Portal:Cheshire/Calendar/December

1 December 1901: Artist and illustrator Charles Tunnicliffe born in Langley.

1 December 1906: Carnegie Library, Runcorn officially opened.

6 December 1891: Rowland Egerton-Warburton died at Arley Hall.

8 December 1665: Civil War diarist Edward Burghall died at Alpraham.

9 December 1836: Dutton Viaduct completed.

10 December 1583: Great Fire of Nantwich started.

13 December 1643: Siege of Nantwich started.

14 December 1979: Footballer Michael Owen born in Chester.

17 December 1925: Cricketer A. N. Hornby (gravestone pictured) died in Nantwich.

17 December 1973: Long-distance runner Paula Radcliffe born in Davenham.

19 December 1572: Landlord of Nantwich's Crown Inn murdered; the investigation involved many among the town's gentry.

22 December 1643: Royalist forces occupied Audlem, Brindley, Buerton, Hankelow, Hatherton, Hurleston, Stoke and Wrenbury during the Civil War.

23 December 1642: Bunbury Agreement drawn up.

24 December 1643: Twelve Parliamentarians massacred at St Bertoline's Church, Barthomley.

26 December 1643: Second Battle of Middlewich during the Civil War.

26 December 1962: Train crash at Coppenhall, between Crewe and Winsford, killed 18 people and injured 34.

29 December 1940: Air raid badly damaged the Crewe Rolls Royce works and killed 16 employees.