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timeline of the
history of
Glasgow , Scotland, up to the present day.
500–1099
543: The 12th century
Bishop Jocelyn will later claim Glasgow's monastic church was founded by
Saint Kentigern , also known as
Saint Mungo , in this year; he also claimed that Kentigern found at Glasgow a cemetery which
Saint Ninian had hallowed
[1]
560: Jocelyn claims Mungo/Kentigern made his first bishop in this year
1100–1199
1200–1299
1300–1399
1400–1499
1500–1599
c1500: Population estimate is 2,500 – 3,000
[10]
1504:
Plague hits Glasgow; the city is eleventh among Scottish
burghs for taxation revenue
c1510: The
Bishop's Palace is extended
[20]
1516-1559: The city's craft
guilds are incorporated
1518: The
university becomes more active
1520: The
archdiocese now includes the former
diocese of
Argyll
1525: James Houston founds the Tron Church
1535-1556: Glasgow pays 1.5% – 3% of total Scottish burgh taxes
1544: Siege of
castle ;
[21] estimated population is 3,000
1556: Estimated population c4,500. Brewing recorded at site that will later become
Wellpark Brewery
1560: The burgh of Glasgow is now represented in the
Parliament of Scotland
1570: Andrew Melville rejuvenates the university
1574: Plague hits the city again
c1576: The council mill is rebuilt
1579: The city's
cathedral is saved from demolition by craftsmen threatening to riot
1581: Glasgow pays 66% of upper Clyde customs tax
1584: Plague
1589: Golf is played on
Glasgow Green
1593: Emergence of the
Presbytery of Glasgow in the new self-governing
church
1594: Glasgow is now fifth in ranking of Scottish burghs, paying 4.5% of export customs
1600–1699
1600: Population estimates for the city vary between 5000 and 7500
1604: 361 craftsmen work in fourteen trades, including two
surgeons and 213
merchants
1605: The Trades House and Merchants House combine to form the first
town council
1610: The
General Assembly approves the restoration of
diocesan
episcopacy in Scotland
1611: Glasgow becomes a
royal burgh , with a population of about 7600
1615: The
Jesuit John Ogilvy is hanged for saying
Mass
[22]
1621: Glasgow pays 3%-10% of Scottish
customs duties
1625: The first
quay is built at Broomielaw
1626: The
Tolbooth is constructed
1636: There are 120 students at the university
1638:
Covenanters at the General Assembly plan to abolish bishops
1639: Glasgow the 3rd richest
burgh in Scotland, one-fifth as rich as
Edinburgh ; Hutcheson's Hospital is founded
1641:
Hutchesons' Grammar School is founded for
orphan boys; 50 buildings erected in Trongate
1645:
Montrose enters city, celebrates victories
1645-1646: Plague hits city
[10]
1649: Glasgow displaces
Perth as Scotland's 4th trading centre; pays 6.5% of customs duties
1650:
Oliver Cromwell enters Glasgow while on a campaign against the Scottish Army
[23]
1652: Major fire makes about a thousand families homeless;
[24] an early
fire engine from Edinburgh helps put out the blaze
1655: Glasgow trades in
coal , hoops, meal,
oats ,
butter ,
herring ,
salt ,
paper ,
prunes , timber, and hides:
goat , kid, and
deerskins
1656: Glasgow is described as a "flourishing city", with "strong stone walls"
1659-1665: Bridgegate merchants' house is rebuilt
1660: A coal pit is reported in the Gorbals
1661: Several pits reported
1662: A
post office opens
1663: Alexander Burnet is appointed
archbishop
[25]
1668: Land is purchased for a new
harbour – later
Port Glasgow
[10]
1669: Burnet resigns the archbishopric, objects to
Act of Supremacy
[25]
1670: Glasgow displaces
Aberdeen and
Dundee to become Scotland's second trade city
1673:
Colonel Walter Whiteford opens city's first
coffee house
1675:
Magistrates take action against unauthorised
prayer meetings
1677: Another major fire hits the city, destroying 130 shops and houses
[26]
1678: First
stagecoaches run to Edinburgh
1680: The city's population is perhaps around 12,000, with 450 traders, 100 trading overseas
1688: Broomielaw
Quay is reconstructed following
dredging of the
River Clyde
1690 Glasgow is re-chartered as a
royal burgh ; the city has an early
Bank of Scotland branch
1700–1799
1702: the
University of Glasgow has around 400 students
1706: Anti-unionists riot;
[27] Glasgow is a major
smuggling port
1707:
Act of Union
[28]
1710: The city's population is estimated to be 13,000; over 200 shops are open; much of the city is liable to flooding
1712: Glasgow owners own 4% of Scottish fleet, 46 vessels
1715: Glasgow Courant newspaper first published
[29]
1718: Possible date for first Glasgow vessel to sail to America
1719:
Cotton printing has begun
1720: Glasgow's estimated population is 15,000
1721-1735: James Anderson builds "Andersontown" (modern-day
Anderston ) village
1725: Glasgow occupied by
General Wade 's army; protests and street violence against
liquor
tax
1726:
Daniel Defoe describes Glasgow as "The cleanest and best-built city in Britain"; 50 ships a year sail to America
1729: The Glasgow Journal newspaper is published
1730: The Glasgow
Linen Society is formed
1735: The city's ship-owners own 67 ships
1736: The first history of Glasgow is published by John McUre
1737-1760: A new Town Hall is built west of the
Tolbooth
1738: The Anderston Weavers' Society is formed
1740: Approximately 685,000 m of
linen is made in Glasgow, some of which is sent to London. Hugh and Robert Tennent take over the
Drygate Brewery
1740-1741: The Foulis brothers begin printing
1742:
Delft pottery is manufactured in the city
1743: The Foulis brothers become printers to the university
1745:
Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) enters the city with his army;
[30]
Tennents open a new
brewery in Glasgow
1749: A
stage coach service opens between
Edinburgh and Glasgow
1750: There are five sugar refineries in the city
1751: The John Smith bookshop is established
1753: Foulis Academy is established at the university to promote
art and
design ;
turnpiking of main roads from Glasgow; the city's involvement in the
tobacco trade is reflected in the naming of
Virginia Street
1755: The estimated population of Glasgow is 23,500
[27]
1757: 2.2 million metres of linen are produced in the city
1760: Glasgow enjoys a wave of prosperity; there are 13 professors at Glasgow University
1762:
Joseph Black discovers
latent heat
1763:
David Dale opens a
draper 's shop in the city; regular coaches run from Glasgow to
Greenock
1769:
Tennents brewers is now a large industry;
James Watt patents his
steam engine
condenser
1771: The Scottish economy is boosted by trade through Glasgow
1775: Trade with America in tobacco,
sugar , and
cotton – the city's prosperity is at its height
1776:
Adam Smith , a professor at Glasgow University, publishes
Wealth of Nations
[31]
1779: Mobs protest against the
Catholic Relief Act
1780: The estimated population of Glasgow is 42,000;
[27] the construction of the
Forth and Clyde Canal is completed
1781: Vessels of over 30 tons can now reach Broomielaw Quay
1782-1783: The
Forth and Clyde Canal enables
grain from London to ease
famine in Glasgow
1783: Glasgow
Chamber of Commerce is founded, it is the first in Britain
[31]
1785: A
hot air balloonist flies from Glasgow to
Hawick in the
Borders ; the firm of Thomsons is formed as bankers
1794:
Glasgow Royal Infirmary opens
[32]
1796: The Royal Technical College (which will later become The
University of Strathclyde ) is founded
1798: The Merchant Banking Company of Glasgow fails
1799: Demonstrations over
bread prices; trade in tobacco and
rum declines
1800–1899
1800: The
River Clyde is 14 ft (3.1m) deep, and supports 200
wharves and
jetties ; there is a large
Gaelic community in the city
[33]
1800: The
Glasgow Police Act is passed by Parliament allowing the creation of the first modern preventative police force
[34]
1803:
Dorothy Wordsworth visits Glasgow
[35]
1807:
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery opens off the high street, adjacent to the then campus of
Glasgow University
1809: General Association of Operative Weavers is formed
1810-1814: Glasgow Asylum for Lunatics is built in Dobbies Loan
1813: Weavers fail in bid for fair wages
1814:
Glasgow Green is Europe's first public park
1815: The
Glasgow Herald is published twice-weekly
1817: Royal Botanic Institution of Glasgow founded by
Thomas Hopkirk and others to establish a
Glasgow Botanic Garden
[36]
1818:
Gas street lights begin to be used in the city
[37]
1820: "
Radical War "
[38]
1825: The
University of Glasgow , still located in the High Street, has over 1200 students and about 30 professors; 10 coaches run to
Edinburgh daily
1827: The Argyll Arcade opens
[39]
1828:
James Beaumont Neilson makes breakthrough in
iron -smelting technology; a
total abstinence society is formed
1832: The city benefits from increased representation under the
Great Reform Bill
1835–1874: The
Liberals represents Glasgow in
Parliament
1836: The
Forth and Clyde Canal has increased traffic in goods and passengers
1837: Violent
cotton -spinners strike;
[38] the leaders are sentenced to
transportation
[40]
1841:
Chartist demonstration is addressed by
Fergus O'Connor
1842: Opening of the
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway and
Glasgow Queen Street railway station ;
[41]
Glasgow Botanic Gardens moves to its current location
1843:
Disruption of the
Church of Scotland
[42]
1844: Glasgow
Stock Exchange opens
[31]
1846: Burgh boundaries are more than doubled to 5,063 acres (20.49 km2 )
[38]
1847: Swedish opera singer,
Jenny Lind , performs concerts in the city
[43]
1848: 100,000 people gather on Glasgow Green to support Chartists
1849:
Queen Victoria visits the city;
[44]
Buchanan Street railway station opens
[45]
1851: Glasgow becomes
Scotland 's largest city, overtaking
Edinburgh , with a population of 329,096 over 18% of which were Irish-born
[31] Portland St suspension footbridge is built
1851–1854:
Victoria Bridge is built at Stockwell Street
[18]
1857–1859:
St Vincent Street Church is built by
Alexander "Greek" Thomson
[46]
1859:
Loch Katrine water supply is opened by
Queen Victoria
[47]
1862: Dr Henry Littlejohn becomes the city's first medical officer
[48]
1865: Dr
Edward William Pritchard is the last person to be publicly
hanged in the city, for poisoning his wife and
mother-in-law
[49]
1866: The last outbreak of Cholera in the city occurs;
[50] the City Improvement Trust clears slums and constructs new roads and buildings
1867:
Queen's Park F.C. is founded
[51]
1868-1870: The
University of Glasgow buildings at Gilmorehill are built to designs by
George Gilbert Scott
1872:
Rangers F.C. is founded;
[52] Glasgow's first tram line is established, running from St. George's Cross to Eglinton Toll
[53]
1876:
Partick Thistle F.C. is founded
[54]
1877:
Mitchell Library opens
[55]
1883: The
Boys' Brigade is founded
[56]
1887:
Celtic F.C. is founded;
[57]
Glasgow Botanic Gardens management taken over by town council
1888:
International Exhibition (1888)
[58]
1891:
City of Glasgow Act extends city boundaries and transfers ownership of the
Botanic Gardens to the Corporation
1895: First
cremation in Scotland's first
crematorium , at the Western Necropolis
[59]
1896: Opening of the
Glasgow Subway
[60]
1900–1999
1901:
Glasgow International Exhibition
[58]
1902: 25
football fans die and 587 injured in the first
Ibrox disaster ;
[61] magistrates attempt to prohibit young women from serving in bars
[62]
1903:
Charles Rennie Mackintosh designs
Miss Cranston 's
Willow Tearooms
1904: A fire at the
North British Railway kills firefighter
William Rae
[63]
[64]
1904: The Kings' and Pavilion Theatres open
[65]
1905:
Theatre Royal opens
1905–1907: The
Caledonian Railway extends the Central Hotel
1906–1911: New buildings for the
Mitchell Library are constructed
[66]
1909:
Charles Rennie Mackintosh 's
Glasgow School of Art opens
[67]
1911: International Exposition (
Scottish Exhibition of National History, Art and Industry ) at
Kelvingrove ; Glasgow's population is 785,000
1914: Emigration leads to 20,000 housing vacancies in Glasgow
1914: Tramcars cover wide routes around Glasgow
1919: Large strike for a 40-hour week, demonstration turns into riot known as the
Battle of George Square , Sheriff of Lanarkshire requests military assistance, troops sent from elsewhere in Scotland and from England, Glasgow soldiers are confined to barracks
[68]
1921:
Sinn Féiners murder policeman
1923:
Grouping of virtually all British railway companies: the
Caledonian and
Glasgow and South Western Railways are merged into the
London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS); and the
North British into the
London and North Eastern Railway (LNER)
1925: There are approximately 200 miles (320 km) of tramlines and 1100 trams in and around the city
1926: Violence during
General Strike
1929:
Hogmanay cinema fire causes stampede which kills 69 children in Glen Cinema; Glasgow has nearly 100 cinemas
1931: The
Glasgow population peaks at 1,088,000 thus becoming Britain's 2nd biggest city; the Dental Hospital in
Sauchiehall Street is built
[69]
1934: Unemployed "Hunger marchers" shunned by
Ramsay MacDonald ;
RMS Queen Mary launched
[70]
1935: Glasgow's subway becomes electric
1936: Overcrowding exists in 29% of Glasgow's houses
1937: Citywide automatic telephone dialling becomes available
1938: Glasgow hosts
Empire Exhibition, Scotland 1938 at
Bellahouston Park
1939: World War II: Glasgow naval base
HMS Spartiate opens
1940: Bomb hits
Merkland Street subway station , closes underground for four months
1941: Bombing raids on
Clydebank , 500 killed
1944: Glasgow
trams carry about 14 million passengers
1946: Glasgow naval base
HMS Spartiate closes
1949:
Trolleybuses in Glasgow introduced, condemned by pedestrians as the "whispering death"
1950: Eye infirmary demolished
1951:
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD) is formed by merger
1952-1955: Union Bank of Scotland absorbed by
Bank of Scotland
1955: Duke Street
prison closed
[71]
1958:
William Burrell dies, bequeaths
Burrell Collection ; Lanarkshire County Council moves its headquarters from Ingram Street to
Hamilton
1960: Glasgow electric
Blue Train system starts; Dame Jean Roberts is elected Glasgow's first female
Lord Provost
1962: Last route of the
Glasgow Corporation Tramways closes
1964:
University of Strathclyde established;
[72]
Beeching closes low-level (Argyle) line
1966:
Buchanan Street railway station and
St Enoch railway station close
[45]
[73]
1967: Celtic F.C. first British winners of
European Cup ;
QE2 launched; trolley-buses withdrawn
1969: Last daily steamers from Bridge Wharf
1970:
M8 motorway and
Kingston Bridge open
1971: 66 Rangers F.C. fans die in the second
Ibrox disaster ;
[61] Government refuse to save
Upper Clyde Shipbuilders
1972: Rangers F.C. win
1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final .
1975:
British Army tackle rubbish caused by dustmans strike; Glasgow becomes the home of
Strathclyde Region 's headquarters; the city sees the start of
Britain 's first mass-circulation daily newspaper
workers' cooperative when the
Scottish Daily News opens in Albion Street in May, as well as the country's first newspaper work-in when it folds after six months
1977:
Glasgow Subway closes for extensive modernisation (reopening in 1980)
[74]
1978: The Rev
Geoff Shaw , first Convener of Strathclyde Regional Council (and former leader of Glasgow Corporation), dies in office aged 52
1979-1980: Low level
Argyle Line re-opens
1982:
Roy Jenkins wins
Hillhead by-election for the newly formed
Social Democratic Party
1983:
Burrell Collection opens;
[75] launch of the
Glasgow's miles better campaign
1985:
Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre opens; Glasgow population is 734,000
1988: The
Glasgow Garden Festival hosts this year's
National Garden Festival and attracts 4.3 million visitors.
1989: High number of
poll tax arrears; St Enoch Centre opens
1990: Named as
Cultural City of Europe ;
[76] McLellan Galleries re-opens;
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall completed; the
QE2 returns to the
river Clyde to mark the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the
Cunard Steam Ship Company; the world's
first Robot Olympics takes place in the city
1991:
Glasgow Women's Library opens
[77]
1993:
Glasgow Caledonian University established;
[78] Opening of the new St Mungo's Museum, the UK's only Museum of Religion, next to the city's 13th century
cathedral .
1996: Glasgow Festival of Visual Arts; opening of the
Gallery of Modern Art in the former Stirling's Library; first Glasgow International Festival of Design
1996–1999: Festival of Architecture and Design
1997: Opening of new £38 million Clyde Auditorium at the
Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre
[79]
1999: Glasgow is UK City of Architecture and Design;
[80] Buchanan Galleries open;
[81] millennium celebrations;
[82] The Rt Hon
Donald Dewar (MP and MSP for Glasgow
Anniesland ) become the first
First Minister of Scotland
[83]
2000–2021
2002: Final of
UEFA Champion's League held at
Hampden Park .
Real Madrid beat
Bayer Leverkusen 2–1.
[84]
2002:
2002 Glasgow floods : 200 people evacuated from
Greenfield and
Shettleston , contaminated water supply affects 140,000 residents across the city.
[85]
2003: Celtic F.C. reach the
2003 UEFA Cup Final in
Seville .
2004: Fifteen-year-old Scottish boy
Kriss Donald is abducted, tortured and murdered by
Scots-Pakistani gang in racially motivated attack.
[86]
2004:
Stockline Plastics factory explosion , Nine people dead, 37 injured, 15 seriously.
2005: The city launches a bid to host the 2014
Commonwealth Games .
[87]
2006:
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum reopens after its three-year, £27.9million restoration.
[88]
2007: Final of
UEFA Cup held at
Hampden Park on 16 May;
[89] Scotland's first terrorist attack after the Lockerbie bombing fails at
Glasgow Airport ;
[90] Glasgow awarded
2014 Commonwealth Games
[91]
2008: Rangers F.C. reach the
2008 UEFA Cup Final in
Manchester .
[92]
2010:
City of Glasgow College formed by merger of
Central College ,
Glasgow Metropolitan College and
Glasgow College of Nautical Studies .
2011:
Glasgow Subway modernisation works begin with refurbishment of
Hillhead subway station .
2012: Rangers F.C. enters administration on 14 February.
[93] They are later voted into the
Scottish Football League Third Division .
[94]
2012: Glasgow hosts the preliminary
football matches of the
2012 Summer Olympics .
[95]
2013:
2013 Glasgow helicopter crash : A
police helicopter crashes into the Clutha Vaults pub in central Glasgow, killing 10 and injuring 31.
[96]
2014: The
Glasgow School of Art library is largely destroyed by a fire.
[67]
2014:
2014 Commonwealth Games take place in Glasgow.
[97]
2014: In the
Scottish independence referendum Glasgow votes 53.5% in favour of Scotland becoming an independent country.
[98]
2014:
2014 Glasgow bin lorry crash : A
Glasgow City Council
bin lorry collides with pedestrians in
Queen Street ; 6 people are killed and 15 injured.
[99]
2016: In the
United Kingdom European Union membership referendum Glasgow voted 66.6% in favour of remaining in the
European Union
[100]
2016: Rangers F.C. play their first game back in the top flight of Scottish Football after being demoted to the bottom tier four years previously due to suffering serious financial difficulties;
[101]
2016:
Kelvin Hall reopens after its £35million refurbishment as an art and cultural centre.
[102]
2018: A second fire breaks out at the Glasgow School of Art which also spreads to surrounding buildings including the
O2 ABC .
[103]
2018: Glasgow hosts multiple sporting events including
cycling ,
gymnastics and
aquatics as part of the
2018 European Championships .
2021:
COP26 , the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties, is held at Glasgow; Hampden Park hosts four matches, including two involving the Scottish national team, at the delayed
UEFA Euro 2020 tournament, in front of reduced crowds due to the
COVID-19 pandemic .
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Published in the 18th century
John Tait's Directory for the City of Glasgow , Glasgow, 1783 . (
1871 reprint )
Jones's Directory; or, Useful Pocket Companion for the year 1787 . Glasgow. . (
1887 reprint )
Published in the 19th century
Glasgow Directory , Glasgow: McFeat & Co., 1806
"Glasgow Lists, 1817". Edinburgh Almanack . Edinburgh.
hdl :
2027/wu.89038302311 .
David Brewster, ed. (1830).
"Glasgow" .
Edinburgh Encyclopædia . Edinburgh: William Blackwood.
"Glasgow" , Scottish Tourist and Itinerary , Edinburgh: Stirling, Kenney, 1842
"Glasgow" , Lizars' Scottish Tourist , Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars, 1850
Messrs, Oliver Boyd (1860).
"Glasgow and its Environs" . Oliver and Boyd's Scottish Tourist . Edinburgh. {{
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link )
"Glasgow". Cook's Scottish Tourist Practical Directory . Thos. Cook. 1866.
hdl :
2027/mdp.39015081808761 .
"Glasgow" , Tourists' Handy Guide to Scotland , Edinburgh: W. Paterson, 1872,
OCLC
22141784
Tourist's Guide to Glasgow , London: T. Nelson, 1887,
OL
25501173M
Published in the 20th century
Adshead's Handy Guide to Glasgow , Glasgow: N. Adshead, 1902,
OL
25517293M
"Glasgow", Great Britain (7th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1910,
hdl :
2027/mdp.39015010546516
Post Office Glasgow Directory for 1912–1913 . Glasgow : printed by J. Graham for the letter-carriers of the Post-Office. 1828.
G. E. Mitton, ed. (1915),
Black's Guide to Glasgow and the Clyde , London: A. & C. Black
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