Timeline
| Local events |
Date |
National events |
| 1st Nottingham Waterworks established |
1696 |
|
| Deering described Nottingham as 'garden city' |
1751 |
|
| Zion Hill Waterworks established |
c.1790 |
|
| Nottingham Gas Act |
1818 |
|
| Nottingham New Waterworks Co. established |
1824 |
|
| Nottingham Trent Waterworks Co. established |
1826 |
|
| Cholera Epidemic |
1831-32 |
Cholera Epidemic |
| |
1832 |
Poor Law Commission |
| |
1833 |
Municipal Corporations Commission |
| |
1834 |
Poor Law Amendment Act |
| |
1835 |
Municipal Reform Act |
| New Union Workhouse opened |
1841 |
|
| |
1842 |
Chadwick's Report on 'Sanitary Conditions of Labouring Classes' |
| |
1844 |
Commission on 'Large Towns and Populous Districts' |
| J.R. Martin's Report on 'The State of Nottingham' |
1845 |
|
| Borough Sanitary Committee appointed |
1846 |
|
| Typhus Epidemic |
1847 |
|
| |
1848 |
Cholera Epidemic Public Health Act |
| |
1869 |
Commission on Water |
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