In the Iron Age Brigantes constructed forts at Wincobank and Carl Wark, and the Roman Rig dyke
 
70 - A Roman fort was constructed at Templeborough

800 -  The Sheffield Cross, an Anglo-Saxon cross was carved. It is thought that this        was erected on the (future) site of Sheffield Cathedral

829 -  According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, King Egbert of Wessex received the  submission of King Eanred of Northumbria at the hamlet of Dore (now a  suburb of Sheffield)

942 - Edmund I of England re-conquered the Midlands, and advanced as far as Dore.

1046 – A Chapel was built on Carter Knowle at Ecclesall

1069/70 - Any settlements in the Sheffield area were likely destroyed in the harrying       of the North

1076 - Waltheof, 1st Earl of Northampton and Lord of the manor of Hallam, was     executed

1102 - Hallamshire passes to Roger de Lovetot, along with the Honour of Tickhill

1130 - William de Lovetot founded a church on the (future) site of Sheffield
 Cathedral Around this time, Sheffield becomes a parish, having previously  been part of the parish of Ecclesfield

1150 - William de Lovetot built a castle in Sheffield. He also had the first Lady's     Bridge built, established a corn mill and hospital in the town, and founded St  Mary's church at nearby Handsworth (now a suburb of the city).

1176 - Beauchief Abbey was established, 4 miles southwest of the town of Sheffield,  in Beauchief

1250 – Church House at Handsworth was built

1266 – A party of barons led by John de Eyvil marching from north Lincolnshire to   Derbyshire passed through Sheffield and destroyed the town, burning the   church and castle

1270 - Thomas de Furnival is given license to crenellate and subsequently builds a   large stone castle to replace the wooden castle destroyed in 1266

1280 - A new church was consecrated by William II Wickwane the Archbishop of    York

1279- 1281 - 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
1293 – 1294 - 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

1296 - On 12 November, Sheffield is granted a royal charter to hold a weekly market   and a three-day annual fair around Holy Trinity. 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
1297 - Sheffield was given a charter (a document granting the townspeople certain   rights). Sheffield was given the right to have a weekly market and an annual   fair. In the Middle Ages fairs were like markets but they were held only once a   year. People would come from all over South Yorkshire to attend a Sheffield   fair.
1387 - Geoffrey Chaucer in The Reeve’s Tale from his book The Canterbury Tales   gave an early reference to Sheffield and the metal industry for which the town   would become famous

1430 - The 1280 parish church was pulled down and replaced with a new building,   the core of the present cathedral

1434 - "Barker's Pool", Sheffield's first reservoir, was constructed. 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

1480 - "The hawle at the Poandes" (now the Old Queen's Head public house) was   built

1485 - Lady's Bridge was replaced with a new stone-built bridge,[14] still in existence.

1500 - Bishops' House built

1510 - George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury, built the Manor Lodge outside the     town

1520 - The Shrewsbury Chapel was added to Sheffield Parish Church

1530 - Cardinal Wolsey, following his arrest, was detained at the Manor Lodge for   eighteen days

1537 - Beauchief Abbey was dissolved, the estate becoming the property of Sir    Nicholas Strelley

1554 - A charter establishes the Twelve Capital Burgesses and Commonality of the  Town and Parish of Sheffield

1570 - Mary Queen of Scots began her 14-year imprisonment at Sheffield Castle and  the Manor Lodge, under the guard of George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury

1584 - Shepherd Wheel passed to the sons of William Beighton in his will
1603 -Thomas Crowland left money in his will to build a grammar school
1621 – Carbook Hall was built
1624 - The Company of Cutlers was formed with power to mark artefacts if they  reached a certain quality
1630 – Attercliffe Chapel was built
1638 - The first Cutlers House was built
1642 – The people of Sheffield seized Sheffield Castle for the Parliamentarians
1643 - The castle was taken by Royalist forces

1648 - After a long siege the castle was once again taken by Parliamentarian forces,  and an Act of Parliament passed for its demolition

1700 -  Upper Chapel, the first non-conformist chapel in the city, was built.
1707 - A boy’s charity school was founded
1721 - Earl Gilbert's 'hospital' (almshouses) was built
 - St Paul's Church is built as a chapel-of-ease to the parish church

1736 – The first buildings in Paradise Square are constructed

1740s – Benjamin Huntsman, a clock maker in Handsworth invented a form of the     crucible steel process for making a better quality of steel than had      previosuly been available.

1743 -  Thomas Boulsover, working in Sheffield, invented "Sheffield plate"
1750s - A lead mill was built in Sheffield

1751 - River Don Navigation extended to Tinsley

1756 - An Act of Parliament undertakes to turnpike the road south from Sheffield, to  Chesterfield and London.
1760 - A silk mill was built. (It was later converted to a cotton mill). There were,     nevertheless some improvements during the 19th century.

1762 - Assembly rooms were built were card games and balls could be held
1763 - The first theatre in Sheffield was built

1769 - Britannia metal was invented in Sheffield, originally being known as "Vickers   white metal"

1771 - Paradise Square is completed

1773 - Sheffield was given a silver assay office

1775 - The Duke of Norfolk commissioned plans for a new quarter, to be constructed  on Alsop Fields.

1779 -John Wesley preached in Paradise Square on 15 July.

1789 - 769 Sheffield metalworkers submit a petition to Parliament advocating the     abolition of slavery

1793 - A petition against slavery with 8,000 names is submitted from Sheffield to     Parliament

1797 - Sheffield Royal Infirmary opened.

1805 -  A new nave was added to the parish church

1808 – The small town hall that had stood near the parish church was replaced with   a new building at the corner of Waingate and Castle Street
1818 - An Act of Parliament formed a body of men called the Improvement  Commissioners with powers to pave and clean the streets. They also formed a  police force
 - The Sheffield Improvement Act 1818 established an Improvement  Commission to  maintain cleaning, lighting and watching within three- quarters of a mile of the parish  church, and also the Sheffield Gas Light  Company
  - The streets of Sheffield were lit by gas
1819 – Sheffield Canal opened
1830 - A corn exchange where grain could be bought and sold was opened (it was  later rebuilt)
1832 - A dispensary opened where the poor could obtain free medicines
  - Sheffield gained representation in the House of Commons as a  Parliamentary Borough. The first election is marred by rioting
 - A cholera epidemic claimed 402 lives in the town, later commemorated by  the Cholera Monument.
1833 -The Botanical Gardens were laid out and later opened in 1836
1836 - The first cemetery opened 
1838    - A new Cutlers' Hall was built, forming the core of the current building.
 - The first railway station in Sheffield, Sheffield Wicker station, opened on 31  October as the southern terminus of the Sheffield and Rotherham Railway
1843 - Sheffield was given a charter (a document giving the townspeople certain     rights). From then on Sheffield had an elected town council, which gradually   took over the powers of the old Improvement Commissioners.
1848    - The Roman Catholic Church of St Marie (later a cathedral) was completed
 -  The Wicker Arches were constructed
 -  The parish of Sheffield was subdivided into smaller parishes.

1851 -  Sheffield Victoria Station opened on 15 September.

1855 -  Bramall Lane opened as a cricket ground.
1856 – The first public library was built
1858 - Sheffield Trades and Labour Council founded as the "Sheffield Association of  Organised Trades"
1860 – Hallam FC was founded
1864 -The Great Sheffield flood devastated large parts of the town, killing 270  people.
 - By-laws were passed prohibiting the construction of back-to-back houses in  the town

1866 - The United Kingdom Alliance of Organised Trades, a forerunner of the Trades   Union Congress (TUC), was founded in Sheffield .

1867 - The Sheffield Football Association founded
1870 - Sheffield Wednesday FC was founded
 - Midland Main Line extension from Chesterfield to Sheffield opened, with the  new terminus at Sheffield Midland station
1873 – Horse drawn trams ran in the streets
1875 – Ruskin Gallery was founded
1878 – The first ever floodlit football match was played at Bramall Lane on 14     October.
1887 – Mappin Art Gallery opened
1889 – Sheffield United FC was founded
1893 - Sheffield was made a city
1897 - The Town Hall was built
 - The Lyceum Theatre opened
1899 - The first electric trams ran in the streets of Sheffield
 -  Hillsborough Stadium opened
1905 - Sheffield University was founded
1910 - The first cinema in Sheffield was built
1913 -  Stainless steel was invented by Harry Brearley whilst working at the Brown    Firth Laboratories in Sheffield

1914 - Sheffield became a diocese of the Church of England, and the parish church   became a cathedral
 
1916 - Sheffield was bombed by zeppelins leaving 28 people dead

1919 - Sheffield City Council began building council houses, mostly to the north and  east of the city centre

1926 - The Labour Party first took control of the city council.

1934 - Sheffield City Hall completed
 - Graves Art Gallery opened
 -Districts formerly in Derbyshire including Beauchief, Dore, Totley, Norton,  and Woodseats were annexed by Sheffield

1938 - St Paul's Church was demolished to make way for an extension to the Town   Hall. The extension was never built, and the site subsequently became the   Peace Gardens.

1940 - The "Sheffield Blitz"—heavy bombing over the nights of 12 December and 15   December led to the loss of over 660 lives, and the destruction of numerous   buildings

1939 – 1945 - During World War II 589 people were killed in Sheffield by German      bombing. Nearly 3,000 houses were destroyed.
1955 – 1961 – Park Hill flats were built
1955 – 1962 – The Gleadless Valley estate was built
1959 - Castle Market shopping centre was built
1965 – The University of Sheffield Arts Tower was completed
1971 - The Crucible Theatre opened
1974 – The Local Government Act of 1972 led to the formation of the Metropolitan    borough of Sheffield
 - Sheffield Parkway was opened
1977 -  The eggbox extension to the Town Hall was built
1979 -  The Royal Hallamshire Hospital was built
1980 – The Roman Catholic Diocese of Hallam was created with the Church of St   Marie as its Cathedral
1985 - The Fire/Police museum opened in Sheffield
1988 – The Sheffield Development Corporation was established
1989 –The Hillsborough disaster  - 96 Liverpool fans were crushed to death at     Hillsborough Stadium
1990 - Meadow Hall shopping centre was built
 -The Don Valley Stadium opened
 1991 - Sheffield Museum of Popular Music opened
1994 - The Sheffield Supertram began operating
1997 - Sheffield City Airport opened
2001 - Millennium Galleries opened
2003 - The National Ice Centre opened
 -The Winter Gardens opened

Today the population of Sheffield is 513,000.

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