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On 2 June, Scottish diver Charles Spalding and his nephew Ebenezer Watson die in attempting to salvage the £150,000-worth of cargo from the ship using a diving bell of Spalding's design.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247385494#Events", "title": "1783 in Ireland", "revid": 1247385494, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1791, "year_label": "1791 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The School for the Indigent Blind, the oldest continuously operating specialist school of its kind in the world, is founded in Liverpool, England, by blind ex-merchant seaman, writer and abolitionist Edward Rushton.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365416177#Date_unknown", "title": "1791", "revid": 1365416177, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1799, "year_label": "1799 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "American competition for West Indies trade kills Liverpool, Nova Scotia's merchant fleet.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349955564#Events", "title": "1799 in Canada", "revid": 1349955564, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1806, "year_label": "1806 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "October 1", "text": "1 October - The brig Mary runs aground on the Arklow Bank, in the Irish Sea and is wrecked with the loss of seven of the ten people on board. Two of the survivors are rescued by Mary, a ship homeported in Liverpool, Lancashire, whilst the third is rescued by Mary, a ship homeported in Amlwch, Anglesey.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360284081#Events", "title": "1806 in Wales", "revid": 1360284081, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1819, "year_label": "1819 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "May 22", "text": "May 22 – The SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. 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The Irish now make up a quarter of the population of Liverpool, and the same is true of cities on the east coast of North America.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351818686#Undated", "title": "1852 in the United Kingdom", "revid": 1351818686, "section": "Events › Undated"}}, {"year": 1854, "year_label": "1854 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "January 21", "text": "January 21 – The iron clipper RMS Tayleur runs aground off the east coast of Ireland, on her maiden voyage out of Liverpool, bound for Australia, with the loss of at least 300 out of 650 on board.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362496011#January–March", "title": "1854", "revid": 1362496011, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1854, "year_label": "1854 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "January 21", "text": "21 January – the iron clipper RMS Tayleur runs aground on Lambay Island on her maiden voyage out of Liverpool with the loss of at least 300 of around 650 on board.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360429615#Events", "title": "1854 in Ireland", "revid": 1360429615, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1854, "year_label": "1854 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "January 21", "text": "21 January – The iron clipper RMS Tayleur runs aground on Lambay Island (off the east coast of Ireland) on her maiden voyage out of Liverpool with the loss of at least 300 of around 650 on board.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368310313#Events", "title": "1854 in the United Kingdom", "revid": 1368310313, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1854, "year_label": "1854 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "March 1", "text": "March 1 – The British Inman Line's SS City of Glasgow sets out from Liverpool on passage to the United States with 480 on board; 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only nine of the 88 passengers and crew are rescued.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371979117#May", "title": "1874", "revid": 1371979117, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1875, "year_label": "1875 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "September 27", "text": "September 27 – American merchant sailing ship Ellen Southard is wrecked off Liverpool in England; 12 crew and life-boatmen are lost.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371928758#September", "title": "1875", "revid": 1371928758, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1875, "year_label": "1875 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "September 27", "text": "27 September – American merchant sailing ship Ellen Southard is wrecked off Liverpool; 12 crew and life-boatmen are lost.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360550767#Events", "title": "1875 in the United Kingdom", "revid": 1360550767, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1901, "year_label": "1901 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "December 22", "text": "December 22 – On Peace Sunday Charles Frederic Aked (1864–1941), a Baptist minister in Liverpool, says: \"Great Britain cannot win the battles without resorting to the last despicable cowardice of the most loathsome cur on earth; the act of striking a brave man's heart through his wife's honour and his child's life. The cowardly war has been conducted by methods of barbarism... the concentration camps have been Murder Camps.\" A crowd follows him home and breaks the windows of his house.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1315450918", "title": "1901 in South Africa", "revid": 1315450918, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1901, "year_label": "1901 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "December 22", "text": "22 December – Charles Aked, a Baptist minister in Liverpool, protests about the Second Boer War concentration camps. 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The best-known of the celebrities on board is American sportsman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373518749#May", "title": "1915", "revid": 1373518749, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1915, "year_label": "1915 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "May 7", "text": "7 May – Sinking of the Lusitania: British ocean liner RMS Lusitania was sunk by Imperial German Navy U-boat U-20 about 11 mi off Old Head of Kinsale, County Cork, killing 1,198 civilians en route from New York to Liverpool, among them the Irish-born art dealer and benefactor Sir Hugh Lane and Irish composer and conductor Thomas O'Brien Butler.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372198501#Events", "title": "1915 in Ireland", "revid": 1372198501, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1915, "year_label": "1915 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "December 23", "text": "December 23 – HMHS Britannic, which will be the largest British ship lost in WWI (though with only 30 fatalities), departs Liverpool on her maiden voyage as a hospital ship.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373518749#December", "title": "1915", "revid": 1373518749, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1919, "year_label": "1919 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "July 31", "text": "July 31 – British police strikes in London and Liverpool for recognition of the National Union of Police and Prison Officers; over 2,000 strikers are dismissed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373508849#July", "title": "1919", "revid": 1373508849, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1940, "year_label": "1940 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "July 2", "text": "July 2 – WWII: British-owned SS Arandora Star, carrying civilian internees and POWs of Italian and German origin from Liverpool to Canada, is torpedoed and sunk by GS U-47 off northwest Ireland, with the loss of around 865 lives.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368818987#July", "title": "1940", "revid": 1368818987, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1961, "year_label": "1961 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "October 9", "text": "9 October – Skelmersdale, a small Lancashire town fifteen miles north-east of Liverpool, is designated as a new town and its population will expand over the coming years, bolstered by large council housing developments to rehouse families from inner city slums on Merseyside.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366695811#October–December", "title": "1961 in the United Kingdom", "revid": 1366695811, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1971, "year_label": "1971 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "May 3", "text": "May 3 – Arsenal F.C. wins the English League First Division championship at the home of their bitter rivals Tottenham Hotspur, with Ray Kennedy scoring the winner. 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