30 December: 384 Jacobite prisoners are taken after the Siege of Carlisle. Some are executed while others are sentenced to transportation to the West Indies.
19th century
1823 - a canal is built in Port Carlisle to transport goods produced in the city.
1838 - the post of the Govenor of Carlisle as garrison commander is abolished.[7]
2005 - 7 January: the rivers Eden, Caldew and Petteril burst their banks due to as much as 180 mm rainfall upstream that day.[11] 2,700 homes were flooded and three people died.
2015 - 5-6 December: Storm Desmond causes flooding to occur in Carlisle. An estimate of 2,200 to 3,500 homes were flooded.[12]
References
^Samuel Sampson (1746). The Agreeable Historian, or the Complete English Traveller.