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All events in the Cheshire portal calendar. For a chronological list, see the timeline of Cheshire history. To suggest an event for inclusion, use the suggestions page

January

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Fiddlers Ferry Power Station

1 January 1894: Manchester Ship Canal first opened to traffic.

2 January 1644: Dorfold Hall taken by Royalist forces during the Civil War.

3 January 1866: Crewe Hall gutted by fire.

13 January 1984: A cooling tower at Fiddlers Ferry Power Station (pictured) collapsed in high winds.

17 January 1644: Royalist forces attacked Nantwich during the Civil War.

20 January 1540: Dissolution of St Werburgh's Abbey.

20 January 1971: Singer–songwriter Gary Barlow born in Frodsham.

24 January 1909: Film star Ann Todd born in Hartford.

25 January 1837: Fire damaged the new wing of Vale Royal Abbey.

26 January 1644: Battle of Nantwich.

27 January 1832: Author and mathematician Lewis Carroll born in Daresbury.

27 January 1941: Cosmologist Beatrice Tinsley born in Chester.

28 January 1643: First battle of Nantwich.

February

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Sir William Brereton

1 February 1863: Artist and printmaker John Romney died in Chester.

1 February 1869: The first goods train crossed Runcorn Railway Bridge.

3 February 1646: Chester surrendered during the Civil War.

3 February 1857: First meeting of Cheshire Police committee.

3 February 1885: Foundation stone of Grosvenor Museum laid by the Duke of Westminster.

4 February 1253–4: Lordship of Chester gifted to Edward, heir of Henry III.

5 February 1977: Olympic gold medallist sailor Ben Ainslie born in Macclesfield.

6 February 1987: Lindow III discovered at Lindow Moss.

9 February 1539: First recorded race at Chester Racecourse.

13 February 1839: Riot at Chester Castle in support of poachers awaiting trial.

14 February 1926: Fire partially destroyed Oulton Hall.

15 February 1918: Physicist John Holt born in Runcorn.

19 February 1943: Nobel prize winning biochemist Tim Hunt born in Neston.

20 February 1643: Beeston Castle seized from the Royalists by Parliamentary forces commanded by Sir William Brereton (pictured).

20 February 1907: Radar pioneer Skip Wilkins born in Chorlton.

21 February 2008: Sunny Lowry, first woman to swim the Channel, died in Warrington.

26 February 1993: IRA explosive devices went off at Warrington gasworks.

March

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St Mary's Church, Acton

2 March 1968: Actor Daniel Craig born in Chester.

3 March 1614: Antiquarian Sir Peter Leycester born in Nether Tabley.

3 March 1951: Tony Hall, Director-General of the BBC, born in Birkenhead.

7 March 1544: Thomas Holcroft purchased Vale Royal Abbey after its dissolution.

7 March 2010: David Briggs became Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire.

10 March 2010: Chester City F.C. closed.

11 March 1584: Elizabeth I issued a brief supporting the rebuilding of Nantwich after the 1583 fire.

11 March 1878: Foundation of the Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire.

12 March 1364: Ranulf Higden, a monk at the monastery of St Werburgh and author of Polychronicon, died in Chester.

13 March 1643: First Battle of Middlewich during the Civil War.

15 March 1757: Tower of St Mary's Church, Acton (pictured) collapsed.

20 March 1488: Stockport Grammar School founded.

20 March 1993: IRA explosive devices killed two children and injured 54 people in Warrington.

20 March 2002: Anderton Boat Lift reopened after restoration.

22 March 1846: Illustrator Randolph Caldecott born in Chester.

29 March 1829: Architect and engineer Thomas Harrison died in Chester.

30 March 2007: Cheshire FM, a Winsford-based local radio station, launched.

31 March 2009: Chester, Congleton, Crewe & Nantwich, Ellesmere Port & Neston, Macclesfield and Vale Royal boroughs abolished.

April

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Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker

1 April 1974: Widnes and Warrington gained from Lancashire; Hyde, Dukinfield and Stalybridge lost to Greater Manchester; parts of the Wirral lost to Merseyside; and Tintwistle lost to Derbyshire in local government reorganisation.

1 April 1998: Halton and Warrington became unitary authorities.

1 April 2009: Unitary authorities of Cheshire West and Chester and Cheshire East took control.

5 April 1847: The Port of Runcorn became an independent customs port.

5 April 1847: Birkenhead Park, the UK's first publicly funded civic park, opened.

8 April 1889: Conductor Adrian Boult born in Chester.

10 April 1964: Runcorn designated a new town.

10 April 1998: Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker (pictured) opened as a museum.

11 April 1830: Architect John Douglas born in Sandiway.

17 April 1948: Train crash near Winsford killed 24 people and injured 10.

17 April 1951: Peak District became the UK's first national park.

20 April 1857: Cheshire Constabulary formed.

21 April 1913: George V and Queen Mary visited Crewe Railway Works and Worleston Dairy Institute.

23 April 1610: First St George's Day race held at Chester Racecourse.

24 April 1643: Royalist forces plundered Acton, Dorfold, Ravensmoor and Sound during the Civil War.

25 April 1956: Construction of Silver Jubilee Bridge began.

26 April 1761: Emma, Lady Hamilton, mistress of Lord Nelson, born in Ness.

30 April 1851: Accident in Sutton Railway Tunnel killed nine people and injured at least 30.

May

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Cartoon of Hall Caine, by Harry Furniss

3 May 1938: Cheshire County Council granted a banner of arms, now the county flag.

8 May 1817: Early paper on Cheshire dialect read at Society of Antiquaries by Roger Wilbraham.

12 May 1278: Fire destroyed much of Chester.

13 May 1983: Lindow Woman bog body discovered.

14 May 1853: Novelist and playwright Hall Caine (pictured) born in Runcorn.

18 May 1980: Musician Ian Curtis committed suicide at Macclesfield.

21 May 1868: First train crossed Runcorn Railway Bridge.

21 May 1894: Manchester Ship Canal officially opened by Queen Victoria.

23 May 1911: Architect John Douglas died in Chester.

24 May 1847: Five people killed in the Dee bridge disaster.

27 May 1899: Eastgate Clock unveiled, marking the 80th birthday of Queen Victoria.

29 May 1905: Widnes–Runcorn Transporter Bridge officially opened by Sir John Brunner.

31 May 1807: Primitive Methodism originated in a prayer meeting at Mow Cop.

31 May 1939: Humanitarian Terry Waite born in Styal.

June

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Nuclear structure research tower at Daresbury Laboratory

5 June 1965: Engine fire on Crewe–Carlisle train between Crewe and Winsford fatally injured driver Wallace Oakes.

6 June 1690: William III stayed at Combermere Abbey on his way to the Battle of the Boyne.

7 June 1940: Actor Ronald Pickup born in Chester.

7 June 1954: Mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing died in Wilmslow.

8 June 1825: Ten to twelve thousand people attended the funeral of Sir John Grey Egerton of Oulton Park, MP for Chester and Freemason, at Little Budworth.

10 June 1878: Chester Tramways Company started operating horse-drawn trams in Chester.

10 June 1931: Chester Zoo opened.

14 June 1988: Lindow IV discovered at Lindow Moss.

16 June 1967: Daresbury Laboratory (pictured) officially opened by Harold Wilson, prime minister.

18 June 1886: Mountaineer George Mallory born in Mobberley.

19 June 2011: Fire damaged east wing of Peckforton Castle.

23 June 1999: Train crash near Winsford injured 31 people.

24 June 1604: Plague started in Nantwich, with around 430 deaths by the following March.

25 June 1897: Actor Basil Radford born in Chester.

26 June 1923: Jazz musician and bandleader Syd Lawrence born in Wilmslow.

27 June 1919: X-ray crystallographer Alexander Stokes born in Macclesfield.

July

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Edward the Elder

July 1538: Dissolution of Combermere Abbey.

July 1804: Runcorn to Latchford Canal opened.

1 July 1869: Statue of Richard Grosvenor unveiled in Grosvenor Park.

4 July 1837: First trains crossed Dutton Viaduct.

4 July 1887: Queens Park, Crewe dedicated.

11 July 1910: Pulp author Hugh B. Cave born in Chester.

11 July 1978: Hybrid elephant Motty born at Chester Zoo.

14 July 1876: Chapel builder Thomas Hazlehurst born in Runcorn.

17 July 924: Edward the Elder (pictured) died at Farndon or Aldford.

17 July 1256: Edward, heir of Henry III and Lord of Chester, first visited Chester.

17 July 2015: An explosion at a wood-treatment mill in Bosley killed four employees.

20 July 1376: Charter of disafforestation of Wirral issued.

20 July 1816: Histologist and ophthalmologist William Bowman born in Nantwich.

21 July 1961: Silver Jubilee Bridge officially opened by Princess Alexandra.

23 July 1403: Sir Richard Venables and Richard de Vernon executed for supporting Henry "Hotspur" Percy in the Battle of Shrewsbury.

27 July 1962: Olympic gold medallist swimmer Neil Brooks born in Crewe.

29 July 1940: Crewe hit by first Cheshire air raid of Second World War.

August

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Portrait of Edward I in Westminster Abbey

1 August 1984: Lindow Man bog body discovered.

2 August 1957: Lovell Telescope took its first image.

3 August 1952: Pianist Martin Roscoe born in Halton.

4 August 1643: Attack on Nantwich by Royalists led by Lord Capell during the Civil War.

4–6 August 1896: Princess Louise visited Crewe Hall and opened bazaar in aid of Crewe Memorial Hospital.

6 August 2012: Astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell died in Swettenham.

8 August 1953: First (private) motor race at Oulton Park.

9 August 1886: Grosvenor Museum officially opened by the First Duke of Westminster.

10 August 1933: Acton swing bridge over the Weaver opened.

11 August 1642: Confrontation between Sir William Brereton and Royalist forces near Ravensmoor during the Civil War.

13 August 1277: Foundation stones of Vale Royal Abbey laid by Edward I (pictured) and Eleanor of Castile.

15 August 1538: Dissolution of Chester's three friaries.

23–26 August 1617: James I visited Chester, Nantwich and Utkinton Hall, and hunted in Delamere Forest.

24 August 1538: Warrant issued for the dissolution of Vale Royal Abbey.

27 August 1781: First recorded game of cricket in the county.

29 August 1940: An air raid destroyed around fifty houses in Crewe.

September

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Rowton Moor Memorial Stone

September 1707: Physician Nathan Alcock born at Aston.

1 September 1858: Crewe and Shrewsbury Railway opened.

1 September 1876: Activist and editor Harriet Shaw Weaver born in Frodsham.

1 September 2007: Cheshire Regiment merged into the Mercian Regiment.

7 September 1917: Pilot and charity founder Leonard Cheshire born in Chester.

8 September 1949: Bernard Lovell and Charles Husband first meet at Jodrell Bank to discuss the 250-ft radio telescope.

14 September 1804: Landowner and poet Rowland Egerton-Warburton born in Norley.

16 September 1947: Comedian Russ Abbot born in Chester.

21 September 1642: Charles I brought his army to Chester during the Civil War.

24 September 1645: Battle of Rowton Heath (memorial pictured).

29 September 1908: Cheshire County Cricket Club founded.

October

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Grosvenor Bridge, Chester

1 October 1827: First stone laid of Grosvenor Bridge, Chester (pictured).

1 October 1905: Inventor John Dolphin born in Christleton.

3 October 1953: First public motor race at Oulton Park.

5 October 1963: Journalist Nick Robinson born in Macclesfield.

10 October 1654: Frodsham Castle destroyed by fire during the Civil War, after the death there of John Savage, 2nd Earl Rivers.

10 October 1868: Runcorn Railway Bridge officially opened.

10 October 1960: Alan Garner's The Weirdstone of Brisingamen first published.

11 October 1678: Antiquarian Sir Peter Leycester died in Nether Tabley.

14 October 1869: Chester Town Hall officially opened by the future Edward VII.

14 October 2017: Mersey Gateway Bridge opened.

16 October 1643: Acton and Dorfold briefly captured by Royalists.

17 October 1832: Grosvenor Bridge, Chester, officially opened (still incomplete) by the future Queen Victoria.

17 October 1934: Novelist Alan Garner born in Congleton.

19 October 1359: A great storm destroyed the nave of Vale Royal Abbey.

19 October 1965: Train driver Wallace Oakes awarded the George Cross posthumously.

20 October 1891: Physicist and Nobel prize winner James Chadwick born in Bollington.

21 October 1650: First record of the Cheshire cheese trade with London.

22 October 1996: Helicopter crash near Middlewich killed five people, including Matthew Harding, vice-chair of Chelsea F.C., and journalist John Bauldie.

26 October 1865: Equestrian Statue of Viscount Combermere unveiled in Chester.

27 October 1874: Mill fire killed eight people at Over.

November

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Grosvenor Park Lodge

November 1867: Grosvenor Park, Chester (pictured) opened.

1 November 1831: Harry Atkinson, Premier of New Zealand, born in Broxton.

4 November 1553: Lawyer Roger Wilbraham born in Nantwich.

7 November 1805: Railway builder Thomas Brassey born in Bulkeley.

11 November 1662: Lawyer John Chesshyre born in Halton.

14 November 1762: Tarporley Hunt Club first met.

15 November 1941: Author Heathcote Williams born in Helsby.

22 November 1961: Pianist Stephen Hough born in Heswall.

24 November 1935: Cyclist Vin Denson born in Chester.

24 November 1955: Cricketer Ian Botham born in Heswall.

26 November 1574: River Weaver in Nantwich flooded, affecting 40 dwellings and 24 salthouses.

29 November 1933: Musician John Mayall born in Macclesfield.

December

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Gravestone of A. N. Hornby at St Mary's, Acton

1 December 1901: Artist and illustrator Charles Tunnicliffe born in Langley.

1 December 1906: Carnegie Library, Runcorn officially opened.

6 December 1891: Rowland Egerton-Warburton died at Arley Hall.

8 December 1665: Civil War diarist Edward Burghall died at Alpraham.

9 December 1836: Dutton Viaduct completed.

10 December 1583: Great Fire of Nantwich started.

13 December 1643: Siege of Nantwich started.

14 December 1979: Footballer Michael Owen born in Chester.

17 December 1925: Cricketer A. N. Hornby (gravestone pictured) died in Nantwich.

17 December 1973: Long-distance runner Paula Radcliffe born in Davenham.

19 December 1572: Landlord of Nantwich's Crown Inn murdered; the investigation involved many among the town's gentry.

22 December 1643: Royalist forces occupied Audlem, Brindley, Buerton, Hankelow, Hatherton, Hurleston, Stoke and Wrenbury during the Civil War.

23 December 1642: Bunbury Agreement drawn up.

24 December 1643: Twelve Parliamentarians massacred at St Bertoline's Church, Barthomley.

26 December 1643: Second Battle of Middlewich during the Civil War.

26 December 1962: Train crash at Coppenhall, between Crewe and Winsford, killed 18 people and injured 34.

29 December 1940: Air raid badly damaged the Crewe Rolls Royce works and killed 16 employees.