Timeline of Derby

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

Prior to 18th century

 * 9thC. – Danes take town (approximate date).
 * 917
 * Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians wins sweeping conquests to oust the Danes.
 * Market active.
 * 1160 – Derby School established (approximate date).
 * 1206 - First extant charter granted to Derby.
 * 1229
 * A second charter granted by Henry III.
 * Derby fair active.
 * 1294 – Parliamentary representation begins.
 * 1337 - Edward III. on the petition of the burgesses grants them two bailiffs.
 * 1530 – All Saints' Church tower built.
 * 1592 – Plague.
 * 1611 - Derby incorporated by James I.
 * 1638 – Henry Mellor becomes mayor.
 * 1660 – County Hall built.
 * 1665 – Plague.
 * 1675 – Derby Company of Mercers formed.
 * 1696 – Osmaston Hall built.

18th century

 * 1717 - Silk “throwing” or spinning introduced by John Lombe.
 * 1721 – Lombe's Mill built.
 * 1726 – Derby Postman newspaper begins publication.
 * 1731 – Town Hall built (approximate date).
 * 1732 – Derby Mercury newspaper begins publication.
 * 1735 – 9 July: Samuel Johnson marries at St Werburgh's Church.
 * 1745
 * 4 December: Jacobite army arrives.
 * 5 December: Jacobites meet at Exeter House and decide that Bonnie Prince Charlie, the young Pretender should return to Scotland instead of going on to London.
 * 1750
 * Derby Porcelain Company in business.
 * Markeaton Hall built (approximate date).
 * Manufacture of hosiery profited by the inventions of Jedediah Strutt.
 * 1756 – County prison built in Nun's Green.
 * 1772 – New Jerusalem Chapel built.
 * 1773 – Theatre built.
 * 1774 – Assembly room built.
 * 1783 – Derby Philosophical Society founded.
 * 1796 – Derby Canal constructed.

19th century

 * 1802 – General Baptist Chapel built.
 * 1805 – King Street Wesleyan Methodist Chapel built.
 * 1808
 * Derby Literary and Philosophical Society established.
 * Friends' Meeting House built.
 * 1809 – Cox and Co. shot mill built.
 * 1810 – Infirmary built.
 * 1811
 * Permanent Library established.
 * Population: 13,043.
 * 1817 – Derby Choral Society established.
 * 1820 – Swedenborgian Chapel built.
 * 1823 – Derby Reporter newspaper begins publication.
 * 1824 – New Connexion Chapel built.
 * 1825 – Mechanics' Institution established.
 * 1828
 * Town Hall rebuilt.
 * St. John's Church opens.
 * 1832 – Town and County Library established.
 * 1833 – Labour strike.
 * 1835 – Joseph Strutt elected mayor.
 * 1836
 * Police force and Derby Town and County Museum and Natural History Society established.
 * Trinity Church consecrated.
 * 1837 – Mechanics' Hall opens.
 * 1839
 * May: The founding companies of the Midland Railway begin operating.
 * Derby Exhibition held.
 * St Mary's Church built.
 * 1840
 * Derby railway station, Derby Arboretum, and Christ Church open.
 * Athenaeum built (approximate date).
 * 1841
 * Derby Baptist Chapel, St Mary's Gate opens
 * 1842 – Arboretum Festival begins.
 * 1843
 * General Cemetery and Vernon Street Prison in operation.
 * Primitive Methodist Chapel built.
 * Agricultural Show held.
 * 1844 – Midland Railway company formed.
 * 1846 – St Alkmund's Church built.
 * 1850 – Derby Co-operative Society established.
 * 1856 – John Smith clockmaker in business.
 * 1862 – Corn Exchange opens.
 * 1863 – County Cricket Ground established.
 * 1866 – Market hall opens.
 * 1870 – Derbyshire County Cricket Club formed.
 * 1878 – April: Great Northern Railway opens its Derbyshire extension through Friargate railway station.
 * 1879
 * Derby Free Library and Museum opens.
 * Derby Daily Telegraph and Reporter begins publication.
 * 1882 – Art gallery opens.
 * 1884 - Derby County F.C. established as an offshoot of Derbyshire County Cricket Club
 * 1886 – 6 May: Grand Theatre burns down.
 * 1887 – Derby Sketching Club formed.
 * 1888 - Derby becomes a County Borough
 * 1891 - Population: 94,146.
 * 1895
 * Midland Railway Institute built.
 * Derby County move to play at the Baseball Ground
 * 1899 – Derby Technical College founded.

20th century

 * 1901 - Population: 114,848.
 * 1902 – Derby Municipal Secondary School for Boys opens.
 * 1908 – Rolls-Royce Limited headquartered in Derby on Nightingale Road.
 * 1910
 * Victoria Electric Theatre opens.
 * Cosmopolitan Public Hall built.
 * 1918 – British Cellulose and Chemical Manufacturing Company plant built.
 * 1927 - Derby Cathedral established (formerly All Saints Church) for the newly created Bishop of Derby
 * 1930 – Bemrose School opens.
 * 1971
 * Rolls-Royce Limited enters receivership before being nationalized
 * BBC Radio Derby begins broadcasting.
 * 1972 - Derby County are Football League Champions for the 1971-72 season
 * 1974 – Derby Industrial Museum opens.
 * 1975
 * Derby Playhouse opens.
 * Eagle Centre shopping centre in business.
 * Derby County are League Champions again
 * 1977 - Derby is awarded City status as part of the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II
 * 1981 - Social unrest.
 * 1988 – Pickford's House Museum of Georgian Life and Costume established.
 * 1992
 * University of Derby established.
 * Derby Heritage Centre in business.
 * 1995 – Derby Grammar School founded.
 * 1997 – Pride Park Stadium opens.
 * 1998 – Bronze Age Hanson Log Boat discovered near town.

21st century

 * 2007 – Saint Alkmund's Way Footbridge opens.
 * 2009 – Cathedral Green Footbridge opens.
 * 2011 – Population: 248,700.
 * 2012
 * 11 May: Allenton house fire.