ter for over a week but were never successful.
The next century saw many improvements to the town and a great population growth. The improvements included the building of St. Ann’s Church in 1712. During the next century the church was made into a cathedral and a tower was built.
On August 16, 1819 the Peterloo massacre occurred in St. Peter’s field outside of Manchester. Eleven people were killed and over 600 more were wounded when the Manchester Yeomanry was sent to arrest some radical speakers. Their audience, which consisted of tens of thousands, harassed the soldiers. The soldiers then turned on the crowd. The town magistrates sent another group of soldiers in to try to disperse the crowds, but instead this group turned on the crowds as well.
One of the reasons for the anger of the crowds was the fact that Manchester was filled with slums. There were families living in one room cellars and some had to sleep on straw heaps. These parts of the town were filthy and filled with disease. This led to an outbreak of cholera in 1832 that killed almost 700 people.
In the nicer parts of the town, however, there were great improvements including the opening of many museums and other institutions. Later in the century, the town council put effort into cleaning up the slums which were completely demolished in the early twentieth century.
The early 1900’s were a time of great growth for the city. This includes the opening of Manchester University in 1903. The city center of Manchester was all but destroyed during World War II, however the next one hundred years saw great development and growth for the city including the addition of a Chinatown in the 1970’s and 1980’s.
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