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Birmingham's population quadrupled between 1700 and 1750. [179] By 1775 – before the start of the mechanisation of the Lancashire cotton trade [180] – Birmingham was already the third most-populous town in England, smaller only than the older southern ports of London and Bristol and growing faster than any of its rivals. [181]
1154 – Lord of the manor Peter de Birmingham has the charter to hold a market in Birmingham on every Thursday, transforming the village into a town. 1160 – The first stone church building is erected on the site of St. Mary's Church, Handsworth.
April 3: Birmingham campaign for civil rights begins. [25] April 16: Martin Luther King Jr. writes his "Letter from Birmingham Jail", first published in June 1963 issues of Liberation, [26] The Christian Century, [27] and The New Leader. May: Birmingham riot of 1963. September 15: 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. [12] [28] Birmingham ...
With 16,281 start-ups registered during 2013, Birmingham has the highest level of entrepreneurial activity outside London, [193] while the number of registered businesses in the city grew by 8.1% during 2016. [194] Birmingham was behind only London and Edinburgh for private sector job creation between 2010 and 2013. [195]
Birmingham, Alabama was, in 1963, "probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States", according to King. [8] Although the city's population of almost 350,000 was 60% white and 40% black, [9] Birmingham had no black police officers, firefighters, sales clerks in department stores, bus drivers, bank tellers, or store cashiers.
From its founding through the end of the 1960s, Birmingham was a primary industrial center ... From the start, Birmingham's streets and avenues were unusually wide at ...
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The population of the city increased from 5-7,000 in 1700 to nearly 24,000 in 1750, and by 1775 the population was about 40,000, making Birmingham the third largest town in the UK after London and Bristol. In 1791, Arthur Young described Birmingham as "the first manufacturing town in the world".