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Barnsley's timeline  
 
Iron Age
(750BC-AD42)
Roman Britain
(AD43-409)
Invaders
(410-1065AD)
Anglo Normans
(1066-1215)
Middle Ages
(1216-1347)
Tudor Period
(1485-1602)
Stuart Period
(1603-1713)
Georgian Era
(1714-1836)
Victorian Era
(1837-1901)
20th Century  
(1900-1959)
20th Century
(1960-1999)
 

20th Century  (1900-1959)
1903 - Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Barnsley

1904 - South Yorkshire Brass Band contest in Barnsley

1906 - Herbert Smith, President of Yorkshire Miners

1907 - Yorkshire Agricultural Show in Barnsley

1908 - Francis Chandler awarded first Edward Medal (later   George Cross) for act of bravery at Hoyland Silkstone Colliery

1911 - Keir Hardie in Barnsley

1912 - Barnsley win FA Cup replay at Bramall Lane.
National coalfield minimum wage strike. King George V and Queen Mary in Barnsley

1913 - Barnsley changes to County Borough status

1915 - Barnsley Pals' respond to Kitchener's call to arms.
Oaks Monument to rescue workers' bravery unveiled on Kendray Hill

1926 - Miners' strike: great distress & poverty in Barnsley & neighbourhood. Barnsley War Memorial unveiled

1929 - Beatson Clark take over old Rylands glassworks at Stairfoot. Pioneer radiotelegraphy engineer, Darfield-born Sir Henry Bradwardine, who worked with Marconi, dies

1932 - Barnsley Mining & Technical College opens

1933 - Barnsley Town Hall opened by Edward, Prince of Wales

1935 - North Gawber pit disaster, 19 killed

1936 - Wharncliffe Woodmoor  pit disaster, 58 killed. Oswald Mosley speaks in Barnsley. Widespread unemployment; 'Wicked Thirties'. George Orwell lives in Barnsley & visits pits.
Clement Atlee speaks in Barnsley. Jarrow Crusade.

1938 - Death in Barnsley of great miners' leader Herbert Smith

1943 - Bevin Boys in Barnsley pits

1947 - National Coal Board formed

1953 - Ex-miner Roy Mason becomes Barnsley's youngest  ever MP. Barnsley Canal abandoned. Barnsley FC transfer Tommy Taylor to Manchester United for c.£30,000

1957 - Cannon Hall opens as a country house museum

1958 - Harold Wilson in Barnsley Munich air crash: death of Tommy Taylor and  Wombwell-born Mark Jones

National/International Events:
1901 - Death of Queen Victoria
1903 - Women's suffrage
1910 - Edward VII dies
1914 - Great War starts
1918 - End of Great War
1926 - John Logie Baird's first television picture
1939 - Outbreak of  Second World War
1956 - Suez Crisis

 
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