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Year
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Event
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100 AD
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Roman industrial settlement built at Wilderspool on the River Mersey
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1086
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Domesday Book describes Warrington as 'Walintune', a village near the ford over the Mersey at Latchford and Howley
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1277
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Market recognised by Royal Charter
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1285
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First mention of a bridge over the Mersey at Warrington
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1364
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Second Warrington bridge completed
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1495
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Henry VII opens three-arched stone bridge over the river
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1617
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James I stays at Bewsey Old Hall
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1648
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Royalists surrender to Cromwell during the Civil War, Cromwell stayed in Warrington
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1697
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Thomas Patten makes the Mersey navigable to Bank Quay
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1720
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Mersey and Irwell Navigation make the river passable between Manchester and Warrington, completing the link to Liverpool
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1750
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Thomas Patten commissions James Gibbs to build Bank Hall as residential Home
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1757
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First commercial canal - the Sankey St Helens is cut
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1757/86
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Warrington Academy established
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1787
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First Boulton & Watt steam engine in Lancashire installed at Latchford cotton mill
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1801
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Old Quay canal connects Howley to Runcorn, ending reliance on Mersey tides
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1814
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Joseph Crosfield establishes soap works at Bank Quay
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1822
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Old Billy, said to be the world's oldest horse, dies aged 62 (according to the Guinness Book of Records!)
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1830
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Liverpool-Manchester railway opened near Warrington
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1837
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Victoria Bridge built
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1847
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Warrington becomes a borough
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1848
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Public Library & Museum opened
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1855
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The largest iron ship ever built to date - the Tayleur - launched at Bank Quay
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1872
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Bank House purchased by council to become Town Hall
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1894
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Manchester Ship Canal built south of Warrington
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1895
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Town hall gates purchased
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1913/15
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Present Warrington bridge - on of the world's first pre-stressed concrete bridges built
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1942/93
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RAF Burtonwood site of USAF base RAF Burtonwood
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1963
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Thelwall viaduct on M6 built
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1974
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Local government changes move Warrington's administration from Lancashire to Cheshire
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1998
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Warrington becomes a unitary authority taking responsibilities from Cheshire County Council
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1998
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Town hall gates illuminated for the first time
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