By Tim Lambert
c. 1193 About this time monks found a port where wool from their estates can be exported. It was called Wyke on Hull.
1279 Hull is granted the right to hold a market and a fair
c. 1285 The Church of the Holy Trinity is built
1293 The king acquires Hull. It is renamed Kingston on Hull.
c. 1300 A mint is established in Hull
1331 Hull is given a charter (a document granting the people certain rights)
1349 The Black Death devastates the population
c. 1365 A weigh house where bales of wool are weighed is built
1536 The Pilgrimage of Grace. The rebels enter Hull.
1537 Plague strikes Hull
1541 Henry VIII improves the town’s defences
1575-75 Plague strikes Hull again
1602-04 Plague strikes Hull again
1637 Another outbreak of plague in Hull
1642 King Charles I is refused entry to Hull. The royalist lay siege to Hull but fail to capture it.
1643 The Royalists besiege Hull again but again they fail to capture it
1700 The population of Hull is about 7,500
1743 Hull has its first theatre
1744 Maister House is built
1755 Improvement Commissioners are given powers to pave, clean and light the streets of Hull
1759 William Wilberforce is born in Hull
1778 A dock opens in Hull
1782 Hull Royal Infirmary opens
1800 The population of Hull is about 22,000. New houses are being built west of the town.
1809 Humber dock is built
1814 A dispensary where the poor can obtain free medicines opens in Hull
1822 Hull gains gas street light
1829 Junction Dock is built
1832 Cholera strikes Hull
1860 Beverley Park opens
1880 A telephone exchange opens in Hull
1881 Smallpox kills 689 people in Hull
1885 West Park opens
1893 An electricity generating station in Hull
1894 A Central Library opens in Hull
1897 Hull is made a city
1901 The population of Hull is 239,000
1915 A zeppelin raid kills 24 people in Hull
1927 Ferens Art Gallery opens
1935 Queens Gardens are laid out
World War II About 5,000 houses are destroyed by German bombing
1954 Hull University is founded
1975 Prospect Shopping Centre opens
1976 Streetlife Museum opens
1981 Humber Bridge opens
1990 Princes Quay Shopping Centre opens
1997 RED Art Gallery opens. Hull and East Riding Museum opens.
1999 The Arctic Corsair opens to the public
2001 The Deep opens in Hull
2007 St Stephens Shopping Centre opens in Hull