December
On this day in December:
- 1st Dcember 1900: opening of the railway station in West Jesmond (now a Metro station).
- 5th December 1864 founding of the Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade.
- 5th December 2011; Turner Prize for 2011 awarded, at the Baltic in Gateshead
- 8th December 1806; birth of Henry Bolckow, a founding father of Middlesbrough.
- 8th December 1864 founding of Cullercoats Volunteer Life Brigade.
- 9th December 1892; Newcastle East End became known as Newcastle United FC.
- 10th December 1836; South Shields Poor Law Union formed.
- 10th December 1993; last shift at Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland.
- 16th December 1914; Naval Bombardment of Hartlepool in World War 1.
- 17th December 2004; official opening of the SAGE Gateshead.
- 18th December 1878; Joseph Swan first demonstrated his incandescent light bulb in Newcastle.
- 21st December 1799; birth of John Vaughan, industrialist and ironmaster.
- 21st December 1933: opening of Haymarket Cinema in Newcastle.
- 22nd December 1786; birth of Timothy Hackworth, engineer and superintendent of Stockton and Darlington Railway.
- 23rd December 1873; Leazes Park in Newcastle opened by Sir Charles Hamond.
- 25th December 1806; a violent storm caused the River Aln to change its course around Alnmouth.
- 29th December 1967: launch of the 'Nicola' the first in a long line of 'SD14' ships built in Sunderland.
- 30th December 2014; death of Frank Atkinson, the founder of Beamish open-air museum.
- 31st December 1848; birth of Ralph Hedley,Newcastle painter and wood carver.
- December 1971: The first Chrstmas Window display at Fenwick department store in Newcastle.
