Cottonopolis · event 6 of 12

1853

City status. Manchester is granted city status by Queen Victoria — the first new English city since Bristol in 1542. The cotton trade is at its height and the town is being called Cottonopolis in print.

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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