| 1620 | |
| Monday 14 August | The Court of Sewers for the counties of Nottinghamshire, Linconshire and Yorkshire was established by Royal Warrant to settle drainage and navigation disputes |
| 1629 | |
| Tuesday 6 January | Cornelius Vermuyden was knighted in recognition of his work in drainage and navigation |
| 1726 | |
| Saturday 14 May | The Act for improvements to the River Don was obtained |
| 1757 | |
| Tuesday 9 August | Thomas Telford, canal engineer, was born |
| 1759 | |
| Friday 23 March | The Act for the Bridgewater Canal from Worsley to Salford was obtained |
| 1760 | |
| Thursday 24 July | Barton Aqueduct opened |
| 1762 | |
| Wednesday 24 March | The Act for the Bridgewater Canal to Runcorn was obtained |
| 1765 | |
| Sunday 8 December | James Brindley married Anne Henshall |
| 1766 | |
| Wednesday 29 January | A public meeting to promote the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal took place in Wolverhampton |
| Tuesday 18 February | The bill for the Trent and Mersey Canal was presented to parliament |
| Wednesday 14 May | The Act for the Trent and Mersey Canal was obtained The Act for the Staffordshire and Worcester Canal was obtained |
| Saturday 26 July | The first sod of the Trent and Mersey Canal was cut, by Josiah Wedgwood, at Brownhills |
| 1767 | |
| Wednesday 28 January | The first meeting to promote the Birmingham Canal took place |
| 1768 | |
| Sunday 3 January | Construction of the Forth and Clyde Canal started |
| Friday 29 January | The Act for the Coventry Canal was obtained |
| Wednesday 24 February | The Act for the Birmingham Canal was obtained |
| Tuesday 24 May | Construction of the Coventry Canal started |
| Monday 18 July | An attempt was made to raise funds for Brindley's plan for a canal bridge from Runcorn to Widness |
| Tuesday 25 October | A meeting to promote the Oxford Canal took place at the Three Tuns Inn, Banbury |
| 1769 | |
| Tuesday 13 June | Wedgewood's Etruria works opened "Artes Etruria renascunter" |
| Thursday 10 August | The first load of coal was carried from Bedford to Coventry |
| Monday 6 November | The Birmingham Canal opened from Paradise Street to Wednesbury |
| 1770 | |
| Sunday 24 June | The Trent and Mersey Canal opened from Derwent Mouth to Shugborough |
| Saturday 18 August | A meeting took place to promote a canal from Walsall to Fradley |
| 1771 | |
| Thursday 27 June | The Droitwich Canal opened |
| Tuesday 12 November | The Trent and Mersey Canal opened from the Trent to Stone |
| 1772 | |
| Wednesday 1 April | The Act for the Chester Canal was obtained |
| Thursday 28 May | The Staffordshire and Worcester Canal opened |
| Monday 21 September | The Birmingham Canal joined the Staffs and Worcs at Aldersley |
| Sunday 27 September | James Brindley, engineer of many early canals, died |
| 1773 | |
| Sunday 10 January | Runcorn Locks opened from the River Mersey to the Bridgewater Canal |
| Thursday 15 July | The Act for the Chelmer and Blackwater Canal was obtained |
| 1774 | |
| Friday 18 February | The first boat passed through the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Lancashire |
| 1775 | |
| Monday 16 January | The Chester Canal opened from Chester to Huxley Aqueduct |
| Tuesday 26 September | The Trent and Mersey Canal opened from the Trent to Middlewich |
| 1776 | |
| Wednesday 13 March | William "strata" Smith, engineer of the Somerset Coal Canal and known as "The Father of British Geology", was born |
| Thursday 21 March | The Bridgewater Canal extension to Runcorn opened |
| Tuesday 2 April | The Act for the Stourbridge Canal was obtained The Act for the Dudley Canal was obtained |
| 1777 | |
| Tuesday 15 April | The Oxford and the Coventry Canals joined at Longford |
| 1778 | |
| Monday 30 March | The Oxford Canal opened as far south as Banbury |
| Monday 1 June | Dudley Tunnel opened as far as Tipton Colliery |
| 1779 | |
| Friday 3 December | The Dudley and the Stourbridge Canals opened |
| 1782 | |
| Thursday 20 June | The Oxford, Coventry, Trent and Mersey and Birmingham and Fazeley Canals met at Coleshill to agree the plan whereby the T&M and B&F would complete the Coventry's from Fazeley to Fradley if the Oxford would complete their canal to Oxford and the Coventry extend to Fazeley |
| 1789 | |
| Thursday 2 July | The temporary lower summit (just above current old main line summit) of the Birmingham Canal opened |
| 1790 | |
| Tuesday 6 April | The new summit of the Birmingham Canal opened |
| Tuesday 13 July | The Coventry Canal opened from Atherstone to Fazeley |
| Wednesday 11 August | The Birmingham and Fazeley Canal opened |
| 1791 | |
| Friday 13 May | The Act for the Leicester Navigation was obtained The Act for the Manchester Bolton and Bury Canal was obtained |
| 1792 | |
| Tuesday 6 March | A new, realigned, junction at Tipton opened |
| Monday 11 June | The Act for the Ashton-under-Lyne and Oldham Canal was obtained |
| Friday 20 July | A public meeting at the Bull Inn in Stoney Stratford took place to promote the Grand Junction Canal |
| Monday 15 October | Dudley Tunnel opened |
| Sunday 28 October | John Smeaton, canal engineer, died |
| 1793 | |
| Tuesday 30 April | The Act for the Leicester and Northampton Union (The Old Union) Canal was obtained The Act for the Grand Junction Canal was obtained |
| Tuesday 7 May | The Act for the Oakham Canal was obtained |
| Thursday 30 May | A meeting was held at the George Inn, Huddersfield, to promote the Huddersfield Narrow Canal |
| 1794 | |
| Monday 10 February | The Glamorganshire Canal opened |
| Friday 21 February | The River Line of the Leicester Navigation opened from Loughborough to Leicester |
| Friday 28 March | The Act for the Peak Forest Canal was obtained |
| Friday 4 April | The Act for the Rochdale Canal was obtained The Act for the Huddersfield Narrow Canal was obtained |
| Friday 24 October | The Forest Line of the Leicester Navigation opened from Nanpantan to Thringstone |
| Tuesday 28 October | The first five miles (Leicester to Blaby) of the Old Union Canal opened |
| Monday 3 November | The Grand Junction canal opened from Brentford to Uxbridge |
| 1795 | |
| Saturday 3 January | Josia Wedgwood, promotor of several early canals, died |
| Saturday 25 July | Construction of Pontcysyllte Aqueduct started |
| 1796 | |
| Saturday 23 April | The first boat - the brig Fortunes Increase sailed into Heybridge Basin on the Chelmer and Blackwater Canal |
| Tuesday 21 June | The Grand Junction Canal opened from Braunston to Weedon Braunston Tunnel opened |
| 1797 | |
| Wednesday 22 March | The Act for the Leek Branch of the Trent and Mersey Canal was obtained |
| Wednesday 29 March | The Hudderfield Narrow Canal opened between Huddersfield and Slaithwaite |
| Friday 7 April | The Old Union Canal opened from Leicester to Debdale |
| Tuesday 6 June | The Act for the Caldon Canal extension from Froghall to Uttoxeter was obtained The Act for the Burslem Branch of the Trent and Mersey Canal was obtained |
| 1798 | |
| Thursday 29 March | The Hereford and Gloucester Canal opened from Gloucester to Ledbury |
| 1800 | |
| Thursday 1 May | The Peak Forest Canal opened with the exception of Marple Locks |
| Wednesday 28 May | The Grand Junction Canal opened from Tring Summit to Fenny Stratford |
| 1801 | |
| Friday 1 May | The Buckingham Branch of the Grand Junction Canal opened |
| Friday 10 July | The Paddington Branch of the Grand Junction Canal opened |
| 1805 | |
| Monday 25 March | Blisworth Tunnel opened |
| Friday 31 May | The Aberdeenshire Canal opened |
| Thursday 25 July | Passage of wide boats through Braunston and Blissworth Tunnels |
| Monday 26 August | The original Wolverton Aqueduct opened |
| Tuesday 26 November | Pontcysyllte Aqueduct opened |
| 1808 | |
| Thursday 18 February | Wolverton Aqueduct collapsed |
| Friday 10 June | A temporary wooden aqueduct at Wolverton opened |
| 1809 | |
| Saturday 9 September | The foundation stone for the new Wolverton Aqueduct was laid |
| Friday 13 October | The Old Union Canal opened as far as Market Harborough |
| 1810 | |
| Thursday 24 May | The Act for the Grand Union Canal (now known as the Old Union) was obtained |
| Monday 13 August | Construction of the Aylesbury Arm of the Grand Junction Canal started |
| Saturday 13 October | The Paisley Canal opened |
| Saturday 10 November | Many drowned when a canal boat capsized in the Glasgow and Ardrossan canal |
| Thursday 29 November | Black Moss reservoir (for the Huddersfield Narrow Canal) burst its banks; 6 people died |
| Monday 10 December | The first boat passed through Foulridge Tunnel |
| 1811 | |
| Sunday 27 January | The new Wolverton Aqueduct opened |
| Thursday 4 April | The Huddersfield Narrow Canal opened |
| Tuesday 3 September | The Caldon Canal extension from Froghall to Uttoxeter opened |
| 1812 | |
| Thursday 1 October | Foxton Locks opened |
| 1814 | |
| Friday 17 June | The Act for the Newport Pagnall Canal was obtained |
| Tuesday 9 August | The Old Union Canal opened |
| Friday 18 November | William Jessop, engineer of many later canals and pioneer of the use of iron, died |
| 1815 | |
| Monday 1 May | The Northampton Branch of the Grand Junction Canal opened |
| Thursday 18 May | James Francis, engineer of the Great Western Canal Co and Chief Engineer of the US Merrimack River Navigation), was born |
| 1816 | |
| Monday 19 February | Baswich, or St Thomas, Lock opened joining the Staffs and Worcs to the River Sow and hence to Stafford |
| 1817 | |
| Tuesday 24 June | The Tavistock Canal opened |
| 1818 | |
| Friday 17 July | Construction of Sharpness Docks started |
| Thursday 30 July | A packet boat with a pleasure party aboard sank in the Manchester Bolton and Bury Canal at Withins Bridge |
| 1819 | |
| Monday 18 January | James Barnes, Resident Engineer to the Grand Junction Canal, died |
| 1820 | |
| Tuesday 1 August | The Regents Canal opened |
| 1822 | |
| Thursday 24 October | The Caledonian Canal opened |
| 1825 | |
| Wednesday 26 October | The Erie Canal opened |
| 1826 | |
| Wednesday 19 April | A llama, a kangaroo, a four horned ram and a female goat with 2 kids arrived in Derby by canal |
| 1827 | |
| Thursday 26 April | The Gloucester and Sharpness Canal opened |
| 1829 | |
| Tuesday 2 June | Ashwood Basin, on the Staffs and Worcs opened |
| Friday 18 September | The Large Dock at Runcorn opened taking ships up to 32ft wide |
| 1833 | |
| Sunday 1 September | The Wardle Green section of the Trent and Mersey opened |
| Wednesday 9 October | William Praed, first Chairman of the Grand Junction Canal, died |
| 1835 | |
| Monday 2 March | The Birminham and Liverpool Junction Canal opened (now part of the SU main line) |
| 1836 | |
| Monday 22 August | The Croydon Canal was closed |
| 1839 | |
| Monday 17 June | Christina Collins was murdered by boatmen on the Trent and Mersey Canal |
| Wednesday 28 August | William "strata" Smith, engineer of the Somerset Coal Canal and known as "The Father of British Geology", died |
| Monday 28 October | The Manchester and Salford Junction Canal opened |
| 1845 | |
| Thursday 22 May | The Hereford and Gloucester Canal opened Construction of the Hereford and Gloucester Canal from Ledbury to Hereford started |
| Monday 21 July | The Hudderfield Narrow Canal amalgamated iwth the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway |
| 1847 | |
| Friday 31 December | Pickfords stopped carrying |
| 1850 | |
| Thursday 10 October | The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal opened |
| 1854 | |
| Tuesday 31 January | The lease for the Runcorn Ferry was granted to Gilbert Greenall (the previous incumbent having been sacked for drunkenness) |
| Tuesday 19 December | The first steam screw propellor boat on the Lancaster Canal - the Dandy - took its firsts trip |
| 1860 | |
| Saturday 29 September | Coombswood Tube Works on the Dudley Canal reopened |
| 1864 | |
| Thursday 8 September | The Newport Pagnall Canal was closed |
| 1869 | |
| Wednesday 17 November | The Suez Canal opened |
| 1874 | |
| Friday 2 October | The Tilbury exploded under Macclesfield Bridge |
| 1876 | |
| Saturday 1 July | The Grand Junction Canal Company stopped carrying |
| 1881 | |
| Thursday 30 June | The Hereford and Gloucester Canal was closed from Ledbury to Gloucester |
| 1885 | |
| Friday 18 September | James Francis, engineer of the Great Western Canal Co and Chief Engineer of the US Merrimack River Navigation, died |
| 1887 | |
| Wednesday 8 June | The contract for constructing the Manchester Ship Canal was signed |
| Friday 11 November | The first sod of the Manchester Ship Canal was cut, by Lord Egerton, at the site of Eastham Lock. |
| 1892 | |
| Friday 25 March | Construction of Richmond half-tide barrier started |
| 1893 | |
| Monday 17 July | The Manchester Ship Canal opened as far as Runcorn Old Quay |
| 1894 | |
| Monday 1 January | The Manchester Ship Canal opened |
| Saturday 19 May | Richmond half-tide barrier was opened by the Duke and Duchess of York |
| Friday 7 December | Ferdinad de Lesseps, engineer of the Suez Canal, died |
| 1895 | |
| Monday 11 March | Runcorn Ferry reopened after being out of operation for four years |
| 1900 | |
| Tuesday 26 June | The Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Poolstock breached |
| Tuesday 10 July | Foxton Inclined Plane opened The Act for the Runcorn to Widnes Transporter Bridge was obtained |
| 1905 | |
| Monday 29 May | Runcorn Transporter Bridge opened by Sir John Brunner |
| 1909 | |
| Thursday 5 August | Charles Hadfield, canal historian, was born |
| 1911 | |
| Thursday 11 May | The last trip across the Thames and Severn Canal took place |
| 1913 | |
| Monday 17 November | The Steamship Louise was the first through the Panama Canal |
| 1917 | |
| Thursday 1 March | Canals were placed under the control of the Canal Committee of the Board of Trade as part of the war effort |
| 1920 | |
| Tuesday 31 August | Canals reverted to private control after the First World War |
| 1921 | |
| Sunday 6 November | The last commercial cargo passed through Standedge Tunnel |
| 1925 | |
| Wednesday 8 July | King George V travelled from Widnes to Runcorn on the Transporter Bridge |
| 1929 | |
| Tuesday 1 January | The Grand Union Canal was formed |
| 1931 | |
| Thursday 26 November | Rodolph Fane de Salis, last Chairman of the Grand Junction Canal, died |
| 1932 | |
| Friday 1 January | The Leicester, Loughborough and Erewash navigations joined the Grand Union |
| 1934 | |
| Tuesday 30 October | The Duke of Kent opened the widened Grand Union locks |
| 1945 | |
| Saturday 11 August | The first meeting of LTC Rolt and Robert Aickman took place at Tardebigge |
| 1946 | |
| Friday 15 February | The inaugural meeting of the IWA took place |
| 1947 | |
| Tuesday 20 May | The Battle of Lifford Lane took place |
| 1948 | |
| Thursday 1 January | The Board of Trade took over the waterways on nationalisation |
| 1949 | |
| Tuesday 1 March | The Basingstoke Canal was sold at auction for 6000 pounds |
| 1950 | |
| Friday 14 July | LTC Rolt resigned from the IWA committee |
| 1951 | |
| Tuesday 20 February | The founding, and first meeting, of the Great Ouse Restoration Association took place |
| Friday 26 October | Robert Aickman resigned as IWA Chairman |
| 1955 | |
| Saturday 24 September | The first boat passed through the restored Bedford Lock on the Great Ouse |
| 1956 | |
| Thursday 26 July | Colonel Nasser, president of Egypt, announces nationalisation of the Suez Canal |
| 1962 | |
| Wednesday 24 October | The new Thames Lock at Brentford opened |
| 1963 | |
| Saturday 4 May | The Canal Museum at Stoke Bruerne opened |
| Friday 17 May | Cardington Lock on the Great Ouse reopened |
| 1967 | |
| Tuesday 16 May | The Grand Union Canal Society was formed |
| 1968 | |
| Sunday 22 September | Lesley Morton, founder of Willow Wren, died |
| 1972 | |
| Saturday 12 August | The new lock at Roxton on the Great Ouse was opened by the Duke of Bedford |
| Tuesday 22 August | The fitting of a new top gate to Engine Lock marked the start of official restoration of the Caldon Canal |
| 1973 | |
| Saturday 21 April | Parkhead Locks and Dudley Tunnel after restoration opened |
| 1974 | |
| Saturday 28 September | The Caldon Canal was reopened at a ceremony at Cheddleton Wharf |
| Friday 18 October | Queen Elizabeth II took a 23 mile cruise on the River Thames, from Hurley to Runnymede |
| 1976 | |
| Saturday 8 May | Great Barford and Willington Locks on the Great Ouse reopened |
| Saturday 12 June | Sonia Rolt opened the first stage of the Ellesmere Port Boat Museum (in the former tollhouse) |
| Monday 5 July | Manpower Services Commission funded work on the Rochdale Canal, in Rochdale, started |
| Tuesday 13 July | Rose Skinner, one of the last of the Number Ones, died |
| 1978 | |
| Friday 28 April | Castle Mill Lock reopened , the last lock to be restored on the Great Ouse |
| 1979 | |
| Thursday 25 January | The Great Ouse Restoration Society met for the last time - its work was complete |
| Monday 22 October | The decision to close Preston Docks and redevelop them was taken |
| 1980 | |
| Saturday 19 April | The Huddersfield Canal Society was formed |
| 1981 | |
| Thursday 26 February | Robert Aickman, founder of the IWA, died |
| Friday 30 October | Preston Docks was closed to commercial traffic |
| 1982 | |
| Thursday 2 December | Rober Aickman Lock on the River Avon opened |
| 1984 | |
| Wednesday 22 August | Blisworth Tunnel reopened after extensive repairs |
| 1986 | |
| Tuesday 22 April | The James Brindley Public House opened by Gas Street Basin |
| Saturday 26 April | A rally has held at Chadderton, Oldham, to protest against plans to pipe the Rochdale Canal under the M66 extension |
| Sunday 18 May | The Llangollen Canal was reopened from Trevor to Llangollen after a 15 month stoppage resulting from a breach |
| 1987 | |
| Friday 6 February | Black Prince Narrowboats Ltd went into receivership |
| Sunday 8 November | The bottom lock on the Kyme Eau (Sleaford Navigation) reopened |
| 1988 | |
| Wednesday 24 February | North Yorkshire County Council agreed to provide a high level bridge on the Ripon bypass, thereby permitting reopening of the Ripon Canal to the terminal basin |
| Tuesday 8 March | Maryhill Locks reopened on the Forth and Clyde Canal |
| Tuesday 15 March | The Broads Act received the Royal Assent |
| Saturday 19 March | The River Aire at Lemonroyd breached into St Aiden's opencase coal mine |
| Monday 21 March | Jim Yates, the last of the Yates Brothers - boat builders of Noron Cannes, died |
| Friday 1 April | The Waterways Museum at Gloucester Docks opened to the public opened The Southern Stratford on Avon Canal was transferred from the National Trust to British Waterways |
| Sunday 19 June | The Royal Canal (Ireland) between Leixlip and Maynooth was officially reopened |
| Tuesday 19 July | Graham Palmer, founder of wrg, died |
| Friday 5 August | The National Waterways Museum at Gloucester was officially opened by HRH Prince Charles |
| 1989 | |
| Saturday 18 February | Lock 1 on the Chesterfield Canal at Tapton reopened |
| Saturday 25 February | A milepost in memory of Graham Palmer, founder of wrg, was unveiled on the Montgomery Canal |
| Saturday 1 April | The Norfolk Broads became a National Partk |
| Wednesday 19 April | A petition bearing 12109 signatures was handed in at the Welsh Office to protest at the decision of Peter Walker (the Secretary of State for Wales) not to allow local authorities to apply for EC funding for canal restoration. He was "unavailable" to receive the petition |
| Sunday 30 April | The last of the 44 lock nameboards put up by the Staffs and Worcs Canal Society was unveilved |
| Saturday 20 May | The reconstructed lock at Limehouse opened |
| Wednesday 12 July | The Grand Western Canal Trust was formally constituted |
| Friday 24 November | The Welsh Office refused to allow local authorities to spend money on restoring the Montgomery Canal |
| 1990 | |
| Saturday 7 April | Jess Owen, traditional narrow boat painter, died |
| Wednesday 25 April | A new tunnel from Castle Mill Basin to the Singing Cavern at Dudley opened |
| Sunday 29 April | Tapton Lock (also known as Ford Lane Lock) reopened on the Chesterfield Canal |
| Sunday 13 May | The Stop House at Braunston reopened after renovation |
| Friday 15 June | A culvert under the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal collapsed, closing the canal |
| Wednesday 8 August | The Kennet and Avon Canal was officially reopened, by the HM Queen Elizabeth II at Devizes |
| 1991 | |
| Thursday 24 January | Springer Engineering Ltd went into voluntary liquidation |
| Saturday 6 April | Lady de Freitas reopened Welshes Dam Lock |
| Friday 10 May | The Duke of Kent reopened the Basingstoke Canal |
| Monday 2 September | The British Waterways Maintenance Yard at Wigan was closed |
| 1992 | |
| Monday 9 November | The Ridacre Branch of the BCN was closed to build the Black Country Spine Road |
| Tuesday 17 November | Mutford Lock between Oulton Broad and Lake Lothing reopened |
| 1993 | |
| Sunday 21 March | Michael Streat, pioneer of pleasure boat operation, died |
| Monday 22 March | Limehouse Cut was reopened after a three and a half year stoppage to build a road |
| Saturday 29 May | Springfield Lock on the Chelmer and Blackwater Canal reopened |
| Sunday 20 June | Jack Monk, one of the last working boatmen, died |
| Friday 15 October | Locks 13W to 17W of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal in Mossley reopened |
| 1994 | |
| Saturday 6 August | Charles Hadfield, canal historian, died |
| 2000 | |
| Friday 7 April | The Union Canal reopened from Linlithgow to Hermiston |
| Monday 31 July | Brian Young, founding chairman of the Bedford and Milton Keynes Waterway Trust, died |
| Tuesday 15 August | The first boat entered the new Barton Turns Marina on the Trent and Mersey Canal |
| Friday 29 September | Over Basin on the Hereford and Gloucester Canal reopened |
| Tuesday 21 November | This planner was first announced by a posting to uk.rec.waterways |
| Wednesday 13 December | Construction of the Ribble Link started |
| 2001 | |
| Tuesday 1 May | The Hudderfield Narrow Canal was reopened throughout |
| Saturday 26 May | The Forth and Cylde Canal reopened |
| Friday 15 June | The first sod was cut at Turnerwood to start work on the restoration of the Chesterfield Canal from Shireoaks to Norwood |
| Tuesday 3 July | A formal partnership of the Cotswold Canal Trust, BW and local councils to restore the Cotswold Canals was announced |
| Saturday 7 July | The first boats passed through the lock at Denver linking the Flood Relief Channel to the navigable waterways |
| Tuesday 17 July | A new lock at Denver opened linking the Relief Channel to the waterway network |
| Saturday 25 August | The Union Canal through Wester Hailes, Edinburgh reopened |
| Friday 14 September | A new Bridge 14 on the Leicester Section opened |
| Wednesday 19 September | The lock at Denver, connecting the Flood Relief Channel to the waterways network, opened by Lord Whitty |
| Thursday 20 September | Drungewich Bridge on the Way and Arun Canal was reopened by Sir Neil Cossons, having closed in 1903 |
| Friday 19 October | John Gagg, waterway journalist, died |
| Friday 2 November | The Montgomery Canal reopened from Burgedin Locks to Arddleen |
| Monday 12 November | Whitwood Wharf (for aggregates) opened on the Aire and Calder at Wakefield |
| Monday 26 November | A new lock at Moira on the Ashby Canal opened |
| Tuesday 11 December | The Falkirk Wheel rotated for the first time |
| 2002 | |
| Wednesday 13 March | The first public meeting of the Friends of the Cromford Canal took place |
| Tuesday 26 March | The Anderton Lift reopened |
| Friday 31 May | Hanbury Locks on the Droitwich Canal reopened |
| Monday 1 July | The Rochdale Canal reopened |
| 2003 | |
| Friday 4 April | Aston Locks on the Montgomery Canal reopened |
| Wednesday 12 November | Edward Paget-Tomlinson, canal historian, died |
| 2005 | |
| Saturday 26 March | Bugsworth Basin reopened |
| Friday 22 April | David Hutchings, leader of the Stratford Canal and Upper Avon restoration schemes in the 1960s and 1970s, and widely regarded as the founder of the voluntary waterway restoration movement, died |
| Saturday 23 July | Froghall Basin and the first lock of the Uttoxeter Canal were reopened by Charlotte Atkins MP |
| Tuesday 26 July | A new link bridge at Ellesmere Port was opened by Ken Dodd |
| 2006 | |
| Wednesday 30 August | The new junction of the Wilts and Berks and the Thames at Abingdon opened by the Mayor of Abingdon and a Councilor from Sutton Courtenay who jointly cut the ribbon from the bow of nb Jubilee |