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Manchester was the subject of Friedrich Engels' The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, Engels himself spending much of his life in and around Manchester. Manchester was also an important cradle of the Labour Party and the Suffragette Movement. [citation needed] Manchester's golden age was perhaps the last quarter of the 19th ...
28 February: The Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester is founded. [19] "Manchester Infirmary, Lunatic Asylum and Public Baths" opens near Piccadilly as the country's first public baths. [20] 1782 – Shudehill Mill is opened as a cotton mill by Arkwright, Simpson and Whitenburgh. 1783 – First guidebook to Manchester published, A ...
The University of Manchester is the second largest full-time non-collegiate university in the United Kingdom, [211] created in 2004 by the merger of Victoria University of Manchester, founded in 1904, and UMIST, founded in 1956, [212] having developed from the Mechanics' Institute founded, as indicated in the university's logo, in 1824.
Around this time the earliest mentions of Britain appear in the annals of history. The first historical mention of the region is from the Massaliote Periplus, a sailing manual for merchants thought to date to the 6th century BC, and Pytheas of Massilia wrote of his voyage of discovery to the island around 325 BC. Both of these texts are now ...
M. Mamucium; Manchester (ancient parish) Manchester (ancient township) Manchester (Wythenshawe) Aerodrome; Manchester and Salford Police; Manchester and Salford Wesleyan Methodist Mission
Manchester United Football Club, ... In 1993, in the first season of the newly founded Premier League, the club won their first league title since 1967, ...
He was also editor of the paper from 1861 to 1872. He bought the Manchester Evening News from its founder Mitchell Henry in 1868 and was owner, then co-owner, until his death. He had no children; after his death the Evening News passed into the hands of his nephews in the Allen family, while the Guardian was sold to its editor, his cousin C. P ...
Chairman of Newton Heath LYR FC (now Manchester United) John Henry Davies (c. 1864 – 24 October 1927) was a wealthy British brewery owner who in 1902 took over the football club Manchester United , which was then called Newton Heath.