Timeline of Kingston upon Hull


Timeline of Kingston upon Hull


The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

Pre history–15th century

  • c.4900–4000 BC – Hunter-gatherers are present in Sutton-on-Hull, in the north of present-day Kingston upon Hull: 303 
  • 750–500 BC – A Bronze Age settlement is present on the site of modern-day Alexandra Dock.: 303 
  • 1086 – The Domesday Book records settlements at Sutton-on-Hull, Drypool, Marfleet, Myton and Southcoates.: 303 
  • 1275 – Wyke, an area in Kingston upon Hull, is appointed as the customs head port for the north of England.: 304 
  • 1279 – Market active.
  • 1282 – Fresh water supply established for the town from Anlaby.: 304 
  • 1293
    • Wyke is bought by Edward I.: 304 
    • Hull Fair begins.
  • 1295 – Parliamentary representation begins.
  • 1299 – Town Charter granted: 304  and town renamed "Kingston-upon-Hull."
  • 1302 – Quay built.
  • 1312 – Holy Trinity Church built (approximate date).
  • 1321–24 – Defences consisting of a ditch and wooden palisade are built around the town.: 304 
  • 1331–34 – A meat market is created.: 304 
  • 1332 – William de la Pole becomes the first mayor of Hull.
  • 1333 – First documented mention of a guildhall in Kingston upon Hull.: 305 
  • 1369 – Trinity House for seamen established.
  • 1377 – Population of 1,557 adult taxpayers are recorded through poll tax records.: 305 
  • 1384 – Charter-House Hospital founded.
  • 1402 – Rioting occurs against the mayor.: 305 
  • 1440 – Town incorporated and is made its own county.: 305 
  • 1447 – The county of Hull is expanded by over 5 miles on the west side of the town.: 305 
  • 1486 – Grammar school founded.

16th–18th century

  • 1515 – A fish market is created.: 305 
  • 1536 – The Pilgrimage of Grace spreads to Hull.: 306 
  • 1537 – Plague breaks out in Hull.: 306 
  • 1541 – The town is visited by Henry VIII.: 306 
  • 1539 – The last two monastic houses are closed because of the Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1535.: 306 
  • 1575–76 – Outbreak of the plague.: 306 
  • 1588 – Repairs are made to the city walls.: 306 
  • 1602–04 – Outbreak of the plague.: 306 
  • 1637 – Outbreak of the plague.: 306 
  • 1640 – King Charles visits.
  • 1642 – Siege of Hull by Parliamentarians.
  • 1673 – Hull has 1,373 households and a population of 6,500.: 306 
  • 1681–90 – Hull Citadel is built.: 307 
  • 1688 – 'Town-taking': townspeople overthrow the Catholic governor.
  • 1716 – Trinity House marine school founded.
  • 1739 – Hull's first newspaper, the Hull Courant, is published.: 307 
  • 1773 – Hull Dock Company formed.
  • 1775 – Hull Subscription Library established.
  • 1778 – Dock built.
  • 1780
    • William Wilberforce becomes Member of Parliament for Hull.
    • Jewish community establishes synagogue.
  • 1782 – General Infirmary established.
  • 1792 – St John's Church built.
  • 1797 – Cooperative mill built.

19th century

  • 1801 – The population of the town is 22,161.: 307 
  • 1809 – Humber Dock built.: 308 
  • 1829
    • United Gaol and House of Correction in operation.
    • Junction Dock built.: 307 
    • St Charles Borromeo church opens.
  • 1836 – Police force established.
  • 1837
    • Drypool and Sculcoates become part of the borough of Hull.
    • Explosion of the Union Steam Packet in June
  • 1840
    • Hull and Selby Railway begins operating.: 308 
    • Zoological Gardens established.
  • 1841 – Thomas Wilson and Company (shipping) in business.
  • 1846 – Railway Dock is established.: 308 
  • 1850 – Victoria Dock built.
  • 1851 – Population of Hull is 84,690.: 308 
  • 1854
    • Royal Institution opens.
    • Hull and Holderness Railway begins operating.
    • Junction Dock is renamed Prince's Dock.: 308 
  • 1860 – Pearson Park established.
  • 1861
    • Hull School of Art founded.
    • Population: 93,955.
  • 1864 – Londesborough Barracks completed.
  • 1865 – Hull Football Club founded.
  • 1866 – Town Hall, and Exchange built.
  • 1867 – Hull and East Riding College opens.
  • 1869 – Albert Dock is established.: 308 
  • 1870 – HM Prison Hull in operation.
  • 1873 – William Wright Dock is established.: 308 
  • 1875 – Tram in operation.
  • 1880 – Botanic garden opens.
  • 1881 – Hull Philharmonic Society founded.
  • 1882
    • Marfleet becomes part of the borough of Hull.
    • Kingston Amateurs rugby club formed.
  • 1883 – St Andrew's Dock is established.: 308 
  • 1884 – Hull Amateur Photographic Society founded.
  • 1885
    • Hull and Barnsley Railway begins operating.
    • Alexandra Dock built.: 308 
    • Hull Daily Mail newspaper begins publication.
  • 1886 – Synagogue established.
  • 1887
    • East Park opens.
    • First women's rugby match is played in Hull.: 308 
  • 1888 – County borough created per Local Government Act 1888.
  • 1892 – Hull Amalgamated Anglers' Association formed.
  • 1895 – The Boulevard (stadium) opens.
  • 1897 – Hull attains city status.
  • 1898 – The Circle cricket ground is established.: 308 

20th century

  • 1901 – Hull's population is 236,772.: 309 
  • 1902 – Hull Telephone Department licensed.
  • 1904 – Hull City Association Football Club formed.: 309 
  • 1906 – Wilberforce and Historical Museum opens.
  • 1907 – Riverside Quay is established.: 309 
  • 1909 – Hull City Hall built.
  • 1911
    • Theatre De Luxe opens.
    • Hull's population is 277,991.: 309 
  • 1912 – Museum of Fisheries and Shipping and Coliseum theatre open.
  • 1914 – King George Dock is established.: 309 
  • 1915 – Pavilion Picture Palace opens.
  • 1921
    • Hull's population is 295,017.: 309 
    • First women's football match takes place in Hull.: 309 
  • 1922 – Craven Park inaugurated.
  • 1927
    • University College Hull established.
    • Sutton become part of the borough of Hull.
    • Ferens Art Gallery is established.: 309 
  • 1931 – Hull's population is 309,198.: 309 
  • 1937 – Trolleybus begins operating.
  • 1939 – Hull New Theatre opens.
  • 1940 – 19 June: Aerial bombing by German forces begins.
  • 1945 – 17 March: Aerial bombing by German forces ends.
  • 1946 – Boothferry Park (stadium) opens.: 309 
  • 1951 – Hull's population is 295,172.: 309 
  • 1961 – Hull's population is 289,716.: 309 
  • 1966 – Closure of Western General Hospital.
  • 1968 – Prince's Dock and Railway Dock are closed to shipping.: 308 
  • 1971
    • Hull Truck Theatre founded.
    • Hull's population is 285,965.: 310 
  • 1972 – Hull City Council established.
  • 1974
    • City becomes part of Humberside shire county per Local Government Act 1972.
    • Airport opens in Kirmington.
    • Humberside Police established.
  • 1981
    • Humber Bridge opens.: 311 
    • Two tornadoes touch down in Hull during the record-breaking nationwide tornado outbreak of 23 November 1981, causing damage to the Port of Hull and the city's north-eastern residential suburbia.
    • Hull's population is 266,751.: 311 
  • 1983 – Hull Marina opens.
  • 1985 – St Andrew's Dock closes to shipping.: 308 
  • 1986 – Sister city relationship established with Raleigh, USA.
  • 1987 – Spurn Lightship museum opens.
  • 1989 – Streetlife Museum of Transport and new Craven Park (stadium) open.
  • 1991
    • Princes Quay shopping centre opens.
    • Hull's population is 266,180.: 311 
  • 1993 – Humber Mouth literature fest begins.
  • 1996 – Hull becomes a unitary authority area.
  • 1999 – Arctic Corsair museum ship opens.

21st century

  • 2000 – Closure of Kingston General Hospital.
  • 2001
    • Hull Soul Club (music appreciation group) formed.
    • Hull's population is 243,589.: 311 
  • 2002 – The Deep (aquarium) and KC Stadium open.: 311 
  • 2007
    • Hull Paragon Interchange transport complex and St Stephen's Hull shopping centre open.
    • June: Flooding occurs in Hull resulting in 35,000 people being effected.: 311 
    • Hull Comedy Festival begins.
  • 2008 – The first Freedom Festival (cultural event) takes place.: 312 
  • 2010
    • Hull History Centre established.
    • Larkin 25 fest held.
  • 2011 – Boothferry Park stadium is demolished.: 312 
  • 2013 – Scale Lane Bridge for pedestrians opens.
  • 2014 – Legal sanctions against prostitution introduced.
  • 2017
    • Hull is the UK City of Culture.
    • 13 May: Holy Trinity Church rededicated as Hull Minster.
  • 2018
    • January: Banksy work on Scott Street Bridge discovered.
    • 25 July: Bonus Arena opens
  • 2019
    • October: Hull became the first UK city to have full fibre broadband available for all residents.

See also

  • History of Kingston upon Hull
  • List of mayors of Kingston upon Hull
  • List of governors of Kingston upon Hull
  • Timelines of other cities in Yorkshire and the Humber: Bradford, Sheffield, York

References

Further reading

Published in the 18th century

  • Gent, Thomas (1735). Annales Regioduni Hullini [History of Kingston-upon-Hull]. York.
    • 1869 reprint
  • Bailey, W. (1781). "Hull Directory". Bailey's Northern Directory. Warrington: Printed by William Ashton.
  • Hadley, George (1788). New and Complete History of the Town of Kingston-upon-Hull.
  • Gray Battle, Robert. Battle's Hull Directory, for the Year 1791. Hull: J. and W. Rawson.
    • 1885 reprint
  • Tickell, John (1798). History of the Town and County of Kingston-upon-Hull. Hull.
  • Cooke, George Alexander (c. 1800). "Hull". Topographical and Statistical Description of the County of York. London: C. Cooke. OCLC 258359703.

Published in the 19th century

1800s–1840s

  • "Hull". Kearsley's Traveller's Entertaining Guide through Great Britain. London: George Kearsley. 1803.
  • Bigland, John (1812). "Hull". Yorkshire. Beauties of England and Wales. Vol. 16. London: J. Harris. hdl:2027/hvd.hxjf83.
  • Cragg's Guide to Hull. Hull: J. Craggs. 1817. OCLC 81087411.
  • "Hull". Commercial Directory for 1818-19-20. Manchester: James Pigot. 1818.
  • "History of Kingston-upon-Hull". History, Directory & Gazetteer, of the County of York. Vol. 2: East and North Ridings. Leeds: Edward Baines. 1823. + Hull Directory
  • Watt, Robert (1824). "Hull". Bibliotheca Britannica. Vol. 3. Edinburgh: A. Constable. hdl:2027/nyp.33433089888832. OCLC 961753.
  • Frost, Charles (1827). Notices Relative to the Early History of the Town and Port of Hull. London: J.B. Nichols. OCLC 4901297. OL 6929315M.
  • Parsons, Edward (1835). "Hull". Tourist's Companion; Or, The History of the Scenes and Places on the Route by the Railroad and Steam-packet from Leeds and Selby to Hull. London: Whittaker & Co.
  • Moule, Thomas (1837). "Yorkshire: Town and County of Kingston-upon-Hull". English Counties Delineated. Vol. 2. London: George Virtue.
  • History, Gazetteer, and Directory, of the West-Riding of Yorkshire, with the City of York and Port of Hull. Sheffield: William White. 1837. OL 24419637M.
  • "Hull and the Humber". The Land We Live In: a Pictorial and Literary Sketch-Book of the British Empire. Vol. 4. London: Charles Knight. 1847.
  • Lewis, Samuel (1848). "Hull". Topographical Dictionary of England (7th ed.). London: S. Lewis and Co.

1850s–1890s

  • Visitor's guide to the town of Hull. 1852.
  • "Port of Hull". Christie's Shipping Register. Newcastle upon Tyne: John Christie. 1858.
  • Measom, George Samuel (1861). "Kingston-upon-Hull". Official Illustrated Guide to the Great Northern Railway. London: Griffin, Bohn. OCLC 12433505.
  • "Hull". Black's Picturesque Guide to Yorkshire (2nd ed.). Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. 1862.
  • "Hull". Illustrated Official Guide and Tourist's Hand Book to the North Eastern Railway. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: M. & M.W. Lambert. 1863.
  • Sheahan, James Joseph (1864). History of the Town and Port of Kingston upon Hull. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.
  • Knight, Charles, ed. (1867). "Hull". Geography. English Cyclopaedia. London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co. hdl:2027/nyp.33433000064802.
  • McCulloch, John Ramsay (1880). "Docks: Hull Docks, Shipping &c.". In Reid, Hugh G. (ed.). A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
  • New Hull Guide. Hull: M.C. Peck & Son. 1880.
  • Anderson, John Parker (1881). "Yorkshire: Kingston-upon-Hull". 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.
  • White's General and Commercial directory of Hull. Sheffield: William White. 1882.
  • Wildridge, Thomas Tindall (1884). Old and New Hull.
  • Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the Port of Hull. London: Kelly & Co. 1885.
  • Gross, Charles (1897). "Hull". Bibliography of British Municipal History. New York: Longmans, Green, and Co.

Published in the 20th century

  • Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hull (Yorkshire)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 870–871.
  • Donald, Robert, ed. (1901). "Hull". Municipal Year Book of the United Kingdom for 1901. London: Edward Lloyd.
    • Donald, Robert, ed. (1907). "Hull". Municipal Year Book of the United Kingdom for 1907. London: Edward Lloyd.
  • "Hull". Handbook for Yorkshire (4th ed.). London: Edward Stanford. 1904. hdl:2027/nyp.33433071387298.
  • Sheppard, Thomas (1922). Handbook to Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire. London and Hull: A. Brown & Sons. OL 14010835M.
  • East, W. G. (1931). "The Port of Kingston-upon-Hull during the Industrial Revolution". Economica (32): 190–212. doi:10.2307/2547923. JSTOR 2547923.
  • Wild, M. T.; Shaw, G. (1974). "Locational Behaviour of Urban Retailing during the Nineteenth Century: The Example of Kingston upon Hull". Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (61): 101–118. doi:10.2307/621602. JSTOR 621602.

External links

  • Yorkshire. Historical Directories. UK: University of Leicester. Includes digitised directories of Hull, various dates
  • Digital Public Library of America. Works related to Hull, various dates


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