1250 CHORLEYS FIRST CHARTER TO BECOME A BOROUGH, BY WILLIAM DE FERRES, LORD OF CHORLEY.
1360 PARISH CHURCH OF ST. LAURENCE BUILT.
1400 TOWER ADDED TO ST. LAURENCE CHURCH.
1498 A MARKET WAS GRANTED TO CHORLEY. ‘FLAT IRON MARKET’
1620 MYLES STANDISH, FROM CHORLEY, SAILED WITH THE PILGRIM FATHERS TO AMERICA
1648 BATTLE OF PRESTON MOOR. MANY FLED TO CHORLEY AND WERE ENGAGED THEREBY CHASING PARLIAMENTARIAN TROOPS. CROMWELL LEFT HIS BOOTS AT ASTLEY HALL.
1790 LANCASTER CANAL OPENED IN CHORLEY.
1802 CHORLEYS FIRST TOWN HALL BUILT BY JOHN HOLLINSHEAD.
1811 CHORLEY WORKHOUSE OPENED A SCHOOL.
1816 LEEDS/LIVERPOOL CANAL OPENED IN CHORLEY.
1819 SUGAR KING, HENRY TATE BORN IN CHORLEY. DIED 1899
1820 GAS LAMPS APPEAR ON CHORLEY STREETS.
1821 CHORLEY GRAMMAR SCHOOL WAS REBUILT AND ENLARGED. OPENED BY LADY HOGHTON.
1822 PARK ROAD WAS CUT, AND LAID OUT.
1825. ST. GEORGES CHURCH WAS BUILT. A WATERLOO CHURCH.
1830 CHOREY HAS ITS OWN GAS WORKS.
1841 THE RAILWAY ARRIVED IN CHORLEY.
1864 CHORLEYS BIG LAMP ERECTED, TO GUIDE VISITORS TO THE TOWN. LASTED UNTIL 1974.
1864 SEPT. 3rd CHORLEY STANDARD FIRST PUBLISHED.
1869 THE RAILWAY TO BLACKBURN OPENED. LASTED 100 YEARS.
1879 NEW TOWN HALL OPENED
1880 CHORLEY ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL WAS STARTED.
1881 CHORLEY RECEIVED ITS CHARTER OF INCORPORATION
1882 JULY 3 rd CHORLEY’S MOTTO ‘BEWARE’ GRANTED. MOTTO AND COAT OF ARMS OF THE CHORLEY FAMILY.
1887 CHORLEY CO-OP STARTED
1899 CHORLEYS FIRST PUBLIC LIBRARY OPENED.
1901 POPULATION OF CHORLEY 26,852. 6,000 WORKED IN THE COTTON INDUSTRY
1902 LEVER PARK GIVEN TO THE PUBLIC BY WILLIAM HESKETH LEVER. LORD LEVERHULME.
1902 CORONATION RECREATION GROUND OPEN
1906 COWLING MILL BUILT
1906 CHORLEYS NEW TECHNICHAL SCHOOL OPENED (SEPT) BY LORD DERBY (NOW LIBRARY)
1908 LANCASHIRE/YORKSHIRE RAILWAY COMPANY INTRODUCED A BUS SERVICE (STOPPING) BETWEEN CHORLEY AND BAMBER BRIDGE.
1910 TALBOT MILL OPENED.
1911 SEPT. 30th THE THEATRE ROYAL OPENED WITH “WALLS OF JERICHO”
1914 PARK COTTON MILL OPENED MARCH 16th
1914 SANTE’S GRAND THEATRE BURNT DOWN
1920 CHORLEY ASSC. FOOTBALL PLAYED ON VICTORIA PARK FOR THE FIRST TIME.
1922 CHORLEY RAILWAY ENGINE SHED CLOSED DOWN
1923 MAINS ELECTRICITY ARRIVED IN CHORLEY
1925 BRANCH LIBRARIES OPENED BROOK STREET AND HARPERS LANE
1933 CHORLEY & DISTRICT HOSPITAL OPENED. PRESTON ROAD
1937 M.O.D. BOUGHT 2000 ACRES OF LAND FOR R.O.F. EUXTON.
1940 OVER 40,000 PEOPLE WORKING AT R.O.F.
1950 HOSPITAL LIBRARY SCHEME STARTED FOR CHORLEY HOSPITAL AND HEATH CHARNOCK ISOLATION HOSPITAL
1957 THE EMPIRE CINEMA CLOSED.
1962 CHURCH BROW CLOSED & MADE INTO STEPS. PARK ROAD WAS WIDENED.
1965 CHORLEYS NEW BUS STATION OPENED.
1968 CHORLEY TO BLACKBURN RAILWAY VIADUCT AT BOTANY BAY, BLOWN UP FOR NEW MOTORWAY. (99 YEARS OLD)
1971 EBRUARY. THE ODEON CINEMA CLOSED
1974 WALTON SUMMIT BRANCH OF THE LANCASTER CANAL, FILLED IN
1974 CHORLEY BOROUGH LIBRARY BECAME PART OF LANCS. LIBRARY SERVICES.
1979 LIBRARY SERVICES TO WYMOTT PRISON OPENED.
1986 CHORLEY CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY BUILDINGS, IN LITTLE STEELEY LANE, PULLED DOWN.
1986 CHORLEYS NEW CENTRAL LIBRARY OPENED IN THE OLD TECHNICHAL SCHOOL.
1986 THE PLAZA CINEMA (WHICH HAD BEEN CONVERTED TO A MULTIPLEX, SCREEN 4) CLOSED DOWN.