Georgian Era (1714-1836)
1713-14 - Baroque mansion built at Stainborough Hall (Wentworth Castle), one of Yorkshire's great houses
1709 - Horse races on Barnsley Moor
1719 - Samuel Buck's sketch of Barnsley. Barnsley Colliery working. Daniel Defoe travels through 'Black' Barnsley
1720 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu introduced inoculation of smallpox into England from Turkey
1727 - Barnsley noted for its 'goose pyes' associated with the September Michaelmas Fair
1734 - Gawber glassworks established
1733 - Smallpox still rife in Barnsley
1735 - Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds, manorial lord of Barnsley
1736 - Barnsley Workhouse established by Sir Francis Wood
c1744 - William Wilson, pioneer of Barnsley's emerging linen trade
1749 - Joseph Bramah, inventor and engineer, born Stainborough
c.1759- Palladian wing started at Stainborough Hall. Regular coach service 'If God permits' to London
c.1760-67 - Landscaping & building work at Cannon Hall, Cawthorne, country seat of the Spencers, by Richard Woods & John Carr
1775 - The now famous 'Barnsley Chop' on the menu at the Kings Head Hotel
1776 - Sir Thomas Hallifax, son of a Barnsley clockmaker, Mayor of London
1777 - Enclosure of Barnsley
1778-1810 - Further work by John Carr at Cannon Hall
1786 - John Wesley preaches in yard of Old White Bear, Barnsley 'famous for all manner of wickedness'
1790 - A 'football match' on Market Hill caused traders to shut shop
1795-99 - Barnsley Canal opened. Newcomen-type engine installed at Elsecar, the only one in the world surviving on its original site.
1804 - Dearne & Dove Canal opened
c1810 - Barnsley a centre of radical dissent
1816 - Watter Joe', Barnsley character, sells water in town
c.1820 - Barnsley a premier centre of the English linen trade
1822 - St George's, a 'Waterloo church' built
1823 - Bear & bull-baiting in Barnsley
1830 - Wood Bros glassworks at Worsbrough. Butterfield & Massies famous Drapery Emporium
1831 - Last bull-bait in Barnsley
1835 - Duchess of Kent & Princess Victoria in Barnsley
National/International Events:
1739 - John Wesley founds Methodist church
1789 - French Revolution
1815 - Battle of Waterloo
1825 - Stockton to Darlington Railway
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