Timeline
1600 1700 1800 1900
EST 1695 : Birth date of Archbald ELLIOT
1701 : Death of William III (of England) and II (of Scotland), William of Orange
1701 : End of Reign of William III (IV)
1706 : Treaty of Union of Parliaments is passed; Scotland formally united with England
1713 : Death of Queen Anne
1714 : First Jacobite "Rising" (Mar's Rebellion). The Jacobites defeated at the Battle of Sheriffmuir
1715 : Birth date of Archbald ELLIOT
1718 : Jacobites revolt again (Hispano-Scottish Rising) resulting in the defeat at the Battle of Glenshiel
1726 : Death of George I
EST 1738 : Birth date of Archebald ELLIOT
1739 : Birth date of Sarah TELFER/TELFAIR
1744 : Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) raises the Stewart and Royal Scottish Banner at Glenshiel
1744 : Second Jacobite rebellion (the Forty-Five) begins
1744 : Scottish victory at the Battle of Prestonpans; Jacobite army advances as far south as Derby but then retreats
1745 : Battle of Falkirk(II) victory for Scottish Jacobites
1745 : The wearing of the kilt and tartan is prohibited and punishable by death
Saturday 5 April 1746 : Battle of Culloden, Jacobite Scots routed by the Government troops; Charles escapes to France
Tuesday 2 September 1746 : Henry Douglas-Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch born (1746-1812)
1755 : Jane (Jean) Elliot (1727-1805) wrote the poem The Flowers of the Forest A lament for the Battle of Flodden 1513
1755 : A census by the Rev. Alexander Webster puts the population of Scotland at 1,265,380
1757 : Thomas Telford (Telfer), the bridge and road engineer, born near Langholm, Dumfrieshire
1759 : Scotland's most famous poet, Robert Burns (1759-96) born at Alloway
1760 : The Highland Clearances gain momentum. 20,000 Scots emigrate by 1773
1760 : Death of George II
1763 : Adam Smith, the philosopher and economist begins to tutor Henry Douglas-Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch
EST 1763 : Marriage date of Archebald ELLIOT = Sarah TELFER/TELFAIR
1764 : Birth date of Margaret ELLIOT
Monday 27 August 1764 : Christening date of Margaret ELLIOT
1766 : Birth date of Sarah ELLIOTT
1768 : Birth date of William ELLIOTT
1771 : Birth date of Isabel ELLIOT
1771 : Sir Walter Scott born in Edinburgh (1771-1832)
1775 : Birth date of Elizabeth ELLIOT
1776 : American colonists declare independence from British rule
1776 : Adam Smith publishes "The Wealth Of Nations". James Watt builds his steam engine with separate condenser
1778 : Birth date of John ELLIOTT
1782 : Act proscribing Highland dress repealed
1783 : Marriage date of William ELLIOTT = Jean DAVIDSON
1784 : Birth date of Margaret ELLIOT
1785 : Birth date of Robert ELLIOT
1786 : Robert Burns publishes his "Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect"
EST 1786 : Birth date of John ELLIOT
1786 : The New Lanark Mills are the biggest cotton mills in the world. Cotton the most important industry in Scotland
1788 : Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) dies (1720-1788)
Tuesday 27 July 1790 : The Forth and Clyde Canal is opened to use
1791 : Birth date of Matthew ELLIOT
1793 : Birth date of Janet ELLIOT
1796 : Birth date of Jane ?
1797 : Birth date of Jean Beattie ELLIOT
AFT 1797 : Death date of William ELLIOTT
1801 : The population of Scotland is 1,608,000
1801 : Thomas Telford reports on the roads in the Highlands. He goes on to build 900 miles of roads,120 bridges, the Caledonian Canal and various harbours.
1810 : the Leeds and Liverpool Canal construction reaches Blackburn
1811 : population of Blackburn is 15,083
1812 : Luddite riots, machine wrecking and murders in Lancashire and Yorkshire
1815 : celebration banquet held for the victory at Waterloo in the Assembly Room, King Street, Blackburn
1816 : Leeds and Liverpool Canal opens and allows access for Blackburn to overseas markets for textiles
1816 : the Theatre Royal, Ainsworth Street, Blackburn built
EST 1817 : Marriage date of John ELLIOT = Jane ?
EST 1818 : Birth date of Thomas ELLIOTT
1818 : Old Canal Mill, Eanam is the first mill on the canal in Blackburn
1818 : John Kay, part-time butcher becomes Blackburn's only full-time police constable
Saturday 7 November 1818 : Rev. Thomas Dunham Whitaker appointed Vicar of Blackburn
1819 : Grammar School rebuilt near St Peter's Church, Blackburn
1819 : Gas Works established at Jubilee Street, Blackburn
1819 : Birth date of Martha HARDWICK
1820 : Birth date of William KING
Saturday 2 September 1820 : first stone laid for the rebuilt Parish Church, Blackburn by Rev. Thomas Dunham Whitaker
1821 : population of Blackburn is 21,940
Wednesday 25 April 1821 : hundreds of houses flooded in Blackburn
Thursday 19 July 1821 : roast beef and plum pudding served to Blackburn schoolchildren to celebrate the Coronation of George IV
1822 : Birth date of Matilda RUSHTON
Saturday 16 February 1822 : John William Wittaker appointed Vicar of Blackburn
1823 : Birth date of Jane ELLIOTT
January 1824 : Birth date of John ELLIOTT
Sunday 25 January 1824 : Christening date of John ELLIOTT
May 1824 : Act of Parliament obtained for building a new road from Blackburn to Preston
Sunday 26 December 1824 : a medical dispensary established in Blackburn
1826 : riots and power loom breaking in Blackburn
1826 : Blackburn Parish church rebuilding completed
Friday 31 March 1826 : Preston New Road opens
June 1826 : St Albans RC church opens
1827 : wealthy cotton merchant, Henry Sudell of Woodfold Park near Blackburn declared bankrupt
1827 : Birth date of David ELLIOTT
1829 : St James's church, Lower Darwen erected
December 1829 : Birth date of James ELLIOTT
Wednesday 16 December 1829 : Christening date of David ELLIOTT
Wednesday 16 December 1829 : Christening date of James ELLIOTT
1830 : Birth date of George COOPER
1830 : John Pickup, Blackburn spirit merchant builds Galligreaves 'Brandy' Hall
1831 : population of Blackburn is 27,091 living in 4,594 houses
1832 : cholera epidemic in Blackburn
1832 : Blackburn empowered to send two Members to the House of Commons and return William Fielden and William Turner
1832 : Birth date of Elizabeth KETTLEWELL
Monday 6 August 1832 : The 'Blackburn Alfred' newspaper first published
1833 : Birth date of Mary ELLIOTT
Tuesday 26 November 1833 : St Stephen's church, Tockholes consecrated
1834 : a number of old houses demolished to connect King William Street and Church Street, Blackburn
Tuesday 1 July 1834 : Birth date of Margaret ELLIOTT
1836 : 4,256 power-looms are reported as working in Blackburn
1838 : Over Darwen Gas Works established
Monday 7 January 1839 : very strong winds damage Blackburn Parish Church and several mill chimneys
Thursday 12 December 1839 : Richmond Terrace, Blackburn completed
1840 : County Police supercede the old Blackburn Parish Constables, 225 men in Blackburn
1841 : population of Blackburn is 36,629
1841 : riots in Blackburn and the Old Bull nearly gutted
1842 : 'Plug Drawing Riots' in Blackburn stop a numbers of cotton mills. Many rioters imprisoned
1843 : great economic hardship for many cotton workers in Blackburn
1844 : Birth date of Elizabeth LIVESEY
1845 : Birth date of Agnes KING
1845 : Blackburn Water Works Company established
Sunday 26 January 1845 : Marriage date of John ELLIOTT = Matilda RUSHTON
Sunday 26 October 1845 : Marriage date of William KING = Jane ELLIOTT
1846 : Birth date of John ELLIOTT
Saturday 18 April 1846 : Marriage date of Thomas ELLIOTT = Martha HARDWICK
Monday 1 June 1846 : the Blackburn & Preston Railway opened to Preston
1847 : great economic hardship for many cotton workers in Blackburn
Thursday 29 April 1847 : Birth date of Thomas ELLIOTT
1848 : Blackburn Market Hall built
Monday 5 June 1848 : reservoir embankment bursts at Over Darwen drowning twelve people
1849 : Birth date of Edwin BETHEL
Monday 5 November 1849 : Birth date of Isabella ELLIOTT
1850 : Birth date of Thomas ELLIOTT
1850 : Birth date of John Charles KING
1850 : death of Sir Robert Peel, the Blackburn born Statesman
Saturday 22 June 1850 : the Bolton, Blackburn & Clitheroe Railway opens to Chatburn
BEF 1851 : Death date of Jane ?
1851 : Blackburn granted Charter of Incorporation, William Henry Hornby becomes the first Mayor
1851 : population of Blackburn is 46,536 living in 7,917 houses
1852 : Birth date of Selina Ann ALLAN
1852 : Birth date of Charles Edward ELLIOTT
1852 : Birth date of Euphemia KING
1852 : the Arms of the Borough of Blackburn adopted
1852 : William Eccles, Liberal, elected MP for Blackburn but was unseated on bribery and corruption charges
1852 : Blackburn Borough Police formed
Tuesday 13 January 1852 : Birth date of Jane ELLIOTT
1853 : riots broke out following an extraordinary election held in Blackburn which returned the new Liberal candidate M J Fielden
1853 : Marriage date of George COOPER = Mary ELLIOTT
1854 : Birth date of Eleanor or Ellen ?
1854 : typhus epidemic in Blackburn
Sunday 17 December 1854 : Birth date of John ELLIOT(T)
Saturday 2 June 1855 : Blackburn Weekly Times newspaper starts up
Monday 10 September 1855 : rejoicing in Blackburn for several days following the fall of Sebastopol in the Crimea
Friday 9 November 1855 : Death date of Thomas ELLIOTT
1856 : Birth date of William Henry KING
1856 : Birth date of Frederick COOPER
1856 : Marriage date of James ELLIOTT = Elizabeth KETTLEWELL
Thursday 10 April 1856 : James Pickup, Blackburn spirit merchant dies aged 75
Thursday 30 October 1856 : Blackburn Town Hall opened
Monday 22 June 1857 : arrival in Blackburn of two Russian cannons captured in the Crimea
Wednesday 1 July 1857 : new cemetery in Blackburn opened
Thursday 22 October 1857 : Blackburn Corporation Park opened
Thursday 28 January 1858 : Birth date of Martha ELLIOTT
Monday 24 May 1858 : building of the Blackburn Infirmary begun
1859 : Birth date of Frederick ELLIOTT
1859 : Birth date of William COOPER
1859 : Birth date of Eugenie KING
Friday 12 August 1859 : Birth date of Ellen PRESCOTT
Sunday 18 March 1860 : Birth date of Margaret Alice ELLIOTT
Tuesday 1 October 1861 : Birth date of Thomas ELLIOT(T)
1862 : Blackburn devastated by the Cotton Famine caused by the US Civil War, soup kitchen opened in Blackburn to relieve the poor unemployed
1862 : Blackburn Free Public Library opens
Tuesday 25 February 1862 : Birth date of Mary Ellen ELLIOTT
Sunday 22 June 1862 : Death date of John ELLIOT
1863 : Blackburn Cotton Exchange built
1864 : Union Workhouse built by inmates, overlooking Blackburn from Whinny Heights
ABT 1864 : Birth date of Caroline KING
1864 : Birth date of Alfred COOPER
1865 : Thomas Lund, Secretary to the Blackburn Co-Operative Spinning & Weaving Co. transported for 10 years penal servitude for forgery
Monday 5 June 1865 : Marriage date of John ELLIOTT = Elizabeth LIVESEY
1866 : Birth date of George ELLIOTT
1866 : Richard Sourbutts and his wife appointed Master and Matron of the Blackburn Workhouse
1867 : Elizabeth Marsden of Tockholes drowns herself and two year old daughter in a pit at Tockholes
1869 : Birth date of Maggie COOPER
1870 : Birth date of Selina Jane ELLIOTT
ABT 1872 : Marriage date of John ELLIOT(T) = ?
Thursday 11 January 1872 : Marriage date of Charles Edward ELLIOTT = Selina Ann ALLAN
1873 : Birth date of Mary ?
1873 : Birth date of E COOPER
1873 : Birth date of Elizabeth Ann ELLIOTT
Tuesday 12 August 1873 : Birth date of Mary ELLIOTT
Saturday 6 September 1873 : Birth date of Leah ELLIOTT
1874 : Death date of Leah ELLIOTT
Saturday 11 December 1875 : Blackburn Rovers play first match, a tie 1-1 against the Church Club
1876 : Birth date of Maggie ELLIOTT
1877 : Birth date of James ELLIOTT
1877 : Birth date of Eilina ELLIOTT
1879 : Birth date of John ELLIOTT
1879 : Birth date of Thomas ELLIOTT
1879 : Birth date of Margaret KIERNAN
Sunday 26 January 1879 : Birth date of Leonard ELLIOT(T)
Tuesday 2 December 1879 : Death date of Elizabeth KETTLEWELL
1880 : Birth date of Joseph ELLIOTT
Sunday 17 October 1880 : Christening date of Joseph ELLIOTT
BEF 1881 : Death date of John ELLIOTT
BEF 1881 : Death date of Thomas ELLIOTT
1881 : Birth date of Herbert ELLIOTT
1881 : Birth date of Margaret or May ELLIOTT
1882 : Blackburn Rovers become the first non-public school team to reach the FA Cup Final
Monday 26 June 1882 : Death date of Jane ELLIOTT
1883 : Blackburn Olympic football club wins the FA Cup
1883 : Thwaites's Arcade built Church Street, Blackburn
1884 : Blackburn Rovers win the FA Cup
EST 1887 : Death date of James ELLIOTT
1887 : Birth date of Seth ELLIOTT
1887 : Birth date of Griffith ELLIOTT
Wednesday 7 September 1887 : Death date of William KING
1888 : Blackburn Technical College built
1888 : Blackburn Rovers become a founder member of the Football League
Monday 5 March 1888 : Death date of Martha HARDWICK
Thursday 8 March 1888 : Burial date of Martha HARDWICK
1889 : Birth date of Philamena ELLIOTT
BEF 1891 : Death date of Charles Edward ELLIOTT
AFT 1891 : Death date of Thomas ELLIOTT
Wednesday 13 May 1891 : Death date of David ELLIOTT
Sunday 1 January 1893 : Marriage date of Edwin BETHEL = Isabella ELLIOTT
Tuesday 14 February 1893 : Marriage date of Thomas ELLIOT(T) = Ellen PRESCOTT
Thursday 27 July 1893 : Birth date of Gladys Ellen ELLIOT
Thursday 21 March 1895 : Birth date of Reginald Thomas Prescott ELLIOT(T)
Sunday 30 June 1895 : Christening date of Reginald Thomas Prescott ELLIOT(T)
1896 : Lyceum Theatre, Market Street Lane becomes the first place in Blackburn to exhibit moving pictures
Sunday 13 November 1898 : Birth date of John Eric Hardwick ELLIOTT
1899 : first electic trams in Blackburn
1899 : 41,400 people, 38 percent of Blackburn's workforce, employed in 129 cotton mills
1899 : Death date of Matilda RUSHTON
Wednesday 18 January 1899 : Christening date of John Eric Hardwick ELLIOTT
Wednesday 22 November 1899 : Death date of Gladys Ellen ELLIOT
Monday 27 November 1899 : Burial date of Gladys Ellen ELLIOT
Monday 1 January 1900 : Blackburn mill whistles and the corporation gun signal the arrival of the new century
1900 : Birth date of Mary M ELLIOT
1900 : Birth date of George ELLIOT
1901 : last steam tram in Blackburn withdrawn from service
1901 : Marriage date of Leonard ELLIOT(T) = ?
AFT 1901 : Death date of James ELLIOTT
AFT 1901 : Death date of Mary ELLIOTT
AFT 1901 : Death date of George ELLIOTT
AFT 1901 : Death date of Leonard ELLIOT(T)
AFT 1901 : Death date of Margaret KIERNAN
AFT 1901 : Death date of Mary ?
AFT 1901 : Death date of John ELLIOTT
Tuesday 22 January 1901 : Queen Victoria dies, public subscription in Blackburn raises £10,000 for a fitting monument
Friday 26 July 1901 : Birth date of Thomas COOPER
1902 : Houdini appears at the Palace Theatre, Boulevard, Blackburn, riots break out when he takes two hours to escape his bonds
Saturday 7 June 1902 : celebrations in Blackburn for end of Boer War
Sunday 17 August 1902 : Birth date of Constance Martha ELLIOT
1903 : banana plants introduced at the Blackburn Corporation Park conservatory
1903 : Charlie Chaplin makes an early career appearance at the Theatre Royal, Blackburn
1904 : James Pitts, Victoria Cross winner returns to Blackburn from the Boer War to a civic welcome
1904 : Blackburn experiences a slump in the cotton industry
Saturday 30 September 1905 : Princess Louise unveils the statue of Queen Victoria on the Boulevard, Blackburn
1906 : erection of the grandstand at Ewood Park, Blackburn, begins
Saturday 20 January 1906 : Philip Snowden elected as Blackburn's first Labour MP
1907 : Blackburn's first permenant cinema opens at the Victoria Hall, Eanam
1907 : General Post Office, Darwen Street, Blackburn opens
Thursday 19 December 1907 : Death date of Jane ELLIOTT
1908 : first pension papers distributed to all people in Blackburn over 70
1908 : approval given for a school and swimming baths at Blakey Moor, Blackburn
1908 : foundations of the YMCA, Limbrick, Blackburn, laid
Thursday 17 December 1908 : Death date of Margaret ELLIOTT
1909 : the Blackburn, Olympia and Witton roller skating rinks opens
1910 : Blackburn's first Labour Exchange opens
1910 : Star and Empire cinemas open in Blackburn
1911 : Blakey Moor Higher Elementary School opens in Blackburn
1912 : Blackburn Rovers win their first Football League Championship
1912 : plans to improve Blackburn town centre announced
1912 : statue of William Henry Hornby unveiled in Limbrick, Blackburn
1912 : death of Blackburn street entertainer Robert Renolds known as 'Owd Chipper'
1912 : opening of Police Station in Northgate, Blackburn
Monday 15 April 1912 : Titanic sinks, two men from Blackburn perish
1913 : Suffragettes attempt to burn down the Nuttall Street stand at Ewood Park, Blackburn
Thursday 10 July 1913 : King George V and Queen Mary tour Roe Lee Mill and lay foundation stone of the new public assembly halls, Northgate, Blackburn
1914 : Suffragettes "Wake Up Blackburn!" by firing an ornamental cannon at Corporation Park
1914 : Blackburn Rovers win first division league championships
1914 : Blackburn Electricity Committee secures 60 acres of land at Whitebirk
Sunday 2 August 1914 : outrage as Germany invades Belgium on the second day of the annual Blackburn Holidays
Tuesday 4 August 1914 : message posted in the window of the Northern Daily Telegraph offices, Blackburn 'Great Britain at War with Germany'
Saturday 12 September 1914 : Blackburn's Territorials depart for foreign service
Saturday 24 October 1914 : men from Blackburn in the 4th Battalion East Lancs Regiment arrives in Egypt
Saturday 31 October 1914 : first wounded soldiers from the Front return to Blackburn
1915 : Lusitania sunk, Blackburn man among fatalities
1915 : Marriage date of Seth ELLIOTT = ?
1915 : Longshaw Mill begins production, tne last weaving mill to be built in Blackburn
1915 : recruiting office set up in Preston New Road for Blackburn's Pals Battalions
Saturday 6 February 1915 : Blackburn's Territorials in battle against Turks near Suez Canal
1916 : 2,000 cotton looms idle due to labour shortages in Blackburn
1916 : Union Workhouse at Queens Park, Blackburn requisitioned as a Military Hospital
Saturday 1 July 1916 : Battle of the Somme. deaths devastate many Blackburn families
Monday 18 September 1916 : Death date of Seth ELLIOTT
1917 : Stars and Stripes flown from every flagstaff in Blackburn as USA enters the war
Tuesday 1 May 1917 : Death date of Thomas ELLIOT(T)
Thursday 16 August 1917 : Blackburn soldier William Grimbaldeston awarded the Victoria Cross and the French Croix de Guerre
1918 : 2nd Lt. John Schofield of Blackburn posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross
1918 : death of Fred Kempster, the 'Blackburn Giant'
1918 : Capt. Alexander Macklin of Whalley and Blackburn receives the Polar Medal for his part in the Shackleton Expedition
1918 : Spanish Flu pandemic hits Blackburn, 90 deaths in a week
1918 : 26,000 women in Blackburn vote for the first time in the General Election
1918 : Lt.Cdr.Percy Thompson Dean RN of Blackburn awarded the Victoria Cross for his part in the Naval raid of Zeebrugge
Thursday 21 March 1918 : Death date of Reginald Thomas Prescott ELLIOT(T)
Monday 11 November 1918 : Great War ends with much celebration in Blackburn
1919 : Blackburn Labour MP Philip Snowden loses seat to VC winner Percy Dean
1920 : fire at the Blackburn Fish Market causes £50,000 of damage
1921 : purchase of 58 acres of land at Pleasington, Blackburn, from Major Fielden for recreation grounds
1921 : Blackburn adopts the devastated French towns of Peronne and Maricourt
Saturday 19 March 1921 : 29,000 unemployed in Blackburn, mostly textile workers
Saturday 22 October 1921 : Blackburn's King George's Hall and Whitebirk electricity generating station opened by Lord Derby
1922 : £20,000 raised in Blackburn to rebuild a bridge at Peronne
1923 : Sir Robert Baden Powell attends a Boy Scout rally at Witton Park, Blackburn
1923 : approval given to build arterial road from Brownhill to Whalley Old Road, Blackburn
1923 : Little Harwood Memorial Clock unveiled
Saturday 14 July 1923 : Garden of Remembrance, Corporation Park, Blackburn, formally opened
1924 : "Le Pont de Blackburn", Peronne, opened in the presence of the Mayor of Blackburn
1924 : the Exchange Hall reopens as the Majestic Cinema in Blackburn
1924 : Royal Assent given for the formation of the new Bishopric of Blackburn
Saturday 11 October 1924 : Death date of Isabella ELLIOTT
1925 : white lines painted on roads throughout Blackburn
1925 : Blackburn Rovers celebrate Golden Jubilee
1925 : trials of first covered double-deck trams in Blackburn
1925 : death of James Kenyon, cinema pioneer from Blackburn
1926 : opening of F W Woolworth's "3d & 6d Store" in Church Street, Blackburn
1926 : Centenary of the Parish Church and news that it is to become Blackburn Cathederal
1926 : Blackburn branch of the Communist Party established
Tuesday 4 May 1926 : Start of Blackburn brought to a standstill during the General Strike
Wednesday 12 May 1926 : End of Blackburn brought to a standstill during the General Strike
Saturday 17 July 1926 : Marriage date of Thomas COOPER = Constance Martha ELLIOT
1927 : Matthew Brown & Co of Preston take over the Lion Brewery, Little Harwood
1927 : Scapa Dryers moves into the former Witton Roller Skating Rink, Blackburn
1927 : enthronement of the first Bishop of Blackburn
1928 : slump in the cotton industry renders 35 mills in Blackburn idle
1928 : Swan Brewery, Larkhill, Blackburn, bought by Dutton's
1928 : Blackburn Rovers win the FA Cup for the sixth time beating Huddersfield 3-1 at Wembley
1929 : Roll of Honour for Great War dead unveiled in Blackburn town hall
Thursday 24 October 1929 : Wall Street Crash, unemployment in Blackburn rises to 9,200
1930 : Co-operative Emporium opens on Northgate, Blackburn
1930 : foundations of St Mary's College laid on former site of Blackburn Olympic Football Ground, Shear Brow
1930 : Kathleen Ferrier, from Blackburn, wins gold medal at Liverpool Music Festival
Saturday 14 June 1930 : unemployment in Blackburn rises to 30,000 and 100 mills are idle
1931 : 1878 seat Rialto Luxury Cinema (Odeon) opens on Penny Street, Blackburn
Thursday 3 December 1931 : Death date of Martha ELLIOTT
1932 : plan approved to remove Blackburn's one o'clock gun
Sunday 20 November 1932 : Death date of Caroline KING
1933 : new church of St Gabriel, Brownhill, Blackburn, consecrated
1933 : new telephone system introduced in Blackburn with 53 boxes
1934 : buses replace trams on Audley/Queen's Park route, Blackburn
1934 : smallpox outbreak in Blackburn
1935 : King George V and Queen Mary visit Blackburn
1936 : relegation of Blackburn Rovers to second division
1936 : New Empress Ballroom, Town Hall Street, Blackburn, opens
1937 : Philips Electrical purchase land at Little Harwood
1937 : celebrations in Blackburn mark the coronation of King George VI
1937 : death of Phillip Snowden, Blackburn's first Labour MP
Saturday 13 March 1937 : Death date of Ellen PRESCOTT
Wednesday 17 March 1937 : Burial date of Ellen PRESCOTT
1938 : Lewis's Textile Museum opened on Exchange Street, Blackburn
1938 : visit to Blackburn by George VI and Queen Elizabeth
1938 : construction of new Woolworths store underway in Blackburn
1938 : plan approved to convert the grounds of Pleasington Hall, Blackburn, to a cemetery
Thursday 29 September 1938 : 114,000 gas masks distributed from the ARP HQ at the Old Bull Hotel, Blackburn
1939 : withdrawal of Blackburn trams on the Cherry Tree route
1939 : PM Neville Chamberlain addresses meeting at King George's Hall, Blackburn
1939 : Blackburn Rovers promoted to Division 1
1939 : St Peters and St Hildas C of E schools, Blackburn, opened
Monday 20 March 1939 : death of Percy Thompson Dean, former Blackburn MP and VC holder
Friday 1 September 1939 : 1,300 children evacuated from Manchester to Blackburn
Sunday 3 September 1939 : Chamberlain broadcast to nation, Declaration of war heard in Blackburn
1940 : removal of ornamental railings throughout Blackburn for war use
1940 : Blackburn Rovers beaten 1-0 in Wartime Cup Final
1940 : introduction of the Home Guard in Blackburn
1940 : death of Blackburn Rovers manager and former player Bob Crompton
1940 : influenza epidemic hits Blackburn, 50 deaths
1940 : bomb drops in Ainsworth Street, Blackburn killing two
Friday 27 September 1940 : Start of heavy snowfall in Blackburn
Sunday 29 September 1940 : End of heavy snowfall in Blackburn
1941 : visit to Blackburn by George VI and Queen Elizabeth
1941 : Darwen tram overturns at Ewood
1941 : removal of bandstands at both Corporation and Queens Parks, Blackburn
1941 : Wartime FA Cup Final between Preston North End and Arsenal played at Ewood Park, Blackburn
Sunday 21 December 1941 : Death date of John Eric Hardwick ELLIOTT
1942 : George Formby visits Blackburn to promote a paper salvage campaign
1942 : bells of Blackburn Cathedral ring in celebration of Allied victory in Egypt
1943 : first prisoners of war return home to Blackburn
1943 : new Pleasington Cemetery, Blackburn, opens
1944 : American GI's arrive in Blackburn
1944 : death of Mjr JHG Fielden, Lord of the Manor of Blackburn
1944 : cab man's shelter on the Boulevard, Blackburn, removed
1944 : proposed new Blackburn town centre plans published
Tuesday 27 June 1944 : first batch of wounded soldiers arrive in Blackburn following D-Day Invasion
1945 : visit to Blackburn by PM Winston Churchill
1945 : death of Blackburn itinerant performer 'Strong Dick' alias Richard Thompson, aged 77
1945 : recomendation of demolition of properties in anticipation of Blackburn town centre redevelopment
1945 : John Edwards and Barbara Castle returned as Labour MP's for Blackburn
1945 : £2 million extension of Whitebirk power station, Blackburn, completed
Tuesday 8 May 1945 : VE Day celebrations throughout Blackburn
1946 : rivers Darwen and Blakewater burst their banks in Blackburn with much flooding
1946 : buses replace trams on the Preston New Road, Blackburn, route
1946 : consecration of St Albans church, Blackburn
1946 : Blackburn town council acquire the house and estate of the late JHG Fielden for £64,000
1946 : civic welcome in Blackburn for returning Far East POWs
Friday 21 June 1946 : official Blackburn civic victory celebrations
1947 : marriage of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip, Blackburn sends locally made textile as a gift
1947 : coal shortages cause power cuts and schools and mills to close in Blackburn
1948 : Freedom of Borough of Blackburn cohferred on East Lancs Regiment
1948 : Blackburn Rovers relegated to Division 2
1948 : Queen Elizabeth visits Haston Lee Mill, Blackburn
1948 : visit of Gracie Fields to King George's Hall, Blackburn
1949 : last Blackburn tram runs from Boulevard to Intack depot
1949 : buses replace trams on the Blackburn to Darwen route
1950 : demolition of Old Bull Hotel in Church Street, Blackburn
1950 : death of former Blackburn Rovers player William Townley, who in 1890 was first to score a hat-trick in a FA Cup Final
1950 : Barbara Castle retains Blackburn seat in General Election
1951 : population of Blackburn shown to have fallen by 16,000 over 20 years
1951 : Holme Moss TV transmitter brings BBC TV to Blackburn
Tuesday 28 August 1951 : Centenary of the granting of Charter of Incorporation creating the Borough of Blackburn
1952 : death of Blackburn film pioneer Sagar J Mitchell
Friday 8 February 1952 : proclamation of new Queen, Elizabeth II read from the steps of the town hall by Mayor, Alderman Hare
1953 : death of Blackburn born singer Kathleen Ferrier aged 41
1953 : Mayor opens the towns first 3D cinema at the renamed New Majestic, King William Street, Blackburn
1953 : Kathleen Ferrier from Blackburn receives MBE
1953 : reports of two flying saucers over Blackburn
1953 : death of former Blackburn MP, Walter D Smiles
1954 : flooding in the Salford area, Blackburn
1954 : 'Blue Bird' built at Samlesbury for Donald Campbell's attempt on the water speed record
1954 : demolition of Witton House, Blackburn
1955 : Majestic Cinema, Blackburn sold to Essoldo
1955 : removal of Gladstone statue from the Boulevard to Blakey Moor, Blackburn
1955 : unveiling of the Blackburn town centre redevelopment scheme
1955 : visit to Blackburn by Queen Elizabeth II
1955 : Centenary of Blackburn Times
Friday 18 February 1955 : death of Blackburn VC holder James Pitts aged 77
1956 : Winter Hill TV transmitter brings ITV to Blackburn
1956 : opening of the crematorium at Pleasington Cemetery, Blackburn
1956 : closure of Blackburn's last theatre, the Grand, Jubilee Street
Sunday 15 April 1956 : Martyn Pickup born Queens Park Hospital, Blackburn
1957 : Asian Flu epidemic sweeps through Blackburn
1957 : Centenary of the laying of Corporation Park, Blackburn
1957 : closure of the Olympia, Savoy and Palace cinemas, Blackburn
1958 : Witton Park athletic track opened, Blackburn
1958 : £25,000 floodlights turned on at Ewood Park, Blackburn
1958 : introduction of the first smokeless zones in Blackburn
1958 : demolition of the Golden Lion public house in Church Street, Blackburn
1958 : Blackburn Rovers promoted to 1st Division
1959 : Mecca-Locarno Dance Hall opens, St Peter Street, Blackburn
1959 : permanent closure of 17 mills in 12 months in Blackburn
Thursday 13 August 1959 : death of William Grimbaldeston, last of Blackburn's VC holders
1960 : Blackburn Rovers beaten 3-0 by Wolves in FA Cup Final, Maurice Woods scores an own goal
1961 : massives scheme to culvert the River Blakewater in Blackburn begins
1961 : Witton Park Girls School, Blackburn, opens
1962 : Influenza epidemic hits Blackburn
1962 : redecorated Assembly Hall at King George's Hall reopens as Windsor Hall, Blackburn
1962 : closure of Ewood and Primrose Mills, Blackburn
1963 : coldest winter since 1947 strikes Blackburn
1964 : Blackburn group 'The Four Pennies' hit number one with their song 'Juliet'
1964 : Dutton's the brewers in Blackburn are taken over by Whitbread
1964 : last Easter Fair opens on Market Place, Blackburn
1964 : Blackburn brewer, Thwaites announce plan to rebuild brewery
1964 : STD dialing codes arrives with new telephone exchange on Jubilee Street, Blackburn
1964 : new market and pedestrian subways opened at Salford, Blackburn
1964 : Barbara Castle returned as MP for Blackburn East
Saturday 7 November 1964 : last open market in Blackburn held
Wednesday 30 December 1964 : old Blackburn Market Hall and clock tower demolished
1965 : Blackburn's Easter Fair sited at Birley Street, Larkhill
1965 : mass vaccination campaign in Blackburn to prevent spread of polio
1966 : 'Coronation Street' star Madge Hindle becomes Mayoress of Blackburn
1966 : Blackburn's Easter Fair moves to Ewood Car Park
1966 : demolition of Victoria Buildings, King William Street, Blackburn
1967 : St Augustine's RC School opens on Livesey Branch Road, Blackburn
1967 : new YMCA opened at Shear Bank Road, Blackburn
1967 : 400th Anniversary of the founding of Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn
1967 : nationwide outbreak of foot and mouth disease strikes at Hodern Farm near Feniscowles
1968 : the Cavendish Club in Blackburn is opened by Radio 1 DJ Simon Dee
1968 : Larkhill Health Centre, Blackburn opens
1968 : visit of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh to Blackburn
1968 : death of Rev. Percy Mark Herbert, the first Bishop of Blackburn
1968 : Blackburn town hall stonework cleaned
1968 : last British Rail stream train leaves Blackburn
1969 : Blackburn Town Hall tower block officially opened
1969 : Blackburn's 'Locarno Dance Hall' renamed 'The Golden Palms'
1969 : Blackburn Borough Police Force amalgamated with the Lancashire Constabulary
1969 : a branch of the Samaritans opens in Blackburn, the organisation founded by ex-Trinity church vicar Chad Varah
1970 : Barbara Castle re-elected as MP for Blackburn
1970 : approval of plan to set up BBC Radio Blackburn
1970 : visit of the Duke of Edinburgh to Blackburn
1971 : demolition of Thwaites Arcade, Blackburn
1971 : fall in export of looms causes 50 jobs to go at Northrop in Blackburn
Friday 21 August 1981 : Death date of Constance Martha ELLIOT
Friday 12 August 1983 : Death date of Thomas COOPER
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