Talk:Timeline of Liverpool

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Unable to remove this line as it doesn't show in the source. Also appears a the end of History of Hampshire and History of Leeds - also with nothing in the source to delete

LordNAg (talk) 19:10, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Vandalism, now reverted. Ghmyrtle (talk) 19:29, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Article scope

A number of items on this timeline seem out of scope of the article or WP:COAT. E.g. births of people whose notability would only become established later in their lives. Also works in Liverpool of people notable for works elsewhere. Darrelljon (talk) 22:08, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

How directly relevant to Liverpool are the following? e.g. Births of members of the Beatles arguably aren't notable in the Timeline of Liverpool.

• 1639 – Jeremiah Horrocks, astronomer, is one of the first to observe a Transit of Venus.
• 1724 – 25 August: Animal painter George Stubbs born.
• 1726 - ** John Okill ship builder building ships for the Royal Navy between 1740 and 1780 including the gun boat Hastings.
• 1734 - Robert Morris (financier) born on Dale st
• 1748 - John Newton workplace and later home for sixteen years from 1748 to 1764 later wrote Amazing Grace.
• 1752 Richard Chaffers Liverpool porcelain manufacturer.
• 1773 - Shipowner merchant brought commercialisation and mass production of Marsala wine to the British Empire.
• 1775 - Banastre Tarleton leads the British Legion in the American War of Independence.
• 1776- Robert Morris becomes one of Founding Fathers of the United States.
• 1799 - Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby was born, three-time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the longest serving party leader.
• 1894 - William Ewart Gladstone left office aged 84 as both the oldest person to serve as prime minister and the only prime minister to have served four non-consecutive terms.
• 1901- Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti founded Ferranti the British electrical company built and produced the Ferranti Mark 1 the first electrical commercial computer as well as the Ferranti Pegasus.
• 1912 - Sinking of the Titanic
• Frederick Fleet sights the iceberg, at least 115 crew members with close connections to Liverpool of only 28 Liverpool crew members survived and that figure is understated.
• 1914– World War I starts,
• The second largest mobilisation of men in Liverpool was for the Royal Navy, more than 12,000 Liverpool men signed up for to fight the war at sea, as a consequence of these large numbers, there were men from Liverpool on every single Battleship between 1914 and 1918, Cammell Laird built five light cruisers, six destroyers, two escorts and eight submarines for the Royal Navy including HMS Birkenhead and HMS Chester took part in the Battle of Jutland.
• 1914 - RMS Empress of Ireland sinks with the crew almost entirely from Merseyside.
• 1915 - RMS Lusitania sinks with captain William Thomas Turner and many of the crew from Liverpool.
• 1940 - John Lennon was born.
• 1942 - Sir Paul McCartney was born.
• 1943 - 1.2 million United States soldiers pass through Liverpool during World War Two- this figure represents a significant proportion of approximate 4.7 million who used the port to prepare for the invasion of Europe.
• 1945 - World War II ends, During the Liverpool Blitz approximately 2736 civilians were killed in Liverpool alone, the total number of deaths across Merseyside was around 4000.
• Liverpool shipowners lost over 3 million tons of shipping, with most losses occurring in the Atlantic Ocean, this equivalent to roughly 630 ships of 5000 tons each, representing about a quarter of all British merchant shipping losses during the war, the Port of Liverpool also handled a massive amount of cargo, over 75 million tons between 1939 and 1945, with significant portion being war materials.
• 1947 - SS Ormonde the first ship to bring significant number of British African-Caribbean people to the Uk before the more famous HMT Empire Windrush
• 1957
  • 15 January: The Cavern Club opens as a jazz club.
  • 6 July: John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles first meet at a garden fete at St. Peter's Church, Woolton, at which Lennon's skiffle group, The Quarrymen (formed 1956), is playing (and in the graveyard of which an Eleanor Rigby is buried).
• 1960
  • January: John Lennon's Liverpool College of Art friend Stu Sutcliffe joins his rock group and suggests they change their name to The Beatles.
• 1962
  • 24 January: Brian Epstein signs a contract to manage The Beatles.
• 1963 – 3 August: The Beatles perform at The Cavern Club for the final time as they begin a run of chart success.
• 1964
• Liverpool F.C., or a significant part of the team, appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show United States, Gerry and the Pacemakers performed You'll Never Walk Alone.
  • Liverpool F.C. win the Football League First Division championship and are on the first addition of Match of the Day.
• 2020
  • 23 March: Liverpool goes onto a nationwide lockdown with the rest of the UK due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Darrelljon (talk) 14:52, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

@ACtiling would you like to comment on the scope? Darrelljon (talk) 21:36, 31 August 2026 (UTC)