| 1800 |
East Gate Lynn demolished |
| 1801 |
Act of Union of Great Britain and Ireland - Union Jack official flag |
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Electric arc lamp invented by Sir Humphrey Davy |
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Population of Lynn 10,096 |
| 1802 |
Market house erected in Saturday Market place at Lynn |
| 1803 |
London Road Lynn - building begins |
| 1807 |
First Ascot Gold Cup |
| 1811 |
Population of Lynn 10,259 |
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Unitarian Church built in Norfolk Street Lynn |
| 1815 |
Building of The Theatre near the Greyfriars tower at Lynn |
| 1820 |
George IV succeeds George III |
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Ladybridge brewery in Bridge street Lynn founded by Elijah Eyre |
| 1821 |
New bridge over Eau Brink Cut opened at Lynn |
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Eau Brink Cut opened by passage of 'Swiftsure' steam packet |
| 1822 |
St. James' hospital at Lynn rebuilt |
| 1824 |
Public meeting at Lynn Town Hall to launch a 'Gas Light Company' |
| 1826 |
Road/bridge built over Cross Keys Wash through Marshland to Lincs. |
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Lynn cattle market opened at Paradise field |
| 1827 |
William Aickman established his foundry at Lynn |
| 1828 |
Establishment of effective police force in London |
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New mill to supply water built at Kettlemills on Gaywood River Lynn |
| 1830 |
William IV succeeds George IV |
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Beer Act |
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Lynn Market House constructed in Tuesday Market Place |
| 1831 |
Population of Lynn 13,370 |
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Turnpike Act to amend roads branching from East and South gates |
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Ouse Bank Commissioners awarded £46,000 to maintain river bank |
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Cholera strikes Lynn |
| 1832 |
Reform Act gives vote to upper middle classes |
| 1834 |
National education begun |
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Poor Law Amendment Act |
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175 gas street lights in Lynn |
| 1835 |
Municipal Corporations Act |
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West Norfolk & Kings Lynn Hospital opened off London road Lynn |
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St. James' Workhouse became the Union Workhouse |
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122 vessels registered at Lynn Custom house |
| 1836 |
Birth of Mrs Beeton |
| 1837 |
Queen Victoria succeeds William IV |
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Invention of telegraph by S F B Morse |
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Sir William Bagge becomes MP for West Norfolk |
| 1838 |
First steam crossing of the Atlantic |
| 1839 |
First Grand National at Aintree |
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First true bicycle constructed by Kirkpatrick Macmillan |
| 1840 |
Victoria marries Prince Albert |
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Penny post established in Great Britain |
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Development of photography |
| 1841 |
Robert Peel becomes Prime Minister |
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Population of Lynn 16,039 |
| 1842 |
British school opened in Blackfriars Road Lynn |
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Conversazione and Society of Arts formed at Lynn |
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Establishment of the Lynn Advertiser & West Norfolk Herald |
| 1844 |
First Norfolk railway opened between Norwich and Yarmouth |
| 1846 |
Repeal of Corn Laws begins Free Trade |
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Lynn to Downham & Narborough railway line opened |
| 1847 |
Working day for women and children limited to 10 hours |
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New Cut opened to drain Middle Level of Fens |
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Railway from Lynn to Downham extended to Ely thence London |
| 1848 |
Lynn MP Lord Stanley visited town |
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Lynn cattle market expanded on to site of old Framingham's hospital |
| 1849 |
St Margaret's National School for 500 pupils in Greyfriars road |
| 1850 |
235 gas street lights in Lynn |
| 1851 |
Great Exhibition opened in Hyde Park |
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First cable to Calais |
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Population of Lynn 19,355 |
| 1852 |
William Lee's Report into Sewage, Drainage, etc. of Lynn |
| 1853 |
Estuary Cut opened improving port of Lynn access to Wash |
| 1854 |
Britain and France declare war on Russia - Crimean War |
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Lynn's first public baths built on Common Staithe Quay |
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Corn Exchange built at cost of £2500 on site of Lynn Market House |
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Athenaeum opened on Baxter's plain Lynn at a cost of £6400 |
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The Stanley library founded at Lynn |
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Tower of St. James' Chapel fell down |
| 1855 |
Borough cemetery opened at Hardwick road Lynn |
| 1856 |
End of Crimean War |
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Formation of Lynn Gas & Coke Company (Limited) |
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Boal quay built by the Corporation of Lynn near the Friars |
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New King's Lynn Union Workhouse completed in Exton's road |
| 1857 |
Sepoy mutiny in India |
| 1858 |
Formation of Volunteers |
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Drinking fountain and public lamp erected in Tuesday Market place |
| 1859 |
Formation of 5th or Lynn Company of Rifle Volunteers |
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Savings Bank built in St James Street Lynn |
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Anglican St John's Church opened in Lynn |
| 1860 |
Refreshment Houses & Wine Licences Bill |
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Church of England Young Men's Society commenced at Lynn |
| 1861 |
Death of Prince Consort |
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Population of Lynn 16,701 |
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Lynn County Court built |
| 1862 |
Prince of Wales acquired Sandringham Estate |
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Creation of Great Eastern Railway |
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Station built at South Lynn for Midlands & North |
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Railway line from Lynn to Hunstanton opened |
| 1863 |
Great Eastern Railway Co. offer part funding for dock |
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1780 tons of corn passed through port of Lynn |
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1100 tons each of wheat and barley sold at Lynn Corn Exchange |
| 1864 |
Pilot Office erected on Common Staithe Quay |
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First exhibition of Lynn Horticultural Society |
| 1865 |
Transatlantic cable completed |
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Lynn Dock & Railway Company set up to build Alexandra Dock |
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High or Stone Bridge at Lynn taken down |
| 1866 |
Purfleet at Lynn culverted |
| 1868 |
Foundation stone laid for Alexandra dock at Lynn |
| 1869 |
Opening of Suez Canal |
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Lynn Alexandra Dock opens - used by 165 vessels |
| 1870 |
Foster's Education Act (Compulsory) |
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Electric incandescent lamp invented by T.A. Edison |
| 1871 |
Prince of Wales (Edward VII) catches typhoid fever |
| 1872 |
Central Lynn's wooden railway station replaced |
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First board meeting of West Norfolk Farmers' Manure Co. Ltd. |
| 1873 |
Invention of pianoforte by J. Broadwood |
| 1874 |
Sir William Bagge retires as MP for West Norfolk |
| 1876 |
Invention of the telephone by A.G. Bell |
| 1877 |
Victoria proclaimed Empress of India |
| 1879 |
Zulu War - massacre of British soldiers |
| 1880 |
79 vessels registered at Lynn Custom house |
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Over 580 vessels used the Alexandra dock Lynn |
| 1881 |
Population of Lynn 17,362 |
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Formation of King's Lynn Police Band |
| 1883 |
Bentinck Dock Lynn opened |
| 1884 |
General Gordon reaches Khartoum |
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Stanley Library built at Lynn |
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Jermyn & Perry's shop at Lynn burnt down |
| 1885 |
General Gordon killed at Khartoum |
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Frederick Savage patented device for galloping horses on carousel |
| 1887 |
Queen Victoria's Jubilee |
