The
World |
Year |
Stratford
upon Avon Canal |
| Canal
mania at its height
Cotton gin invented
Louis XVI executed |
1793 |
Initial
Act authorising construction |
First horse-drawn
railroad in England
Metric system adopted in France
|
1795 |
Act
to alter the line to make junction with the Warwick and Birmingham
canal at Kingswood |
Smallpox
vaccination introduced |
1796 |
Canal
opened to Hockley Heath |
Atomic
theory proposed |
1802 |
24th
May, canal opened to junction with Warwick and Birmingham canal |
First
bicycle
Pride and Prejudice published |
1813 |
Canal
opened to Wootton Wawen in July |
Economic
crisis - massive emigration to USA and Canada |
1816 |
Canal
opened throughout on 24th June |
Principles
of electromagnetism discovered |
1821 |
Reservoir
built at Earlswood |
Queen
Victoria on the throne
Oliver Twist published |
1838 |
Trade
in coal peaked at 181,708 tons in the year |
Crimean
War ended |
1856 |
Canal
sold to the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway Co |
Alice
in Wonderland published
First Trans-Atlantic cable laid |
1865 |
Ownership
passed to the Great Western Railway Co |
Berlin
airlift |
1948 |
Ownership
passed to the state on the nationalisation of railways |
Cuban
revolution |
1956 |
Stratford
Canal Club reformed into the Stratford upon Avon Canal Society |
First
US satellite launched |
1958 |
12th
June, Warwickshire County Council applied for an Act of Abandonment |
First
microchip made |
1959 |
22nd
May, notification that application for warrant of abandonment had
failed |
16
African nations become independent |
1960 |
29th
September, National Trust formally takes over southern section of
canal |
First
man in space |
1961 |
Work
started to re-open canal |
Beatlemania
in USA |
1964 |
Canal
re-opened to navigation on 11th July by Queen Elizabeth the Queen
Mother |
Lockerbie
bombing of 747 |
1988 |
Responsibility
for the southern section passes to British Waterways on 1st April |
Berlin
Wall demolished |
1989 |
"SC25"
Canal Society organises celebrations of twenty five years since re-opening |
Concorde
grounded |
2000 |
Canal
Society marks the millennium by erecting mile-posts along the full
length of the canal |
European
Union enlarged to 25 members |
2004 |
Canal
Society celebrated 40 years since the re-opening |
80th
birthday of Queen |
2006 |
Canal
Society celebrates 50 years since it was formed |
