c. 1670Introduction of saggars in pottery production
c. 1693Elers brothers pioneer developments in salt glazing, sprigging and casting
1701The Stoke-upon-Trent parish listing compiled
1730Josiah Wedgwood born in Burslem
1738John Wesley first preaches in Newcastle-under-Lyme
1762First turnpike road in the Potteries
1762Josiah Wedgwood introduces Queensware, a cream-coloured earthenware
1764First Methodist Chapel in the Potteries built at Hill Top, Burslem
1766Brindley begins the Grand Trunk Canal (Trent & Mersey)
1768Wedgwood opens his new factory at Etruria
1776Josiah Spode II starts to introduce bone china
1777Trent & Mersey Canal opens
1793Minton Company founded by Thomas Minton
1804The ‘House of Recovery’, the Potteries first hospital, opens at Etruria
1805Staffordshire Militia granted the title of ‘King’s Own’ by George III
1807Primitive Methodism formed and open air meetings begin at Mow Cop
1825First official strike in the Potteries
1830Consecration of the new Church of St Peter ad Vincula, Stoke
1833Expansion of the Trentham estate and rebuilding of Trentham Hall
1834Poor Law Amendment Act creates Poor Law unions. New workhouses are built throughout the Potteries
1837Introduction of civil registration in England and Wales
1838Hanley & Shelton Political Union formed
1839A Stipendiary Magistrate appointed for the Potteries
1840Samuel Scriven starts his inquiry into child labour in the Potteries
1841First modern census listing the whole of the population by name
1842Chartist riots in Hanley
1845The Potters’ Joint Stock Emigration Society advocates emigration for pottery workers
1848North Staffordshire Railway, ‘The Knotty’, opens
1850Shelton Bar Iron Company formed by Lord Granville
1852Royal Pottery Theatre, later the Theatre Royal, opens in Pall Mall, Hanley
1854The Sentinel newspaper first published as the Staffordshire Sentinel & Commercial & General Advertiser
1857Hanley is the first of the Six Towns to become a borough
1858Reorganization of the probate system to establish civil probate registries
1860Hanley Cemetery, the first municipal cemetery in the Potteries, opens
1867Arnold Bennett born in Hanley
1869North Staffordshire Infirmary opens at Hartshill
1870Hanley Borough Police formed
1873Hanley Jewish Congregation establishes a synagogue in Hanover Street
1878Stoke Football Club formed from other pre-existing clubs
1881North Staffordshire Regiment formed from the 64th and 98th Regiments of Foot
1895Diglake Colliery Disaster, Audley; seventy-seven lives lost
1895Reginald Mitchell born in Butt Lane
1897North Staffordshire Asylum opens at Cheddleton
1903Charles Shaw publishes his autobiography, When I Was A Child
1910Demolition of Trentham Hall
1910Federation: the Six Towns join together as the County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent with a population of 240,000
1914North Staffordshire Regiment raises a total of eighteen battalions to serve in the First World War
1921Pottery unions merge to form the National Society of Pottery Workers
1922Boundaries of Stoke-on-Trent extended to take in areas to the south and east
1923North Staffordshire Railway taken over by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway
1925Stoke-on-Trent is granted city status
1932The three strands of Methodism merge to form the Methodist Church of Great Britain
1934Stoke-on-Trent City Aerodrome opened at Meir
1938Half of the workforce of Stoke-on-Trent is employed in the pottery industry; 2,000 bottle ovens in use
1940Staffordshire Battalion, Home Guard formed
1940Wedgwood Group moves from Etruria to Barlaston
1968Stoke-on-Trent City Police amalgamated with Staffordshire County Police
1986The National Garden Festival was held, reclaiming 180 acres of derelict industrial land at Shelton
1997City of Stoke-on-Trent became a unitary authority, reclaiming local government services from Staffordshire
1998Silverdale Colliery, the last deep mine in North Staffordshire, closes
2000Shelton steel plant closes
2005St Peter ad Vincula granted status of a Minster
2008Spode factory closes and business bought by Portmeiron Group
2015The City of Stoke-on-Trent acquires the Minton Archive