Historical place archive

Hull in History

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

9 records7 event labels7 people1728–2013

Historical events in Hull

1728

24 August 1728
Birth of William Wilberforce
William Wilberforce · Tory Party

Birth of William Wilberforce

1780

September 1780
Election
William Wilberforce · Tory Party

Elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Kingston upon Hull, while still a student at Cambridge

1818

1818
Member of Parliament
James Robert George Graham · Whig Party

Elected Member of Parliament for Hull

1949

1949
Hull City FC
Donald George "Don" Revie · Football

Moves to Second Division Hull City (managed by his boyhood hero Raich Carter) for a transfer fee of pounds 20,000

1950

9 June 1950
Birth of Trevor Bolder
Trevor Bolder · Popular Music

Birth of Trevor Bolder

1966

January 1966
Election
Harold Wilson · Labour Party Government

Labour wins a by-election in Hull with a 4.5 percent swing in favour of the Government

1970

1970
Member of Parliament
John Leslie Prescott · Labour Party Government

Elected Member of Parliament for Hull East

1985

2 December 1985
Death of Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin · Poetry

Death of Philip Larkin

2013

21 May 2013
Death of Trevor Bolder
Trevor Bolder · Popular Music

Death of Trevor Bolder

Provenance

About these place records

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

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