Liverpool has a long and proud reputation of paving the way for change.
From being home to the first female councillor in Britain to discovering the link between sugar and diabetes, the city's rich history of innovation has helped to shape the world as we know it today.
Over the last 18 months, Liverpool has played an important part in the fight against coronavirus, as the first city in the UK to launch a voluntary mass testing programme.
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But the city's history of achievements stretches back much further than that.
Back in April last year we rounded together 38 things that happened for the first time in Liverpool.
You may have heard of some of the things on the list, but others may surprise you.
1. The first subscription library in England
Founded in 1758, the former library in Bold Street's Lyceum building is thought to be one of the first libraries to be built in Europe that was funded exclusively by a membership fee or private donations.
2. The longest canal in England
In 1770, work started on the Leeds-Liverpool canal. It was, at the time, the longest and highest canal in Britain
It was completed in 1816.
3. The link between sugar and diabetes first discovered
Liverpool was where the link between sugar and diabetes was first discovered back in 1774.
The discovery was made by Liverpool born physician Matthew Dobson.
4. World's first American consulate
Liverpool was home to the first overseas American Consulate in the world, established in 1790.
A portrait of the first consul, James Maury, still hangs in the town hall.
5. The first city to issue its own currency
In 1793, Liverpool became the first and only municipality in England to issue its own bank notes.
6. First school for blind people
The Royal School for the Blind was the first specialist school of its kind in the UK and is the second oldest in the world behind Paris.
Originally situated on Commutation Row, the originally building was demolished in the nineteenth century but it was the precursor to the modern day school in Wavertree.
7. The first iron clad church
St George's church in Everton was the first in the world to be built with a cast iron frame.
It opened its doors in 1814.
8. World's first rugby club
Liverpool Rugby Football Club was founded in 1857, 35 years before Liverpool FC was established at Anfield.
This makes it the world's oldest open rugby club.
9. The first shot of the Civil War
The American Civil War began in 1861 at Fort Sumter in North Carolina, but the first shot was fired from a gun made by Liverpool firm Fawcett and Preston.
10. Britain's first cycling club
The Liverpool Velocipedes became Britain's first cycling club when they were founded in 1867.
11. Britain's first public art gallery
When the Walker Art Gallery opened in 1877, it was the first British public art gallery.
12. First Irish Nationalist MP elected in an English constituency
In 1880, T.P O'Connor became the first Irish Nationalist MP elected to represent an English constituency.
He served as MP for Liverpool Exchange.
13. World's first overhead electric railway
1893 saw the opening of the world's first overhead railway in Liverpool.
It was also the first elevated railway, the first to use automatic signals, and had the first passenger escalator at a railway station.
14. Britain's first female doctor opens Liverpool practice
In 1884 Britain's first female doctor Elizabeth Garrett Anderson opened a Liverpool practice.
15. First use of the x-ray
Charles Thurstan Holland and Sir Oliver Lodge first took an x-ray in 1896 in Liverpool.
16. Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine is the first of its kind in the UK
The Liverpool School of Medicine was the first of its kind in Britain when it opened in April 1889.
17. First inter-city railway in the world
The Liverpool-Manchester inter-city railway, completed in 1830, was the first in the world to link two cities together.
18. Stanley Dock tobacco warehouse
In 1900, the largest tobacco warehouse in the world was built at Stanley Dock.
It was built of 27 million bricks and had 36 acres of storage space that could hold 70,000 hogs heads of tobacco.
19. First veterinary school in the UK
In 1904, the University of Liverpool was the first university in Britain to establish a school of veterinary science.
20. The first woman Councillor in Britain
Eleanor Rathbone became the first woman councillor in Britain in 1909.
She was elected as an independent member of Granby Ward in 1909 and eventually went on to become an MP.
She was an early campaigner for child benefit and women's rights campaigner.
21. Europe's first skyscraper
Completed in 1911, the Royal Liver Building was one of the first buildings to be constructed using reinforced concrete.
22. Britain's first Woolworths
In 1909, Britain's first Woolworths opened on Church Street.
23. Royal Liver Building clock
The Royal Liver Building clockface - the largest in Britain at the time - started for the first time on June 22 1911, at the precise time of George V's coronation.
24. The first crossword puzzle
Liverpool's Arthur Wynne produced the world's first crossword puzzle in 1913.
The first crossword appeared in New York World.
25. Britain's first black mayor
In 1913, Liverpool-born John Archer became the first black man to elected as a mayor in Britain.
He was elected as mayor of Battersea, in London.
26. Britain's first Youth Court
Britain's first juvenile court was opened in Crosshall Street in 1925.
27. Everton's Dixie Dean first to score 60 goals in top division
In 1928, Everton's centre-forward Dixie Dean scored a record 60 goals in the English top flight.
28. First purpose built boxing stadium
The first purpose built boxing stadium in the country was completed on Bixteth Street in 1932.
29. Everton play in first televised football match
Arsenal vs Everton at Highbury in 1936 in the English first division was the first televised football match in British history.
30. Britain's first Chinese newspaper
Hua Chow Pao, Britain's first Chinese newspaper, was published for the first time in Liverpool in 1944.
31. Liverpool FC's Jack Balmer is first player to score three consecutive hat-tricks
Liverpool FC's Jack Balmer became the first footballer in the English top division to score three consecutive hat-tricks in 1946.
32. The first package holiday flight
The first ever package holiday flight departed from John Lennon Airport to the south of France in 1952.
33. The first British woman to top the charts
Liverpool’s Lita Roza was the first woman to top the UK singles chart, with How Much is that Doggy in the Window? In 1953.
34. The Beatles
In 1969, the Beatles became the only musicians to achieve five diamond albums, signifying U.S sales of more than 10 million each.
35. The first British international garden festival
The first British International Garden Festival was held in Liverpool in 1984.
36. Britain's largest cathedral
Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral, completed in 1979 after 77 years of construction, became Britain's largest cathedral.
37. World's longest mural
In 2000, the world's longest mural was unveiled at Alder Hey Children's Hospital.
Painted by George Nicholas, the mural officially broke the Guinness World Record upon completion.
38. First British team to win 5 European Cups
In 2005, Liverpool FC became the first English team to win 5 European Cups when they defeated AC Milan on penalties in Istanbul. They were also the first to win six!
