| World Event | Time | North East Event |
| Industrial Revolution begins 1730 | 1730-80's | 1711 Newcastle Courant Newspaper formed. |
| Flying Shuttle weaver. Kay.GB. | 1771 Great Flood. (River Tyne) | |
| American war Independence 1775 | 1771 b. Lord Collingwood. Collingwood's Fame! | |
| Penal colony in Australia 1788 | 1771 b. George Stephenson, Railway eng. | |
| 13 colonies meet in US 1787 | 1781 Georgian Tyne Bridge. opens. | |
| 9 States agree constitution 1788 | 1789 Lifeboat invented South Shields. | |
| French Revolution 1789 | ||
| 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. | 1807 | 1807 b. Charles Trevelyan. |
| Existing slaves no freedom! | 1810 Ncle. corporation. buy Castle-Keep. | |
| 1814 Tyne Freezes over at Newcastle | ||
| Napoleon abdicates 1814 | 1814 | 1815 Grace Darling b. lifeboat heroine. |
| The Corn Laws 1815 | 1824 Ryton Boxing 2k.att.Boxer dies for £20 | |
| Argentina breaks from Spain 1816 | 1824 Robert Stephenson b. Mining engineer. | |
| Stockton to Darlington Railway | 1825 | 1828 Joseph Swan b. inventor electric light |
| The accession of Queen Victoria | 1837 | 1837 b.Burt (mining engineer) |
| Penny Black Stamp | 1840 | 1841 Bainbridge Dept. Store Opens. |
| New Zealand Maoris to be British | ||
| Irish famine | 1844 | 1844 London-Ncle Rail link. |
| Repeal of the Corn Laws | 1846 | 1846 Lord Armstrong's Factories-Elswick |
| Factory Act. Industrial growth | 1850 | 1850 New Newcastle Central Railway Stn. |
| Public Health Acts | 1848 | 1849 High Level Bridge Opened. |
| The Great Exhibition | 1851 | 1851 25% of Newcastle Population Irish. |
| Australian Gold Rush | 1853 Cholera kills 1,500 in North. | |
| The Crimean War | 1854 | 1854 Parson. b. Engineer |
| The Indian Mutiny | 1857 | 1862 Blaydon Races song first sung in public. |
| American Civil War 1861 | 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. |
| June 26th | 1876 | 1876 Newcastle’s Swing Bridge. Armstrong |
| Custers Last Stand | ||
| Telephone first demonstrated | ||
| The Third Reform Act | 1882 | 1882 Newcastle becomes City. |
| 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. |
| Marconi 1st transatlantic message | 1901 | 1902 Robson F.Actress.b. |
| Fingerprints 1st used in UK | 1906 RVI hospital opens.b.C.Cookson-Auth | |
| Queen Victoria Dies | 1909 West Stanley pit 168 Killed. | |
| Australia Independent Commonwealth State | 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 |
| Irish Free State established | 1921 | 1921 Miners locked out by owners. 3 m'ths. |
| Gen. Strike. 2,000,000 unemployed. | 1926 | 1926 Mine owners cut pay-increase hours. |
| First public demonstration of Television. | ||
| BBC is created. | 1927 | 1927 Newcastle Brown Ale. Beer first produced. |
| Penicillin-discovered by Alexander-Fleming | 1928 | 1928 Tyne Bridge opens. |
| Vote to women over 21 | 1928 Flying Scotsman Lon-Edinb. rail route | |
| Wall Street Crash | 1929 | 1929 NE Coast Exhibition 4 million visitors. |
| 3,000,000 unemployed | 1932 | 1934 Newcastle United relegated, first time. |
| Invention of radar | 1935 | 1935 Jack Charlton b. footballer |
| 3 Sept.GB declares.war on Germany | 1939-45 | 1939 54,000 Evacuated from Tyneside. |
| Churchill English PM 1940 | 1940 1st Enemy plane brought down Whitby | |
| USA joins war1941 | 1941 Manors Goods Stn Newcastle bombed. | |
| Italy Capitulates 1943 | 1944 Opencast mine on Town Moor. | |
| v1 Rck't bombs on GB 1944 | ||
| 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. | 1960's | 1963 D.Smith dev'lps Ncle by demolition. |
| Berlin Wall Built 1961 | 1963 New Eldon Sq. planned | |
| Pres.Kennedy Assasinated 1963 | 1963 Durham Kings College becomes Uni. of Ncle | |
| Gandhi India's 1st W PM 1966 | 1963 95 Railway Stations closed in North. | |
| Civil war in Nigeria 1967 | 1963 N.T'ns Killingwortth Cramlington Washington | |
| Man walks on Moon 1969 | 1967 Tyne Tunnel open. | |
| Concorde First Flight 1969 | 1969 Newcastle Polytechnic opens. | |
| 1970 Beamish Museum opens. | ||
| Prime Minister Heath. | 1973 | 1973 Work begins Metro Railway system |
| 3-day working week. | ||
| Concorde-1st commercial flight. | 1976 | 1976 Work begins Keilder Dam |
| Unemployment 1,600,000. | 1977 | 1977 Princess Anne visits Berwick. |
| Winter of Discontent. | 1978/9 | 1978 Only 8 Shipyards left on the Tyne. |
| Public Sector Trade Unions strike. | ||
| 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. |
| 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 | 1999 Gateshead 'Angel of the North' erected |
| Home rule suspended in Ireland. | 2000 | 2000 Gateshead: Quays Development. |
| Fuel protests. | 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. | 2001 | |
| Vote to ban foxhunting. | ||
| Outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease | ||
| Scientists report 22-47% of plant species in danger of extinction due to human activity. | 2002 | 2002 Metro new Sunderland link. |
| 2003 | ||
| Madrid train bombings | 2004 | |
| New Planet discovered | ||
| Scotland hosts G8 conference | 2005 | Carlisle suffers severe flooding. |
| All Blacks win series against Lions | ||
| Earth-like world beyond our solar system. | ||
| 2006 | ||
| 2007 | Northern Rock Bank liquidity support from the Bank of England | |
| Mass demonstrations on treatment of Tibet by China. | 2008 | Conservatives hold yearly Conference in Gateshead. |
| The Credit Crunch. Swine Flu concerns World. M.P. Expenses. | 2009 | Shipyard cranes leave the Tyne for China. Newcastle United relegated. |
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