The Modern City · event 10 of 12

2017

The Arena attack. On 22 May a suicide bomb at the end of an Ariana Grande concert kills 22 people, many of them children. The city’s worker bee, on the coat of arms since 1842, becomes the symbol of the response. The Glade of Light memorial stands beside the cathedral.

The The Modern City era

  1. 1917
  2. 1940
  3. 1948
  4. 1958
  5. 1976
  6. 1982
  7. 1992
  8. 1996
  9. 2002
  10. 2017
  11. 2023
  12. 2025

See the full timeline or read the history of Manchester.