Historical figures in Manchester
The atlas holds 21 people and 32 moments here, from 1771 to 1966. The most recorded lives are Friedrich Engels, Alan Turing and Charlotte Brontë. Among them Writers, Scientists and Political Leaders, across the Interwar Period and World War II.
Notable people
Agatha Christie
in 1926
1 moment here
English novelist, playwright, and memoirist, internationally known for detective fiction featuring Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.…
Alan Turing
from 1948 to 1954
4 moments here
English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computing pioneer. Turing studied at Cambridge and Princeton, worked at Bletchley Park during the…
Albert Einstein
in 1921
1 moment here
German-born theoretical physicist who transformed modern physics through special and general relativity, foundational work on quantum theory, and…
Benjamin Franklin
in 1771
1 moment here
American printer, scientist, civic leader, colonial agent, revolutionary statesman, and diplomat.…
Charles Dickens
from 1843 to 1847
2 moments here
English novelist, journalist, editor, social reformer, actor and celebrated public reader. This chronology traces documented residences, workplaces,…
Charlotte Brontë
from 1851 to 1854
3 moments here
English novelist, poet, and governess, best known for Jane Eyre. This chronology records documented physical presences from her birth in Thornton…
Dmitri Mendeleev
in 1887
1 moment here
Russian chemist Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev formulated the periodic law and produced a foundational periodic table.…
Ernest Rutherford
in 1907
2 moments here
New Zealand-born physicist and chemist whose research on radioactivity, the atomic nucleus, and nuclear transmutation helped establish nuclear…
Eusébio
in 1966
1 moment here
Eusébio da Silva Ferreira (1942–2014) was a Portuguese footballer, born in Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), who became Benfica's record goalscorer and…
Frédéric Chopin
in 1848
1 moment here
Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the early Romantic period. Born in Żelazowa Wola, he grew up and trained in Warsaw, travelled through Central…
Friedrich Engels
from 1842 to 1864
4 moments here
German philosopher, political theorist, revolutionary socialist, businessman, and Karl Marx’s lifelong collaborator.…
George Orwell
in 1936
1 moment here
George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, an English novelist, essayist, journalist, critic, and democratic socialist.…
Hastings Banda
in 1945
1 moment here
Hastings Kamuzu Banda was a Malawian physician and politician who led Nyasaland to independence and served as Malawi's prime minister and first…
Jomo Kenyatta
in 1945
1 moment here
Jomo Kenyatta (c. 1897–1978) was a Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who became Kenya’s first prime minister in 1963 and first president…
Karl Marx
in 1845
1 moment here
German philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Born in Trier, Marx studied in Bonn and Berlin, worked in Cologne, and…
Kwame Nkrumah
in 1945
1 moment here
Ghanaian nationalist leader, Pan-Africanist, and political theorist who led the Gold Coast to independence as Ghana in 1957.…
Lawrence Bragg
in 1919
1 moment here
Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer. Bragg shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics with his father, William Henry Bragg, for…
Ludwig Wittgenstein
in 1908
2 moments here
Austro-British philosopher whose work in logic, language, mathematics, and mind shaped twentieth-century analytic philosophy.…
Sri Aurobindo
in 1879
1 moment here
Sri Aurobindo (Aurobindo Ghose) was an Indian nationalist, philosopher, poet, and yogi. His documented movements run from childhood in Bengal and…
Winston Churchill
in 1904
1 moment here
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965) was a British soldier, journalist, author and statesman whose career ranged from imperial campaigns in…
Yuri Gagarin
in 1961
1 moment here
Soviet pilot and cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin became the first human to travel into outer space and to orbit Earth on Vostok 1 on 12 April…
Moments
- 1771 Stay in Manchester Benjamin Franklin
- 1842 First Manchester residence Friedrich Engels
- 1843 Investigates Manchester conditions Charles Dickens
- 1845 Research journey to Manchester Friedrich Engels
- 1845 Conducts research in Manchester Karl Marx
- 1847 Performs in Manchester Charles Dickens
- 1848 Concert in Manchester Frédéric Chopin
- 1850 Return to Manchester commerce Friedrich Engels
- 1851 Visit to Elizabeth Gaskell at Plymouth Grove Charlotte Brontë
- 1853 Second visit to Plymouth Grove Charlotte Brontë
- 1854 Third visit to Plymouth Grove Charlotte Brontë
- 1864 Partner in Ermen & Engels Friedrich Engels
- 1879 Education with the Drewett family Sri Aurobindo
- 1887 British Association meeting Dmitri Mendeleev
- 1904 Addresses Free Trade League in Manchester Winston Churchill
- 1907 Arrival as Manchester professor Ernest Rutherford
- 1907 Residence in Withington Ernest Rutherford
- 1908 Doctoral engineering work Ludwig Wittgenstein
- 1908 Kite research near Glossop Ludwig Wittgenstein
- 1919 Langworthy Professor in Manchester Lawrence Bragg
- 1921 Lectures in Manchester Albert Einstein
- 1926 Secluded at Abney Hall Agatha Christie
- 1936 Arrival in Manchester for northern investigation George Orwell
- 1945 Fifth Pan-African Congress Hastings Banda
- 1945 Fifth Pan-African Congress Jomo Kenyatta
- 1945 Fifth Pan-African Congress Kwame Nkrumah
- 1948 Copper Folly residence Alan Turing
- 1948 University of Manchester appointment Alan Turing
- 1951 Meeting Arnold Murray on Oxford Road Alan Turing
- 1954 Death at Copper Folly Alan Turing
- 1961 Public visit to Manchester Yuri Gagarin
- 1966 World Cup goal against Bulgaria Eusébio