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World History
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Morley History
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1650
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Old Chapel and Lands let to Morley by Earl of
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1663
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Farnley
Wood Plot fails
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1664
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Royal Coat
of Arms set up in Nave of St Mary's
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1683
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Morley Hall built
by Thomas Dawson
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Newcomen invents steam
pump for mines
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1712
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1720
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The "Old
Town's School" Is founded
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John Kay invents loom
with flying shuttle
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1733
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1747
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John Wesley visits
Morley for the first time
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James Hargreaves invents spinning jenny
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1764
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1770
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John Wesley visits
Morley and a Methodist Chapel is erected.
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Samuel Crompton invents spinning mule
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1779
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Pitt the Younger becomes
Prime Minister
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1783
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Outbreak of French
revolution
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1789
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1790
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Crank Mill,
first woollen mill to use a steam engine, is erected.
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