1756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born.
1762 The Earl of Sandwich invents a new snack when he becomes too hungry to leave the gambling table during a card game. Meat and cheese put between bread to keep his hands clean; the sandwich is born.
1773 Captain James Cook returns to London aboard the HMS Endeavour, to a hero's welcome having claimed Australia and New Zealand for the British Empire.
1791 The Observer, Britains oldest Sunday Newspaper is first published.
1802 Madame Tussaud opens her exhibition of death masks in London.
1805 The Battle of Trafalgar is won as Horatio Nelson is mortally wounded on the HMS Victory.
1823 Rugby Football is invented.
1830 Charles Darwin sets sail for the Southern Seas aboard the Beagle on a journey that was to bring about one of the greatest breakthroughs in scientific thinking.
1837 Queen Victoria begins her 63 year reign.
1851 The Great Exhibition was first opened for Queen Victoria in a specially built glass building that was to become known as Crystal Palace.
1895 Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling was first published.
1903 First flight by the Wright brothers takes place.
1915 The brassiere was invented.
1940 Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister.
1945 World War II finally comes to an end.
1969 Men on the moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin take this giant first step for mankind.
1994 Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as President of the new South Africa; only three years earlier he was released from prison after 27yrs when apartheid was finally abolished.
2000 e-explosion takes place as interest in the internet soars.
1760s Agricultural Enclosures resulted in small fields, improved cattle keeping and as a result milk surplusses. Milk surplusses made into cheeses like Stilton and whey produced as a by-product, used as a cheap pig feed. Pigs herds kept alongside dairy herds and the meat made into pork pies, mainly eaten by peasants.
1768-1841 Mary Dickinson (Grandmother of John Dickinson), a noted pork pie maker, is credited with using the first wooden dolly to raise the pastry case: she is considered as the originator of the hand raised Melton Mowbray pork pie.
1790s Dickinson family are already well known as pork pie makers and Stilton cheese merchants.
1800s Fox hunting is now centred on Melton Mowbray with three Hunts favouring the surrounding countryside now typical of the shires. The Gentry involved discover that the small hand raised pies are ideal as a cold snack during the ride as they remain intact in their pockets.
1830s Stage coaches running from London and Leeds stop in Melton Mowbray making it now possible to sell pork pies outside of the immediate area.
1847 Midland Railway line opened to Peterborough with connections to King's Cross, London. Pork pies from Melton Mowbray could now be sold nationally. The fame of Melton Mowbray pies spread as the fox hunting Gentry return to London residences.
1848 John Dickinson starts a pork pie business at Burton End, near the railway station.
1851 The Nottingham Street shop is rented, as the business has outgrown the Burton End premises.
1854 Melton Hunt Cake is first made.
1886 Joseph Morris is taken on as an apprentice; he is treated like a son by John Dickinson.
1901 A partnership between John Dickinson and Joseph Morris is founded and the business takes on the new name of Dickinson & Morris.
1944 Survivors of the 4th Parachute Brigade return to Melton Mowbray to eat pork pies specially baked by Dickinson & Morris.
1984 An enormous 85lb 10oz pork pie is baked.
1991 Severe fire damage is suffered by the shop.
1992 Fully restored, the Dickinson & Morris shop re-opens.
1997 The Sausage Shop is opened next door to Ye Olde Pork Pie Shoppe.
2001 150th Anniversary of pork pie making at the Nottingham Street shop.
2002 Dickinson & Morris receives Gold Award for Outstanding Customer Service from English Tourism Council
2006 Dickinson & Morris awarded Gold Great Taste Award.