This article is intended to show a timeline of the history of Glasgow up to the present day.
1900-1999
1902: 20 football fans die at Ibrox; magistrates ban barmaids
1903: Charles Rennie Mackintosh builds Miss Cranston's Tearooms
1904: The Kings' and Pavilion Theatres open
1905: Theatre Royal opens
1905-1907: The Caledonian Railway extends the Central Hotel
1907-1911: New buildings for the Mitchell Library are constructed
1909: Charles Rennie Mackintosh's School of Art opens
1910: Emigration leads to 20,000 housing vacancies in Glasgow
1911: International Exposition at Kelvingrove; Glasgow's population is 785,000
1914: Tramcars cover wide routes around Glasgow
1919: Large strike for a 40-hour week
1921: Sinn Feiners murder policeman
1923: Glasgow railways are grouped as part of the new London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS)
1925: There are approximately 200 miles of tramlines and 1100 trams in and around the city
1926: Violence during General Strike
1929: Hogmanay cinema fire kills 69 children; Glasgow has nearly 100 cinemas
1932: The Dental Hospital in Sauchiehall Street is built
1934: Unemployed "Hunger marchers" shunned by Ramsay MacDonald; "Queen Mary" launched
1935: Glasgow's subway becomes electric
1936: Overcrowding exists in 29% of Glasgow's houses
1937: Citywide automatic telephone dialling becomes available
1938: Glasgow hosts Empire Exhibition at Bellahouston Park
1939: World War II: Glasgow naval base HMS Spartiate opens
1940: Bomb hits Merkland St station, closes underground for four months
1941: Bombing raids on Clydebank, 500 killed
1944: Glasgow trams carry about 14 million passengers
1946: Glasgow naval base HMS Spartiate closes
1949: Trolley buses introduced, condemned by pedestrians as the 'whispering death'
1950: Eye infirmary demolished
1951: Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD) is formed by merger
1952-1955: Union Bank of Scotland absorbed by Bank of Scotland
1958: William Burrell dies, bequeaths Burrell Collection; Lanarkshire County Council moves its headquarters from Ingram Street to Hamilton
1960: Duke Street prison closed
1962: Trams stopped running
1964: University of Strathclyde established; Beeching closes low-level (Argyle) line
1966: Buchanan Street and St Enoch railway stations close
1967: Celtic first British winners of European Cup; QE2 launched; trolley-buses abandoned
1969: Last daily steamers from Bridge Wharf
1970: M8 and Kingston Bridge open
1971: 66 fans die at Ibrox; Government refuse to save Clyde shipbuilders
1975: Troops tackle rubbish caused by dustmans strike; Glasgow becomes the home of Strathclyde Region's headquarters
1979-1980: Low level Argyle Line re-opens
1982: Roy Jenkins wins Hillhead by-election for SDP
1983: Burrell Collection opens
1985: Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre opens; Glasgow population is 734,000
1988: The Glasgow Garden Festival hosts this year's National Garden Festival and attracts 4.3 million visitors.
1989: High number of poll tax arrears; St Enoch Centre opens
1990: Cultural city of Europe; McLellan Galleries re-opens; Glasgow Royal Concert Hall completed; the QE2 returns to the river Clyde to mark the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Cunard Steam Ship Company.
1993: Opening of the new St Mungo’s Museum, the UK’s only Museum of Religion, next to the city’s 13th century cathedral.
1996: Glasgow Festival of Visual Arts; opening of the Gallery of Modern Art in the former Stirling’s Library; first Glasgow International Festival of Design
1996-1999: Festival of Architecture and Design
1997: Opening of new £38 million Clyde Auditorium at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre.
1999: Glasgow is UK City of Architecture and Design; Buchanan Galleries open; millenium celebrations
2000-2005
2002: Final of UEFA Champion's League held at Hampden Park. Real Madrid beat Bayer Leverkusen 2-1.
See also
Sources
- The Oxford Companion to Scottish History, ed. Michael Lynch, Oxford University Press, 2001
- The Making of Scotland, Robin Smith, Canongate Books, 2001
- The Hutchinson Encyclopedia, 1997 ed., Helicon Publishing Ltd, 1996
- Chronicle of Britain, Chronicle Communications Ltd, 1992
- Glasgow Guide
