Timeline of Leicester

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### Prehistory

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* c 750 BCE — legendary foundation by Leir of Britain according to Geoffrey of Monmouth’s work Historia Regum Britanniae.[1] This origin myth, dating to the 12th cent and based on Lier’s name, is not supported by archaeology.
* c 100 BCE — the Corieltauvi Tribe develop an Oppidum on the eastern bank of the River Soar (approx. date).[2] The settlement had the northernmost Iron Age coin mint yet discovered in Europe.[3]

### 1st century CE (AD)

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* 44-46 CE – Roman Conquest of the area by Legio XIV Gemina under Aulus Plautius.[4]
* 48 — Both the Fosse Way and the Via Devana were constructed meeting one another near the Iron Age oppidum (approx. date).[5]
* c 48-60 — The Corieltauvi were recognised as Civitas stipendaria and the Romanised settlement of Ratae Corieltauvorum was formally recognised as their capital (approx. date).[5]

### 2nd century

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* 122 — the Emperor Hadrian visited the growing municipium of Ratae and encourages new building projects.[6]
* 130 – Jewry Wall constructed (approx. date).[7][1]
* 145 – Public baths constructed (approx. date).[2]
* 150 – The "Blackfriars Pavement" was laid (approx. date).[8][3]
* 155 – The "Peacock Pavement" laid (approx. date).[8]

### 4th century

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* 360 — major fire destroyed the public baths and many other buildings never to be rebuilt.[9]

### 5th century

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* 400-407 — end of Roman occupation (approx date).

## Medieval period

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### 7th century

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* 680 — Cuthwine was installed as the first Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Leicester.

### 9th century

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* 840 — According to local tradition Saint Wigstan, a young prince of Mercia, was martyred at Wistow just south of the city on the Kalends (1st) of June.[10]
* 874 – Leicester ceased to be a diocesan seat when the last Saxon Bishop flees the invading Danes. He settled at Dorchester and his successors ultimately become the Bishops of Lincoln.[11]
* 877 – The Danes were in power and Leicester became one of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw.[12][13]
* 880 – The nave of St Nicholas' Church dates to this time (next to Jewry Wall (approx. date).[7]

### 10th century

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* 971 — Bishops of Leicester in exile at Dorchester and Lindsey merged to form one bishopric.[14]

### 11th century

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* 1070 – The Norman Conquerors reached the city. Leicester Castle was built (approx. date).[7]
* 1072 — The ancient bishopric of Dorchester, Leicester and Lindsey in exile, was moved to Lincoln under the new Norman bishop Remigius de Fécamp. Leicester and Leicestershires churches became part of the Diocese of Lincoln until 1541.[15]
* 1086 — The Domesday Survey report on the town of Ledecestre (Leicester):
* The walled town occupied 130 acres and had 322 houses.[16]
* The town had 6 parish churches in addition to St Nicholas of which 3 survive in some form today:
* All Saints,
* St Margaret's,
* & St Martin's.
* And three parish churches which do not:
* St Clement’s, later the Blackfriars Church,
* St Michael’s,
* & St Peter’s.[17][18]
* There were 65 Burgesses or Freemen (the ancestor of the current Guild of Leicester Freemen).[19]
* The town was governed by a Portmanmoot of 24 Jurats elected from among the Burgesses (the ancestor of the 1589 Corporation & the modern City Council).[20]
* Leicester Market (known as the Saturday Shambles) was active.[21]

### 12th century

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* 1107 — Robert de Beaumont Count of Meulan was made first Earl of Leicester and granted possession of the castle and the old Roman town by King Henry I.[7]
* St Mary de Castro was founded by the 1st Earl as a collegiate church to serve the castle's residents.[22][23][7]
* Beaumont confirmed the rights and privileges of the Portmanmoot and its Burgesses.[24]
* 1143 – Leicester Abbey was founded by Robert le Bossu, 2nd Earl of Leicester for the canons previously resident at St Mary de Castro. All city parishes were placed under its control.[12][25][7]
* 1173 — Leicester was besieged after Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester became a principal rebel in a revolt against Henry II. Castle Keep destroyed and much of the north west of the city damaged.[26][27]

### 13th century

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* c 1220-1260 – The mendicant orders establish communities in the city:
* c 1230 — the Greyfriars,
* c 1247 — the Blackfriars,
* c 1254 — the Austinfriars.
* 1228 – Leicester fair active.[21]
* 1231 — Expulsion of the Jews of Leicester. The 6th Earl of Leicester Simon de Montfort expelled the Jewish community to beyond the town walls, the first of such official pogroms preceding the national Edict of Expulsion in 1290.[28]

### 14th century

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* 1307 - Edward III. granted a fair for 17 days after Trinity Sunday.[7]
* 1330 - Trinity Hospital was founded.[29][30]
* 1350 - Guild of Corpus Christi constituted.[31][4]
* 1389 - Noted Leicester priest and Lollard William Swinderby was forced to recant his heresy publicly in all the city's major churches as well as those at Market Harborough and Melton Mowbray by the church court at Lincoln. Later burned at the stake in London in 1401.[32]
* 1390 - Corpus Christi Guildhall built (approx. date).[5][6]
* 1393 - Philip Repyngdon, canon of Leicester Abbey and repentant Lollard, made Abbot of Leicester.[33]

### 15th century

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* 1419 - Margery Kempe (pilgrim, travel writer, and first English autobiographer) makes a pilgrimage to Leicester Abbey, was accused of heresy by the Lord Mayor of Leicester, tried in All Saints Church, and acquitted by the Abbot of Leicester Richard Rothley.[34]
* 1427 — the 5 year old King Henry VI resided in Leicester Castle.[35]
* 1444 – Most of St Margaret's Church was rebuilt, including the West Tower (approx. date).[23]
* 1485 – Richard III spends his last night in Leicester before the Battle of Bosworth Field. He slept at the Blue Boar Inn on what is today Highcross Street. His body was afterwards brought back to the town and buried at Greyfriars.[36][37]

## Early Modern period

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### 16th century

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* 1511 - Wigston's Chantry House was built in the Newarke (approximate date).[30][7]
* 1513 - Wyggeston Hospital founded.[29]
* 1530 - Cardinal Thomas Wolsey dies at Leicester Abbey.
* 1534 - The parish churches of the city, county, and wider Diocese of Lincoln formally ceased to be Roman Catholic. This was due to Henry VIII’s First Act of Supremacy and the secession of the Church of England from Papal authority.[38]
* 1535 - In the first round of the Dissolution of the Monasteries the smaller monastic houses of Leicestershire were surrendered to the king, the community chapters were broken up, and the monastic buildings gradually demolished. In the city this effected two houses:
* The Greyfriars
* & the Austin Friars,[39]
* 1538 - In the second round of the dissolution of the monasteries all other monastic houses in the city and county suffer the same fate including:
* Leicester Abbey,
* & St Clement’s Dominican Priory.[25][39]
* 1541 - Leicesters churches transfer from the control of Lincoln Diocese to the newly established Diocese of Peterborough.
* 1548 - The Guild of Corpus Christi was dissolved.[16]
* 1550 - The Free Grammar School was established by this year using money left by William Wyggeston (ancestor of the current Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College).[40]
* 1554 - The city's churches temporarily return to Roman Catholic observance thanks to the See of Rome Act.[41]
* 1556 - Thomas Moor (also spelled Moore) was burned for heresy at Leicester on June 26th.[42][n 1]
* 1558 - The Act of Uniformity, the first part of the Elizabethan Settlement, returns Leicesters churches to state Protestantism.[43]
* 1589 - Elizabeth I issues a Royal Charter establishing the Corporation of Leicester as a replacement for the Moot of Burgesses. It was granted the privilege of sharing the motto “Semper Eadem” with the monarch.[30]
* 1595 - Skeffington House was built in the Newarke (approximate date).[30][8]

### 17th century

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* 1616 — Leicester Boy Trials. A famous witch trial instigated by a 13 year old boy who accused 15 women. 9 of the accused were hanged, 1 died in prison, and 5 were released on the order of King James I during his visit to the city that summer. The incident was the inspiration for Ben Jonson’s play The Devil Is an Ass.[44]
* 1642 – Charles I passes through Leicester before raising his standard at Nottingham.[45]
* 1645 – The Siege of Leicester during the English Civil War.[45][46]
* 1680 - Knitting frames for hosiery were introduced about this time.[7]

### 18th century

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* 1708 — Great Meeting House constructed for the towns Protestant Dissenters on East Bond Street. Today Leicester Unitarian Chapel.[47]
* 1717 — Last English witch trial conducted by Leicester Assizes. The two accused women were both acquitted by the jury who disregarded the testimony of 25 witnesses.[48][49]
* 1751 – Leicester Journal newspaper begins publication.[50]
* 1770 – Daniel Lambert was born in Leicester [51]
* 1771 – Leicester Royal Infirmary opens.[52]
* 1773 – The High Cross in High Street was removed.[17]
* 1785 – The Greencoat School was established with money left by Alderman Gabriel Newton .[40]
* 1792 – Leicester Chronicle newspaper begins publication.[53]
* 1794 - The corporation sanctioned several fairs.[7]

## 19th century

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### 1800s \- 1810s

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* 1800 – Leicester Medical Book Society founded.[54]
* 1801 – Population: 17,005.[55]
* 1804 – The South Fields were enclosed.[23]
* 1806 – Racecourse established.[55]
* 1816 — James Towle, notable Luddite, was executed in the city on November 20th. Two more Luddites were executed the following year.[56]
* 1817 – Leicester Savings Bank established.[31]

### 1820s

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* 1821 – Leicester Gas Company is established.[57]
* 1825 – Wharf Street Cricket Ground opens, home to the Leicestershire County Cricket Club.[9]
* 1827 — St George parish church, constructed to serve the new suburb built in South Fields, completed.[58]
* 1828 – The new Leicester Prison opens on Welford Road.[23]

### 1830s

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* 1832 — Leicester and Swannington Railway begins operating.[59]
* 1835 – Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society founded.[60][61]
* 1836
* Leicester Borough Police Force was established.[62]
* The Theatre Royal opens in Horsefair Street.[23]
* 1838
* Union Workhouse built.[31][61]
* Holy Trinity Parish Church first constructed.[63]

### 1840s

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* 1840 
The Midland Counties Railway from Derby to Rugby opened, with a station at Campbell Street, Leicester.[64]
* 1845 – Particular Baptist Chapel opens.[29]
* 1849
* Chamber of Commerce established.[31]
* Leicester Museum & Art Gallery opens [61][10]

### 1850s

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* 1851
* A pumping station was built near the River Soar under the Leicester Sewerage Act.[25]
* Leicester Secular Society first established, the first Freethought Secular Society in the world.[65]
* 1853
* Rowe's Circulating Library in business.[66]
* Leicester gains its first piped water supply [61]
* 1857
* Hitchin-Leicester railway begins operating.[31]
* Leicester Guardian newspaper begins publication.[31]

### 1860s

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* 1861 – Population: 68,056.[55]
* 1862 – Joseph Merrick, the "Elephant Man", was born in Leicester [67]
* 1863 – The Old Bow Bridge was demolished and replaced with an iron bridge.[68]
* 1864
* South Leicestershire Railway (Hinckley-Leicester) begins operating.[31]
* Leicester balloon riot
* 1866
* Leicester's first working men's club opens [61]
* The Collegiate School for Girls opens.[40]
* 1867
* Major restoration work to St Martin's Church begun in 1860 was completed; the tower and spire having been dismantled and rebuilt.[18]
* Leicester Secular Society refounded.[65]
* 1868 – Haymarket Memorial Clock Tower erected.[31]

### 1870s

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* 1870 - Leicester School of Art founded (ancestor of the Leicester Polytechnic College and todays De Montfort University).
* 1871
* Population: 95,084.[55]
* The Free Library opens in Wellington Street.[61][69]
* 1872
* Leicester Borough Fire Brigade was established.[61]
* St Mark's Parish Church, Belgrave consecrated.[70]
* 1874
* Leicester's first horse-drawn tram service begins operating, from the Clock Tower to Belgrave.[61][69]
* Leicester Mercury newspaper begins publication.
* 16th April - St. Peter’s Parish Church, Highfields consecrated.[71]
* 1875 – Trams begin operating from the town centre to Victoria Park and Humberstone.[61]
* 1876
* Leicester Town Hall was built.[61]
* Leicester Co-operative Hosiery Manufacturing Society organised.[72]
* 1877
* The Wyggeston Hospital School opens.[40]
* Skating rink opens in Rutland Street.[69]
* Leicester Bicycling Club active (approximate date).[73]
* The Opera House opens in Silver Street.[74]
* St Saviour’s Parish Church consecrated.[75]
* 1878 – Leicestershire County Cricket Club's new ground at Grace Road opens [11]
* 1878 - Leicestershire Lawn Tennis Club Established [12]
* 1879 – The first municipal swimming baths open in Bath Lane.[61]

### 1880s

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* 1880 – Leicester Tigers Rugby Union Football Club was founded [13]
* 1881
* Population: 122,351.[55]
* Leicester Secular Hall built by the Secular Society on Humberstone Gate.[76]
* 1882
* Victoria Park and Abbey Park open.[61][77]
* Holy Cross Priory is established on land between New Walk & Wellington Street. First Roman Catholic church to be consecrated in the city since the reformation & a refoundation for the Blackfriars after the dissolution of St Clement’s Priory in 1538.[78]
* 1884 – Leicester Fosse football club formed.
* 1885 – Leicester and Leicestershire Photographic Society founded.[79]
* 1886 – Spinney Hill Park opens.[61]
* 1889
* Leicester became a County borough per Local Government Act 1888.
* Leicester Branch of the Socialist League organised.[54]

### 1890s

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* 1890 - Church of the Martyrs on Westcotes Drive was consecrated.[80]
* 1891
* Population: 174,624.[55]
* Filbert Street stadium opens.
* Abbey Pumping Station in operation.[14]
* The Borough of Leicester was greatly enlarged by the Leicester Extension Act, with the addition of Aylestone, Belgrave, Knighton, Newfoundpool and parts of Braunstone, Evington and Humberstone.[61]

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* 1892
* Leicester Tigers move to their new home at Welford Road Stadium[15]
* London Road Station replaced Campbell Street Station.[81]
* Belgrave became part of Leicester[82]
* 1894 – Leicester Fosse joined the Football League.[83]
* 1896
* Leicester Corporation purchases Gilroes and begins laying out a cemetery there.[25]
* All of the civil parishes within the Borough of Leicester were merged into a single parish.[61]
* 1898 – The Grand Hotel was built in Granby Street.[citation needed]
* 1899
* British United Shoe Machinery was established in Belgrave Road.[84]
* Leicester Central railway station opened. (closed 1969)

## 20th century

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### 1900s

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* 1901
* Population: 211,579.[7]
* St James the Greater Parish Church was consecrated, 25th July.[85]
* 1904 – The conversion of Leicester's horse-drawn trams to electric trams was completed.[61]
* 1905 - Leicester General Hospital opened.
* 1906 – Future Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald was elected as one of the two MPs for Leicester.[86]

### 1910s

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* 1911 — ‘Great Fire of Leicester’ - Church of St. George the Martyr & surrounding factories (todays Cultural Quarter) gutted by fire on October 5th & subsequently rebuilt.[87][88]
* 1913 – De Montfort Hall opens.
* 1918-1919 - the Spanish Influenza epidemic kills approximately 1600 people in Leicester.[89]
* 1919
* King George V and Queen Mary made a state visit the city on 10th June.[90]
* Leicester granted city status in the aftermath of the Royal visit in June. It was seen as a restoration of the historic city status held during Roman times.[61][91]

### 1920s

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* 1920 – The City Boys School opens.[40]
* 1921
* Population: 234,000.[61]
* The University College of Leicester was established.[92]
* 1923 – In the General Election, Winston Churchill is the Liberal candidate in Leicester West and loses.[93]
* 1925
* Arch of Remembrance on Victoria Park completed. Designed by Edward Lutyens in memory of the sons of Leicester who died in the Great War. Unveiled by two local war widows, Mrs Elizabeth Butler and Mrs Annie Glover, in front of 30,000 people on July 4th.[94]
* Braunstone Frith was absorbed into the city of Leicester.[95]
* 1927 — The Diocese of Leicester is established and the city's churches were allocated to it instead of the Diocese of Peterborough.
* St Martin's Church became Leicester Cathedral.[18]
* Dr. Cyril Bardsley was appointed the first Bishop of Leicester since the year 870.[18]

### 1930s

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* 1932 – The Little Theatre opens in Dover Street.
* 1935 – Humberstone, Knighton, New Parks and Beaumont Leys were absorbed into the city of Leicester.[25][82]
* 1936
* The city boundaries were further extended to include most of Evington [82]
* Odeon Cinema opened.

### 1940s

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* 1940 – Leicester suffers its worst air raid of World War II on the night of 19 November.[16]
* 1946 — King George VI and Queen Elizabeth made a state visit to Leicester on October 30th. The visit was part of a tour marking the end of World War II.[96]
* 1947 — University of Leicester Botanic Garden opened.

### 1950s

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* 1958
* Buddy Holly and the Crickets perform live at De Montfort Hall on March 6th, perhaps the city's first Rock n Roll performance.[97]
* Queen Elizabeth II visited the city on May 9th, the first of her visits to the city as monarch.[98]

### 1960s

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* 1962 – Jewry Wall Museum built.
* 1963 – The Beatles perform live at De Montfort Hall for the first time.[99]
* 1966 – The City of Leicester Polytechnic was established.
* 1969 – The Museum of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment opens in the Magazine Gateway.[100]

### 1970s

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* 1970 – University of Leicester's Attenborough Building constructed.
* 1972 – Abbey Pumping Station museum opens.[17]
* 1973
* Haymarket Shopping Centre in business.
* Leicester Theatre Trust formed.
* 1974 – Leicester City Council established per Local Government Act 1972.
* 1979 — Leicester Chronicle ceased publication after 187 years.[101]

### 1980s

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* 1980 — Leicester Royal Infirmary extension opened by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip on March 14th.[102]
* 1985 – St Margaret's Bus Station opens.

### 1990s

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* 1992 – The Leicester Polytechnic became De Montfort University.
* 1993 — Queen Elizabeth II visited the city on December 9th.[103]
* 1997
* Leicester City Council became unitary authority per 1990s UK local government reform.
* Leicester Bike Park opens.

## 21st century

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* 2002
* National Space Centre opened by the Queen on August 1st.[104]
* New Leicester City Stadium opened.
* 2008 — Curve theatre opened by the Queen on December 4th.[105]
* 2011 – Institution of an elected mayor.[106]
* 2012:
* Queen Elizabeth II, the Duke of Edinburgh, and the Duchess of Cambridge visit Leicester during the Queen's Diamond Jubilee tour of Britain.
* The remains of King Richard III were discovered beneath a car park on the site of the former Greyfriars chapel.
* 2015 — Reinterment of Richard III in Leicester Cathedral (March 26th).
* 2016 — Leicester City win the 2015–16 Premier League for their first league title, being 5000-to-1 outsiders at the start of the season,[107] and won the BBC Sports Personality Team of the Year Award.[108]
* 2020-2022 — The COVID-19 pandemic. Between March 13th 2020 and December 19th 2022 the city reported 128,123 cases of the virus and the lives of 1,171 of its citizens were lost to it. The city was one of Britain’s worst effected and was subject to an additional hundred days of lockdown.[109]
* 2022 — The 2022 Leicester unrest. A notable summer outbreak of ethno-religious tension between members of the city's Hindu and Muslim communities.

## See also

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* History of Leicester
* History of Leicestershire
* Timelines of other cities in East Midlands: Derby, Lincoln, Nottingham

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## Further reading

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### Published in the 18th century

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* John Nichols (1795). "History and Antiquities of the Town of Leicester". History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester. Vol. 1\. London: Nichols & Son. p. 407+.

### Published in the 19th century

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#### 1800s–1840s

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* John Britton (1807), "Leicester", Beauties of England and Wales, vol. 9, London: Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, hdl:2027/mdp.39015063565736
* "Leicester". Commercial Directory for 1818-19-20. Manchester: James Pigot. 1818.
* Susanna Watts (1820). A Walk Through Leicester; Being a Guide to Strangers (2nd ed.). Leicester: T. Combe.
* Robert Watt (1824). "Leicester". Bibliotheca Britannica. Vol. 4\. Edinburgh: A. Constable. hdl:2027/mdp.39076005081505. OCLC 961753.
* "Leicester". Pigot & Co.'s National Commercial Directory for 1828-9. London: James Pigot. 26 August 2023.
* John Curtis (1831). "Leicester". Topographical History of the County of Leicester. W. Hextall.
* David Brewster, ed. (1832). "Leicester". Edinburgh Encyclopædia. Vol. 12\. Philadelphia: Joseph and Edward Parker. hdl:2027/mdp.39015068380875.
* "Leicester", Leigh's New Pocket Road-Book of England and Wales (7th ed.), London: Leigh and Son, 1839
* John Thomson (1845), "Leicester", New Universal Gazetteer and Geographical Dictionary, London: H.G. Bohn
* James Thompson (1849). History of Leicester. Leicester: J.S. Crossley.

#### 1850s–1890s

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* William Napier Reeve (1854), "Our Town; and How it Strikes a Stranger", Leicester New Monthly Magazine, vol. 1, London: Houlston and Stoneman, "Eliot Roscoe"
* "Our Town, No. 3: Roman Leicester", Leicester New Monthly Magazine, vol. 1
* "Our Town, No. 4: Saxon Leicester", Leicester New Monthly Magazine, vol. 1
* "Our Town, No. 6: Lancastrian Leicester", Leicester New Monthly Magazine, vol. 1
* "Our Town, No. 7: Yorkist Leicester", Leicester New Monthly Magazine, vol. 1
* "Our Town, No. 8: Tudor Leicester", Leicester New Monthly Magazine, vol. 1
* "Our Town, No. 9: Stuart Leicester", Leicester New Monthly Magazine, vol. 1
* "History of the Borough of Leicester". History, Gazetteer, and Directory of the Counties of Leicester and Rutland. Sheffield: William White. 1863.
* Leicester Postal Handbook. Leicester: Ward & Son. 1868–1869.
* James Thompson (1871), The history of Leicester in the eighteenth century, Leicester: Crossley and Clarke, OCLC 6120339
* "Roman Leicester", Transactions of the Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society, vol. 4, Leicester: Samuel Clarke, 1878
* John Parker Anderson (1881), "Leicestershire: Leicester", Book of British Topography: a Classified Catalogue of the Topographical Works in the Library of the British Museum Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, London: W. Satchell
* Hammond's Guide to Leicester and the Abbey park. W.A. Hammond. 1882.
* "Leicester", Handbook for Travellers in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, and Staffordshire (3rd ed.), London: J. Murray, 1892, OCLC 2097091
* "Leicester". Official Guide to the Midland Railway. London: Cassell & Company. 1894.
* Charles Gross (1897). "Leicester". Bibliography of British Municipal History. New York: Longmans, Green, and Co.
* Spencer's Illustrated Leicester Almanack ... for 1898. Leicester: J. & T. Spencer. 1898.

### Published in the 20th century

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* G.K. Fortescue, ed. (1902). "Leicester". Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years 1881–1900. London: The Trustees. hdl:2027/uc1.b5107012.
* J.G. Bartholomew (1904), "Leicester", Survey Gazetteer of the British Isles, London: G. Newnes
* Mrs. T. Fielding Johnson (1906), Glimpses of ancient Leicester, in six periods (2nd ed.), Leicester: Clarke and Satchell, OL 25498292M
* "Leicester", Great Britain (7th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1910, hdl:2027/mdp.39015010546516
* "Leicester" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 393.
* "Leicester". England. Blue Guides. London: Macmillan. 1920.

## External links

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* "Leicestershire", Historical Directories, UK: University of Leicester. Includes digitised directories of Leicester, various dates
* "(Leicester)". Discovering Britain: Walks: East Midlands. Royal Geographical Society. c. 2013.
* "(Leicester population of 2019)".

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* 1645
* 1646
* 1647
* 1648
* 1649
* 1650
* 1651
* 1652
* 1653
* 1654
* 1655
* 1656
* 1657
* 1658
* 1659
* 1660
* 1661
* 1662
* 1663
* 1664
* 1665
* 1666
* 1667
* 1668
* 1669
* 1670
* 1671
* 1672
* 1673
* 1674
* 1675
* 1676
* 1677
* 1678
* 1679
* 1680
* 1681
* 1682
* 1683
* 1684
* 1685
* 1686
* 1687
* 1688
* 1689
* 1690
* 1691
* 1692
* 1693
* 1694
* 1695
* 1696
* 1697
* 1698
* 1699
* 1700

18th century

* 1701
* 1702
* 1703
* 1704
* 1705
* 1706
* 1707
* 1708
* 1709
* 1710
* 1711
* 1712
* 1713
* 1714
* 1715
* 1716
* 1717
* 1718
* 1719
* 1720
* 1721
* 1722
* 1723
* 1724
* 1725
* 1726
* 1727
* 1728
* 1729
* 1730
* 1731
* 1732
* 1733
* 1734
* 1735
* 1736
* 1737
* 1738
* 1739
* 1740
* 1741
* 1742
* 1743
* 1744
* 1745
* 1746
* 1747
* 1748
* 1749
* 1750
* 1751
* 1752
* 1753
* 1754
* 1755
* 1756
* 1757
* 1758
* 1759
* 1760
* 1761
* 1762
* 1763
* 1764
* 1765
* 1766
* 1767
* 1768
* 1769
* 1770
* 1771
* 1772
* 1773
* 1774
* 1775
* 1776
* 1777
* 1778
* 1779
* 1780
* 1781
* 1782
* 1783
* 1784
* 1785
* 1786
* 1787
* 1788
* 1789
* 1790
* 1791
* 1792
* 1793
* 1794
* 1795
* 1796
* 1797
* 1798
* 1799
* 1800

19th century

* 1801
* 1802
* 1803
* 1804
* 1805
* 1806
* 1807
* 1808
* 1809
* 1810
* 1811
* 1812
* 1813
* 1814
* 1815
* 1816
* 1817
* 1818
* 1819
* 1820
* 1821
* 1822
* 1823
* 1824
* 1825
* 1826
* 1827
* 1828
* 1829
* 1830
* 1831
* 1832
* 1833
* 1834
* 1835
* 1836
* 1837
* 1838
* 1839
* 1840
* 1841
* 1842
* 1843
* 1844
* 1845
* 1846
* 1847
* 1848
* 1849
* 1850
* 1851
* 1852
* 1853
* 1854
* 1855
* 1856
* 1857
* 1858
* 1859
* 1860
* 1861
* 1862
* 1863
* 1864
* 1865
* 1866
* 1867
* 1868
* 1869
* 1870
* 1871
* 1872
* 1873
* 1874
* 1875
* 1876
* 1877
* 1878
* 1879
* 1880
* 1881
* 1882
* 1883
* 1884
* 1885
* 1886
* 1887
* 1888
* 1889
* 1890
* 1891
* 1892
* 1893
* 1894
* 1895
* 1896
* 1897
* 1898
* 1899
* 1900

20th century

* 1901
* 1902
* 1903
* 1904
* 1905
* 1906
* 1907
* 1908
* 1909
* 1910
* 1911
* 1912
* 1913
* 1914
* 1915
* 1916
* 1917
* 1918
* 1919
* 1920
* 1921
* 1922
* 1923
* 1924
* 1925
* 1926
* 1927
* 1928
* 1929
* 1930
* 1931
* 1932
* 1933
* 1934
* 1935
* 1936
* 1937
* 1938
* 1939
* 1940
* 1941
* 1942
* 1943
* 1944
* 1945
* 1946
* 1947
* 1948
* 1949
* 1950
* 1951
* 1952
* 1953
* 1954
* 1955
* 1956
* 1957
* 1958
* 1959
* 1960
* 1961
* 1962
* 1963
* 1964
* 1965
* 1966
* 1967
* 1968
* 1969
* 1970
* 1971
* 1972
* 1973
* 1974
* 1975
* 1976
* 1977
* 1978
* 1979
* 1980
* 1981
* 1982
* 1983
* 1984
* 1985
* 1986
* 1987
* 1988
* 1989
* 1990
* 1991
* 1992
* 1993
* 1994
* 1995
* 1996
* 1997
* 1998
* 1999
* 2000

21st century

* 2001
* 2002
* 2003
* 2004
* 2005
* 2006
* 2007
* 2008
* 2009
* 2010
* 2011
* 2012
* 2013
* 2014
* 2015
* 2016
* 2017
* 2018
* 2019
* 2020
* 2021
* 2022
* 2023
* 2024
* 2025

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Timelines of cities and towns in the United Kingdom

England|

| East Midlands|

* Derby
* Leicester
* Lincoln
* Nottingham

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East of England|

* Cambridge
* Norwich

London|

* London

North East|

* Northumbria & Northumberland
* Sunderland

North West|

* Barrow-in-Furness
* Cheshire
* Liverpool
* Manchester

South East|

* Brighton
* Oxford
* Portsmouth
* Reading
* Southampton
* Worthing

South West|

* Bath
* Bristol
* Exeter
* Plymouth

West Midlands|

* Birmingham

Yorkshire & the Humber|

* Bradford
* Hull
* Sheffield
* York

Northern Ireland|

* Belfast

Scotland|

* Dundee
* Edinburgh
* Glasgow

Wales|

* Cardiff
* Llanelli

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