HistorySearch.co.ukWorld History DatabaseHistorical events, people, dates and places
Site visitor count—Loading visits…
Place Search › Great Britain › Halifax

Historical place archive

Halifax in History

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

3 records3 event labels3 people1749–1934

Historical events in Halifax

1749

1749
Halifax
Charles Cornwallis · Military

Halifax is founded in Nova Scotia to rival the French port of Louisburg. Cornwallis names Halifax after the Earl of Halifax

1912

8 May 1912
Burial after Titanic Disaster
John Law Hume · Exploration and Discovery

Is buried at Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Halifax after his body is recovered following the Titanic disaster.

1934

1934
Peerage
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood · Conservative Party Government

Created Earl Halifax, 3rd

← More places in Great BritainSearch historical placesBrowse chronology

Provenance

About these place records

These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match Great Britain and Halifax. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.

This database is a research index. For formal scholarly citation, verify individual claims against appropriate primary, archival, academic or specialist sources.