 1947, page 35
17. Yearbook of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland, London, 1922
18. Date-book of Remarkable & Memorable Events Connected with Nottingham and Its Neighbourhood, 1750–1879. Nottingham: H. Field. 1880. OCLC 38664445.
19. book-The Post Office At Nottingham by Arthur W. G. Hall published 1947, page 35
20. "John Player and Sons Limited, tobacco manufacturers". UK: National Archives. Retrieved 24 September 2013. Nottinghamshire Archives
21. "Photographic Societies of the British Isles and Colonies", International Annual of Anthony's Photographic Bulletin, New York: E. & H. T. Anthony & Company, 1891
22. "Nottingham". The Drill Halls Project. Retrieved 9 September 2017.
23. "Movie Theaters in Nottingham, England". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
24. book-The Post Office At Nottingham by Arthur W. G. Hall published 1947, page 39
25. Keith Reynard, ed. (2003), Directory of Museums, Galleries and Buildings of Historic Interest in the United Kingdom, Routledge, ISBN 9780851424736
26. Hugh McClintock and Johanna Cleary (1993). "English Urban Cycle Route Network Experiments: The Experience of the Greater Nottingham Network". Town Planning Review. 64 (2): 169–192. doi:10.3828/tpr.64.2.6k261m2139l5643v. JSTOR 40113602.
27. Tarek Shalaby, Keith Williams and Peter Ford (1996). "Methods for Siting New Minirecycling Centres: Experience from Nottingham". Town Planning Review. 67 (3): 355–379. doi:10.3828/tpr.67.3.kr16kw2v57145814. JSTOR 40113392.

Further reading

Published in the 17th–18th centuries

• Robert Thoroton (1677). Antiquities of Nottinghamshire.
  • Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire. 2. John Throsby. 1790. (describes Nottingham)
• Charles Deering (1751), Nottinghamia vetus et nova; or, an historical account of the ancient and present state of the town of Nottingham, Nottingham: G. Ayscough, & T. Willington, OL 21774891M
• Stephen Whatley (1751). "Nottingham". England's Gazetteer. London: Printed for J. and P. Knapton.
• Daniel Defoe; Samuel Richardson (1778), "(Nottingham)", A Tour Through the Island of Great Britain (8th ed.), London: J.F. and C. Rivingdon
• John Throsby (1795), History and antiquities of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham, Nottingham: Burbage and Stretton, Tupman, Wilson, and Sutton, OCLC 12999246, OL 22882228M

Published in the 19th century

1800s–1840s

• John Hodgson; Francis Charles Laird (1813), "Town of Nottingham", Beauties of England and Wales, 12, London: J. Harris, hdl:2027/mdp.39015063565785
• "Nottingham". Crosby's Complete Pocket Gazetteer of England and Wales. London: Baldwin, Cradock & Joy. 1815.
• John Blackner (1815), History of Nottingham, Nottingham: Printed by Sutton and Son, OCLC 3171494, OL 6919875M
• James Dugdale (1819), "Nottinghamshire: Nottingham", New British Traveller, 4, London: J. Robins and Co.
• History, gazetteer, and directory of Nottinghamshire, and the town and county of the town of Nottingham, Sheffield: William White, 1832
• James Orange (1840). Nottingham Annual Register. London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co.
• James Orange (1840), History and antiquities of Nottingham, London: Hamilton, OL 7144123M
• "Nottingham", Midland Counties' Railway Companion, Nottingham: R. Allen, 1840, OCLC 38701673
• History and directory of the town and county of the town of Nottingham, Nottingham: S. Glover and Son, 1844
• Samuel Lewis (1848), "Nottingham", Topographical Dictionary of England (7th ed.), London: S. Lewis and Co.

1850s–1890s

• William Howie Wylie (1853). Old and New Nottingham. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.
• "Nottingham". Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. 1855.
• George Samuel Measom (1861), "Nottingham", Official Illustrated Guide to the Great Northern Railway, London: Griffin, Bohn, OCLC 12433505
• Charles Knight, ed. (1867). "Nottingham". Geography. English Cyclopaedia. London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co. hdl:2027/nyp.33433000064802.
• A.E. Lawson Lowe, ed. (1876), "Town of Nottingham", Black's Guide to Nottinghamshire, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black
• "Nottinghamshire Section". Trades' Guide for Midland Counties. Birmingham. 1879.
• John Parker Anderson (1881), "Nottinghamshire: Nottingham", Book of British Topography: a Classified Catalogue of the Topographical Works in the Library of the British Museum Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, London: W. Satchell
• "Nottingham", Handbook for Travellers in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, and Staffordshire (3rd ed.), London: J. Murray, 1892, OCLC 2097091
• Charles Gross (1897). "Nottingham". Bibliography of British Municipal History. New York: Longmans, Green, and Co.

Published in the 20th century

• G.K. Fortescue, ed. (1902). "Nottingham". Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years 1881–1900. London. hdl:2027/uc1.b5107013.
• J.G. Bartholomew (1904), "Nottingham", Survey Gazetteer of the British Isles, London: G. Newnes
• Robert Mellors (1908). "City of Nottingham". In and about Nottinghamshire.
• Robert Donald, ed. (1908). "Nottingham". Municipal Year Book of the United Kingdom for 1908. London: Edward Lloyd. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081995593.
• "Nottingham", Great Britain (7th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1910, hdl:2027/mdp.39015010546516
• Nottingham: The Queen City of the Midlands, 1927
• K.C. Edwards (1935). "Nottingham". Geography. 20 (2): 85–96. JSTOR 40546315.

External links

• "Nottinghamshire", Historical Directories, UK: University of Leicester. Includes Nottingham directories, various dates.
• "Nottinghamshire Heritage Gateway". Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire.
• "Nottinghamshire History". Nottingham: Andy Nicholson.