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Canal History: Timeline
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| Year | Canals | L&L Canal | England | World |
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| 2010 | 96 miles of canal closed due to water shortage. | |||
| 2009 | Liverpool Dock Link Opened, Albatross makes trip to Salthouse dock. | Last Woolworths shop closes down. | Credit Crunch | |
| 2008 |  |
Liverpool is the European Capital of Culture | ||
| 2007 | www.towpathtreks.co.uk launched | Liverpool's 800th Birthday | ||
| 2006 | Work starts on Canal Dock Link in Liverpool | |||
| 2005 | Southport FC win inaugural Conference North Championship | |||
| 2004 | Facebook launched | |||
| 2001 | I graduated from the University of Liverpool again. | |||
| 1999 | The Waterways Trust | |||
| 1998 | I graduate from the University of Liverpool | |||
| 1990 | Tavistock Canal handed over to National Power |  |
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| 1983 | IWA Rally at Wigan | |||
| 1976 | Save All Your Kisses for Me wins Eurovision Song Contest. | I was born. | ||
| 1975 | Litherland Lift Bridge replaced with concrete flyover | |||
| 1972 | IWA Rally at Lymm | Coal traffic to Wigan Power Station ends | ||
| 1968 | Transport Act | IWA Rally at Liverpool L&L classed as a Cruising Waterway, Liverpool to Bootle classed as Remainder. |
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| 1965 | IWA Rally at Blackburn | |||
| 1963 | British Waterways Board formed and takes control of the canal network | |||
| 1960 | Regular commercial traffic over the summit level stops Last horse drawn boat, Parbold on canal Pall Mall Basin filled in |
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| 1957 | John Lennon forms the Quarrymen | |||
| 1956 | Liverpool Overhead Railway closes | |||
| 1953 | British Transport Waterways created | |||
| 1952 | Queen Elizabeth II Coronation | |||
| 1948 | Canals Nationalised | Canal controlled by Docks & Inland Waterways Executive | ||
| 1945 | End of World War Two | |||
| 1944 | L.T.C. Rolt's Narrow Boat published |
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| 1943 |  Flight HZ251 crashes into the bank of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal23rd September |
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| 1941 | Pall Mall headquarters bombed | May: Liverpool Blitz 4,000 killed | ||
| 1940 | 20 December Canal Breached by bomb in Bankhall | |||
| 1939 | Britain Declares war on Germany | Start of World War Two | ||
| 1936 | King George V dies King Edward VIII Abdication Crisis King George VI |
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| 1931 | Liverpool population 855,000 | |||
| 1928 | Ninth Leeds & Liverpool Canal Act changes tolls | |||
| 1925 | Construction of Queensway Tunnel under Mersey begins | |||
| 1922 | Litherland Lift Bridge built | |||
| 1921 | Canal Company disposes of its carrying fleet | |||
| 1919 | Treaty of Versailles | |||
| 1918 | Police Strike in Liverpool | Armistice | ||
| 1917 | Russian Revolution | |||
| 1914 | Frank Hornby opens Meccano Factory, Wavertree | World War One starts | ||
| 1911 | Liverpool transport strike, gunboats on Mersey | |||
| 1910 | King George V | |||
| 1909 |  Old Hall Mill Burnley |
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| 1905 | Eighth Leeds & Liverpool Canal Act | Russian Revolution | ||
| 1904 | Construction of Liverpools Anglican Cathedral starts | |||
| 1901 | Liverpool population 704,000 Death of Queen Victoria Edward VII becomes king |
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| 1900 | Southport FC Preston & District League champions | |||
| 1893 | Leeds & Liverpool Canal, Rates, Tolls, and Charge Order | Liverpool Overhead Railway opened | ||
| 1892 | Seventh Leeds & Liverpool Canal Act alters rates | Liverpool FC founded | ||
| 1891 | Sixth Leeds & Liverpool Canal Act: Winterburn Reservoir | |||
| 1886 | Clarkes Basin closed | Underground railway between Birkenhead and Liverpool opened | ||
| 1885 |  Burnley |
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| 1882 | Liverpool Basin reconstructed | |||
| 1881 | University college established in Liverpool | Southport FC formed | ||
| 1878 |  Audley Bridge Blackburn |
Everton FC founded | ||
| 1874 |  Sandhills |
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| 1865 | American Civil War Ends | |||
| 1864 | Southern section of Lancaster Canal leased by Leeds & Liverpool Canal Company | |||
| 1863 | ||||
| 1862 | Enrica leaves Liverpool and is renamed CSS Alabama | |||
| 1861 |  |
Boundary Bridge and Leigh Bridge in Liverpool are rebuilt | SS Great Eastern left Liverpool for Quebec with 2000 soldiers and their families. Sent to defend Canada against USA after Trent Affair | Feb: Confederate States of America formed April: American Civil War starts June: James Dunwoody Bulloch arrives in Liverpool November: The Trent Affair |
| 1860 | Dec: Liverpool resident Charles K Prioleau sends South Carolina a 12 pounder Blakely Rifled Gun | |||
| 1858 | Brunel's SS Great Eastern launched | |||
| 1853 | Carlisle Canal Closes | |||
| 1852 | Peak in Liverpool emigration, 299,099 leave on over 1000 sailings | |||
| 1851 | Great Exhibition | |||
| 1850 | 4,023 miles of canal | Canal head office moves to Liverpool | ||
| 1848 |  Railway bridge at Burscough |
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| 1847 | 10 Hour Factory Act Liverpool has highest death rate in Britain |
300,000 Irish immigrants land in Liverpool | ||
| 1846 | Stanley Dock Branch opens | |||
| 1843 | Brunel's SS Great Britain launched | |||
| 1841 | Great Western Railway completed | |||
| 1840 | 4,003 miles of canal | |||
| 1838 | Brunel's SS Great Western crosses Atlantic | |||
| 1837 | Queen Victoria crowned The first Grand National steeplechase run at Aintree |
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| 1835 | ||||
| 1830 | 3,875 miles of canal | King William IV Liverpool - Manchester railway opened |
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| 1829 | Stephenson's Rocket completes trials | |||
| 1826 | Menai Bridge built by Thomas Telford | |||
| 1825 | Stockton-Darlington Railway completed by Stephenson | |||
| 1824 | Jesse Hartley appointed as Liverpool's dock surveyor | |||
| 1823 | Carlisle Canal Opens | |||
| 1820 | 3,691 miles of canal | Leigh branch opens | Death of George III Coronation of George IV |
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| 1819 | Mill Hill Branch of Tavistock Canal completed Carlisle Canal Act passed |
5th Leeds & Liverpool Canal Act | First Factory Act | |
| 1817 | Tavistock Canal completed | |||
| 1816 |  Junction Bridge Rufford Branch |
Completed Leeds & Liverpool Canal Opened | ||
| 1815 | Battle of Waterloo | |||
| 1814 | British burn Washington | |||
| 1813 | East India Company's monopoly in India and China abolished. USA invades Canada |
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| 1812 | War with USA | |||
| 1811 | Regency Period: Prince of Wales regent due to King George III's insanity | |||
| 1810 |  Ewood Aqueduct 3,456 miles of canal |
Leeds & Liverpool Canal opened Henfield to Blackburn Agreement with Lancaster Canal over southern section |
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| 1809 | Leigh Branch Bill fails | |||
| 1807 | Public meeting proposes Carlisle Canal | Slave Trade abolished in British Empire | ||
| 1805 | Grand Junction Canal completed | Rufford Branch extended to Tarleton | Nelson Victorious at Trafalgar | |
| 1804 | War with Spain | |||
| 1803 | Construction of Tavistock Canal started | War with Napoleonic France | ||
| 1802 | Newcastle to Mary Port Canal proposed | |||
| 1801 | Leeds & Liverpool Canal opened Burnley to Henfield | Liverpool population 77,000 | ||
| 1800 | 3,074 miles of canal | Act of Union Britain and Ireland | ||
| 1799 | Southern Section of Lancaster Canal opened Haigh to Wheelton | Income Tax introduced | Liverpool ships carry over 45,000 slaves from Africa | |
| 1798 | Nelson victorious at the Nile | |||
| 1797 |  Cottages at the Top Lock of the Rufford Branch |
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| 1796 | Leeds & Liverpool Canal opened to Burnley, Foulridge Tunnel completed | War with Spain, French invasion of Ireland attempted | ||
| 1795 | Food shortages and riots | War with Holland | ||
| 1794 | Fourth Leeds & Liverpool Canal Act changes line in East Lancashire | |||
| 1793 | Bill changing the line of the canal fails | Liverpool empowered to issue its own banknotes | War with Revolutionary France | |
| 1792 | Lancaster Canal Act passed | Clarkes Basin built Old Hall Street | ||
| 1791 |  |
Construction re-starts west of Gargrave Lock house at Bank Newton built |
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| 1790 | 2,223 miles of canal | Third Leeds & Liverpool Canal Act changes line of canal | First imports of raw cotton arrive from West Indies to Liverpool | |
| 1783 | Second Leeds & Liverpool Canal Act allows River Douglas Navigation to be bought | American independence | ||
| 1781 | Douglas Navigation closed. Rufford Branch to Sollom lock opens. |
Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown | ||
| 1780 | 2,091 miles of canal | Leeds & Liverpool Canal opened Gathurst to Wigan | Holland declares war on Great Britain | |
| 1779 | John Taylor born 22 August | Spain declares war on Great Britain | ||
| 1778 | France declares War on Great Britain | |||
| 1777 | Leeds & Liverpool Canal opened between Shipley to Leeds Work on mainline stops as capital runs out |
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| 1776 | American Declaration of Independence | |||
| 1775 | Liverpool seamen attack Town Hall in wage protest | American War of Independence | ||
| 1774 | Leeds & Selby Canal Bill and Settle Canal Bill fail | Leeds & Liverpool Canal opened between Liverpool and Gathurst, Skipton to Gargrave, Bradford to Shipley and Bingley. Bingley 5 and 3 Rise locks completed. | ||
| 1773 | Bridgewater Canal completed to Runcorn | Leeds & Liverpool Canal opens between Bingley and Skipton | Turnpike Act | Boston Tea Party |
| 1772 | Liverpool Canal Bill for canal between Liverpool and Wigan fails. | |||
| 1771 | Bradford Canal Act | |||
| 1770 | 1,617 miles of canal | Leeds & Liverpool Canal Act passed with route via Colne, Whalley, Walton-le-Dale and Parbold | ||
| 1769 | Canal route via Burnley and Blackburn suggested | James Watt's patent for steam engine granted | ||
| 1768 | First Lancashire canal meeting | |||
| 1767 | Planned canal route is Leeds to Liverpool | |||
| 1766 | Public meeting in Bradford, subscription opened | |||
| 1765 | Leeds to Preston Canal proposed | |||
| 1762 | War with Spain Havana captured by British |
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| 1761 | Bridgewater Canal completed Worsely to Manchester | |||
| 1760 | 1,398 miles of canal in England ad Wales | Death of George II King George III Crowned |
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| 1758 | Bridgewater Canal Started | |||
| 1756 | Seven Year War with France | |||
| 1755 | Sankey Navigation Cut | |||
| 1746 | Battle of Culloden, Jacobites defeated Kilts banned |
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| 1744 | French invasion of England fails due to storms | |||
| 1740 | River Aire freezes for 4 months | |||
| 1739 | War with Spain | |||
| 1736 | Mersey & Irwell Navigation opened | |||
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Death of George I Accession of George II | ||
| 1721 | Wearing of calico banned | |||
| 1720 | River Douglas Navigation Act Passed | South Sea Bubble Crisis | ||
| 1719 | War with Spain, Attempted Spanish invasion | |||
| 1717 | Isaac Newton's Opticks | |||
| 1715 | Liverpool's wet dock completed | Jacobite rising in Scotland | ||
| 1714 | Death of Queen Anne Succession of George I | |||
| 1712 | Proposal for River Douglas Navigation | |||
| 1708 | War of Spanish Succession, Failed French invasion. | |||
| 1707 | Union of England and Scotland | |||
| 1704 | Gibraltar captured by British and Dutch |
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| 1702 | Death of William III Succession of Queen Ann | |||
| 1701 | Act of Settlement | |||
| 1700 | Liverpool population 5,000 | |||
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