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The Exchange built
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St James' Priory founded
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Chapel of the Three Kings of Cologne built
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Bristol Castle demolished.
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Custom House built
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Bristol becomes Britain's busiest slave trading port
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Joseph Fry begins chocolate manufacture
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Bristol Gazette newspaper begins publication
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Bristol porcelain manufacture begins;[17][18] Bristol blue glass is also first produced at about this date
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Bridge riot
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New cattle market opens
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Passage to St Vincent's Cave opens.
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Iron steamship SS Great Britain launched.
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Bristol Academy for the Promotion of Fine Arts founded
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Bristol and Exeter Railway begins operating.
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Electric tram begins operating
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Bristol Tramways and Carriage Company introduces its first motor buses.
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University of Bristol founded.
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First tanks shipped to Franch from Avonmouth.
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Bristol F.2 Fighter aircraft first flies
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Ribena first manufactured, by H. W. Carter
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Aerial bombing by German forces begins
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Bristol Tramways abandoned due to bombing.
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Bristol bus station opens
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Bristol Royal Hospital for Children building opens.
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Bristol becomes a "city of sanctuary" for refugees
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George Ferguson elected Mayor of Bristol.