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Timeline of Liverpool

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

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Prior to 18th century

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  • 1089. The West Derby Hundred is recorded in the Domesday Book{{cite web |url=http://historyofliverpool.com/liverpool-domesday-book-text/ |title=liverpool domesday book |website=historyofliverpool.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222102232/http://historyofliverpool.com/liverpool-domesday-book-text/ |archive-date=2015-12-22}}
  • 1207 – 28 August: Liverpool and its market chartered by King John.{{Cite web|url=http://historyofliverpool.com/liverpool-king-john-1207-charter/|title=King John & Liverpool 1207 Charter – Medieval Liverpool History}}{{citation |publisher=Institute of Historical Research, Centre for Metropolitan History |work=Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516 |author=Samantha Letters |year=2005 |url= http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40422 |title=Lancashire }}
  • 1229 – Charter granted by Henry III authorizing a merchants’ gild.
  • 1237 – Liverpool Castle, (1237–1726).
  • 1266 – Liverpool passed into the hands of Edmund Crouchback, Earl of Lancaster.
  • 1292 – John De More becomes Lord Mayor of Liverpool.
  • 1295 – Borough sent two members to the first royal parliament,
  • 1298 – Liverpool fair active.
  • 1349 – The Black Death plague hits Liverpool.{{Cite web|url=http://historyofliverpool.com/liverpool-plague-black-death/|title = Liverpool and the Black Death Plague. Read the horror of what happened}}
  • 1588 – Borough represented in Parliament by Francis Bacon.
  • 1598 – Speke Hall (house) built.
  • 1662 – Population: 775.
  • 1644 – Town besieged by forces of Prince Rupert of the Rhine.{{citation |chapter=Annals of Liverpool |title=The Stranger in Liverpool: or, An historical and descriptive view of the town of Liverpool and its environs |edition=10th |location=Liverpool |publisher= Thomas Kaye |year= 1833 |hdl=2027/wu.89032309627 }}
  • 1674 – Town Hall rebuilt.
  • 1684 – Richard Atherton becomes Lord Mayor of Liverpool and secures the surrender of the Liverpool Charter, which was delivered to George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys, known as Judge Jeffreys at Bewsey Old Hall in 1684. The notes on the Liverpool Charters refer to Atherton as the first modern Mayor of Liverpool.

18th century

  • 1700
  • Liverpool Merchant slave ship begins operating."Liverpool Slave Trade." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Ed. William A. Darity, Jr. 2nd ed. Vol. 4. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008. 468–469. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 1 Oct. 2013
  • Population: 5,714.
  • 1702 – Croxteth Hall (house) built.
  • 1704 – Woolton Hall (house) built.
  • 1708 – Blue Coat School founded.
  • 1715 – opening of the first dock Old Dock.{{cite web |title=A History of Liverpool |url=https://localhistories.org/a-history-of-liverpool/ |website=Local Histories |date=14 March 2021}}
  • 1717 – Bluecoat Chambers built.
  • 1718 – Blue Coat hospital opens.
  • 1720 – Population: 10,446.{{cite book |title=Edinburgh Encyclopædia |editor= David Brewster |location=Philadelphia |publisher= Joseph and Edward Parker |year= 1832 |chapter=Liverpool |hdl= 2027/mdp.39015068380875 |title-link= Edinburgh Encyclopædia }}
  • 1722 – Ranelagh Gardens open.
  • 1724 – 25 August: Animal painter George Stubbs born.
  • 1726
  • Liverpool Castle demolished.
  • Ye Hole in Ye Wall pub on Hackins Hey opens.{{cite news |last1=Bona |first1=Emilia |title=You might be surprised at when this Liverpool pub started letting women in |url=https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/nostalgia/you-might-surprised-liverpool-pub-13732362 |work=liverpoolecho |date=8 October 2017}}
  • 1749 – Royal Infirmary opens.
  • 1753 – Salthouse Dock opens.
  • 1754 – Liverpool Town Hall built.
  • 1756 – Liverpool Advertiser newspaper begins publication.
  • 1758 – Circulating library established.{{citation |title=Circulating Libraries |work=All the Year Round |date=26 May 1894 |number=282 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=1N4RAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA488 }}
  • 1766 – City directory published.{{cite book |author=A. V. Williams |title= Development and Growth of City Directories |location=Cincinnati, USA |year=1913 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=62QQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA6 }}
  • 1770s – Scotland Road laid out.
  • 1771
  • Bidston lighthouse built.
  • George's Dock opens.
  • 1772 – Theatre built.
  • 1778/9 – 120 privateers were fitted out in Liverpool, carrying 1986 guns and 8745 men.
  • 1779 – Medical Library founded.
  • 1784 – Liverpool Musical Festival begins.{{cite book|author= Claude Egerton Lowe |title=Chronological Cyclopædia of Musicians and Musical Events |year=1896|publisher=Weekes & Co. |location=London |chapter=Chronological Summary of the Chief Events in the History of Music |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=rvhBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA87 }}
  • 1785 – Liverpool Georgian Quarter constructed.
  • 1788 – St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church built.
  • 1790
  • Lime Street laid out.
  • Consulate of the United States, Liverpool established.
  • 1791 – School for the Blind founded.
  • 1792 – Holy Trinity Church, Wavertree, consecrated
  • 1797 – Liverpool Athenaeum founded.

19th century

=1800s–1840s=

  • 1801 – Population: 77,653.
  • 1802 – Liverpool Library founded.{{cite book |title=Catalogue of the Liverpool Library, at the Lyceum |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011407180 |year= 1814 |publisher=Printed by James Smith }}
  • 1803 – Botanical Gardens open.
  • 1805 – Extension to Liverpool Town Hall completed providing the main ballroom and council chamber
  • 1807
  • 185 Liverpool ships were engaged in the slave trade, carrying 49,213 slaves in 1807.
  • March – Slave Trade Act in the United Kingdom and Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves in the United States outlaw the Atlantic slave trade. On 27 July Kitty's Amelia sails on the last legal British slaving voyage.
  • Liverpool Cricket Club formed.
  • 1809 – Exchange Buildings constructed.

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  • 1810
  • Borough Gaol built.
  • Williamson Tunnels started.
  • 1815 – Manchester Dock built.
  • 1816 – Leeds and Liverpool Canal constructed.{{cite book |title=Statistical Sketch of the County Palatine of Lancaster |author=Edwin Butterworth |author-link=Edwin Butterworth|publisher= Longman & Co |location=London |year=1841 |chapter=Liverpool |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=sBIHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA52 }}
  • 1817 – Liverpool Royal Institution established.
  • 1819 – SS Savannah completes first steamship transatlantic sailing.
  • 1822
  • Apprentices' Library founded.
  • The old St John's Market was designed by John Foster Junior and built.
  • 1823 – Marine Humane Society founded.{{Citation |publisher = Frederick Warne & Co. |location = London |author = George Henry Townsend |title = A Manual of Dates |date = 1867 |edition=2nd |chapter=Liverpool |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/manualofdatesdic00townrich#page/582/mode/1up |author-link = George Henry Townsend }}
  • 1825 – Liverpool Mechanics' School of Arts and Philomathic Society established.
  • 1826
  • St James Cemetery laid out.{{citation needed|date=September 2013}}
  • Old Dock closed.
  • 1827 – Law Society established.
  • 1828 – Borough Sessions House built.
  • 1829 – Canning Dock opens.{{citation |chapter=Liverpool: the Docks |title= A History of the County of Lancaster |editor=William Farrer, J. Brownbill |volume=4 |year=1911 |chapter-url= http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41373 |access-date= 2 September 2013 }}
  • 1830
  • Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.{{cite book |title=Chronological Historian |author=William Toone|publisher=J. Dowding |location=London |year= 1835 |edition=2nd |url= https://archive.org/stream/chronologicalhi02toongoog#page/n8/mode/2up |volume=2 }}
  • Crown Street railway station and the first ever train shed opened.
  • Wapping Tunnel opened.
  • Liver Theatre active.{{Citation |publisher = E. Howell |location = Liverpool |author = R.J. Broadbent |title = Annals of the Liverpool Stage |date = 1908 |ol = 13499031M }}
  • 1831 – Population: 165,175.
  • 1832
  • Church of St Luke built.
  • John Swire and Sons in business.
  • 1833 – Zoological gardens open.{{cite book |title=History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster |author=Edward Baines|editor=John Harland|editor-link=John Harland|publisher=Routledge |location=London |year= 1870 |volume=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IJRTAAAAcAAJ |author-link=Edward Baines (1774–1848)}}
  • 1835
  • City boundaries expand.
  • First elected Town Council replaces Common Council.
  • 1836
  • Literary, Scientific and Commercial Institution and Liverpool Town Borough Police established.
  • Liverpool Lime Street railway station opens to the public.
  • 1837 – Liverpool Chess Club formed.{{Citation |url = https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:liverpoolchessc00edgagoog/Liverpool_Chess_Club_A_Short_Sketch_of_the_Club_from_Its_First_Meeting_... |title = Liverpool Chess Club: a Short Sketch of the Club |date = 1893 }}
  • 1838 – Brougham Institute and Polytechnic Society established.
  • 1839
  • Customs House built.
  • Northern Mechanics' Institution and Tradesmen's Institution founded.
  • 1840
  • Liverpool College{{citation |title=Report on Secondary Education in Liverpool |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5r4KAAAAIAAJ |year=1904 |author=Michael E. Sadler |location=London }} and Liverpool Philharmonic Society founded.
  • Cunard's steamship Britannia sails from Liverpool to Boston.{{citation |work=New York Times |date=25 July 1880 |title=Cunard Steam-Ship Company |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1880/07/25/archives/the-cunard-steamship-company.html }}
  • 1842
  • St. Francis Xavier's College established.
  • Robertson Gladstone becomes mayor.
  • 1843 – Princes Park laid out.
  • 1844
  • Canning Half Tide Dock opens.
  • Royal Mersey Yacht Club established.
  • 1845 – Liverpool Observatory built.
  • 1846 – Albert Dock opens.{{cite book |title=History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster |author=Edward Baines |editor=John Harland |year= 1893 |volume=5 |chapter=Liverpool Parish |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7k8MAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA114 }}
  • 1848
  • Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway opened.
  • Liverpool Financial Reform Association; Architectural and Archaeological Society;{{cite web |url=http://www.liverpoolarchitecture.com/About+the+LAS.aspx |title=About the LAS |publisher=Liverpool Architectural Society |access-date=1 September 2013 |archive-date=27 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927194714/http://www.liverpoolarchitecture.com/About+the+LAS.aspx |url-status=dead }} and Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire formed.
  • Cope Bros & Co in business.
  • Church of Saint Francis Xavier consecrated.
  • 1849
  • Philharmonic Hall opens.
  • Victoria Tunnel (with largest iron wire rope ever manufactured) and Waterloo Tunnel opened connecting Edge Hill railway station to Liverpool Riverside railway station.

=1850s–1890s=

20th century

=1900s–1940s=

  • 1901 – Population: 684,958.{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Liverpool |volume= 16 |last= Irvine |first= William Fergusson | pages = 804–809 }}
  • 1902
  • City boundaries expand to include Aigburth, Cressington and Grassendale.
  • Sefton Park Gazette begins publication.{{cite web|url=http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vl(freeText0)=+%20Liverpool%20+(England)+--+%20Newspapers%20&vl(10130439UI0)=sub&vl(46690061UI3)=all_items&vl(1UIStartWith0)=exact&fn=search&tab=local_tab&mode=Advanced&vid=BLVU1&scp.scps=scope%3a(BLCONTENT)|title=Liverpool (England) Newspapers|work=Main Catalogue|publisher=British Library|access-date=1 September 2013}}{{Dead link|date=March 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  • 1903 – Worlds first full conversion of steam to electric railway, Mersey Railway.
  • 1904 – Foundation stone of the Anglican Cathedral is laid by King Edward VII.
  • 1905 - Liverpool Olympia opens.
  • 1906 – Liverpool Cotton Exchange Building constructed.
  • 1907
  • August: 700th anniversary of city founding.{{citation |title=Liverpool's 700th Anniversary Celebrations: Words and Music |year=1907 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Osc_AAAAYAAJ }}
  • Dock Office built.{{cite journal|title=Symbols of Empire: The Buildings of the Liverpool Waterfront|first=Peter|last=De Figueiredo|journal=Architectural History|volume=46|pages=229–254|year=2003|jstor=1568808|doi=10.2307/1568808}}
  • 1908
  • Meccano Ltd in business.
  • Population: 753,203.
  • 1909
  • June: Catholic-Protestant conflict.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/articles/2009/06/18/history_sectarian_1909_feature.shtml|title=The Belfast of England|year=2009|work=Liverpool: History|first=Paul|last=Coslett|publisher=BBC|access-date=1 September 2013}}
  • The world's first Department of Civic Design, which later spawns the town planning movement, is set up at the University of Liverpool.
  • 1911
  • 1911 Liverpool general transport strike.
  • Royal Liver Building constructed.
  • Rodewald Concert Society founded.
  • 1912 – Lime Street Picture House opens.{{cite web|url=http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/united-kingdom/england/liverpool?status=all|title=Movie Theaters in Liverpool|work=CinemaTreasures.org|publisher=Cinema Treasures LLC|location=Los Angeles|access-date=1 September 2013}}
  • 1913 – Crane's Music Hall opens.{{citation needed|date=September 2013}}
  • 1914
  • 14 March: Reconstructed Adelphi Hotel is opened by the Midland Railway.{{cite news|title=The New Adelphi Hotel|newspaper=Liverpool Echo|date=1914-03-13|page=6}}
  • 30 May: Cunarder {{RMS|Aquitania}} begins her maiden voyage to New York.
  • 27 August: Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby, launches the Liverpool Pals battalions scheme.{{cite book|first=Peter|last=Doyle|title=The First World War in 100 Objects|location=Stroud|publisher=The History Press|year=2014|isbn=978-0-7524-8811-0}}
  • 1916 – 30 July: "Liverpool's blackest day" – 500 men in Liverpool Pals battalions are killed in an attack on Guillemont in the Battle of the Somme (following 200 deaths on the First day on the Somme).
  • 1917
  • Cunard Building constructed.
  • Liverpool Commercial Reference Library opens.{{Citation|date=1920|title=Handbook to the Commercial Reference Library|location=Liverpool|ol = 7136550M}}
  • 1919
  • Racial conflict.{{cite journal|title=African Diaspora Conditioning: The Case of Liverpool|first=Alfred B.|last=Zack-Williams|journal=Journal of Black Studies|volume=27|issue=4|year=1997|jstor=2784729|doi=10.1177/002193479702700405|pages=528–542|s2cid=143618099}}
  • Cunard's luxury liner services moved to Southampton.
  • 1922 – African Churches Mission, and African and West Indian Mission organized.{{cite journal|title=Racism and Private Assistance: The Support of West Indian and African Missions in Liverpool, England, during the Interwar Years|first=Carlton E.|last=Wilson|journal=African Studies Review|volume=35|issue=2|pages=55–76|year=1992|jstor=524870|doi=10.2307/524870|s2cid=143732965}}
  • 1924–1932 – India Buildings is built.
  • 1925 – Empire Theatre opens.
  • 1927
  • A5058 road Queens Drive ring road completed.
  • Woolton Picture House cinema opens.
  • 1928 – Ferries to Eastham Ferry cease operation.{{cite web |title=Along the Mersey: Eastham |url=https://gerryco23.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/along-the-mersey-eastham/ |website=That's How The Light Gets In |language=en |date=13 August 2010}}
  • 1930 – Speke Airport, later Liverpool Airport, begins operating.
  • 1931 – Population 855,688.{{Citation|publisher=Liverpool John Moores University|title=The Population of Liverpool Exemplified|date=2010|edition=1st|url=http://www.liv.ac.uk/mcs/lfs/docs/lplcityregpopsummary1004.pdf}}{{Dead link|date=March 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} This is the peak size of Liverpool's population.
  • 1932 – 1932 Summer Olympics gold medal for town planning awarded to John Hughes (architect) for city of Liverpool sports stadium.
  • 1934
  • 18 July: Royal opening of Queensway Tunnel, the A580 road (Liverpool–East Lancashire Road, the UK's first intercity highway) and Walton Hall Park.
  • Paramount Theatre opens.
  • 1939 – Exchange Flags building completed.
  • 1940 – August: Liverpool Blitz: Aerial bombing by German forces begins.
  • 1942 – January: Liverpool Blitz: Aerial bombing by German forces ends.
  • 1944 – Merseyside Unity Theatre active.
  • 1946 – Liverpool Corporation begins development of Kirkby Industrial Estate on a former ordnance factory site.
  • 1948 – 31 May: Canada Dock Branch railway closed to intermediate passengers.
  • 1949 – 19 March: Cameo murder.

=1950s–1990s=

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21st century

  • 2001
  • Liverpool Wall of Fame unveiled.
  • Merseytram proposed.
  • Liverpool Airport officially renamed after John Lennon.
  • 2002 – Liverpool International Tennis Tournament begins.
  • 2003 – 4 November: Brookside last broadcast.
  • 2004
  • Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City registered as a World Heritage Site with UNESCO.
  • Liverpool Culture Company formed.
  • Homotopia (festival) begins.
  • 2006
  • Liverpool Urban Area established.{{cite web |title=Liverpool South Parkway opens |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/articles/2006/06/08/travel_lsp_opening_feature.shtml |website=www.bbc.co.uk |access-date=14 July 2023}}
  • Liverpool Science Park established.
  • Royal Standard art gallery established on Mann St.{{cite web |url=http://www.newmuseum.org/spaces/listing/country:UK |title=United Kingdom |work=Art Spaces Directory |location=New York |publisher=New Museum |access-date=1 September 2013 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304064242/http://www.newmuseum.org/spaces/listing/country:UK |url-status=dead }}
  • Liverpool South Parkway railway station opened.
  • 2007
  • Liverpool Cruise Terminal opens.
  • International Slavery Museum opens.
  • West Tower built.
  • Liverpool Shakespeare Festival begins.
  • David Moores sells Liverpool F.C. to American entrepreneurs Tom Hicks and George N. Gillett Jr.
  • 2008
  • City designated a European Capital of Culture.
  • Echo Arena Liverpool, BT Convention Centre and Liverpool One open.
  • One Park West and Alexandra Tower built.
  • A.F.C. Liverpool formed in response to the transfer of ownership of Liverpool F.C..
  • 2010 – National Oceanography Centre established.
  • 2011 – Museum of Liverpool opens on the waterfront.
  • 2010–2012 – Edge Lane widened.{{cite news |title=Liverpool commuters face 12-month Edge Lane roadworks |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-12730513 |work=BBC News |date=14 March 2011}}
  • 2012
  • Directly elected office of Mayor of Liverpool established and Joe Anderson becomes mayor.{{cite web|url=http://www.citymayors.com/mayors/british-mayors.html|title=British Mayors|location=London|work=City Mayors.com|publisher=City Mayors Foundation|access-date=1 September 2013}}
  • Ocean Countess sets sail starting from Liverpool Cruise Terminal.{{cite news |title=First cruise liner since 1972 leaves Liverpool |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-18246361 |work=BBC News |date=29 May 2012}}
  • 2013
  • 19 December: Liverpool Post last published.
  • Merseytram proposal cancelled without having been built.
  • Yellow Duckmarine sinks in Salthouse Dock and ceases operations.{{cite web |title=Yellow Duckmarine sinks in Albert Dock in Liverpool |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-22922039 |website=BBC News |date=15 June 2013}}
  • Cunard Line resume cruising from Liverpool with Queen Mary 2, the largest ocean liner ever built.
  • 2014
  • Liverpool City Region Combined Authority established including Liverpool, Halton, Knowsley, St Helens, Sefton and Wirral.
  • Liverpool TV launched.{{cite web |title=Bay TV wins Liverpool local TV licence |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/media/a460599/bay-tv-wins-liverpool-local-tv-licence/ |website=Digital Spy |date=21 February 2013}}
  • 2015 – City of Liverpool F.C. formed.
  • 2016 – Liverpool2 container shipping port opened at Seaforth.
  • Great Howard Street bridge was demolished.
  • 2017
  • 8 May: Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region established including Liverpool, Halton, Knowsley, St Helens, Sefton and Wirral. Steve Rotheram is the first person elected to the office.{{cite news |title=Liverpool 'metro mayor' results: Labour's Steve Rotheram elected |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-39804725 |work=BBC News |date=5 May 2017}}
  • Royal Institute of British Architects’ National Architecture Centre opened.
  • 2019
  • Churchill Way flyovers demolition begins.{{cite news |title=Liverpool flyovers: Demolition plan revealed for Churchill Way structures |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-49397889 |work=BBC News |date=20 August 2019}}
  • First black Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Anna Rothery, appointed.{{cite news |title=Liverpool: First black mayor succeeds race row councillor |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-49335322 |work=BBC News |date=13 August 2019}}
  • 2020
  • 23 March: Liverpool goes onto a nationwide lockdown with the rest of the UK due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • 25 June: Liverpool F.C. win the 2019–20 Premier League, their first victory of the Premier League era.
  • 31 July: Woolton Picturehouse announces its closure.{{cite news |last=Flaherty |first=Jess |title='Devastated' Woolton Picture House to close after 93 years |url=https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/devestated-woolton-picture-house-close-18697334 |work=Liverpool Echo |date=31 July 2020 |language=en}}
  • 6 October: VOI e-scooter-sharing system launched in Liverpool.{{Cite web|url=https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/new-way-around-city-centre-19056546|title=New way to get around the city centre as e-scooters launch|date=6 October 2020}}
  • 14 October: COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom: Liverpool moves to the Tier 3 (very high) level of restriction.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/coronavirus-merseyside-liverpool-lockdown-three-tier-boris-johnson-b991726.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/coronavirus-merseyside-liverpool-lockdown-three-tier-boris-johnson-b991726.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|first=Andrew|last=Woodcock|title=Coronavirus: Liverpool and rest of Merseyside to enter 'very high' tier of lockdown system|date=12 October 2020|access-date=12 October 2020|work=The Independent|location=London}}{{cbignore}}
  • 6 November: First UK covid mass testing piloted in Liverpool.{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/nov/02/liverpool-uk-first-attempt-coronavirus-mass-testing | title=Liverpool to pioneer UK's first attempt at mass Covid testing | website=TheGuardian.com | date=2 November 2020 }}
  • 4 December: 5 men, including current city mayor Joe Anderson and former deputy city council leader Derek Hatton, are arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit bribery and witness intimidation as part of an investigation into the awarding of public building contracts in the city.{{cite news|title=Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson arrested in bribery probe|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-55192375|work=BBC News|date=4 December 2020|access-date=10 December 2020}}
  • 2021
  • 30 April: COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom: Liverpool is the venue for a trial indoor music event.{{cite news|title=3,000 party at Liverpool club for UK's 'first dance' in major Covid test event|first=Benjamin|last=Butterworth|url=https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/covid-event-nightclub-liverpool-circus-lockdown-roadmap-981013|work=i|date=2021-04-30|access-date=2021-05-01}}
  • 6 May: Joanne Anderson is elected city Mayor of Liverpool, the first directly elected black woman mayor of a major British city.{{cite news|first=Maya|last=Wolfe-Robinson|title=Liverpool chooses UK's first directly elected black female mayor|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/may/07/liverpool-chooses-uks-first-directly-elected-black-female-mayor|work=The Guardian|location=London|date=2021-05-07|access-date=2021-05-08}}
  • 21 July: Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City delisted as a World Heritage Site with UNESCO.{{Cite news|date=2021-07-21|title=Liverpool stripped of Unesco World Heritage status|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-57879475|access-date=2021-07-21}}
  • 2022
  • 25 March: Yoko Ono Lennon Centre opened by Sean Lennon.
  • 12 August: Liverpool shortlisted to host Eurovision 2023.{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-62496803 | title=Eurovision 2023: Seven UK cities make shortlist to host song contest | work=BBC News | date=12 August 2022 }}
  • 7 October: Liverpool selected to host Eurovision 2023.{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/oct/07/liverpool-to-host-eurovision-song-contest-on-behalf-of-ukraine | title=Liverpool to host Eurovision song contest on behalf of Ukraine | Liverpool | the Guardian | website=TheGuardian.com }}
  • 2023
  • 26 April: Visit by King Charles III.
  • May: Mayor of Liverpool abolished
  • 13 May: Liverpool hosts Eurovision Song Contest 2023.
  • 2024
  • 17 April: Radio City rebranded Hits Radio Liverpool.
  • 14 June: Taylor Swift performs to sold out Anfield Stadium for 3 night residency on first UK dates in her The Eras Tour.

See also

References

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Further reading

= Published in the 18th century =

  • {{cite book |title=Liverpool Directory, for the Year 1766 |publisher= Printed by W. Nevett and Co. for J. Gore |location=Liverpool |url= https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/9200143/E2839EA6277167F997FEB61E506BAB183843996B.html }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = J. Johnson |location = London |author = William Enfield |title = An essay towards the history of Leverpool |date = 1774 |edition=2nd |ol = 23379980M |author-link = William Enfield }}
  • {{cite book |title=Bailey's Northern Directory |publisher= Printed by William Ashton |author=W. Bailey |year=1781 |location=Warrington |chapter=Liverpool Directory |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=jqBVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA226 }}
  • {{cite book |title=Liverpool Guide |author=William Moss |location= Liverpool |publisher=Crane and Jones |year= 1796 }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = J. McCreery |location = Liverpool |author = James Wallace |title = A general and descriptive history of the ancient and present state, of the town of Liverpool |date = 1796 |ol = 7197095M }}

= Published in the 19th century =

==1800s–1840s==

  • {{Citation |title = Kearsley's Traveller's Entertaining Guide through Great Britain |date = 1803 |publisher = George Kearsley |location=London |chapter=Liverpool |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/kearsleystravell00hein#page/n103/mode/2up }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Vernor, Hood & Sharpe |location = London |title = Beauties of England and Wales |author =John Britton |date = 1807 |volume=9 |chapter=Liverpool |hdl = 2027/mdp.39015063565736 |title-link = Beauties of England and Wales |author-link = John Britton (antiquary) }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Printed by Jones and Wright, and sold by Woodward and Alderson |date = 1808 |edition=2nd |location = Liverpool |title = Picture of Liverpool; or, Stranger's Guide |ol = 25319603M}}
  • {{Citation |publisher = William Robinson |location = Liverpool |author = John Corry |url = http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007973435 |title = The history of Liverpool, from the earliest authenticated period down to the present time |date = 1810 |author-link = John Corry (writer) }}
  • {{cite book |chapter=Liverpool |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4llGAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA235 |title= Commercial Directory for 1818-19-20 |location=Manchester |publisher=James Pigot |year=1818 }}
  • {{cite book |chapter=Liverpool |volume=4 |title=Bibliotheca Britannica |author= Robert Watt |location=Edinburgh |publisher= A. Constable |year= 1824 |oclc=961753 |hdl=2027/mdp.39076005081505 |author-link=Robert Watt (bibliographer) }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Printed by T. Kaye |location = Liverpool |title = Liverpool, its Commerce, Statistics, and Institutions |author = Henry Smithers |date = 1825 |oclc = 4587553 |ol = 6920334M }}
  • {{cite book |chapter=Liverpool |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=hdMHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA269 |title= Pigot & Co.'s National Commercial Directory for 1828-9 |year = 1828|location=London |publisher=James Pigot }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green |location = London |title = Cities and Principal Towns of the World |date = 1830 |oclc = 2665202 |series= Cabinet Cyclopaedia |chapter=Liverpool |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/citiesprincipalt00lond#page/50/mode/2up }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = H. Teesdale and Co. |location = London |title = New Lancashire Gazetteer |author = Stephen Reynolds Clarke |date = 1830 |oclc = 6704104 |chapter=Liverpool |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/newlancashirega00clargoog#page/n106/mode/2up }}
  • {{cite book |title=Gore's Directory and View of Liverpool |year=1834 |publisher= J. and J. Mawdsley |location=Liverpool |url=http://dbooks.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/books/PDFs/590427933.pdf }}
  • {{cite book |title=Cornish's Grand Junction, and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Companion |location=Birmingham |publisher= J. Cornish |year= 1837 |chapter=Liverpool |hdl=2027/wu.89097042907 |lccn=n87-896539}}
  • {{cite book |title=Picture of Liverpool |location= Liverpool |publisher= T. Taylor |year= 1837 }}
  • {{cite book |title=Iron Road Book and Railway Companion from London to Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool |url=https://archive.org/details/ironroadbookrail00cogh_0 |author= Francis Coghlan |location=London |publisher= A.H. Baily & Co. |year=1838 |chapter=Liverpool |hdl= 2027/wu.89089014146 |author-link= Francis Coghlan }}
  • {{Citation |author= Arthur Freeling |title = Freeling's Grand Junction Railway Companion to Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham |date = 1838 |publisher = H. Lacey |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t8EHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA137 |chapter=Liverpool Guide|lccn=n86-16929}}
  • {{Citation |chapter=Liverpool |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/osbornesguideto00osbogoog#page/n330/mode/2up |title = Osborne's Guide to the Grand Junction, Or Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester Railway |date = 1838 |publisher = E.C. & W. Osborne |location=Birmingham }}
  • {{Citation |chapter=Liverpool |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/leighsnew00pocketr#page/294/mode/2up |title = Leigh's New Pocket Road-Book of England and Wales |date = 1839 |edition=7th |location=London |publisher=Leigh and Son }}
  • {{cite book |title=Liverpool as It Is |year=1840 }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Benjamin Smith |location = Liverpool |author = Alexander Brown |title = Smith's Strangers' Guide to Liverpool |date = 1843 |ol = 23369337M }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = H.G. Bohn |location = London |author = John Thomson |title = New Universal Gazetteer and Geographical Dictionary |date = 1845 |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/newuniversalgaze00thomuoft#page/594/mode/1up |chapter= Liverpool }}
  • {{cite book |title=Slater's National Commercial Directory of Ireland; including ... English Towns of Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, West Bromwich, Leeds, Sheffield and Bristol, and in Scotland, those of Glasgow and Paisley |location= Manchester |publisher= I. Slater |year= 1846 |chapter=Liverpool |hdl= 2027/njp.32101045358296 }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = S. Lewis and Co. |location = London |author = Samuel Lewis |title =Topographical Dictionary of England |date = 1848 |edition=7th |chapter=Liverpool |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/topographicaldic00lewi3#page/106/mode/1up |author-link = Samuel Lewis (publisher) }}

==1850s–1890s==

  • {{cite book |title=History of the Commerce and Town of Liverpool |author=Thomas Baines |publisher=Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans |location=London |year= 1852 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uBYVAAAAQAAJ }}
  • {{Citation |title=Black's Picturesque Tourist and Road-book of England and Wales |edition=3rd |year=1853 |publisher = Adam and Charles Black |location = Edinburgh |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/blackspicturesq00ltdgoog#page/n280/mode/2up |chapter= Liverpool }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = J. Mawdsley and Son |location = Liverpool |title = Liverpool as it was during the last quarter of the eighteenth century. 1775 to 1800 |author = Richard Brooke |date = 1853 |oclc = 4612147 |ol = 6928908M |author-link = Richard Brooke (antiquary) }}
  • {{Citation |url = https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:liverpoolin185900bain/Liverpool_in_1859 |title = Liverpool in 1859 |date = 1859 |publisher = Longman |location=London |author=Thomas Baines |ol = 25464729M |author-link = Thomas Baines (journalist) }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = W.H. Smith and Son |location = London |author = George Measom |author-link= George Samuel Measom |title = Official Illustrated Guide to the North-Western Railway |date = 1859 |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=6goHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA504 |chapter= Liverpool }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = J. F. Hughes |location = Liverpool |title = Recollections of old Liverpool |date = 1863 |ol = 25319604M }}
  • {{Citation |url = https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:agreencosdirect00cogoog/A._Green_Co.'s_Directory_for_Liverpool_and_Birkenhead |title = A. Green & Co.'s Directory for Liverpool and Birkenhead |date = 1870 }}
  • {{cite book |title=Streets of Liverpool |location= Liverpool |publisher= E. Howell |year=c. 1870 |author=James Stonehouse }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Adam and Charles Black |location = Edinburgh |title = Black's Guide to Liverpool |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=sGHXAAAAMAAJ |date = 1871 }}
  • {{cite book |title=Commercial Directory and Shippers' Guide |year=1871 |edition =3rd |location=Liverpool |publisher=R.E. Fulton & Co. |chapter=Liverpool Section |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k_INAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1 }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Longmans, Green |location = London |author = James Picton |title = Memorials of Liverpool |date = 1875 |ol = 7022210M |url=https://archive.org/stream/memorialsofliver02pictuoft#page/n7/mode/2up}}
  • {{Citation |title = Official Guide and Album of the Cunard Steamship Company |date = 1877 |publisher = S. Sharpe |chapter=Liverpool |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/officialguidean00ltdgoog#page/n144/mode/2up }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = W. Satchell |location = London |title = Book of British Topography: a Classified Catalogue of the Topographical Works in the Library of the British Museum Relating to Great Britain and Ireland |author = John Parker Anderson |date = 1881 |chapter=Lancashire: Liverpool |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/bookofbritishtop00andeuoft#page/157/mode/1up }}
  • {{cite book |title=Lewis's Handy Guide to Liverpool and Neighbourhood |year=1884 |publisher=Lewis's |location=Liverpool |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fxEHAAAAQAAJ }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = A. Holden |date = 1885 |edition=3rd |location = Liverpool |title = Liverpool a few years since |ol = 7239798M}}
  • {{Citation |publisher = G. G. Walmsley |date = 1886 |location = Liverpool |title = City of Liverpool: Municipal archives and records, from A. D. 1700 to the passing of the municipal reform act, 1835 |ol = 14000568M}}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Methuen & Co. |location = London |title = Municipalities at Work: the Municipal Policy of Six Great Towns and its Influence on their Social Welfare |author = Frederick Dolman |date = 1895 |oclc = 8429493 |chapter=Liverpool |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/municipalitiesat00dolm }}

= Published in the 20th century =

== 1900s–1940s ==

  • {{Citation |publisher = Pub. for the University Press of Liverpool by Williams & Norgate |location = London |author = Ramsay Muir |title = A History of Liverpool |date = 1907 |edition=2nd |ol = 24434716M |author-link = Ramsay Muir }}
  • {{cite book |title=Liverpool's First Directory. A Reprint of the Names and Addresses from Gore's Directory for 1766 |editor= George T. Shaw |editor2=Isabella Shaw |location= Liverpool |publisher= Henry Young & Sons |year=1907 |url= http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011820263 }}
  • {{cite book |chapter=Liverpool |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Br0ZAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA425 |title= Municipal Year Book of the United Kingdom for 1907 |editor=Robert Donald |editor-link=Robert Donald |location=London |publisher=Edward Lloyd |year=1907 }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Harper & Brothers |location = New York |title = Seven English Cities |author = William Dean Howells |date = 1909 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/sevenenglishciti00howeuoft#page/n17/mode/2up |chapter= A Modest Liking for Liverpool |author-link = William Dean Howells }}
  • {{Citation | publisher = Karl Baedeker | location = Leipzig | title = Great Britain | date = 1910 | edition = 7th |chapter=Liverpool | series = Baedeker's Great Britain | hdl = 2027/mdp.39015010546516 }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Ward, Lock & Co. |location = London |title = Haydn's Dictionary of Dates |author = Benjamin Vincent |edition = 25th |date = 1910 |chapter=Liverpool |chapter-url = https://archive.org/stream/haydnsdictionary00hayd#page/832/mode/2up |title-link = Haydn's Dictionary of Dates }}
  • {{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Liverpool |volume= 16 |last= Irvine |first= William Fergusson | pages = 804–809 |short= 1}}
  • {{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=288 |editor1=William Farrer |editor2= J. Brownbill |publisher=University of London, Institute of Historical Research |year=1911 |title=History of the County of Lancaster |volume= 4 |series=Victoria County History }} (includes Liverpool)

==1950s–1990s==

  • {{cite journal |title=Municipal Regulation of Smoke Pollution in Liverpool, 1853–1866 |author=Richard Hawes |journal= Environment and History |volume= 4 |issue=1 |pages=75–90 |year= 1998 |jstor=20723060 |doi=10.3197/096734098779555718 |url=http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/2957 }}

= Published in the 21st century =

  • {{cite book

|editor= Richard Lawton and W. Robert Lee

|title= Population and Society in Western European Port Cities, c.1650–1939

|year=2002

|publisher=Liverpool University Press

|isbn=978-0-85323-435-7

|chapter= Components of demographic change in a rapidly growing port-city: the case of Liverpool in the nineteenth century |author= Richard Lawton

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oZBGZ5ikmhwC

}}

  • {{cite book |year=2007 |author=John Belchem |title=Irish, Catholic and Scouse: The History of the Liverpool-Irish, 1800–1939 |location=Liverpool |publisher=Liverpool University Press}}

External links

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  • {{cite web |url=http://www.mersey-gateway.org/ |title=Liverpool |work=Port Cities UK |publisher=New Opportunities Fund |location=UK |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120415012918/http://www.mersey-gateway.org/ |url-status = dead

|archive-date = 15 April 2012 }}

  • {{cite web |work=Old Liverpool |title=History Timeline |author=Caryl Williams |location=UK |url=http://www.old-liverpool.co.uk/Timeline.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100109115807/http://www.old-liverpool.co.uk/Timeline.html |archive-date=2010-01-09 }}
  • {{citation |work=Historical Directories |publisher=University of Leicester |location=UK |title=Lancashire |url=http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/findbylocation.asp |access-date=5 September 2013 |archive-date=5 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130705215819/http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/findbylocation.asp |url-status=dead }}. Includes digitized directories of Liverpool, various dates
  • Digital Public Library of America. [http://dp.la/search?page_size=100&q=liverpool&utf8=✓ Works related to Liverpool], various dates
  • {{cite web |work=Discovering Britain: Walks: North West England |publisher=Royal Geographical Society |title=(Liverpool) |url= http://www.discoveringbritain.org/walks/region/north-west-england/ |year=c. 2013 }}

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