Timeline of Sheffield history

This timeline of Sheffield history summarises key events in the history of Sheffield, a city in England. The origins of the city can be traced back to the founding of a settlement in a clearing beside the River Sheaf in the second half of the 1st millennium AD. The area had seen human occupation since at least the last ice age, but significant growth in the settlements that are now incorporated into the city did not occur until the Industrial Revolution.

Early history

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1000–1099

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1100–1199

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1200–1299

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  • c. 1250: Church House at Handsworth (now the Cross Keys public house) was built.
  • 1266: A party of barons, led by John de Eyvill, marching from north Lincolnshire to Derbyshire passed through Sheffield and destroyed the town, burning the church and castle.
  • 1270: Thomas de Furnival, son of Gerard de Furnival, is given licence to crenellate and subsequently builds a large stone castle to replace the wooden castle destroyed in 1266.[16]
  • 1279–81: In the Quo Warranto enquiries, Thomas de Furnival claims the right to hold a market in Sheffield, to hunt, and to enforce the death penalty.[16]
  • c. 1280: A new church was consecrated by William II Wickwane the Archbishop of York.
  • 1293–94: In further Quo Warranto enquiries, Thomas de Furnival claims the right to hold a Sunday market and a fair on the eve and day of Holy Trinity.[16]
  • 1296: On 12 November, Sheffield is granted a royal charter to hold a weekly market and a three-day annual fair around Holy Trinity.[16] The first reference to Sheffield's Town Mill appears.
  • 1297:
    • "Robert the Cutler" is recorded in a tax return, the earliest surviving reference to the manufacture of cutlery in Sheffield.
    • Thomas de Furnival grants a charter to the people of Sheffield establishing the Burgery of Sheffield.[20]

1300–1399

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1400–1499

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  • 1430: The 1280 parish church was pulled down and replaced with a new building, the core of the present cathedral.[17]
  • 1434: "Barker of Balme" is mentioned in a deed dated this year. He is thought to have constructed "Barker's Pool", Sheffield's first reservoir.[22] Once a month the reservoir gates were opened allowing water to wash the filth from the town's streets (with open sewers along their centres) into the River Don.
  • c. 1475: "The hawle at the Poandes" (now the Old Queen's Head public house) was built.[23]
  • 1485: Lady's Bridge was replaced with a new stone-built bridge,[24] still in existence.

1500–1599

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1600–1699

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1700–1799

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1800–1899

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1900–1999

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2000–present

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References and notes

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  1. ^ Radley, J.; Mellars, P. (1964). "A Mesolithic structure at Deepcar, Yorkshire, England and the affinities of its associated flint industry". Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. 30: 1–24. doi:10.1017/S0079497X00015024. S2CID 162212654.
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  3. ^ Historic England. "Cup and ring marked rock 740m east of Park Head House, Sheffield (1018265)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  4. ^ Wood, Michael (2001). "Chapter 11. Tinsley Wood". In Search of England: Journeys into the English Past. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 212. ISBN 0-520-23218-6.
  5. ^ Armitage, Ella S. (1897). A Key to English Antiquities: With Special Reference to the Sheffield and Rotherham District. Sheffield: William Townsend. p. 48.
  6. ^ "Discover Norse placenames near you". British Museum. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  7. ^ "Viking Place Names | JORVIK Viking Centre". JORVIK Viking Centre. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  8. ^ "Viking place names – Yorkshire Dialect Society". Yorkshire Dialect Society. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  9. ^ "Glossary of Scandinavian origins of place names in Britain | Resources | Ordnance Survey". www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  10. ^ "Viking Place Names". historylearning.com. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  11. ^ "History". Sheffield Cathedral website. Archived from the original on 13 October 2006. Retrieved 28 February 2008.
  12. ^ There is an error of two years in most entries from 754 to 845. Thus, this entry is dated 827 in the chronicle. See Swanton, Michael (1996). The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. New York: Routledge. pp. 46, note 6. ISBN 0-415-92129-5.
  13. ^ According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 'Here Edmund King, ruler of Angles, protector of clansmen, Mercia obtained, dear deed-doer, as Dor divideth: gate of the white well, and Humber's river, broad sea stream.' See "The Geographical or Ethnological Position of Sheffield as regards Dialect" in Addy A Glossary of Words Used in the Neighbourhood of Sheffield, pp. xxviii–xxxiv and Beaven, Murray L. R. (January 1918). "King Edmund I and the Danes of York". The English Historical Review. 33 (129): 1–9. doi:10.1093/ehr/XXXIII.CXXIX.1.
  14. ^ Hunter, Hallamshire, p. 20
  15. ^ Hunter, Hallamshire, p. 22
  16. ^ a b c d e f David Hey, Medieval South Yorkshire
  17. ^ a b c d Harman & Minnis, Sheffield, pp. 45–56
  18. ^ Tanner, Thomas (1695). Notitia monastica: A short history of the religious houses in England and Wales.
  19. ^ Pegge, Samuel (1801). History of Beauchief Abbey.
  20. ^ Charter to the Town of Sheffield, 10 August 1297
  21. ^ Chaucer, Geoffrey (1387). The Reeve's Prologue and Tale. The Canterbury Tales. ISBN 0-315-73213-X.
  22. ^ Hunter, Hallamshire, p. 128.
  23. ^ Historic England. "Old Queen's Head Public House (1247088)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 29 November 2008.
  24. ^ According to an agreement from 1485 quoted in Hunter, Hallamshire, pp.193–194 the Vicar of Sheffield, Sir John Plesaunce, and William Hill, who was a master mason, both agreed to build a bridge of stone "over the watyr of Dune neghe the castell of Sheffeld"
  25. ^ Harman & Minnis, Sheffield, p. 242
  26. ^ Historic England. "Manor House (remains) (1246610)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 21 March 2008.
  27. ^ a b c Clyde Binfield et al., The History of the City of Sheffield 1843–1993: Volume I: Politics
  28. ^ a b c Binfield, Clyde; Hey, David (1997). Mesters to Masters: A History of the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-828997-9.
  29. ^ Hunter, Hallamshire, "Chapter VII: The Removal of the Lords of the Manor—The Civil Wars"
  30. ^ Taylor, Illustrated Guide to Sheffield, "The Civil Wars".
  31. ^ Vickers, Old Sheffield Town, p. 13
  32. ^ Manning, John Edmondson (1900). A History of Upper Chapel, Sheffield. Sheffield: The Independent Press Limited.
  33. ^ Taylor, Illustrated Guide to Sheffield, pp. 77–78.
  34. ^ a b Harman & Minnis, Sheffield, pp. 113–114.
  35. ^ Kaufman, Paul (1967). "The Community Library: A Chapter in English Social History". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 57 (7): 1–67. doi:10.2307/1006043. JSTOR 1006043.
  36. ^ John Wesley's Journal, reprinted in Wesley, John (1826). The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, Volume IV. New York: J & J Harper. p. 42.
  37. ^ a b Alison Twells, "Abolition in Sheffield"
  38. ^ Leader, Robert Eadon (1901). "Chapter III. Condition and Habits of the Workmen—Notable Crimes". Sheffield in the Eighteenth Century. Sheffield: Sheffield Independent Press. pp. 54–57. OCLC 3008149.
  39. ^ Perrott, David; Mosse, Jonathan (2006). Collins Nicholson Waterways Guide. 6, Nottingham, York and the North East. London: Nicholson. ISBN 0-00-721114-7.
  40. ^ Stokes, John (1921). The History of the Cholera Epidemic of 1832 in Sheffield. Sheffield: J.W. Northend Ltd.
  41. ^ Drake, James (1840). Drake's Road Book of the Sheffield and Rotherham Railway; with a visiter's guide to the towns of Sheffield and Rotherham. London: Hayward and More. p. 4.
  42. ^ a b c d Britannica 1910.
  43. ^ Harman & Minnis, Sheffield, p. 57
  44. ^ Historic England. "Wicker Arch and adjoining viaduct (1270747)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 28 February 2008.
  45. ^ Batty, Rail Centres: Sheffield, p. 30
  46. ^ Edwards, Edward (1869). Free town libraries, their formation, management, and history in Britain, France, Germany & America. New York: J. Wiley. OCLC 1385548. OL 6921178M.
  47. ^ Harrison, Samuel (1865). A Complete History of the Great Flood at Sheffield on March 11 & 12, 1864. Sheffield: Sheffield Times. ISBN 0-904293-01-7.
  48. ^ Batty, Rail Centres: Sheffield, pp. 38–40
  49. ^ Ruth Harman and John Minnis, Pevsner Architectural Guides: Sheffield, p.149
  50. ^ Twidale, Graham H. E. (1995). A Nostalgic Look At Sheffield Trams Since 1950. Peterborough: Silver Link Publishing, Limited. p. 2. ISBN 1-85794-040-7.
  51. ^ Historic England. "Town Hall (1246902)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 28 February 2008.
  52. ^ a b Harman & Minnis, Sheffield, p. 103
  53. ^ Harman & Minnis, Sheffield, p. 67
  54. ^ Eden, Philip. "THE SHEFFIELD GALE OF 1962" (PDF). Royal Meteorological Society. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  55. ^ Harman & Minnis, Sheffield, p. 82
  56. ^ a b Harman & Minnis, Sheffield, pp. 74–76.
  57. ^ "Nightclub collapses in city fire". BBC News. BBC. 18 June 2007. Retrieved 1 March 2008.
  58. ^ "Two die in Sheffield flood chaos". BBC News. BBC. 25 June 2007. Retrieved 24 February 2008.
  59. ^ "Stannington: Major incident declared as homes still without gas". BBC News. BBC. 8 December 2022. Retrieved 10 December 2022.

See also

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Bibliography

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  • Hunter, Joseph (1819). Hallamshire. The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield in the County of York. London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mayor & Jones. (wikisource)
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