The famous Blackpool lights are switched on from late August until early November. You can learn more about the Blackpool lights online at the Wikipedia. Once on the page, type "Blackpool Illuminations" into the search field at the top of the page and press enter to bring up the information.
Electric head lights has been used since 1917.
Greek and Roman civilisations had oil-powered street lights as long ago as 800BC. Candles were first used for street lighting by modern civilisations in 1000AD. Pavel Yablochkov invented the electric street light in 1875.
if they did, it'd be quite interesting to find out how they could power an electric chair yet not have street lights, TVs and cars. no they didn't have electric chairs, it was like the year 33 AD when they killed him and the electric chair was first built in 1890 so of course not.
1895
in 1986 christmas lights were invented
1882
Street lights throughout the UK tend to come on at about sunset, so the time varies through the year.
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1880 and it was done by Edison who strung lights at Menlo Park.
About 300mm a year
The first use of electric lights on a Christmas tree was sometime in the 1880s. They were quite dangerous but much less so than the candles used previously.