Industrial Revolution begins 1730
Flying Shuttle weaver. Kay.GB.
American war Independence 1775
 Penal colony in Australia 1788
13 colonies meet in US 1787
9 States agree constitution 1788
      French Revolution 1789

1730-80's

1711  Newcastle Courant Newspaper formed.
1771  Great Flood. (River Tyne)
1771  b. Lord Collingwood. Collingwood's Fame!
1771  b. George Stephenson, Railway eng.
1781  Georgian Tyne Bridge. opens.
1789  Lifeboat invented South Shields.

First £1 banknotes

1797

1797  b.Grainger architect, developer.

The Napoleonic wars

1803

1803  Alfred Pit Open Jarrow. Colliery History

The Battle of Trafalgar

1805

1808  b. Hancock Botanist

Abolition of the Slave Trade.
Existing slaves no freedom!

1807

1807  b. Charles Trevelyan.
1810  Ncle. corporation. buy Castle-Keep.
1814 Tyne Freezes over at Newcastle

Napoleon abdicates 1814
The Corn Laws 1815
Argentina breaks from Spain 1816

1814

1815  Grace Darling b. lifeboat heroine.
1824  Ryton Boxing 2k.att.Boxer dies for £20
1824  Robert Stephenson b. Mining engineer.

Stockton to Darlington Railway

1825

1828  Joseph Swan b. inventor electric light
1832  Newcastle Police Force formed.
1835  Gateshead gets Mayor and Corp.

The accession of Queen Victoria

1837

1837  b.Burt (mining engineer)
1838  Ncle-Carlisle Railway.
1838  Grace Darling lifeboat rescue.
1839  Grainger and  Dobsons New Town. 

Penny Black Stamp
New Zealand Maoris to be British

1840

1841  Bainbridge Dept. Store Opens. 

Irish famine

1844

1844  London-Ncle Rail link.
1844  b.Hunter (shipbuilder).
1845  Clasper wins World rowing champ.

 Repeal of the Corn Laws

 1846

1846  Lord Armstrong's Factories-Elswick 

 Factory Act. Industrial growth

 1850

1850  New Newcastle Central Railway Stn.
1847  Newcastle-Berwick rail link. 

  Public Health Acts

 1848

1849  High Level Bridge Opened. 

 The Great Exhibition
Australian Gold Rush

1851

1851  25% of Newcastle Population Irish.
1853  Cholera kills 1,500 in North. 

 The Crimean War

1854

1854  Parson. b. Engineer
1854  Great Fire of Newcastle & Gateshead. 

  The Indian Mutiny
American Civil War 1861

1857

1862  Blaydon Races song first sung in public.
1862  204 die in Hester Colliery New Hartley.
1863  Newcastle Labour Club set up.

  The Second Reform Act

1867

1867  Spanish Gold found off Seaton Carew.

 Foundat'n Trades Union Congress

1868

1868  Saltburn develops-railway arrives.

 Education Act

1870

1871  Univ. Durham takes Ncle. Med. School.
1871  9hr.day movement begins in Sunderland.
1880  First Football at St. James' Park.
1873  Leazes Park Opens.(Newcastle)

June 26th
Custers Last Stand
Telephone first demonstrated

1876

1876  Newcastle’s Swing Bridge. Armstrong

 The Third Reform Act

1882

1882  Newcastle becomes City.
1884  Charles Parson patents SteamTurbine.
1883  Armstrong gives Jesmond Dene to city.
1844  Last public execution on Ncle Town Moor.

 Gordon of Khartoum

1885

1885  Berwick loses status.Parliament.

 Irish Home Rule crisis

1886

1886  Tyne World's? first Oil Tanker Launched

 Jack the Ripper

1888

1891  Newcastle Empire Theatre opens.

 Ind. Labour Party founded

1893

1892  Newcastle United formed.

 Victoria's Diamond Jubilee

1897

1897  Parson.Turbinia steam turbine ship.

The Boer War

1899-1902

1900  World's 1st police car chase was by Newcastle Police.
1900  700 pubs in Newcastle.
1901  100,000 miners work in North. 

Marconi 1st transatlantic message
Fingerprints 1st used in UK
Queen Victoria Dies
Australia Independent Commonwealth State

1901

1902  Robson F.Actress.b.
1906  RVI hospital opens.b.C.Cookson-Auth
1909  West Stanley pit 168 Killed.
1910  Ncle. win FA Cup.
1911  200,000 miners in North.
1911  Northern Small pox rife

 The First World War

1914-18

1914  Women get jobs.factories.drive buses
1919  Ncle.1st Woman Counc. Mary Laverick.

 Irish Free State established

 1921

1921  Miners locked out by owners. 3 m'ths.

  Gen. Strike. 2,000,000 unemployed.
 First public demonstration of Television.

 1926

1926  Mine owners cut pay-increase hours.

BBC is created.

Penicillin-discovered by Alexander-Fleming
Vote to women over 21

1928

1928  Tyne Bridge opens.
1928  Flying Scotsman Lon-Edinb. rail route

 Wall Street Crash

1929

1929  NE Coast Exhibition 4 million visitors.
1930  19 shipyards left on Tyne. 

3,000,000 unemployed

1932

1934  Newcastle United relegated, first time.

Invention of radar 

1935

1935  Jack Charlton b. footballer
1936  Jarrow March.
1937  Bobby Charlton b. footballer

3 Sept.GB declares.war on Germany
Churchill English PM 1940
USA joins war1941
Italy Capitulates 1943
v1 Rck't bombs on GB 1944

1939-45

1939  54,000 Evacuated from Tyneside.
1940  1st Enemy plane brought down Whitby
1941  Manors Goods Stn Newcastle bombed.
1944  Opencast mine on Town Moor.

Germany surrendered

1945

1945  Tyneside Victory Celebrations

India and Pakistan gain Ind.

1947

1947  N.Towns Aycliffe. Peterlee.  

First civilian jet plane built

1949

1951  81 die in Easington Colliery disaster. 

Queen Elizabeth crowned

1953

1959  Commercial TV in NE 'Tyne.Tees.TV' 

London Music. Fashion capital.
Berlin Wall Built 1961
Pres.Kennedy Assasinated 1963
 Gandhi India's 1st W PM 1966
Civil war in Nigeria    1967
Man walks on Moon  1969
Concorde First Flight 1969

1960's

1963  D.Smith dev'lps Ncle by demolition.
1963  New Eldon Sq. planned
1963  Durham Kings College becomes Uni. of Ncle
1963  95 Railway Stations closed in North.
1963  N.T'ns Killingwortth Cramlington Washington
1967  Tyne Tunnel open.
1969  Newcastle Polytechnic opens.
1970  Beamish Museum opens.

Prime Minister Heath.
3-day working week.

1973

1973  Work begins Metro Railway system

Concorde-1st commercial flight.

1976

1976  Work begins Keilder Dam
1976  Eldon Sq. opened

Unemployment 1,600,000. 

1977

1977  Princess Anne visits Berwick.

Winter of Discontent.
Public Sector Trade Unions strike.

1978/9

1978  Only 8 Shipyards left on the Tyne. 

IRA hunger strikes. Sunday football. Jogging and marathons.

1980's

1980  Metro Railway system opens. 

Thames-Flood-Barrier. Satellite-television.

1980's

1980  Consett Steel Works (Durham) close.
1987  Hottest Day recorded on Tyneside 37C.

M. Thatcher 1st woman PM.

1979-90

1990  National Garden Festival Gateshead 

The Gulf conflict

1991

1991  Riots Ncle West End. North Shields

Blair Prime Minister New Labour

1997

1997  Ncle 13th most attractive city in UK. 

Conflict over Kosovo

1999

  Home rule suspended in Ireland.
Fuel protests.

2000

2000  Gateshead: Quays Development.
2000  Regional Music Centre.
2000  Millennium Bridge open.
2000  Ncle.8th best party city in World.

11th September New York City World Trade Centre attack.
Vote to ban foxhunting.
Outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease

2001

Scientists report 22-47% of plant species in danger of extinction due to human activity.

2002

2002  Metro new Sunderland link.
2002  Queen opens Gateshead. Millennium Bridge.

2003

 Madrid train bombings
New Planet discovered

2004

Scotland hosts G8 conference
All Blacks win series against Lions
Earth-like world beyond our solar system.

2005

 Carlisle suffers severe flooding.

2006

Mass demonstrations on treatment of Tibet by China.

2008

The Credit Crunch. Swine Flu concerns World. M.P. Expenses.

2009