Opening of new Heritage Centre at Horwich Resource Centre
2004
Opening of new police station at Middlebrook
2004
Opening of the Pathway Centre: Rivington & Blackrod High School and Lord Street Primary School
2002
Commonwealth Games - Cycling & badminton events in Horwich
2001
Bolton Arena opens - Horwich Celebration benches installed outside of Public Hall
1999
Horwich Parkway Railway Station opened
1997
New Fire Station opened. First Bolton Wanderers match at the Reebok Stadium
1995
Horwich Heritage Centre opened within the Resource Centre
1991
Horwich Resource Centre opened
1990
Horwich and Crowborough entered a town twinning agreement
1983
Horwich Loco Works closed
1980
Old Station Park was officially opened on the site of the former railway station
1976
Railway Mechanic's Institute burned down
1974
The Town Council succeeded the Urban District Council
1972
The building of the rest of the Leisure Centre started
1968
Horwich Leisure Centre Swimming Pool opened
1967
Horwich Railway Station closed
1958
35 people killed in an air crash on Winter Hill
1955/6
The television station was erected on Winter Hill
1948
Lord Leverhulme's bungalow demolished
1940
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II visited Horwich in recognition of the town's contribution to the war effort
1937
De Havilland factory started
1922
Horwich RMI Band became Champions of Great Britain and the Colonies
1904
Victoria Mill founded.
1903
Horwich Prize Medal Morris Men became World Champions
1900
William Hesketh Lever, later Lord Leverhulme, bought the manor of Rivington and built a bungalow and magnificent gardens on thehillside below Rivington Pike
1894
The Urban District Council was formed
1891
Population had risen to 12,850
1889
The first newly built locomotive (Number 1008) left the works
1887
A bakehouse in Beatrice Street becomes a chapel for the congregation which later built St Catherine's Church
1886
St Mary's Catholic Parish established
1884
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway purchased land for a new railway works at Horwich
1878
The Public Hall built as a Leisure Centre by Peter Martin, his widow presented it to the Local Board who used it for Council work
1874
The Local Board was formed. The start of Local Government
1850
Horwich Flood
1840
Horwich has its first policemen
1830
The foundation stone of the present Holy Trinity Church was laid
1818
Horwich Moor enclosed
1774
Lee Chapel built (now Lee Lane Church)
1763
The Turnpike Road through Horwich was improved
1733
The present tower on Rivington Pike was constructed
1719
New Chapel built
1660
Horwich Church registers exist from this date
1651
It is likely that Horwich men were involved in the Bolton Massacre, for which the Earl of Derby was executed in Churchgate, Bolton
1643
Horwich men fought at the Battle of Middlewich
1622
Account from the constable of Manchester of two men escaping from the Horwich stocks
1611
The manor of Rivington sold to Robert Lever and James Breres
1588
Rivington Pike Beacon lit to announce the coming of the Spanish Armada
1566
Rivington Grammar School was founded by Bishop Pilkington
1552
The King's Commissioners visited Horwich Church
1547
Five shillings paid for the new curfew rope for Horwich Chapel
1473
Thirteen houses had been built
1322
Sixteen plots for pasture in Horwich
1282
The forests of Horwich valued at £24
1280
A document refers to the highway, now Georges Lane
1277
Martin Grelley, Baron of Manchester prosecuted Martin de Rumworth for carrying off deer in Horwich chase
1102
Albert Grelley became Baron of Manchester and Horwich became his private hunting forest
