Years 1801 to 1850
369 | Saltburn – Known that a watchtower built by the Romans was situated on Huntcliff. Saltburn. By lighting of fires sent out messages warning other locations (with watchtowers) of possible danger etc. |
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410 | Romans left Britain |
450 | Angles (Denmark) and Saxons (Germans) settling in Britain. River Tees area. Mainly Angles from South Jutland settling in areas near rivers and sea. |
Circa 550 | Anglo-Saxon King Ida conquers land to the South of the Tees. |
642 | King of Oswy shares land south from Northumbria with Oswine (King of Deria) to south of the Tees. |
651 | King Oswy of Bernicia appointed Ethelwald, (son of King Oswald) to land South of the Tees. |
680 | St. Hilda abbess of Whitby died. |
793 | Vikings raid Lindisfarne followed by Hartlepool in 800 |
867 | Danes now seem to be settling on land South of the River Tees, Yorkshire. |
918 | Irish-Viking area of Yorkshire ruled by Ragnald follwing capture of York. |
954 | Yorkhire becomes ruled by King’s from Southern England |
1014 | King Canute elected KIng of England. |
1069 | William the Conqueror in Yorkshire with campaign which foces people from to area onto the North Yorkshire Moors |
1086 | Two Northern Earls rebel against Norman raiders. Believed to have been a battle on Coatham Marshes |
10/07/1099 | The death of El Cid, national hero of Spain. |
05/08/1100 | In Westminster Abbey, Henry 1 was crowned KIng of England. |
1139 | River Tees now border for Scotland |
1157 | King Henry II reclaims Northumberland from the Scots. River Tees no longer border between England and Scotland. |
09/08/1173 | Construction of the Leaning Tower of Pisa began in Italy. |
20/09/1187 | Saladin, the first Sultan of Egypt and Syria, began Siege of Jerusalem. |
03/09/1189 | Richard 1 ‘The Lionheart’ of England was crowned in Westminster, London. |
1200s | Known that John Andrew ‘King born Saltburn took over Smugglers’ took over The Ship Inn, Old Saltburn. |
1205 | Port of Coatham pays King John’s custom toll of 17 shillings. |
15/06/1215 | King John of England put his seal on the ‘Magna Carta’. |
1215 | Hermitage located at Saltburn. |
1257 | Market and fair granted to Marmaduke de Thweng at Coatham near Redcar |
24/06/2015 | Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regained independence from England. |
1400’s | Sulpitius Chapel Sulpitius Chapel was its name in the 15th century. First mention to come about referees to the middle late 1400’s than again in the middle 1800’s. Human bones were found adjacent to Fisherman’s Crossing in 1911, which were buried in Coatham Church yard. No one knows today where the exact location, where the Sulpitius Chapel was situated. The nearest places would appear to be Coatham Marshes near to the Marsh House Farm. |
1470 | First indication of shipbuilding on the River Tees when a ship made of wood and iron nails is built for Bishop of Durham. |
19/11/1493 | Christopher Columbus discovered Puerto Rico. |
31/07/1498 | Christopher Columbus landed in Trinidad. |
13/09/1501 | Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David. |
13/09/1503 | Michelangelo began work on his famous statue ‘David’. |
1510 | Redcar recorded as being a ‘poor fishing town. |
15/09/1514 | Thomas Wolsey became Archbishop of York. |
1551 | The first sixpence brought into circulation. |
17/11/1558 | Elizabeth 1 ascended the English throne. |
23/04/1564 | The birth of William Shakespeare at Stratford-on-Avon. He also died on this date in 1616. |
1586 | The land of Kirkleatham sold to a William Bellasis |
1587 | The plague hits the North East area. |
05/11/1605 | The ‘Gunpowder Plot’ failed to destroy Parliament. |
10/09/1609 | Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island and the indigenous people living there. |
29/06/1613 | London’s Globe Theatre burned to the ground. |
1614 | Hartlepool onlyses port on North East coast, but a report of Yarm inland (River Tees) recorded |
18/06/1815 | Napoleon defeated at Waterloo by British and Allied forces as he faced the Duke of Wellington |
23/04/1616 | The death of William Shakespeare.. He was born on this date 15/04/1564 at Stratford-on-Avon. |
29/10/1618 | Sir Walter Raleigh was executed for alleged conspiracy against James 1 of England. |
15/08/1620 | Merchant ships ‘The Mayflower and ‘Speedwell’ left Plymouth for the New World, but both returned because of bad weather |
1622 | Stockton rpeorted with ships being loaded with coal for use elsewhere. |
18/11/1626 | St. Peter’s Basilica is consecrated. |
1623 | Manor of Kirkleatham sold again, from William Bellasis to John Turner. |
1635 | Extensive flooding reported along the River Tees. |
23/10/1642 | ‘The Battle of Edgehill’: the first major conflict of the English Civil War. |
02/09/1666 | Great Fire of London began at 2am in Pudding Lane, 80% of London was destroyed. |
15/10/1666 | The first waistcoat was worn by King Charles II, according to Samuel Pepys. |
1676 | Kirkleatham Turner’s Hospital came into being. |
1708 | Kirkleatham School by Sir William Turner called Kirkleatham Old Hall. |
1728 | Marton in Cleveland Captain Cook was born. |
22/09/1735 | Walpole became the first British politician to occupy 10, Downing Street. |
1740 | Land on the North side of the River Tees reclaimed from the sea. |
1740 | Thomas Dundas was born. He had been created Baron Dundas of Aske in 1794 |
1748 | Lowther family purchase the manor of Wilton |
04/09/1752 | Calendar was reformed as Britain was 11 days behind the rest of Europe. This meant in Britain, 3rd September 1752, became the 14th September 1752, and 11 days of the calendar went missing. (i.e. As of the start of 1752, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar.) |
17/03/1753 | First Official St. Patrick’s Day. |
1753 | Extensive flooding again reported along River Tees |
1767 | First sighting of the island of Tahiti, by English sea captain, Samuel Wallis. |
1774 | Flooding destroys bridges and property over vast area. |
1779 | Captain Cook murdered at Hawaii. |
1780 | Some river traffic (boats) stuck in river due river freezing over. |
07/10/1769 | Captain Cook reached New Zealand. |
04/05/1780 | The first Derby Horse Race was run at Epsom, won by ‘Diomed’ |
02/01/1833 | Reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands. |
03/11/1873 | Highwayman John Austin became the last person to be hanged at Tyburn, London. |
08/08/1876 | Mount Blanc was scaled. The highest mountain in the Alps stands 4,810m above sea level |
17/08/1786 | The birth of Davy Crockett ‘Battle of the Alamo’ |
14/07/1789 | French revolutionaries stormed the Bastille. National Day in France. |
28/04/1789 | Captain Bligh and 16 loyalists set adrift in a launch from the ship ‘HMS Bounty’ as mutineers took over the ship. It is said that he steered the launch in the South Pacific 3,618 miles to Timor. |
04/12/1791 | The first issue of ‘The Observer’, the first Sunday Newspaper, was published. |
1794 | Thomas Dundas created Baron Dundas of Aske. |
1795 | Vessels of weight 125 tons reaching port of Stockton. |
25/071797 | Horatio Nelson lost his right arm during the failed attempt to conquer Tenerife. |
1800 | Boundary Fence was built as such was the rivalry in the past between Coatham and Redcar, they put up a wooden boundary fence between their two communities to make quite clear which area you were in. The boundary fence started in West terrace, and travelled southerly in a straight line between West Dyke ditch to Kirkleatham. |
1800 | Warrenby Church. Sulpitius Chapel was its name in the 15th century. First mention to come about referees to the middle late 1400’s than again in the middle 1800’s Human bones were found adjacent to Fisherman’s Crossing in 1911, which were buried in Coatham Church yard. No one knows today where the exact location, where the Sulpitius Chapel was situated. The nearest places would appear to be Coatham Marshes near to the Marsh House Farm. |
1800 | Further land reclaimed along north side of River Tees. |
1801 | The first Census was undertaken in Britain. |
1801 | First national census – 115 houses with 170 males and 261 females Population of Redcar 431. Coatham population was included in Kirkleatham. |
1801 | Redcar & Marske following information revealed. 217 house, 227 families, 934 inhabitants, and the number of females exceeded males by nearly two to one. |
03/03/1802 | Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata was published. |
19/05/1802 | Napoleon Bonaparte founds the Legion of Honour. |
1802 | At this time Redcar was a village of only two rows of houses. |
1802 | Rev Thomas Williamson placed an order with Henry Greathead for a lifeboat at Redcar. |
07/10/1802 | Built in Sunderland the arrival of the lifeboat, Cost £200,,raised by fishermen. New Lifeboat into service in Redcar, and just called ‘Lifeboat’ saving over 502 lives. (This went on to be the oldest lifeboat in the World the ‘Zetland’). |
07/10/1802 | Redcar population was 500 |
26/10/1803 | Joseph Hansom, inventor of the Hansom Cab in 1834 was born. They proved the most popular cabs and were later introduced in New York. |
1804 | At this time the village of Redcar had 160 houses. |
01/12/1804 | Napoleon was crowned emperor of France at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. |
18/05/1804 | Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor of France. |
21/10/1805 | Lord Nelson, English naval hero, killed at the Battle of Trafalgar, dying at the moment the Franco-Spanish fleet surrendered. |
20/11/1805 | Beethoven’s only opera ‘Fidelio’ premieres in Vienna. |
19/01/1806 | The United Kingdom occupied the Cape of Good Hope. |
22/11/1808 | Thomas Cook, who pioneered the holiday package tour, was born in Derbyshire. |
17/08/1896 | First pedestrian kiolled in Britain by a motor vehicle Mrs Bridget Driscoll of Croydon. Vehicle travelling at 4mph. |
1807 | Next to school was the Methodist Meeting House – the first place of worship in Redcar. |
1807 | Zetland School built on West Terrace, with masters houses donated by Earl of Zetland. |
1808 | Rev William S Graves said, “Sand hills are as high as the cottages”. |
1808 | Tees Navigation Company formed and took over the running of ship activity. The Turner family lost all rights to levy charges to visiting ships. |
29/12/1809 | William Ewart Gladstone was born in Liverpool. Four times prime minister, he is remembered not only for politics but for the Gladstone bag and Gladstone collar. |
1810 | By this date, Redcar was beginning to be known as a health resort and it had 12 bathing machines. However, it was still mainly a fishing village, with about 160 houses built along sides of one street, which was always covered with heaps of drift sand. |
01/03/1810 | Composer Frederic Chopin was born near Warsaw, Poland. |
27/04/1810 | Beethoven composes ‘Fur Elsie’. |
1810 | W. Hutton published a book “A Trip to Coatham”. |
1810 | William Hutton said, “Coatham and Redcar are two separate villages scarcely known as neighbours. |
1810 | Sir Charles Turner died. |
1811 | Population of Redcar 411. |
14/09/1812 | Napoleon entered Moscow which had been abandoned by the Russians and their scorched earth policy. He soon retreated as Winter was approaching. |
16/11/1812 | Reported that concern was growing between the council and LNER regarding the cleaning of the footbridge across the West Dyke Road crossing. The council had already agreed to lightly clean the bridge litter etc, but no reply was forthcoming from LNER. A local reporter suggest that the council had more than accommodated LNER and he/she stated that, “If the councils requirement were not met the LNER should cover the bridge up, and put locked gates at both sides to stop access”. |
08/12/1813 | Premiers of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony |
1815 | Redcar’s only street was the High Street, and had 62 houses and the Red Lion Inn (South side), 48 houses and the Swan & Ship Inn (North side). |
1815 | Lifeboat House the only building fronting the sea. 5 houses situated in road between South and North Side. |
26/02/1815 | Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba. |
15/07/1815 | Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon. |
24/11/1815 | The birth of English heroine Grace Darling. |
21/04/1816 | Charlotte Bronte, eldest daughter of the three Bronte Sisters and author of Jayne Eyre, was born in Thornton, Yorkshire |
06/07/1816 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish born playwright of The Rivals died. He became manager of the Drury Lane Theatre as well as a politician but died in poverty. |
08/03/1817 | The New York Stock Exchange is founded. |
07/07/2017 | The first authentic historical novel. Sir Walter Scott’s Waverly |
18/07/1817 | Author Jane Austin died at the age of 41. Medical authorities now believe she died fro Addison’s Disease. |
30/12/1817 | First coffee planted in Hawaii |
1818 | Subscription commenced for the erection of St. Peters Church. |
05/05/1818 | Father of communism Karl Heinrich Marx was born in Trier, Germany, the son of a Jewish lawyer. |
06/02/1819 | Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore. |
24/05/1819 | Queen Victoria was born at Kensington Palace. |
26/08/1819 | Prince Albert Consort to Queen Victoria, was born in Bavaria. |
1819 | Town had 12 bathing machines, a theatre and library. |
12/05/1820 | Florence Nightingale Born in Florence (after the city of her birth. |
14/06/1820 | Thomas Dundas died aged 80. |
1820 | Post Office established at 38-40 High Street. |
1820 | Council acquired foreshore rights. The traders on the beach i.e. stalls, kiosks found that the rents on their businesses were to expensive, so left the beach area. |
23/02/1821 | John Keats, English poet famous for his odes, died of tuberculosis in Rome, aged 25. |
18/06/1821 | Coronation of George IV of the United Kingdom. |
27/09/1821 | Mexico gains its independence from Spain. |
04/11/1821 | Ninety-five ships were driven ashore off Redcar. |
1821 | Baines Directory shows Redcar population 279 Males and 394 Females. Possible imbalance was that many fishermen had to move away to make a living |
16/02/1822 | Francis Galton, founder of a new science called “eugenics” was born in Birmingham. Among his ideas was the systematic creation of a superior race of human beings, later tried by Hitler. |
28/02/1822 | It was reported that a smuggler on Redcar Rocks, laden with gin, was assisted off the rocks to safety by Redcar Fishermen, who received payment in kind i.e. Gin |
30/03/1822 | The Florida Territory is created in the United States |
13/10/1822 | Stormy weather caused The brig Ovington, of Newcastle, Captain in charge Cpt. Waters, Became wrecked on Marske sands. 13 people on board all saved, one dying later on shore. |
13/10/1822 | Five colliers ashore West Coatham sands. |
1822 | This year believed to be the first occasion that the drum was used to summon the lifeboat men |
1823 | Foundation stone laid for St. Peters Church. |
1823 | Bathing Machine purchased by Dinah Carter and hired out to bathers on Redcar Beach. |
10/05/1824 | The Nationa Gallery in London opens to the public. |
1824 | 11th, October, 140 ships driven onto shore at Redcar.Plans were later suggested for the construction of a harbour to safeguard shipping but nothing came of them. |
1825 | Between this year and 100 years hence 1925 – 500 vessels of different description would be wrecked on the coastline stretching from the entrance to the Tees River, to a point at Saltburn. |
25/08/1825 | Uruguay declared independence from Brazil. |
27/09/1825 | The Stockton and Darlington Railway, the world’s first public passenger service – built by George Stephenson – was inaugurated. |
1826 | The whaler ‘Esk’ 7th September, onto rocks Redcar East during on shore winds. 17 lives lost. |
26/03/1827 | Famously deaf composer Ludwig van Beethoven died in Vienna aged 57 |
26/01/1828 | The Duke of Wellington became Prime Minister. |
1828 | James Fleck Master mariner brother-in-law to James Cook died April 20th. Buried St. Germain’s Church, Marske. |
24/12/1828 | William Burke went on trial in Edinburgh. He was charged with grave robbing and murdering locals to sell their bodies to medical professionals for dissection. Later hanged. Partner William Hare. |
28/01/1829 | Body-snatcher William Burke was hanged in front of a huge crowd. |
12/03/1829 | Cambridge University challenged Oxford University to a rowing race. |
06/10/1829 | Trials at Rainhill for a locomotive to use on the Liverpool to Manchester Railway. The winner Stephenson’s Rocket.. |
27/12/1830 | Chain Bridge built over the River Tees and Middlesbrough Branch of the Stockton and Darlington Railway opened. Bridge built above Stockton. |
01/08/1831 | A new London Bridge opens. |
29/08/1831 | Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction. |
1832 | CHOLERA deaths at Hartlepool numbered 57 out of a population of 1400. |
02/01/1833 | Reassertion of British Sovereignty over the Falkland Islands. |
1833 | 1st Agricultural Show held Redcar Racecourse – lasted 134 years. |
1833 | Port William Harbour Scheme envisaged. |
21/10/1833 | Alfred Nobel, industrialist, and inventor of Dynamite was born in Stockholm. He was the founder of the Nobel Prizes. |
19/12/1835 | Naturalist Charles Darwin arrived at New Zealand, on a voyage which was estimate to take 3 years. The trip lasted 5 years. |
30/08/1835 | Melbourne, is founded. |
30/11/1835 | Mark Twain, author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, was born in Missouri. |
12/03/1836 | Isabella Mary Mayson, who became Mrs Beeton of cookery book fame, was born in London |
1838 | Grandson of Sir Lawrence Dundas, made 1st Earl of Zetland. |
26/06/1838 | Queen Victoria was crowned in Westminster Abbey, aged 19. During the ceremony, Austrian composer Johann Strauss conducted his orchestra playing God Save The Queen. |
07/09/1838 | Grace Darling, 22, daughter of a lighthouse keeper, made the famous rescue of the crew of the steamship Forfarshire, shipwrecked near the Farne Islands off the Northumberland coast |
13/07/1837 | Queen Victoria moved into Buckingham Palace, the first monarch to live there. |
1839 | Bill laid before Parliament for Port William Harbour Scheme, but strongly opposed by the Port of Stockton, who felt their trade would suffer. |
19/02/1839 | 1st Earl of Zetland, died aged 72. The title bestowed 2nd July1838. , less than a week after Queen Victoria coronation. Prior to that he had been Baron Dundas of Aske. |
26/02/1839 | The first Grand National Race was held at Aintree Racecourse. |
09/09/1839 | John Herschel takes the first glass-plate photograph. |
15/10/1839 | Queen Victoria proposed to her cousin Prince Albert, the son of her uncle Duke Ernest of Sax-Coburg-Gotha. |
10/01/1840 | Uniform Penny Postage was introduced after a short test of charging by weight at 4d rate. |
14/06/1839 | The first Henley Regatta on the River Thames took place. |
06/05/1840 | First adhesive postage stamps released 1d Black and the the 2d Blue. |
21/05/1840 | New Zealand was declared a British colony. |
1840 | The main decoy known to have been constructed on Coatham Marsh was made in 1840, by the then owner, Mr. H. Vansittart, round part of a “stell” or “fleet” off the meadows down to the Tees. |
1840 | 30 vessels got into difficult during one day of this year. All along the coastline between the River Tees & Saltburn. Date not known |
1840 | Middlesbrough Docks opened. |
07/10/1840 | Willern II becomes King of the Netherlands. |
10/02/1840 | Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. |
20/01/1841 | Hong Kong Island is occupied by the British. |
30/10/1841 | Fire at the Tower of London. |
1841 | Coatham waned as a resort and all bathing machines etc., moved to Redcar. |
09/11/1841 | Edward VII eldest son of Queen Victoria and Price Albert was born. |
27/12/1841 | John Coulson held a public meeting in the Crown and Anchor Hotel, High Street, Redcar, regarding his projection of extending the railway from Middlesbrough to Redcar. |
1842 | Biggest catches of Salmon caught on the River Tees. |
1842 | 02/04/1842 Provisional Committee formed re extension of railway to Redcar, and steps were taken for an application for an Act of Parliament. |
13/06/1842 | Queen Victoria became the first British monarch to travel by train. |
06/04/1843 | William Wordsworth was appointed Poet Laureate – the day before his 73rd birthday. |
04/11/1843 | Nelson’s Column was completed in Trafalgar Square, London. |
11/11/1843 | ‘The Ugly Duckling’, by Hans Christian Anderson, was first published. |
17/12/1843 | The first publication of ‘A Christmas Carol’, by Charles Dickens |
1844 | Charles Dickens said, “What a desolate place”. |
23/06/1844 | Charles Dickens, novelist, came to Marske on his way to gine one of his celebrated readings. He took a stroll in St. Germain’s churchyard looking for the grave of James Cook, the father of the great explorer. No headstone and a person pointed out the grave to him. |
11/10/1844 | Beaked Beans magnate HJ Heinz was born of German parents in Pittsburgh. |
21/10/1844 | Directors of Stockton & Darlington Railway Co.s meet in Middlesbrough with original Redcar committee in favour of the scheme from Redcar to Middlesbrough. |
17/03/1845 | Elastic bands were patented by Stephen Perry at a firm of vulcanised rubber manufacturers in England. |
21/07/1845 | Act of Parliament received Royal assent which authorised the building of the railway from Middlesbrough to Redcar. Central Railway Station built ready to accept new trains fro Middlesbrough. |
1845 | 28/09/1745 The British National Anthem was sung for the first time. |
1846 | With the extension of the Stockton and Darlington Railway to Redcar, it began to develop as a fashionable watering place. It also took part in the general eaxpansion connected with the iron trade. Several iron-stone workings were established in the area. |
20/01/1846 | The first issue of the Daily News, editied by Charles Dickens, was published in competition to The Times. |
1846 | Railway cottages located at Redcar. |
1846 | Racehorse called The Flying Dutchman bred at Kirkleatham Hall. Became cam a champion losing only one of his races. |
12/09/1846 | Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning. |
13/12/1846 | ‘Wuthering Heights’, by Emily Bronte, was first published. |
21/12/1846 | Robert Liston used anaesthetic (ether) for the first time in a British operation at University College, London, to perform an amputation of a leg. |
03/031847 | Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, was born in Edinburgh. |
1847 | The birth of Scottish inventor Alexander Graham Bell. |
16/09/1847 | The United Shakespeare Company bought the house in which Shakespeare was born at Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire for £3,000. It was the first building in Britain to be officially preserved. |
02/10/1847 | Fire at the new Redcar Railway Station. |
08/11/1847 | Dracula creator Bram Stoker was born in Dublin. |
1848 | Sternboard from a 380 tonne barque washed up on Redcar beach, bearing the name Lord Byron. Note Now in the Zetland Museum after being refurbished. |
1848 | Railway Cottages built near to original track. |
1848 | Population was estimated as being less than 1,500. |
1848 | Reported that fish cobbles/100 men and boys were transporting fish from Redcar to many parts of the country including London. |
1848 | The Zetland rooms later to become the Zetland Hotel opened a small library with books loaned by John Atkinson. |
11/07/1848 | Waterloo railway station in London opens. |
18/07/1848 | The birth of English cricketer W. G. Grace |
18/07/1848 | WG Grace English crickerter 37 years playing scored nearly 51,000 runs and took more than 2,800 wickets. |
1848 | Fishing still the main industry with over 36 Cobbles employing ‘One hundred men and boys’. |
1848 | Large Cobbles (46ft long) costing 30-40 guineas, and the smaller ones (25ft long) costing 12-15 guineas. |
1849 | Yarm Viaduct built. |
1851 | The population of Redcar was 1,032. |
20/03/1855 | Charlotte Bronte, eldest of the Bronte sisters and author of Jayne Eyre, died. |
1858 | The Can-Can was first performed in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld in Paris. |
16/09/1859 | David Livingstone discovered Lake Nyasa. |
24/11/1859 | The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin was published. |
1861 | Stockton & Darlington Railway extended to Saltburn |
1889 | Redcar and Coatham were amalgamated into one Urban District. |
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