| Year |
Event |
| 1752 |
Britain adopts the new style calendar. |
| 1753 |
British Museum began, by the purchase of Sloane's collection. |
| 1754 |
Liverpool Town Hall Finished. |
| 1757 |
The first Starr Lookers or Starr Setters were appointed to find places to plant the Starr grass. |
| 1759 |
Molly Bushell creates and sells to the public her own Everton Toffee. |
| 1759 |
Liverpool's Cultural development leads to the first theatre in Drury Lane. |
| 1759 |
Liverpool's Library was the first circulating library in Europe. |
| 1760 |
The population of Liverpool rises to over 25,000 as shipping trade increased forfold in fifty years.
 |
| 1763 |
First British Empire at it's height. |
| 1768 |
Royal Academy of Arts is founded. |
| 1771 |
Six hundred poor were accommodated in a new building on Brownlow Hill as regular expansions of the Workhouse were undertaken. |
| 1775 |
Formby founds it's lifeboat service, probably the first in Britain.
|
| 1792 |
'Official' Founding of Southport.
|
| 1793 |
House of Commons Committee that was petition by Members of the Common Council of the Town of Liverpool to print its very own Currency Notes.
|
| 1795 |
James Wyatt repairs fire damage to the Liverpool Town Hall, and adds the dome with the figure of Minerva goddess of wisdom to the top. |
| 1796 |
Liverpool's very own currency was dropped.
|
| 1797 |
A widow from Wigan Mrs. Sarah Walmesley builds the first new house in the area of South-port. Its called Belle Vue cottage. |
| 1798 |
William Sutton builds the South-Port Hotel and Sheltered bathing area, after obtaining the lease to 6 acres of land from Miss Bold. |
| 1800 |
Population now in the region of 77,000 in Liverpool. |
| 1800 |
Parliamentary union of Great Britain and Ireland. |
| 1802 |
Bold House rebuilt to house the Bold family so they could take advantage of bathing in the new resort of South-Port. |
| 1803 |
Britain at war with France again, and insurrection in Ireland led by Robert Emmet. |
| 1804 |
Bonaparte becomes Emperor and Spain declares war on England. |
| 1805 |
Battle of Trafalgar, Nelson's great victory and death. |
| 1805 |
The Union Hotel built, along with a series of terraces built by Wigan businessmen along Lords Street, Wellington Terrace. |
| 1807 |
MP William Roscoe votes to back the abolishment of slavery in the British Empire, and on his return to Liverpool is met with violence. Most of the people of Liverpool seeing the abolishment of slavery as an end to their happy and profitable existence. |
| 1811 |
Liverpool
Mercury founded. |
| 1813 |
First public sculpture erected, and it's Nelson's Monument. |
| 1813 |
The first private school opens in South-Port. |
| 1815 |
Battle of Waterloo. |
| 1816 |
Southport Marine Fund was organised in this year to reward those fishermen that put their lives at risk to rescue others on the sea. There is some evidence that something similar was in use prior to this date as it was sold to set up this fund.
|
| 1818 |
Liverpool Tower used as a prison and held many French prisoners. |
| 1821 |
Christ Church built, the first church in Southport built on land donated by Robert Hesketh.
Hesketh Arms, later Scarisbrick Arms, built. |
| 1823 |
Independent chapel built on Eastbank Lane, on a plot again given by Robert Hesketh. |
| 1823 |
Liverpool
Times & Billinge's Advertiser and Liverpool
Saturday Advertiser founded. |
| 1824 |
Jesse Hartley who was appointed Surveyor of Liverpool Docks
|
| 1824 |
Other amenities to be found in the growing hamlet of South-port were, a billiard room, sea-bathing facilities, makeshift theatre, post office, and wine repositories. |
| 1824 |
Peter Hesketh Fleetwood inherits the estates that Southport covers. |
| 1824 |
Liverpool Tower pulled down. |
| 1825 |
Liverpool had 1.2 million tons passing through the port. |
| 1825 |
Liverpool Commercial Chronicle founded. |
| 1826 |
A survey of occupations in the hamlet of South-Port lists 59 out of the 107 householders as receiving visitors to the sea-bathing facilities around the area.
A survey of schools in South-Port reports that there are 6 of them in the area. |
| 1826 |
The Rectory built.
(Southport) |
| 1826 |
Gore's
General Advertiser and Liverpool Daily Courier
founded. |
| 1827 |
Perch Rock Battery built to defend the entrance to the Mersey and consequentially the city.
|
| 1827 |
Perch Rock Lighthouse foundation stone
was laid on the 8 June. |
| 1827 |
Liverpool Weekly Albion founded. |
| 1828 |
Liverpool
Mercantile Advertiser/Gazette founded. |
| 1829 |
A news assembly room built on the corner of London Street and Lords Street. |
| 1829 |
The Flying Dutchman runs on the
Southport beach, appears this is a giant
Sand-yacht which people paid to ride in, it
traveled at great speed. |
| 1829 |
Metropolitan Police founded in London. |
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