Roman & Medieval · event 8 of 8

1653

Chetham’s Library opens. Humphrey Chetham’s will funds a library and a hospital for poor boys in the old college buildings beside the church. It is the oldest free public reference library in the English-speaking world and is still open. Marx and Engels read together in one of its alcoves in 1845.

The Roman & Medieval era

  1. 79
  2. 410
  3. 919
  4. 1086
  5. 1301
  6. 1421
  7. 1515
  8. 1653

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