1809.
The Ladies’ Jubilee School, Strangeways, founded October 24.
— The scutching machine introduced into Manchester by Mr. James Kennedy.
— The Royal Lancasterian School, Marshall Street, Oldham Road, founded October 15; opened July 26, 1813, for the reception of one hundred boys and girls.
--- Joseph Hanson, of Strangeways Hall, sentenced in the Court of King’s Bench to six months’ imprisonment, and a fine of £100 May 12.
— Thirty-nine thousand six hundred penny subscribers towards a tribute to Joseph Hanson, Esq., for his sufferings in the cause of the weavers.
— The Manchester Exchange Herald, No. 1, September 30, printed and published by Joseph Aston, St. Ann’s Street.
— A large pile of warehouses, situated in Cromford Court, burnt down, April 13.
— Bradbury, the clown, opens the new Amphitheatre in Spring Gardens, September.
— The Jubilee, to commemorate the 50th year of the reign of George III., celebrated with processions, balls, and fireworks, October 25.

1810.
The Manchester Auxiliary Bible Society established, January 4.
— Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Great Bridgewater Street, opened.
— Hackney coaches finally established in Manchester.
— Brown’s Chantry, dedicated to St. George, on the north side of the Collegiate Church, purchased by the parishioners for £900.
— Thomas Henshaw, Esq., of Oldham, died March 4. He left £20,000 for a Blind Asylum, £1,000 to the infirmary, £1,000 to the Lunatic Hospital, and £500 to the Ladies’ Jubilee School.
— The Ladies’ Jubilee School, Strangeways. This charity had its origin in 1806, in the benevolence of several ladies. In 1809, a house was procured in Broughton Lane, and ten girls were educated. Over the centre door of the present building is the following inscription :—

Shortly after the completion of the building. the number of girls was increased to thirty. The children are instructed in reading and writing, in knitting, sewing, and in the duties of kitchen and house servants and the regularity to which they are accustomed makes them most valuable, their age and strength considered, when they are put out, under the protection of the committee, to service.
— A dinner given to Admiral Sir Sidney Smith, by the authorities of the town, September 6.

1811.
The Manchester Philanthropic Society established January 1.
— Wood and Foster’s cotton factory, Garratt, destroyed by fire, January 3.
--- The Manchester Grocers’ Company established as a company of carriers by water between Manchester and Liverpool. Dissolved 1832.
— By the second Parliamentary census, Manchester and Salford contained 98,573 persons.
— Joseph Hanson, Esq., in giving evidence before the House of Commons on the weavers’ petition from Manchester, states the number of spinners to be 9,000, and the number of weavers at 12,000; the latter earning 11s., and the former averaging 7s. per week when fully employed.
— A general census taken, when the parish of Manchester contained 136,370 inhabitants. Manchester, 79,459, and Salford, 19,114.
— The Lodge in Pool Fold (an ancient seat of the Radcliffes) taken down.

1812.
Haigh, Marshall, and Tidswell’s warehouse, High Street, destroyed by fire, Sunday, February 9.
— A riot at the Exchange, on the occasion of a meeting for proposing a loyal address to the Prince Regent, April 8.
— The National Schools, on Dr. Bell’s, system, Granby Row, Manchester, and Bolton Street, Salford, founded June 26, by the Rev. Thomas Blackburne, warden. Granby Row School opened April 20, 1813.
— The tomb of Sir James Stanley, fourth warden of the Collegiate Church (and afterwards Bishop of Ely), was reopened after an interval of 287 years since his interment The object of opening it was in consequence of its being known that the bishop died excommunicated, and a suspicion was thereby excited that the body would not be found buried within the pale of the church, which was confirmed. June.
— Mr. Sadler ascended in a balloon from St. George’s Field, June 29.
— Eight persons executed at Lancaster for rioting at Manchester, June 13.
— George Canning dined with three hundred gentlemen at the Star Inn, Manchester, October 31.
— Society for Converting the Jews to Christianity instituted.
— Riots at Middleton on account of the introduction of power looms. Four persons killed.
— Samuel Crompton made a survey of all the cotton districts in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and obtained an estimate of the number of spindles then at work upon his principle, which amounted to between four and five mllions. He obtained a Parliamentary grant of £.5.000 in full, without fees or charges. In 1829, about seven millions of his spindles were at work.
— Mr. Wright, a machine maker in Manchester, constructed a double mule, for which Parliament granted him £5,000.
— Religious Tract Society established.
— Church Tract Society instituted.
— The following militia regiments were encamped on Kersal Moor, viz., the Wiltshire, Buckinghamshire, Louth, and Stirling, amounting to nearly 3,000. They were reviewed by General Ackland, June 4.
— Thirty-eight men, who had assembled at a public-house in Ancoats Lane, were taken up and tried for administering the Luddite oath, but were acquitted, June 11.
— The Duke of Montrose visited the camp upon Kersal Moor, August.
— Ryder’s Act, constituting frame-breaking a capital instead of a transportable offence. February.
— Food riots in Manchester. April.
— Execution of eight persons at Lancaster for rioting at Manchester; four for mill burning, three for breaking into a house merely to obtain some food, and a woman for stealing some potatoes at Bank Top. June 13.
— Act against the rioters of nine months duration. June 27.

1813.
— The warehouse of Messrs. Naylor and Co., with others, in the New Market Buildings, destroyed by fire, April 1.
— Manchester Pitt Club established, May.
— Manchester Police Bill received the Royal assent, June 11.
— Lancasterian School, near Oldham Road, opened July 26.
— The New Jerusalem Temple (Swedenborgians), Bolton Street, Salford, opened September 19.
— Miss Lavinia Robinson, on the eve of her marriage with Mr. Holroyd, a surgeon, suddenly disappeared from her home in Bridge Street, December 16.
— Severe frosts for several weeks.
— William David Evans, Esq., barrister, was appointed the first stipendiary magistrate for
Manchester and Salford, at a salary of £1,000 per annum, payable in the proportion of seveneighths from the township of Manchester, and one-eighth from the township of Salford.
— Mr. Bennett’s factory, Great Newton Street, destroyed by fire, March 16.

1814.
Miss Lavinia Robinson found drowned in the Irwell, near the Mode Wheel, February 8. The untimely death of this young lady, who is described as possessing superior mental accomplishments, with a person equal to her mind, caused considerable excitement in the public mind; ands strong was the popular feeling against Mr. Holroyd that he was compelled to quit the town.
— Peace celebrated with great rejoicings, April 18.
— Several houses and part of a soapery, at Hunt’s Bank, fell into the river Irwell; three persons perished, July 29.
— The declared value of all the woollen, silk, and cotton goods exported from Great Britain was £14,658,442.
— The trade in India thrown open.
---. William Cowdroy, proprietor and editor of the Manchester Gazette, died August 10, aged 62 years. Mr. Cowdroy was a man of rare genius: a poet, a wit, a facetious companion, an unshaken patriot, a kind father, firm friend, and a truly honest man. As conductor of the Manchester Gazette, his light punning paragraphs had no equal. His columns frequently supplied the newspapers with wit and humour on current topics; and many of his old compositions, with changes of name and date, were often revived at intervals of five or six years. He left four sons, all printers, and two daughters.
— Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Brunswick Terrace, Pendleton, opened August 29.
— Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, instituted, August.
— Ducie Bridge (so called in compliment to Lord Ducie, the proprietor of the land) crosses the Irk from the foot of Miller Street to Cheetham Hill and Bury, and its structure does great credit to Mr. Heap, the architect. A toll was taken on this bridge until 1830, when it was removed by a compromise of £800 by the Improvement Committee.
— A panic in the Methodist Chapel, Oldham Street, so as to occasion the loss of life to two females, and serious injury to others, Dec. 9.
— The Manchester Magazine; or, Chronicle of the Times, published monthly, by Joseph Hemingway and Martin Began, price 1s. Discontinued 1816.
— John Leigh Phillips. Esq., died June 23, aged 53. This gentleman was a liberal promoter of bibliography and the arts, as the catalogue of his collection will testify; it was dispersed by auction at Manchester, in 1815. His collection of subjects in natural history formed the basis of the Manchester Natural History Society’s Museum.
— The first watchman appointed for Chorlton Row, October.
— A violent storm, which did considerable damage in Manchester and the neighbourhood, December.
— Processions, balls, and illuminations, to celebrate the success of the British army on the Continent, April 18.
— The Society for the Encouragement of the Arts presented Miss Halstead, daughter of Mr. Halstead, attorney, of Manchester, their gold medal for a painting of fruit and flowers by herself, June 7. The Duke of Norfolk presided, and passed a high eulogium upon her.
— Thomas Egerton, the first Earl of Wilton, died at Heaton House, September 23, aged 65. His lordship was elevated to the peerage, May 15, 1784, by the title of Baron Grey de Wilton, of Wilton Castle, in the county of Hereford. His lordship married, in 1769, Eleanor, youngest daughter and co-heiress of Sir Ralph Assheton, baronet, by whom he had several children, but one only survived, namely, Eleanor, who married in 1794, Robert Viscount Belgrave, late Marquis of Westminster. In consequence of the decease of Lord Grey de Wilton’s elder children, his lordship obtained a new patent 26th of June, 1801, creating him Viscount Grey de Wilton and Earl of Wilton, with special remainder to the second, and to all the younger sons successively, of his daughter, by her then husband, or to her male issue by any future husband. He was succeeded in his title and estates by Thomas Egerton, second Earl of Wilton, second son of the Marquis of Westminster, by the above marriage. His lordship was a liberal benefactor to the various charitable institutions in Manchester, and died respected and regretted by all parties. He was interred in the family vault in Prestwich Church, October 8.

1815.
Cemetery in Walker’s Croft consecrated, January 1.
— Missionary societies established at Manchester, by the Wesleyan Methodists, February 22, and by the Established Church, April 10.
— The assessments of Manchester were £405,986.
— During the service on Whit-Monday in the Collegiate Church, a report was given that the roof was giving way, which caused great consternation in the congregation. One child killed.
— The Archdukes John and Lewis of Austria visit Manchester, November.
— The galleries and pews of the Collegiate Church rebuilt, and other repairs effected, at a cost of nearly £20,000.
— The export of twist legalised by Parliament, at which time the consumption of cotton amounted to 99,306,343 pounds, increased in two years to 124,912,968 pounds.
— Auxiliary Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews, established in Manchester.
— “Conscience,” a tragedy, by the late Joseph Aston, Esq., was performed at the Theatre Royal, February 8. It is founded upon one of Miss Lee’s Canterbury Tales.
— The Manchester Golf Club formed by W. Mitchell, Esq., of Holt Town.
— The Eye Institution founded in King Street. Removed to 35, Faulkner Street, 1822, and is now in St. John’s Place, Deansgate, 1874.
— Bibliographiana, a collection of original literary contributions to Aston’s Exchange Herald, published for private distribution; 12 mo.; consisting of 24 numbers. The principal contributors were F. R. Atkinson, Esq., Mr. Nathan Hill, and William Ford, bookseller.

1816.
Great flood in the Irwell, January 5 and 6. The water was higher than in 1768.
— John Bradshaw, Esq., F.A S., of Darcy Lever, a magistrate for this division, and a feoffee of Chetham’s Hospital, also Lieut.-Col. of the Bolton Local Militia, died December. His death was occasioned by the overturning of the Blackburn mail, at Pendleton.
— A meeting in St. Peter’s Field. “to take into consideration the present state of the country.” November 4.
— A free registry, for the encouragement of faithful female servants, opened in Chapel Walks, May 1.
— The Radical Reformers held their first meeting in St. Peter’s Field October 28, and again December 30.
— The annual value of property in the township was £405,986.
— Market Cross, Pillory, and Stocks removed from the Market Place; also the Obelisk, on the site of the Old Exchange, taken down, This latter was called Nathan Crompton’s Folly, having been erected during his serving the office of boroughreeve.
— Silk handkerchiefs and mixed goods were almost the only articles fabricated in Manchester. The Messrs. Tootal commenced business.
— The shock of an earthquake, March 17.
— Mrs. Ward, wife of the manager of the Theatre Royal, took leave of the stage in the character of Elvira, in “Pizzaro.”
— Mr. Thomas Battye, author of the “Red Basil Book,” and several other well-known works on the management of local affairs, died April 16.
— The value of a Tyburn Ticket, in Manchester, was from £350 to £400, whilst in London they sold for £23. The holders of these tickets were exempt from filling any public office in the town.
— The Albion Cotton Mills, situated in Great Bridgewater Street, burnt down, December. Damage £25,000.
— The day police constituted a deputy constable and four beadles; night police, 53.
— The Ladies’ Bible Society formed,

1817.
The Grand Duke Nicholas, late Emperor of Russia; visited Manchester, January 3.
— Manchester Courier, No.1, January 4, printed by Messrs. Howarth, Cowdroy, and Rathbone.
— A meeting of the inhabitants of Manchester, to consider the “necessity of adopting additional measures for the maintenance of the public peace.” January.
--- The first stone of the Strangeways Bridge was laid by W. D. Evans, Esq.. February 29. It is a beautiful erection of one arch, built of cast iron. It crosses the Irwell near the top of Greengate, Salford, which place it connects with Strangeways. It was built by subscription, and a toll was taken, except from the tenants of Lord Ducie.
— The second general meeting of the Manchester Radicals (Blanketeers) held at St. Peter’s Field, “To petition the Prince Regent for Redress of Grievances.” The meeting dispersed by the military, March 10. Two hundred persons arrested.
— The cotton spinning factory at Knot Mill, in the occupation of Messrs. Brown, Stones, Scholick, Armstrong. Stubbs, and Frost, destroyed by fire, Sunday morning, March 16. Damage, £20,000.
— Margaret Marsden aged 76, and Hannah Partington, a young woman, were murdered in the house of Mr. Thomas Littlewood, at Pendleton, April 26.
— The number of spindles in Great Britain are estimated at 6,545,833, and the number of operative spinners at 110,763, by Mr. John Kennedy, of Manchester.
— Mr. Smith’s premises, Gaythorn, Knot Mill, destroyed by fire, April.
— Catherine Prescott, a native of Denbigh, residing in George Leigh Street, died June 2, aged 108 years. She retained her faculties in a wonderful degree, having learned to read, without the aid of spectacles, partly in the Lancasterian School, and partly in St. Clement’s Sunday School, after she was one hundred years old. She was buried at St. Mark’s, Cheetham Hill, in a grave presented to the family by the Rev. C. W. Ethelston.
— Violent thunderstorm in Manchester and neighbourhood. Two men killed at Pendleton, and many were hurt at other places. July.
— James Ashcroft, the elder James Ashcroft, his son; David Ashcroft, his brother; and William Holden, son-in-law to the elder Ashcroft, were executed at Lancaster for the murder and robbery at Mr. Littlewood’s, at Pendleton, September 8. They all died declaring their innocence.
— Thomas Armstrong, aged 34, was hanged at Lancaster for setting fire to his factory, Knot Mill, September 20.
— Manchester Gas Works, in Water Street, erected in 1817. Gas Act obtained in 1824. The merit of originating the gas works of Manchester on the present liberal plan, is principally due to George William Wood, Esq., late M.P. for the Southern Division, and to Thomas Fleming, Esq.
— Welsh Wesleyan Chapel, Parliament Street, erected.
— Blackfriars Bridge, a wooden pile, taken down.
— The fly frame and the tube frame introduced into Manchester by Mr. Dyer, from America, who took out patents for them in 1825 and 1829.
— Mr. Reddish, bookseller, arrested for selling seditious publications. April.
— The Manchester Yeomanry Cavalry raised, and commanded by Sir T. J. Trafford. June.
— An amateur performance was got up for the benefit of the Lying-in Hospital, when the net proceeds were £268.
— The Water Works Company substitute iron pipes instead of stone ones, which were very apt to burst, for the conveyance of water.
— Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Chancery Lane, Ardwick, built.