Brief history of Manchester

Manchester began expanding in the 19th century because of the textile manufacturing during the industrial revolution.  In the 20th century there was a decline of importance to industrial industry. So Manchester rebranded themselves to a post industrial city, with multiple sporting, broadcasting and educational institutes.

Important events:

-The first newspaper to be printed in Manchester (1719)              

-First cotton exchange is built (1729)

-The first theater is built here (1753)

-The Manchester Guardian is founded by John Edward (1821)

-The Liverpool and Manchester railway is built, the first purpose built passenger railway (1830)

-The first telephone in regular use in the UK is installed (1878)

-Marks and Spencer opens its first store (1894)

-Rolls Royce is launched (1904)

-The BBC begins regular radio broadcasts from Manchester (1922)

-Manchester raids, kills 363, and injures 1183 (1940)

-The mark 1 is operable (1949)

-Cotton trading at the Royal Exchange stops (1968)

-BBC Radio Manchester opens as local radio (1970)

-A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes (1973)

-Arian Grande bomb (2017)