Key dates to celebrate
• 2014 to 2019 – Centenary of Ernest Rutherford conducting the series of experiments at The University of Manchester which led to Manchester becoming the birthplace of nuclear physics.
• 6 February 2018 - 100th anniversary of the Representation of the People Act 1918, which enabled all men and some women over the age of 30 to vote for the first time. The act received Royal Assent on February 6, 1918. (suggested launch - see below)
• March 8 – International Women’s Day
• 20 June 2018 – 70th anniversary of the world’s first stored program digital computer – the Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine, built at the Victoria University of Manchester.
• July – September Bee In The City.
• 5 July 2018 – 70th anniversary of the NHS, launched by health secretary Aneurin Bevan at Park Hospital in Manchester (now Trafford General).
• 25 July 2018 – 40th birthday of Louise Brown, the first human being to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, was born in the Royal Oldham Hospital.
• 21 December 2018 – 174th anniversary of the 1844 opening of the first store established in line with the Rochdale Principles, a set of ideals for the operation of cooperatives.
• 2018 – Peterloo bicentenary film due to be released ahead of anniversary of 16 August 1819 event.
• November 2018 – launch of the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre.
• December 14, 2018: Hundredth anniversary of some women (householders over the age of 30) voting for the first time in a UK general election – Emmeline Pankhurst statue due to be unveiled in Manchester. A statue of the working-class Suffragette Annie Kenney will also be unveiled in Oldham following a successful crowdfunder campaign. Annie Kenney’s story is the subject of the Saffron Cherry documentary for the BBC in the north west. (suggested event -see below)
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