Calico chronology edit
- 1750 Jonathan Haworth, Robert "Parsley" Peel and William Yates start a fustian and calico printing business at Brookside, Oswaldtwistle.
- c. 1764 James Hargreaves invents the Spinning jenny at Stanhill.
- May 19 1770 The first Leeds and Liverpool Canal Act was passed with construction starting later that year. The planned route through East Lancashire was significantly different to that which was eventually constructed, crossing the Calder at Whalley with branches serving Burnley and Accrington.
- 1774 The Calico Acts (1700, 1721) were repealed removing the prohibition on the sale of the cloth in Britain, triggering a wave of investment in mill-based cotton spinning and production.
- 1776 Thomas Duxbury, a handloom weaver in Rishton, may have been the first person to weave calico intended for sale, after the prohibition ended.