The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

Prior to 19th century

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1279 – Market active.^[1]
1293 – Hull Fair begins.^[2]
1295 – Parliamentary representation begins.^[3]
1299 – Town renamed "Kingston-upon-Hull."^[4]
1302 – Quay built.^[5]
1312 – Holy Trinity Church built (approximate date).^[6]
1332 – William de la Pole becomes mayor.
1369 – Trinity House for seamen established.^[6]
1384 – Charter-House Hospital founded.^[6]
1440 – Town incorporated.
1486 – Grammar school founded.^[3]^[7]
1640 – King Charles visits.
1642 – Siege of Hull by Parliamentarians.
1688 – 'Town-taking': townspeople overthrow the Catholic governor.^[8]
1716 – Trinity House marine school founded.^[3]
1773 – Hull Dock Company formed.^[9]
1775 – Hull Subscription Library established.^[10]^[11]
1778 – Dock built.^[12]
1780
- William Wilberforce becomes Member of Parliament for Hull.
- Jewish community establishes synagogue.^[13]
1782 – General Infirmary established.^[6]
1792 – St John's Church built.^[6]
1797 - Cooperative mill built.^[14]

19th century

1809 – Humber Dock built.
1829
- United Gaol and House of Correction in operation.^[15]
- Prince's Dock built.
- St Charles Borromeo church opens.
1836 – Police force established.^[15]
1837
- Drypool and Sculcoates become part of the borough of Hull.
- Explosion of the Union Steam Packet in June^[16]^[17]
1840
- Hull and Selby Railway begins operating.
- Zoological Gardens established.^[18]
1841 – Thomas Wilson and Company (shipping) in business.^[9]
1850 – Victoria Dock built.
1851 – Population: 57,484.
1854
- Royal Institution opens.^[3]
- Hull and Holderness Railway begins operating.^[19]
1860 – Pearson Park established.^[3]
1861
- Hull School of Art founded.
- Population: 93,955.
1864 – Londesborough Barracks completed.^[20]
1865 – Hull Football Club founded.
1866 – Town Hall, and Exchange built.^[3]
1867 – Hull and East Riding College opens.^[21]
1870 – HM Prison Hull in operation.
1875 – Tram in operation.
1880 – Botanic garden opens.^[3]
1881 – Hull Philharmonic Society founded.^[7]
1882
- Marfleet becomes part of the borough of Hull.
- Kingston Amateurs rugby club formed.
1884 – Hull Amateur Photographic Society founded.^[22]
1885
- Hull and Barnsley Railway begins operating.
- Alexandra Dock built.
- Hull Daily Mail newspaper begins publication.^[23]
1886 – Synagogue established.^[24]
1887 – East Park opens.
1888 – County borough created per Local Government Act 1888.^[3]
1891 – Population: 199,134.
1892 – Hull Amalgamated Anglers' Association formed.^[25]
1895 – The Boulevard (stadium) opens.
1897 – Hull attains city status.

20th century

1902 – Hull Telephone Department licensed.^[26]^[27]
1904 – Hull City Association Football Club formed.
1906 – Wilberforce and Historical Museum opens.^[3]
1909 – Hull City Hall built.
1911 – Theatre De Luxe opens.
1912 – Museum of Fisheries and Shipping and Coliseum theatre open.
1915 – Pavilion Picture Palace opens.
1922 – Craven Park inaugurated.
1927 – University College Hull established.
1927 – Sutton become part of the borough of Hull.
1931 – Population: 309,158.
1937 – Trolleybus begins operating.
1939 – Hull New Theatre opens.
1940 – 19 June: Aerial bombing by German forces begins.
1945 – 17 March: Aerial bombing by German forces ends.
1946 – Boothferry Park (stadium) opens.
1966 – Closure of Western General Hospital.^[28]
1971 – Hull Truck Theatre founded.
1972 – Hull City Council established.
1974
- City becomes part of Humberside shire county per Local Government Act 1972.
- Airport opens in Kirmington.
- Humberside Police established.
1981
- Humber Bridge opens.
- Two tornadoes touch down in Hull during the record-breaking nationwide tornado outbreak of 23 November 1981, causing damage to the Port of Hull and the city's north-eastern residential suburbia.^[29]
- Population: 266,751.
1983 – Hull Marina opens.
1986 – Sister city relationship established with Raleigh, USA.^[30]
1987 – Spurn Lightship museum opens.
1989 – Streetlife Museum of Transport and new Craven Park (stadium) open.
1991 – Princes Quay shopping centre in business.
1993 – Humber Mouth literature fest begins.^[31]
1996 – Hull becomes a unitary authority area.
1999 – Arctic Corsair museum ship opens.

21st century

2000 – Closure of Kingston General Hospital.^[32]
2001 – Hull Soul Club (music appreciation group) formed.^[33]
2002 – The Deep (aquarium) and KC Stadium open.
2007
- Hull Paragon Interchange transport complex and St Stephen's Hull shopping centre open.^[34]
- June: Flood.
- Hull Comedy Festival begins.
2008
- Freedom Festival (cultural event) begins.
2010
- Hull History Centre established.
- Larkin 25 fest held.
2013 – Scale Lane Bridge for pedestrians opens.^[35]
2014 – Legal sanctions against prostitution introduced.^[36]
2017
- Hull is the UK City of Culture
- 13 May: Holy Trinity Church rededicated as Hull Minster.^[37]
2018
- January: Banksy work on Scott Street Bridge discovered.^[38]
- 25 July: Bonus Arena opens^[39]

2019
- October 2019: Hull became the first UK city to have full fibre broadband available for all residents.^[40]

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