1868
  • 7 July — Charter of Incorporation granted to Huddersfield
  • 7 September — First meeting of the Town Council of Huddersfield Corporation, Charles Henry Jones is elected the first Mayor of Huddersfield
1869
  • Longwood Reservoirs purchased by Huddersfield Corporation
1871
  • The ceremonial first sods are cut of Deerhill Reservoir and Blackmoorfoot Reservoir

1872
  • January — Huddersfield Gas Company purchased by Huddersfield Corporation for around £130,000
1873
  • Appointment of first Medical Officer of Health for Huddersfield
1874
  • Moldgreen Gas Company purchased for £17,000
1875
  • Deerhill Reservoir completed (158 million gallons)
1876
  • Huddersfield Corporation acquires the market rights from the Ramsden Estate
  • Blackmoorfoot Reservoir completed (675 million gallons)
1877
  • Construction begins on Wessdenhead Reservoir
  • Land acquired in Great Northern Street to build a new cattle market, abattoir and fairground
  • Huddersfield Corporation purchases the former Birkby Workhouse for £2,500 in order to convert it into a fever hospital
1879
  • Model Lodging House on Chapel Hill enlarged
1880
  • Market Hall on King Street is completed
  • Work begins on constructing 160 “artisans’ dwellings” at Turnbridge
1881
  • Wessenden Head Reservoir completed (82 million gallons)
  • Huddersfield Town Hall completed
  • May — Great Northern Street cattle market, abattoir and fairground opened
1883
  • January — Huddersfield Corporation becomes the first municipal borough to operate its own tramway service
  • October — First Royal visit to Huddersfield when the Duke and Duchess of Albany formally open Beaumont Park
1884
  • Greenhead Park opened
1888
  • Ramsden Street Baths purchased by Huddersfield Corporation for £2,000
1889
  • The covered Wholesale Market on Brook Street is opened
  • April — Under the terms of the Local Government Act of 1888, the County Borough of Huddersfield is formed
1890
  • Longwood Local Board District becomes a new ward in the enlarged County Borough of Huddersfield
1891
  • January — Wessenden Old Reservoir (107 million gallons) purchased by Huddersfield Corporation for £50,000
  • August — Construction begins on Butterley Reservoir
1893
  • July — Huddersfield Corporation begins supplying electricity from a generator works on St. Andrew’s Road to 38 customers
1896
  • Norman Park opened
  • November — Construction begins on Blakeley Reservoir
1898
  • Huddersfield’s first Public Library and Art Gallery opens in Somerset Buildings
  • Peel Street Police Stations opened by Mayor W.H. Jessop
  • Woodfield Estate purchased for £5,131 to create Lockwood Cemetery
  • Mill Hill Isolation Hospital (also known as Huddersfield Sanitorium) opened at Dalton
1899
  • Victoria Tower on Castle Hill is opened by the Earl of Scarborough
1901
  • Electrification of the tram service begins
1903
  • Blakeley Reservoir completed (80 million gallons)
1906
  • Butterley Reservoir completed (over 400 million gallons)
1909
  • Greenhead High School for Girls opened
1913
  • Deanhead Reservoir (100 million gallons) purchased by Huddersfield Corporation
  • Royds Hall Estate purchased by Huddersfield Corporation for £16,908
1914
  • Huddersfield Corporation tramway network extended to Marsden
1919
  • Businessman Samuel William Copley, who was born in Berry Brow but made his fortune in Australia, purchases the Ramsden Estate on behalf on Huddersfield Corporation
1920
  • Huddersfield Corporation acquires the Ramsden Estate for £1,300,000 and becomes “The Town that Bought Itself”
  • Legh Tolson gifts the Ravensknowle Estate to Huddersfield Corporation in memory of his two nephews who were killed during the war
1922
  • Huddersfield Cloth Hall demolished, but plans to build a new public library on the site fall are later abandoned
  • May — Tolson Memorial Museum opened
1931
1933
  • December — The electric tram service starts to be replaced by trolleybuses
1934
  • Huddersfield Corporation acquires the Ramsden Street Congregational Chapel (which closed the previous year) in order to demolish it and build a new library on the site
1937
  • April — Around 2,272 acres of land are added to the County Borough due to a reorganisation of adjoining urban district councils
1940
1946
  • October — Work starts on constructing Digley Reservoir
1958
  • Huddersfield Crematorium opened
1965
  • Phase 1 of the new Civic Centre completed, which includes the Borough Treasurer’s Department, Education, Health, Borough Architects and Town Planning Departments
1967
  • Phase 2 of the new Civic Centre completed, which includes new the Police Headquarters and Law Courts
1968
  • The centenary of the Incorporation is celebrated throughout the year
  • July — the final trolleybus service runs to Outlane
    • 1969
    • Scammonden Reservoir (a joint project with the Ministry of Transport) is completed
    1974
    • April — County Borough of Huddersfield is abolished and becomes part of the new Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees