World Events | Date | Herbert Events |
1712 |
England's first indoor swimming pool opens in London. Entrance fee is one guinea. |
1742 |
1758 |
1760 | Wood business established |
Cook reaches Australia April 9th |
1770 |
United States Declaration of Independence, July 4th |
1776 |
The British Gazette and Sunday Monitor, the first Sunday newspaper in Britain, is published |
1780 |
First aerial crossing of the Channel in a balloon January 7th |
1785 |
A penal settlement is established in Botany Bay, Australia, and the first convicts arrive on 26th January |
1788 |
Prime Minister William Pitt (the Younger) introduces income tax at two shillings in the pound to raise funds for the Napoleonic Wars |
1799 |
1811 |
The Tolpuddle Martyrs who fought the decline of agricultural wages, are sentenced to seven years' transportation to Tasmania |
1834 |
Isaac Pitman's stenographic sound-hand, the first shorthand system, is published, price 4d Queen Victoria moves into Buckingham Palace, the first monarch to live there |
1837 |
Queen Victoria crowned on June 28th |
1838 |
1842 |
Waterloo Station opens July 11th W H Smith opens its first railway bookstall at Euston Station, London, the start of multiple retailing in Britain |
1848 |
1851 |
Smithfield Market Removal Act passed |
1852 |
1857 | Purchase of G. Birch, 37 Chichester Place |
Big Ben's First Strike July 11th |
1859 |
The process of pasteurization of liquids is developed by Louis Pasteur John Lewis opens his first shop in Oxford Street |
1864 |
Sainsbury's founded by John James Sainsbury and his wife Mary Ann |
1869 |
First FA Cup Final March 16th |
1872 |
Alexander Graham Bell makes first telephone call March 10th |
1876 |
The first England v Wales football international is played at Kennington Oval in London, England winning 2-1 |
1879 |
Marks & Spencer founded by Michael Marks when he sets up his stall at Leeds Kirkgate Market |
1884 |
Queen Victoria's Jubilee |
1887 |
New Weights & Measures Act brings in stamping of weighing equipment before use |
1889 |
The speed limit for horseless carriages is raised from 4mph (2mph in towns) to 14mph |
1896 |
Wm Morrison starts from a stall in Bradford Market |
1899 |
The first transatlantic wireless message is sent 1,800 miles from Cornwall to St. John's, Newfoundland, where it is received by Marconi |
1901 |
1902 | Herbert & Sons' telephone numbers were 11977 CENTRAL (West Smithfield) and 10400 CENTRAL (King's Cross) |
London County Council sets up the first motorised ambulance service for traffic accident victims |
1905 |
The magnetic South Pole is found by Ernest Shackleton |
1909 |
Britain declares war on Germany August 4th |
1914 |
Armistice between the Allies and Germany signed November 11th |
1918 |
Jack Cohen founded Tesco |
1919 |
The British Broadcasting Company begins daily transmissions. At 6pm the news was read by Arthur Burrows, once at normal speed and once at slow speed. |
1922 |
1932 | Arthur Stephens Herbert arrives back in UK from Australia, with son Jim Herbert |
1939 |
1952 | Fitz and Arthur Herbert retire |
1960 | Purchase of Swift Scale Co. Ltd. |
1962 | Sale of the Butchers Sundries business to Glenhurst Ltd |
1964 |
Patent filed for computer mouse |
1967 |
1968 | Board of Trade Approval for UK's first retail digital scale |
Decimalisation of UK currency from £sd to £p completed on Monday 15th February |
1971 |
The world's first mobile phone call made in April |
1973 |
1975 | Launch of Lion 2000 and investment by E.S. Schwab & Co. |
1982 | Agreement signed with Teraoka Seiko Co. Ltd. |
1985 | Opening of St. Georges House, Haverhill |
1986 | The company history has invoked a '25 year rule', not publishing history after 1985 |
The first text message is sent |
1992 |