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... towns/cities with earliest documented start dates, and other useful info |
| 1544 | London | View | |
| 1562 | African slaves to Spanish-owned Hispaniola | ||
| 1576 | African slaves to Brazil | ||
| 1612 | Bristol | View | |
| 1617 | Ipswich | View | |
| 1617 | Ledger for Wm Blois of Ipswich - shipping and refining | View | |
| 1627 | African slaves to English-owned Barbados | ||
| 1645 | Chester | View | |
| 1653 | Exeter | View | |
| 1658 | Hull | View | |
| 1663 | Plymouth | View | |
| 1667 | Glasgow | View | |
| 1673 | Liverpool | View | |
| 1678 | Belfast | View | |
| 1680 | York | View | |
| 1684 | Lancaster | View | |
| 1707 | Newcastle upon Tyne | View | |
| 1707 | Act of Union (Great Britain formed) | ||
| 1712 | Whitehaven | View | |
| 1714 | George I - Britain's first Hanoverian king | ||
| 1716 | Dublin | View | |
| 1717 | Cork | View | |
| 1722 | Gloucester | View | |
| 1737 | Sheffield | View | |
| 1740 | Southampton | View | |
| 1752 | Edinburgh/Leith | View | |
| 1754 | Stockton on Tees | View | |
| 1758 | Refining books for Christian Tielhen of Leman St London - refiner | View | |
| 1760 | Industrial Revolution begins | ||
| 1762 | Londonderry | View | |
| 1765 | Greenock | View | |
| 1767 | Dundee | View | |
| 1767 | Burntisland | View | |
| 1770 | Deptford | View | |
| 1772 | Ayr | View | |
| 1772 | Manchester | View | |
| 1776 | Aberdeen | View | |
| 1771 | Ledger for Lodge & Fendall of Gt St Helens London - brokers | View | |
| 1778 | Warrington | View | |
| 1782 | Phoenix Fire Office established by sugar refiners | View | |
| 1807 | Bill passed in Britain to abolish transatlantic slave trade | ||
| 1808 | Wakefield | View | |
| 1813 | Edward Charles Howard patented the vacuum pan | ||
| 1834 | Britain finally abolished the slave trade by Act of Parliament | ||
| 1837 | Queen Victoria to the throne | ||
| 1844 | Goole | View | |
| 1849 | Preston | View | |
| 1855 | Earlstown | View | |
| 1864 | Newcastle under Lyne | View | |
| 1864 | Silvertown, Essex | 1864 Duncan, 1878 Tate, 1881 Lyle | View |
| 1875 | Tate's began cube sugar production | ||
| 1885 | Lyle's began Golden Syrup production | ||
| 1921 | Tate & Lyle founded | ||
| 2010 | Tate & Lyle sold to American Sugars for £211m |
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