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This article is intended to show a timeline of the history of Glasgow, Scotland, up to the present day.

500–1099

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  • 543: The 12th century Bishop Jocelyn will later claim Glasgow's monastic church was founded by Saint Kentigern, also known as Saint Mungo, in this year; he also claimed that Kentigern found at Glasgow a cemetery which Saint Ninian had hallowed[1]
  • 560: Jocelyn claims Mungo/Kentigern made his first bishop in this year

1100–1199

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1200–1299

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1300–1399

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1400–1499

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1500–1599

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  • c1500: Population estimate is 2,500 – 3,000[10]
  • 1504: Plague hits Glasgow; the city is eleventh among Scottish burghs for taxation revenue
  • c1510: The Bishop's Palace is extended[20]
  • 1516-1559: The city's craft guilds are incorporated
  • 1518: The university becomes more active
  • 1520: The archdiocese now includes the former diocese of Argyll
  • 1525: James Houston founds the Tron Church
  • 1535-1556: Glasgow pays 1.5% – 3% of total Scottish burgh taxes
  • 1544: Siege of castle;[21] estimated population is 3,000
  • 1556: Estimated population c4,500. Brewing recorded at site that will later become Wellpark Brewery
  • 1560: The burgh of Glasgow is now represented in the Parliament of Scotland
  • 1570: Andrew Melville rejuvenates the university
  • 1574: Plague hits the city again
  • c1576: The council mill is rebuilt
  • 1579: The city's cathedral is saved from demolition by craftsmen threatening to riot
  • 1581: Glasgow pays 66% of upper Clyde customs tax
  • 1584: Plague
  • 1589: Golf is played on Glasgow Green
  • 1593: Emergence of the Presbytery of Glasgow in the new self-governing church
  • 1594: Glasgow is now fifth in ranking of Scottish burghs, paying 4.5% of export customs

1600–1699

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  • 1600: Population estimates for the city vary between 5000 and 7500
  • 1604: 361 craftsmen work in fourteen trades, including two surgeons and 213 merchants
  • 1605: The Trades House and Merchants House combine to form the first town council
  • 1610: The General Assembly approves the restoration of diocesan episcopacy in Scotland
  • 1611: Glasgow becomes a royal burgh, with a population of about 7600
  • 1615: The Jesuit John Ogilvy is hanged for saying Mass[22]
  • 1621: Glasgow pays 3%-10% of Scottish customs duties
  • 1625: The first quay is built at Broomielaw
  • 1626: The Tolbooth is constructed
  • 1636: There are 120 students at the university
  • 1638: Covenanters at the General Assembly plan to abolish bishops
  • 1639: Glasgow the 3rd richest burgh in Scotland, one-fifth as rich as Edinburgh; Hutcheson's Hospital is founded
  • 1641: Hutchesons' Grammar School is founded for orphan boys; 50 buildings erected in Trongate
  • 1645: Montrose enters city, celebrates victories
  • 1645-1646: Plague hits city[10]
  • 1649: Glasgow displaces Perth as Scotland's 4th trading centre; pays 6.5% of customs duties
  • 1650: Oliver Cromwell enters Glasgow while on a campaign against the Scottish Army[23]
  • 1652: Major fire makes about a thousand families homeless;[24] an early fire engine from Edinburgh helps put out the blaze
  • 1655: Glasgow trades in coal, hoops, meal, oats, butter, herring, salt, paper, prunes, timber, and hides: goat, kid, and deerskins
  • 1656: Glasgow is described as a "flourishing city", with "strong stone walls"
  • 1659-1665: Bridgegate merchants' house is rebuilt
  • 1660: A coal pit is reported in the Gorbals
  • 1661: Several pits reported
  • 1662: A post office opens
  • 1663: Alexander Burnet is appointed archbishop[25]
  • 1668: Land is purchased for a new harbour – later Port Glasgow[10]
  • 1669: Burnet resigns the archbishopric, objects to Act of Supremacy[25]
  • 1670: Glasgow displaces Aberdeen and Dundee to become Scotland's second trade city
  • 1673: Colonel Walter Whiteford opens city's first coffee house
  • 1675: Magistrates take action against unauthorised prayer meetings
  • 1677: Another major fire hits the city, destroying 130 shops and houses[26]
  • 1678: First stagecoaches run to Edinburgh
  • 1680: The city's population is perhaps around 12,000, with 450 traders, 100 trading overseas
  • 1688: Broomielaw Quay is reconstructed following dredging of the River Clyde
  • 1690 Glasgow is re-chartered as a royal burgh; the city has an early Bank of Scotland branch

1700–1799

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  • 1702: the University of Glasgow has around 400 students
  • 1706: Anti-unionists riot;[27] Glasgow is a major smuggling port
  • 1707: Act of Union[28]
  • 1710: The city's population is estimated to be 13,000; over 200 shops are open; much of the city is liable to flooding
  • 1712: Glasgow owners own 4% of Scottish fleet, 46 vessels
  • 1715: Glasgow Courant newspaper first published[29]
  • 1718: Possible date for first Glasgow vessel to sail to America
  • 1719: Cotton printing has begun
  • 1720: Glasgow's estimated population is 15,000
  • 1721-1735: James Anderson builds "Andersontown" (modern-day Anderston) village
  • 1725: Glasgow occupied by General Wade's army; protests and street violence against liquor tax
  • 1726: Daniel Defoe describes Glasgow as "The cleanest and best-built city in Britain"; 50 ships a year sail to America
  • 1729: The Glasgow Journal newspaper is published
  • 1730: The Glasgow Linen Society is formed
  • 1735: The city's ship-owners own 67 ships
  • 1736: The first history of Glasgow is published by John McUre
  • 1737-1760: A new Town Hall is built west of the Tolbooth
  • 1738: The Anderston Weavers' Society is formed
  • 1740: Approximately 685,000 m of linen is made in Glasgow, some of which is sent to London. Hugh and Robert Tennent take over the Drygate Brewery
  • 1740-1741: The Foulis brothers begin printing
  • 1742: Delft pottery is manufactured in the city
  • 1743: The Foulis brothers become printers to the university
  • 1745: Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) enters the city with his army;[30] Tennents open a new brewery in Glasgow
  • 1749: A stage coach service opens between Edinburgh and Glasgow
  • 1750: There are five sugar refineries in the city
  • 1751: The John Smith bookshop is established
  • 1753: Foulis Academy is established at the university to promote art and design; turnpiking of main roads from Glasgow; the city's involvement in the tobacco trade is reflected in the naming of Virginia Street
  • 1755: The estimated population of Glasgow is 23,500[27]
  • 1757: 2.2 million metres of linen are produced in the city
  • 1760: Glasgow enjoys a wave of prosperity; there are 13 professors at Glasgow University
  • 1762: Joseph Black discovers latent heat
  • 1763: David Dale opens a draper's shop in the city; regular coaches run from Glasgow to Greenock
  • 1769: Tennents brewers is now a large industry; James Watt patents his steam engine condenser
  • 1771: The Scottish economy is boosted by trade through Glasgow
  • 1775: Trade with America in tobacco, sugar, and cotton – the city's prosperity is at its height
  • 1776: Adam Smith, a professor at Glasgow University, publishes Wealth of Nations[31]
  • 1779: Mobs protest against the Catholic Relief Act
  • 1780: The estimated population of Glasgow is 42,000;[27] the construction of the Forth and Clyde Canal is completed
  • 1781: Vessels of over 30 tons can now reach Broomielaw Quay
  • 1782-1783: The Forth and Clyde Canal enables grain from London to ease famine in Glasgow
  • 1783: Glasgow Chamber of Commerce is founded, it is the first in Britain[31]
  • 1785: A hot air balloonist flies from Glasgow to Hawick in the Borders; the firm of Thomsons is formed as bankers
  • 1794: Glasgow Royal Infirmary opens[32]
  • 1796: The Royal Technical College (which will later become The University of Strathclyde) is founded
  • 1798: The Merchant Banking Company of Glasgow fails
  • 1799: Demonstrations over bread prices; trade in tobacco and rum declines

1800–1899

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1900–1999

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2000–2021

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See also

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References

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  • Lynch, Michael, ed. (2001). The Oxford companion to Scottish history. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-211696-7.
  • Williamson, Elizabeth; Riches, Anne; Higgs, Malcolm (2005). Glasgow. New Haven, Conn. [u.a.]: Yale Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-300-09674-3.
  • Naughton, Nuala (2014). Glasgow's East End: From Bishops to Barraboys. Random House. p. 33. ISBN 9781780577975.
  • Foreman, Carol (2002). Lost Glasgow : Glasgow's lost architectural heritage. Birlinn. ISBN 978-1-84158-278-8.

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Further reading

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Published in the 18th century
  • John Tait's Directory for the City of Glasgow, Glasgow, 1783. (1871 reprint)
  • Jones's Directory; or, Useful Pocket Companion for the year 1787. Glasgow.. (1887 reprint)
Published in the 19th century
Published in the 20th century
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