1800-1899
1800: The River Clyde is 14 ft (3.1m) deep, and supports 200 wharves and jetties; there is a large Gaelic community in the city
1800: The Glasgow Police Act is passed by Parliament allowing the creation of the first modern preventative police force
1803: Dorothy Wordsworth visits Glasgow
1807: Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery opens off the high street, adjacent to the then campus of Glasgow University
1809: General Association of Operative Weavers is formed
1810-1814: Glasgow Asylum for Lunatics is built in Dobbies Loan
1813: Weavers fail in bid for fair wages
1814: Glasgow Green is Europe's first public park
1815: The Glasgow Herald is published twice-weekly
1818: Public supply of gas begins in the city
1820: Radical insurrection
1825: the University of Glasgow, still located in the High Street, has over 1200 students and about 30 professors; 10 coaches run to Edinburgh daily
1827: The Argyll Arcade opens
1828: James Beaumont Neilson makes breakthrough in iron-smelting technology; a total abstinence society is formed
1832: The city benefits from increased representation under the Great Reform Bill
1835-1874: The Liberals represents Glasgow in Parliament
1836: The Forth and Clyde Canal has increased traffic in goods and passengers
1837: Violent cotton-spinners strike; the leaders are sentenced to transportation
1841: Chartist demonstration is addressed by Fergus O'Connor
1842: Glasgow slums "the filthiest in Britain"; opening of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway and Glasgow Queen Street railway station
1843: Disruption of the Church of Scotland
1844: Glasgow Stock Exchange opens
1846: Burgh boundaries are more than doubled to 5,063 acres (20.49 km2)
1848: 100,000 people gather on Glasgow Green to support Chartists
1851: Glasgow is Scotland's largest city, with a population of 329,096; over 18% are Irish-born; Portland St suspension footbridge is built
1851-1854: Victoria Bridge is built at Stockwell
1858-1859: St Vincent St Church is built by Alexander "Greek" Thomson
1859: Loch Katrine water supply is opened by Queen Victoria
1863: Dr Henry Littlejohn becomes the city's first medical officer
1865: Edward Pritchard is hanged for killing his wife and mother-in-law
1866: The City Improvement Trust clears slums and constructs new roads and buildings
1867: Queen's Park F.C. is founded
1868-1870: The University of Glasgow buildings at Gilmorehill are built to designs by George Gilbert Scott
1873: Rangers F.C. is founded
1876: Partick Thistle F.C. is founded
1883: The Boys' Brigade is founded
1888: Celtic F.C. is founded
1888: International Exhibition (1888)
1896: Opening of the Glasgow Subway
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