The early years of Primitive Methodism nationally:
| 1811 | The ‘Camp Meeting Methodists’ led by Hugh Bourne joined with the ‘Clowesites’ led by William Clowes |
| 1812 | The ‘Primitive Methodist Connexion’ formed |
| 1820 | First PM Annual Conference held in Hull |
Primitive Methodism in Chester:
| 1819 | Joshua Reynolds and John Wedgewood led the first PM missions to Chester |
| 1821 | Chester appeared for the first time on a Preaching Plan based at Burland (3 miles WNW of Nantwich). First Chester society formed, meeting as a house-church in the home of Thomas Ellis in Steven Street and later moving to a room in King Street |
| 1823/4 | Chester Steam Mill Street Chapel built |
| 1825/6 | First independent Chester PM circuit formed with Chester Steam Mill Street Chapel as its head |
| 1851 | Census of Places of Worship: return provided by ‘Mill Street Chapel’ |
| 1862/3 | First George Street chapel built to replace the Steam Mill Street Chapel |
| 1863 | Steam Mill Street Chapel put up for auction |
| 1864 | The society at George Street split, one part remaining and the other part using various rented rooms before acquiring the Commonhall Street chapel |
| 1866 | Chester Mount Zion Chapel, Commonhall Street, acquired from the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists |
| 1874 | The Chester circuit was divided between First and Second circuits, headed respectively by the George Street and Commonhall Street Chapels |
| 1876 | A group of young people from Commonhall Street Chapel held a mission in Boughton; from this, a new society was born which became the Tarvin Road Chapel society |
| 1884 | Tarvin Road Chapel built |
| 1887/8 | A new George Street chapel built a short distance away from the first George Street chapel which was too small; the latter was acquired by the Chester Christian Temperance Society and became a Temperance Hall |
| 1889 | A third circuit was created out of Chester First Circuit with Tarvin Road Chapel as its head |
| 1898/9 | The ‘City Temple’, Hunter Street, Chester, was built to replace the Commonhall Street chapel; it became the headquarters of the Chester Second Circuit |
| 1902 | The First Circuit, based at the ‘new’ George Street chapel, opened a mission room in Faulkner Street, Hoole |
| 1903 | A chapel built in Hamilton Street, Hoole |
| 1928 | The second Hamilton Street Hoole chapel built adjoining the first chapel which became its schoolroom |
| 1932 | Methodist Union between the Wesleyan, Primitive and United Methodist Churches |
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