History of the North - key dates

122- 128 AD - Hadrian’s Wall is built stretching from coast to coast.

793 - The Vikings raid England’s North East coast for the first time.

1069 - The ‘harrying of the North’ takes place. Following this rebellion the area north of the River Humber is left devastated.

1536 - A Northern uprising, known as The Pilgrimage of Grace, takes place.

1780 - The Industrial Revolution begins to transform Britain.

1825 - The The Stockton and Darlington railway - world’s first public passenger railway - opens.

1903 - The Women’s Social and Political Union - nicknamed the suffragettes - holds its inaugural meeting.

1936 - The Jarrow March takes place.