Historical place archive

Doncaster in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Doncaster in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

5 records4 event labels3 people1785–1951

Historical events in Doncaster

1785

1785
Power Loom
Edmund Cartwright · Textile Industry

Cartwright patents a mechanically powered loom for factory weaving.

1899

1899
Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants
Thomas Steels · Independent Labour Party

A Doncaster member of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants proposes that the Trade Union Congress call a special conference to bring together all the left-wing organisations into a single body

1899
Labour Party
Thomas Steels · Independent Labour Party

A Doncaster member of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants proposes that the Trade Union Congress call a special conference to bring together all the left-wing organisations into a single body

1899
Labour Party
Thomas Steels · Labour Party

Proposes to his union branch that the Trade Union Congress call a special conference to bring together left-wing organisations into a single body

1951

14 February 1951
Birth of Joseph Kevin Keegan
Joseph Kevin Keegan · Football

Birh of Joseph Kevin Keegan

Provenance

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