Cottonopolis · event 3 of 12

1804

The Rochdale Canal completes. The first canal to cross the Pennines links Manchester to Yorkshire. Ancoats fills with mills along its banks and becomes the first industrial suburb in the world.

The Cottonopolis era

  1. 1761
  2. 1781
  3. 1804
  4. 1830
  5. 1838
  6. 1853
  7. 1857
  8. 1858
  9. 1877
  10. 1894
  11. 1900
  12. 1906

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