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.

Prior to 19th century[]

Map of Hull, 1611

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• 1279 – Market active.^[1]
• 1293 – Hull Fair begins.
• 1295 – Parliamentary representation begins.^[2]
• 1299 – Town renamed "Kingston-upon-Hull."^[3]
• 1302 – Quay built.^[4]
• 1312 – Holy Trinity Church built (approximate date).^[5]
• 1332 – William de la Pole becomes mayor.
• 1369 – Trinity House for seamen established.^[5]
• 1384 – Charter-House Hospital founded.^[5]
• 1440 – Town incorporated.
• 1486 – Grammar school founded.^[2][6]
• 1640 – King Charles visits.
• 1642 – Siege of Hull by Parliamentarians.
• 1688 – 'Town-taking': townspeople overthrow the Catholic governor.^[7]
• 1716 – Trinity House marine school founded.^[2]
• 1773 – Hull Dock Company formed.^[8]
• 1775 – Hull Subscription Library established.^[9][10]
• 1778 – Dock built.^[11]
• 1780
  • William Wilberforce becomes Member of Parliament for Hull.
  • Jewish community establishes synagogue.^[12]
• 1782 – General Infirmary established.^[5]
• 1792 – St. John's Church built.^[5]
• 1797 - Cooperative mill built.^[13]

19th century[]

• 1809 – Humber Dock built.
• 1829
  • United Gaol and House of Correction in operation.^[14]
  • Prince's Dock built.
  • St Charles Borromeo church opens.
• 1836 – Police force established.^[14]
• 1837
  • Drypool and Sculcoates become part of the borough of Hull.
  • Explosion of the Union Steam Packet in June^[15][16]
• 1840
  • Hull and Selby Railway begins operating.
  • Zoological Gardens established.^[17]
• 1841 – Thomas Wilson and Company (shipping) in business.^[8]
• 1850 – Victoria Dock built.
• 1851 – Population: 57,484.
• 1854
  • Royal Institution opens.^[2]
  • Hull and Holderness Railway begins operating.^[18]
• 1860 – Pearson Park established.^[2]
• 1861
  • Hull School of Art founded.
  • Population: 93,955.
• 1864 – Londesborough Barracks completed.^[19]
• 1865 – Hull Football Club founded.
• 1866 – Town Hall, and Exchange built.^[2]
• 1867 – Hull and East Riding College opens.^[20]
• 1870 – HM Prison Hull in operation.
• 1875 – Tram in operation.
• 1880 – Botanic garden opens.^[2]
• 1881 – Hull Philharmonic Society founded.^[6]
• 1882
  • Marfleet becomes part of the borough of Hull.
  • Kingston Amateurs rugby club formed.
• 1884 – Hull Amateur Photographic Society founded.^[21]
• 1885
  • Hull and Barnsley Railway begins operating.
  • Alexandra Dock built.
  • Hull Daily Mail newspaper begins publication.^[22]
• 1886 – Synagogue established.^[23]
• 1887 – East Park opens.
• 1888 – County borough created per Local Government Act 1888.^[2]
• 1891 – Population: 199,134.
• 1892 – Hull Amalgamated Anglers' Association formed.^[24]
• 1895 – The Boulevard (stadium) opens.
• 1897 – Hull attains city status.

20th century[]

• 1902 – Hull Telephone Department licensed.^[25][26]
• 1904 – Hull City Association Football Club formed.
• 1906 – Wilberforce and Historical Museum opens.^[2]
• 1909 – Hull City Hall built.
• 1911 – Theatre De Luxe opens.
• 1912 – Museum of Fisheries and Shipping and Coliseum theatre open.
• 1915 – Pavilion Picture Palace opens.
• 1922 – Craven Park inaugurated.
• 1927 – University College Hull established.
• 1927 – Sutton become part of the borough of Hull.
• 1931 – Population: 309,158.
• 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.
• 1966 – Closure of Western General Hospital.^[27]
• 1971 – Hull Truck Theatre founded.
• 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.
  • 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.^[28]
  • Population: 266,751.
• 1983 – Hull Marina opens.
• 1986 – Sister city relationship established with Raleigh, USA.^[29]
• 1987 – Spurn Lightship museum opens.
• 1989 – Streetlife Museum of Transport and new Craven Park (stadium) open.
• 1991 – Princes Quay shopping centre in business.
• 1993 – Humber Mouth literature fest begins.^[30]
• 1996 – Hull becomes a unitary authority area.
• 1999 – Arctic Corsair museum ship opens.

21st century[]

• 2000 – Closure of Kingston General Hospital.^[31]
• 2001 – Hull Soul Club (music appreciation group) formed.^[32]
• 2002 – The Deep (aquarium) and KC Stadium open.
• 2007
  • Hull Paragon Interchange transport complex and St Stephen's Hull shopping centre open.^[33]
  • June: Flood.
  • Hull Comedy Festival begins.
• 2008
  • World Trade Centre Hull & Humber opens.
  • Freedom Festival (cultural event) begins.
• 2010
  • Hull History Centre established.
  • Larkin 25 fest held.
• 2013 – Scale Lane Bridge for pedestrians opens.^[34]
• 2014 – Legal sanctions against prostitution introduced.^[35]
• 2017
  • Hull is the UK City of Culture
  • 13 May: Holy Trinity Church rededicated as Hull Minster.^[36]
• 2018
  • January: Banksy work on Scott Street Bridge discovered.^[37]
  • 25 July: Bonus Arena opens^[38]

• 2019
  • October 2019: Hull became the first UK city to have full fibre broadband available for all residents.^[39]

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[]

• Thomas Gent (1735). Annales Regioduni Hullini [History of Kingston-upon-Hull]. York.
  • 1869 reprint
• W. Bailey (1781). "Hull Directory". Bailey's Northern Directory. Warrington: Printed by William Ashton.
• George Hadley (1788). New and Complete History of the Town of Kingston-upon-Hull.
• Robert Gray Battle. Battle's Hull Directory, for the Year 1791. Hull: J. and W. Rawson.
  • 1885 reprint
• John Tickell (1798). History of the Town and County of Kingston-upon-Hull. Hull.
• George Alexander Cooke (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.
• John Bigland (1812). "Hull". Yorkshire. Beauties of England and Wales. 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. 2: East and North Ridings. Leeds: Edward Baines. 1823. + Hull Directory
• Robert Watt (1824). "Hull". Bibliotheca Britannica. 3. Edinburgh: A. Constable. hdl:2027/nyp.33433089888832. OCLC 961753.
• Charles Frost (1827). Notices Relative to the Early History of the Town and Port of Hull. London: J.B. Nichols. OCLC 4901297. OL 6929315M.
• Edward Parsons (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.
• Thomas Moule (1837). "Yorkshire: Town and County of Kingston-upon-Hull". English Counties Delineated. 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. 4. London: Charles Knight. 1847.
• Samuel Lewis (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.
• George Samuel Measom (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.
• James Joseph Sheahan (1864). History of the Town and Port of Kingston upon Hull. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.
• Charles Knight, ed. (1867). "Hull". Geography. English Cyclopaedia. London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co. hdl:2027/nyp.33433000064802.
• John Ramsay McCulloch (1880). "Docks: Hull Docks, Shipping &c.". In Hugh G. Reid (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.
• John Parker Anderson (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.
• Thomas Tindall Wildridge (1884). Old and New Hull.
• Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the Port of Hull. London: Kelly & Co. 1885.
• Charles Gross (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. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 870–871.
• Robert Donald, ed. (1901). "Hull". Municipal Year Book of the United Kingdom for 1901. London: Edward Lloyd.
  • Robert Donald, 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.
• Thomas Sheppard (1922). Handbook to Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire. London and Hull: A. Brown & Sons. OL 14010835M.
• W.G. East (1931). "The Port of Kingston-upon-Hull during the Industrial Revolution". Economica (32): 190–212. doi:10.2307/2547923. JSTOR 2547923.
• M. T. Wild and G. Shaw (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[]

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• 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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