Cottonopolis · event 5 of 12

1838

Manchester becomes a borough. Nearly two decades after Peterloo, the town finally gets its own municipal government under the Municipal Corporations Act. The population is approaching 200,000.

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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