Last Updated : 19 Aug 2016
Timeline
Years 0000 - 1500
Years 1501 - 1600
Years 1601 - 1700
Years 1701 - 1800
Years 1801 - 1900
Years 1901 - 2000
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| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 1901 | Liverpool's population is over 700,000 |
| 1902 | The city buys Calderstones Park from the McIver family of the Cunard Line |
| 1903 | The Mersey Railway is converted from steam to electric operation [B07] |
| 1904 | The foundation stone for the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral is laid |
| 1909 | Alois (half brother of Adolf) Hitler moves to 103 Stanhope Street, Toxteth after marrying in Dublin |
| 1910 | Crippen is arrested for murder on a Canadian ship sailing from Liverpool using Marconi's new "wireless technology" [B22] |
| 1911 | The Royal Liver Building is completed |
| 1914 | Woolton Woods, once owned by Holbrook Gaskell is opened to the public |
| 1915 | The Lusitania is sunk off the coast of Ireland on it's way from New York to Liverpool |
| 1916 | The Cunard Building is completed |
| 1918 | The city council buys Princes Park which was previously privately owned by Richard Vaughan Yates |
| 1925 | James Chadwick, discoverer of the neutron, marries Aileen Stewart-Brown of Liverpool |
| 1932 | India Building completed in Water Street for the Blue Funnel Line owned by Holt |
| 1933 | The terminal of Speke Airport is opened [B22] |
| 1934 | The Queensway Mersey (Road) Tunnel is opened by King George V |
| 1935 | James Chadwick takes chair of Physics at University of Liverpool and gets Noble Prize for discovery of the neutron in 1932 |
| 1936 | Frank Hornby, inventor of Meccano, dies |
| 1938 | Hornby Dublo model trains start production in Liverpool |
| 1939 | First of a large British order for new bomber aircraft, the Lockheed Hudson arrives in Liverpool |
| 1940 | John Winston Lennon is born |
| 1945 | John Lennon goes to live with his Aunt Mimi at 251 Menlove Avenue |
| 1953 | Lita Roza becomes the first Liverpool artist to reach No 1 in the recently started "UK hit parade" |
| 1956 | The Liverpool Overhead Railway closes |
| 1957 | John Lennon who had previously started a beat group is introduced to Paul McCartney at Woolton |
| 1961 | Brian Epstein of NEMS Record Store becomes the new manager of The Beatles |
| 1966 | The Cavern Club goes bankrupt |
| 1974 | Eastern parts of greater Liverpool are annexed to Manchester to create a Greater Manchester County as a result of the 1972 Local Government Act |
| 1978 | Standard-Triumph Car Factory at Speke closes |
| 1987 | William Patrick Hitler, the Liverpool born nephew of Adolf dies |