Web Timeline - Local Events

1837 Wrexham Poor Law Union workhouse opens

1838 Wrexham Infirmary opens on Regent Street

1846 Wrexham - Chester railway line opens

1848 Wrexham - Shrewsbury railway line opens

1857 Militia Barracks & St Mary's Catholic Church built on Regent Street

1864-1867 Piped water system installed in Wrexham

1866 Wrexham, Mold & Connah's Quay railway opens

1872 Wrexham Association Football Club founded

1876 Wrexham Art Treasures & Industrial Exhibition and horse-drawn trams start operating in Wrexham

1877 Royal Welsh Fusiliers' new barracks in High Town

1883 Wrexham Lager Brewery starts production

1887 Wrexham Central Station opens

1889 Queen Victoria visits Wrexham and Ruabon

1895 Wrexham & Ellesmere Railway opens

1898 Borough Council purchase Market rights in Wrexham

1903 Electric tram service starts in Wrexham and closes 1927

1912 John Jones, brewer, leaves Roseneath, land and £50,000 for the establishment of a new hospital for Wrexham

1913 House building starts in Garden Village

1926 Wrexham & East Denbighshire War Memorial Hospitalopens and local man, John Parry Thomas, sets a new world land speed record

1934 Gresford Colliery Disaster

1946 Poles arrive at Penley, Isycoed and Wynnstay

1950 Wrexham first aspires to city status

1953 Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation tour visit to Wrexham

1955 New Fire Station, Bradley Road opens

1969 Prince of Wales visits Wrexham on Investiture tour of Wales

1974 Gresford Colliery closes

1977-1978 Wrexham FC's greates ever season

1982 Gresford Colliery Disaster Memorial unveiled

1986 Wrexham Maelor Hospital opens

1987 Bersham Colliery closes

1990 Brymbo Steelworks closes

2000 Wrexham Lager Brewery closes

2002 Wrexham becomes the largest town in Wales

2004 People from new EU countries come to work in Wrexham

2005 Eagles Meadow redevelopment begins and new village built at former Brymbo steelworks

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