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The Saltley Handaxe illustrated by John Evans in 1897. The oldest human artefact found within Birmingham is the Saltley Handaxe: a 500,000-year-old brown quartzite hand axe about 100 millimetres (3.9 in) long, discovered in the gravels of the River Rea at Saltley in 1892.
Birmingham (/ ˈ b ɜːr m ɪ ŋ h æ m / BUR-ming-ham) is a city in the north central region of Alabama, United States. Birmingham is the county seat of Jefferson County, Alabama's most populous county.
1154 – Lord of the manor Peter de Birmingham has the charter to hold a market in Birmingham on every Thursday, transforming the village into a town. 1160 – The first stone church building is erected on the site of St. Mary's Church, Handsworth.
National Register of Historic Places in Birmingham, Alabama (55 P) Pages in category "History of Birmingham, Alabama" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
As Birmingham was the center of industry and population in Alabama, in 1963 civil rights leaders chose to mount a campaign there for desegregation. Schools, restaurants and department stores were segregated; no African Americans were hired to work in the stores where they shopped or in the city government supported in part by their taxes.
A Philosopher Giving that Lecture on the Orrery, in which a Lamp is put in place of the Sun, by Joseph Wright of Derby. The Midlands Enlightenment, also known as the West Midlands Enlightenment [1] or the Birmingham Enlightenment, [2] was a scientific, economic, political, cultural and legal manifestation of the Age of Enlightenment that developed in Birmingham and the wider English Midlands ...
"The Birth-place of Birmingham Art" - Joseph Barber's studio in Edmund Street, Birmingham Birmingham's tradition in applied arts such as jewellery and metalwork predates the Industrial Revolution, [2] but organised activity in the fine arts of drawing, painting and printmaking began only with the town's huge growth in size and wealth in the 18th century, [3] after the growing realisation of ...
Birmingham was the terminus for both of the world's first two long-distance railway lines: the 82-mile (132 km) Grand Junction Railway of 1837 and the 112-mile (180 km) London and Birmingham Railway of 1838. [86] Birmingham schoolteacher Rowland Hill invented the postage stamp and created the first modern universal postal system in 1839. [87]