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Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, which has an estimated population of 2.6 million...

Timeline of Events

1831

4.12.1831

Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse.

1858

1.30.1858

The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of the Hallé Orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.

1867

11.23.1867

The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish nationalists from custody.

1879

8.7.1879

The opening of the Poor Man's Palace in Manchester.

1904

5.4.1904

Charles Stewart Rolls meets Frederick Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England.

1996

6.15.1996

The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes a large bomb in the middle of Manchester, England.