Liverpool: Timeline

1150   Mersey Ferry begins running between Liverpool and Birkenhead

1207   King John John of England

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 issued letters patent creating the new Borough of Liverpool

1826   First railway tunnel built in route between Liverpool and Manchester Manchester

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 in England England

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1840   The Cunard Line's 700-ton wooden paddlewheel steamer RMS ''Britannia'' departs from Liverpool bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia on the first transatlantic passenger cruise.

1940   AA World War II: Battle of Britain - During a nighttime air raid by the German Germany

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, St. Paul's Cathedral is pierced by a bomb; Musician John Lennon John Lennon

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 is born during an air-raid in Liverpool, England England

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1957   The Cavern Club opens in Liverpool.

1968   The last steam passenger train service runs in Britain. A British Rail British Rail

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 steam locomotive makes the 314-mile journey from Liverpool to Carlisle and returns to Liverpool before being dispatched to the wrecking yard.

1984   The Liverpool International Garden Festival opens in Liverpool.

1993   Two 11-year-old boys, Robert Thompson and John Venables, kill 2-year-old James Bulger in Liverpool.

1993   In the United Kingdom United Kingdom

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, 11-year-olds Robert Thompson and Jon Venables are convicted of the child murder of 2-year-old James Bulger of Liverpool (they were sentenced to "indefinite detention")