Timeline of London explained
The following is a timeline of the history of London, the capital of England and the United Kingdom.
Prehistory
- 120,000 BC – Elephants and hippopotami are roaming on the site of Trafalgar Square.
- 6000 BC – Hunter-gatherers are on the site of Heathrow Terminal 5.[1]
- 4000 BC – Mesolithic timber structure exists on the River Thames foreshore, south of the site of Vauxhall Bridge.[2]
- 3800 BC – Stanwell Cursus is constructed.[1]
- 2300–1500 BC – Possible community on Chiswick Eyot in the Thames.
- 1500 BC – A Bronze Age bridge exists from the foreshore north of Vauxhall Bridge. This bridge either crosses the Thames, or goes to a subsequently lost island in the river.[3]
- 300–1 BC – An Iron Age oppidum in Woolwich, which is possibly London's first port, in the late-Roman period reused as a fort.[4]
Early history to the 10th century
See main article: Londinium and Anglo-Saxon London.
- 47 AD – Original settlement of Londinium founded by the Romans.[5] [6]
- 50
- 57 – 8 January: The earliest known handwritten document in the UK is created in London, a financial record in one of the Roman 'Bloomberg tablets' found during 2010–13 on the site of Londinium. Another dated to 65/70-80 AD gives the earliest known written record of the name of Londinium.[7]
- 60 or 61 – Londinium is sacked by forces of Boudica.
- 122 – Construction of a forum in Londinium is completed; Emperor Hadrian visits. There is a major fire in the city at about this time.
- c. 190–225 – The London Wall is constructed.
- During 3rd century - London's population is around 50,000 due to the influence of its major port.
- c. 214 – London becomes the capital of the province of Britannia Inferior.
- c. 240 – The London Mithraeum is built.
- c. 250 – Coasting barge "Blackfriars I" sinks in the Thames at Blackfriars.
- 255 – Work begins on a riverside wall in London.[8]
- 296 – Constantius Chlorus occupies Londinium, saving it from attack by mercenary Franks.
- 368 – The city is known as Augusta by this date, indicating that it is a Roman provincial capital.
- 490 – Saxons are in power, and the Roman city is largely abandoned.
- By early 7th century – Settlement at Lundenwic (modern-day Aldwych).
- c. 604 – Mellitus is the first Bishop of London in the modern succession to be consecrated.
- 650 – A market is active.
- 675
- An early fire of London destroys the wooden Anglo-Saxon cathedral, which is rebuilt in stone over the following decade.
- The Church of All Hallows-by-the-Tower is founded in the City by Barking Abbey.
- By 757 – London has come under the control of Æthelbald of Mercia and passes to Offa, who has a mint here.
- 798 – An early fire of London takes place.
- 838 – Kingston upon Thames is first mentioned.
- 842 – London is raided by Vikings with "great slaughter"; they besiege it in 851.[9]
- 871 – Autumn: Danes take up winter quarters in Mercian London.
- 886
- 893 – Spring: Edward, son of Alfred the Great, forces invading Danish Vikings to take refuge on Thorney Island.[10]
- 911 – Edward the Elder, King of Wessex, transfers London from Mercia to Wessex.
- 918 – Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders and daughter of King Alfred, donates Kentish lands, including Lewisham, Greenwich and Woolwich, to St. Peter's Abbey in Ghent.[4]
- 925 – 4 September: Coronation of Æthelstan as King of Wessex at Kingston upon Thames.
- 978 – The coronation of Æthelred as King of the English takes place in Kingston upon Thames.
- 982 – An early fire of London takes place.
- 989 – An early fire of London burns from Aldgate to Ludgate.
The 11th to 15th centuries
See main article: Norman and Medieval London.
- 1009 – August: Vikings attack London.
- 1014?
- 1016 – May: Battle of Brentford: King Edmund Ironside defeats Cnut the Great, who then besieges London.
- 1065 – 28 December: Westminster Abbey is consecrated.[12]
- 1066
- Around 1078 – Construction of the White Tower (Tower of London) begins; it is probably largely completed by 1088.
- 1087 – An early fire of London destroys much of the city, including the St Paul's Cathedral.
- 1091 – 23 October: The London tornado of 1091 destroys the wooden London Bridge and severely damages the church of St Mary-le-Bow and other buildings.
- 1099 – Westminster Hall is built.
- 1100
- 1106 – Southwark Priory is refounded by the Augustinians.
- 1109 – Kingston upon Thames is first chartered.
- 1114 – Merton Priory is established.
- 1123 – St Bartholomew's Hospital, St Bartholomew-the-Great priory and Smithfield meat market[13] are established.
- 1127 – A royal charter creates the Liberty of the Clink in the Borough of Southwark.
- 1133 – A royal charter establishes the first annual Bartholomew Fair at Smithfield, which is later to become England's largest cloth fair.
- 1135 – 26 May (Pentecost): The Great Fire of 1135 destroys the wooden London Bridge and seriously damages St Paul's Cathedral.
- 1141 – July: The Anarchy: Matilda I of Boulogne, wife of the imprisoned King Stephen, recaptures London.
- By 1144 – Winchester Palace is completed in Southwark.
- 1147 – The Royal Hospital and Collegiate Church of St Katharine by the Tower is founded by Queen Matilda.
- 1155 – The Worshipful Company of Weavers (established by 1130) is chartered.[14]
- 1163 – The new wooden London Bridge is built, with the construction of the first stone-built structure beginning in 1176.[15]
- 1180 – The Guild of Pepperers, predecessor of the Worshipful Company of Grocers and the Apothecaries, is founded.
- 1185 – 10 February: Temple Church is consecrated.
- 1189
- 1196 – In the Spring, a popular uprising of the poor against the rich is led by William Fitz Osbert, who is hanged after being smoked out of his refuge in the tower of St Mary-le-Bow.
- 1199 - King John reinforces the city's self-government.
- c. 1200 – The royal treasury is transferred to Westminster from Winchester.[17]
- 1205 – January is exceptionally cold.
- 1209 – Rebuilding of the stone London Bridge is completed.[18]
- 1210 – c. November: 3 "leopards" (probably lions) are given to Henry III of England by Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, making them the first creatures in the menagerie at the Tower of London.[19]
- 1212 – 10 July: The Great Fire of 1212 takes place in Southwark and in houses on London Bridge, with fatalities; thatched roofs are prohibited in the City as a consequence.[20]
- 1215
- 17 May: Rebellious barons occupy London.[16]
- 15 June: Magna Carta provides that "The City of London shall have all the old Liberties and Customs which it hath been used to have."
- From this year, the city can elect a different mayor every year.
- 1216 – 21 May: During the First Barons' War, Louis, Count of Artois invades England in support of the barons, landing in Thanet. He enters London without opposition and is proclaimed, but not crowned, King of England at the St Paul's Cathedral.
- 1217 – 12 September: Treaty of Lambeth ends the First Barons' War.
- c. 1219 – The first, timber, Kingston Bridge is completed.
- 1222 – 15 July: Rioting after London defeats Westminster in an annual wrestling contest; the ring-leaders are hanged or mutilated in punishment.
- 1232 – The Domus Conversorum ("House of the Converts"), a building and institution in London for Jewish converts to Christianity, is established by Henry III.[21]
- 1234 – 2 December: A royal decree prohibits institutes of legal education within the City.[22]
- 1235 – Famine in England; 20,000 people die in London.[23]
- 1236 – Many people are killed in floods in Woolwich.[4]
- 1237 – The Office of Chamberlain of London and status of Freedom of the City of London are both first recorded.
- 1240 – Old St Paul's Cathedral is consecrated.
- 1241 – The White Friars' monastery is founded.
- 1245 – Savoy Palace is built. In 1246, the Liberty of the Savoy is created.
- 1247
- Bethlem Royal Hospital is founded as the Priory of the New Order of St Mary of Bethlem.
- Romford Market is chartered as a sheep market.
- 1249 – The Crutched Friars settle in London.
- 1253 – The Austin Friars monastery is founded.
- 1255 – An elephant joins the royal menageries at the Tower of London.
- 1257
- c. September: 1257 Samalas eruption: A volcano erupts on Lombok Island in Indonesia, and the resultant climatic changes combine with a second successive poor grain harvest this summer in Britain to produce famine. This kills an estimated 17,000 people in Britain, of which 15,000 deaths are in London.[24] [25]
- The Brothers of Penitence (Fratres Saccati, 'Brothers of the Sack') first settle in England, in London.[26]
- 1262 – The first church of St Mary Abbots in Kensington is founded.
- 1263 – 16 July: Rebels occupy London.
- 1264 – c. April: Targeting of Jews during the conflict with the Barons: One of Simon de Montfort's followers, John Fitz John, leads a massacre of Jews in London.[27]
- 1265 – Covent Garden market is established.
- 1267 – 9 April: During the Second Barons' War, Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford occupies London. Simon de Montfort's supporters kill 500 Jews.[28] [29]
- 1269 – 13 October: The rebuilt Westminster Abbey is consecrated. The tomb of Edward the Confessor is relocated to behind the high altar.[12]
- 1271 – The tower of St Mary-le-Bow collapses.
- 1272 – The Worshipful Company of Cordwainers and Worshipful Company of Curriers are granted rights to regulate the leather trade in the City, and the Fishmongers Company is chartered.
- 1282 – The Stocks Market is established.[30]
- By 1290 – St Etheldreda's Church is built; after 1878, it will be the oldest Roman Catholic church building in London.
- 1291–4 – Eleanor crosses erected across England to mark the route of the funeral procession at the end of 1290 of Edward I's Queen, Eleanor of Castile, to Westminster Abbey. In London they are erected at Westcheap and Charing Cross.[16]
- 1295 – The UK Parliament constituency of Southwark is established.
- 1296 – Edward I brings the Stone of Scone from Scotland to Westminster Abbey;[16] it will be returned in 1996.
- 1298 – The UK Parliament constituency of the City of London is established.
- 1299 – A fire damages the Palace of Westminster.
- 14th–15th century – London’s port develops as a European hub for the distribution of goods, particularly textiles.
- 1303 – Enfield Town market is chartered.
- 1304 – The Recorder of London is appointed.
- 1305 – 23 August: Scottish rebel William Wallace is hanged, drawn and quartered at Smithfield following a trial for treason in Westminster Hall.
- 1307 – The Tabard inn is established in Southwark.
- 1308 – The Woolwich Ferry is first mentioned.[31]
- 1309 – The Thames freezes.
- 1314
- 1320 – Hanseatic League merchants establish the Steelyard, a Kontor, in Dowgate.
- 1322 – The Armourers' Guild is instituted.
- 1326 – 15 October: Walter de Stapledon, Bishop of Exeter and Lord High Treasurer, is murdered by the London mob.[16]
- 1327 – The Goldsmiths' Company, the Merchant Taylors' Company and the Skinners' Company are incorporated.[32]
- c. 1329 – Marshalsea prison is in operation in Southwark.
- 1331 – The Butchers' Guild is granted the right to regulate the meat trade in the City.
- 1344 – Clifford's Inn us founded.
- c. 1345 – Durham House is built in Westminster.
- 1348 – September–May 1349: The outbreak of the Black Death is at its peak.
- 1354 – The title of Lord Mayor of London is first granted.
- 1361 – The Company of Drapers is founded (it is chartered in 1364).
- 1363
- 1365 – The Company of Plumbers is granted the right to regulate plumbers.
- 1366 – The Jewel Tower of the Palace of Westminster is completed.
- 1368 – The Company of Poulters is granted the right to regulate the sale of poultry and small game.
- 1371 – 28 March: The London Charterhouse, a Carthusian monastery, is founded in Aldersgate.
- 1377
- 1378 – Staple Inn becomes one of the Inns of Chancery.
- 1380 – Sir William Walworth, a member of the Fishmongers Guild, becomes Lord Mayor of London for the second time.
- 1381 – The Peasants' Revolt takes place:
- 12 June: Rebels from Kent and Essex, led by Wat Tyler and Jack Straw, meet in Blackheath, where they are encouraged by a sermon from renegade Lollard priest John Ball.
- 14 June: Rebels destroy John of Gaunt's Savoy Palace and Winchester Palace and storm the Tower of London, finding and beheading Simon Sudbury, and also Robert Hales, Lord High Treasurer. King Richard II (age 14) meets the leaders of the revolt and agrees to reforms such as fair rents and the abolition of serfdom.[16]
- 15 June: Peasants' Revolt: During further negotiations, Wat Tyler is stabbed to death by William Walworth, Lord Mayor of London in the King's entourage. Noble forces subsequently overpower the rebel army, the rebel leaders are captured and executed, and Richard revokes his concessions.[34]
- 1382 – 21 May: Shocks from an earthquake in Canterbury are felt as an 'Earthquake Synod' is held in London.
- 1388 – The Inner and Middle Temples are recorded as corporate bodies.
- 1392 – King Richard II retakes control of London.
- 1394 – The Mercers Company is incorporated, and the Salters Company is incorporated as the Guild of Corpus Christi.
- 1395 – The Worshipful Company of Saddlers is incorporated.
- 1397 – 6 June: Richard Whittington is nominated as mayor for the first of four terms. He arranges for the City to buy back its liberties from the Crown.
- 1400 – During Lent, children give battle in London.[35]
- 1403 – The Stationers' Company is formed.
- 1407
- 1414 – 9 January: A Lollard rebellion in London is suppressed.[16]
- 1415
- 1416
- 1421 – Around 1 May: Whittington's Longhouse, a gender-segregated public toilet, opens in Cheapside.[36]
- 1422 – Lincoln's Inn is recorded as a corporate body.
- 1425 – 30 October: Henry Beaufort, Lord Chancellor, tries to occupy London.
- 1427 – Harmondsworth Great Barn is completed.
- 1428
- 1430 – A tavern established in High Holborn, which in modern times becomes Henneky's Long Bar and the Cittie of Yorke.
- 1433 – Greenwich Park is enclosed by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester.[37]
- 1434
- 1437 – The Worshipful Company of Vintners is incorporated.
- 1442 – The City of London School is established.
- 1444 – 24 April: Serious fire at Old St Paul's Cathedral.
- 1448 – The Haberdashers Company is chartered.
- 1450
- 1452 – A Lord Mayor's barge is first recorded.
- 1455 – 22 May: The Battle of St Albans takes place near London.
- 1460
- 26 June: During the Wars of the Roses, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick and Edward, Earl of March (eldest son of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York) land at Sandwich with an army and march on London. Here, the Earl of Salisbury remains and, with the support of the citizens, besieges the Tower of London whose Lancastrian commander, Lord Scales, on 4 July turns its weapons against the city.[41]
- 19 July: Lord Scales surrenders the Tower of London to the Yorkists, and is subsequently murdered by a mob.[41]
- 1461 – The Barbers Company is incorporated.
- 1462 – The Tallow Chandlers Company is incorporated.
- 1463 – The Ironmongers Company is incorporated as the Ferrers.
- 1466 – Crosby Hall is built in Bishopsgate by wool merchant John Crosby (died 1476).
- 1468 – 29 July: Hansa merchants are expelled from London as the Anglo-Hanseatic War breaks out with the Hanseatic League.
- 1471
- 1473 – St Anthony's Chapel and Lazar House, the first medical facility on the Whittington Hospital site in Upper Holloway, is built for those with leprosy.[42]
- 1474 – The Pewterers Company is incorporated.
- 1475 – Construction of the new hall of Eltham Palace begins.
- 1476 – September/December: William Caxton sets up the first printing press in England, in Westminster, where he produces his first full-length book on 18 November 1477.
- 1477 – The Carpenters Company is chartered.
- 1478 – The Canterbury Tales is published by William Caxton in Westminster.
- 1480 – The Fullers' Company, a predecessor of the Worshipful Company of Clothworkers, is chartered.
- 1481 – A Royal charter is given to Kingston upon Thames, granting it borough status.
- 1484
- 1485
- 1486
- 1495 – Two centuries after its consecration, the rebuilt Westminster Abbey is completed.[12]
- 1497 – 17 June: Cornish rebels under Michael An Gof are soundly defeated by Henry VII at the Battle of Deptford Bridge.
16th century
See main article: Tudor London.
- 1500 – Wynkyn de Worde moves his print shop from Westminster to join others in Fleet Street.
- 1501
- 1503 – 24 January: The construction of Henry VII's Chapel at Westminster Abbey begins.
- 1504 – St. John's Gate is built.
- 1508 – The Shearmens' Company, a predecessor of the Worshipful Company of Clothworkers, is chartered.
- 1509
- 1512
- 1513 – Deptford Dockyard is established for the Royal Navy.
- 1514
- 1517 – 1 May: The Evil May Day unrest occurs at St Paul's Cross.
- 1523 – The rebuilding of the church of St Margaret's, Westminster is completed.
- 1527 – Sir George Monoux College, Walthamstow, is founded as a grammar school by Sir George Monoux, draper and Lord Mayor of London.
- 1528
- 1532
- 1535
- 1536
- 1537
- 1538 – Merton Priory is dissolved as part of the dissolution of the Monasteries.
- 1539 – Syon Monastery is dissolved and its community is exiled as part of the dissolution of the Monasteries, St Thomas' Hospital is closed, and the Convent of Holy Trinity, Minories is surrendered.
- 1540
- 14 January: Southwark Priory is surrendered to the Crown as part of dissolution of the Monasteries.
- 28 July: Thomas Cromwell is executed on order from Henry VIII on charges of treason in public on Tower Hill.[16]
- 17 September: Westminster Abbey is granted the status of cathedral as part of the dissolution of the Monasteries, which it retains until 1550.
- 1543
- 1545
- 1547
- 1550 – 24 July: The French Protestant Church of London is established by Royal Charter.
- 1551 – St Thomas' Hospital is re-established on its former site in Southwark by the Corporation of London, which is taken as the founding date for St Thomas's Hospital Medical School.
- 1552 – The first pupils enter Christ's Hospital school for orphans at Newgate; it receives its royal charter on 16 June 1553.
- 1553
- 25 May: Lady Jane Grey is married to Lord Guildford Dudley, son of the Duke of Northumberland, in an elaborate ceremony at his Thames-side residence, Durham House, in which her two sisters are also married. The bride and groom are both aged around 15 or 16.[48]
- 16 June: King Edward VI founds Christ's Hospital for London orphans.
- 6 July: King Edward VI dies aged 15 at the Palace of Placentia (Greenwich),[39] having nominated Lady Jane Grey as his successor (without her knowledge).
- 7 July: Northumberland secures the Tower of London and other strategic locations against Mary.
- 9 July: Lady Jane Grey is summoned by Northumberland to Sion House and informed for the first time that she is to be queen.
- 10 July: Lady Jane Grey is proclaimed Queen of England by the Privy Council and the proclamation is set into print.[16]
- 19 July: The Privy Council and Thomas White, Lord Mayor of London, proclaim the Catholic Queen Mary as the rightful Queen – Lady Jane Grey is imprisoned within the Tower after using the title of queen for nine days.
- 30 July: Mary is greeted at Wanstead on the approach to London by her half-sister Elizabeth, who has ridden out from her new London residence, Somerset House.[49]
- 3 August: Mary rides triumphantly into London to claim the throne, accompanied by Elizabeth.[50]
- 8 August: Funeral of Edward VI at Westminster Abbey.
- 22 August: The Duke of Northumberland, who has promoted Lady Jane Grey's claim to the throne, is beheaded on Tower Hill.
- 1 October: Coronation of Mary I of England at Westminster Abbey.
- 1554
- 25 January: Wyatt's rebellion begins, and Kingston Bridge is broken as a precautionary measure. On 9 February, Thomas Wyatt surrenders.
- 12 February: After claiming the throne of England the previous year, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason as is her husband – he publicly on Tower Hill and she privately within the Tower of London, where she has remained since the proclamation.[39] On 17 March Princess Elizabeth is briefly imprisoned in the Tower, suspected of involvement in Wyatt's rebellion.[16]
- 1555 – 4 February: John Rogers is burned at the stake at Smithfield, London, making him the first Marian Protestant martyr.
- 1556
- 1557
- 1558 – 25 May: Enfield Grammar School is founded, incorporating an earlier endowment.
- 1559
- 1560 – Westminster Abbey is made a royal peculiar as the Collegiate Church of St Peter[12] and Westminster School is re-established.[54]
- 1561
- 1563 – Between June and October, the 1563 London plague outbreak kills over 20,000 people.
- 1565
- 1567 – John Brayne builds the Red Lion theatre just east of the City of London, which is a playhouse for touring productions and the first known to be purpose-built in the British Isles since Roman times. However, there is little evidence that the theatre survives beyond this summer's season.[55]
- 1569 – Gray's Inn is recorded as a corporate body.
- 1570
- 1571
- 1572 – 13 February: Harrow School is founded by local landowner John Lyon under royal charter.[58]
- 1573 – 24 March: Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School for Boys is established in Barnet at the petition of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester.[59]
- 1576 – December: James Burbage opens London's 2nd permanent public playhouse and the first to have a substantial life, The Theatre in Shoreditch.
- 1579 – Nonsuch House is built on London Bridge.
- 1580
- 6 April: The 1580 Dover Straits earthquake causes some damage and the death of 2 children in London.
- 6 July: New buildings are prohibited on less than 4acres of ground within 3 miles of the City.[60]
- 1581
- 1582 – The country house at Highgate later known as Lauderdale House is built for Richard Martin (Lord Mayor of London).
- 1583 – The Bunch Of Grapes pub is built on Narrow Street in Limehouse.[61] Referred to by Charles Dickens in Our Mutual Friend as "The Six Jolly Fellowship Porters", it still stands in the 21st century, much rebuilt and renamed 'The Grapes'.
- 1585 – Claimed date that the Spaniards Inn on the Hampstead and Highgate boundary is established.
- 1586
- c. 1586–90 - The new building for Enfield Grammar School is constructed.
- 1587 – The Rose theatre is built by Philip Henslowe in Southwark.
- 1592 – August: The 1592–1593 London plague outbreak is first observed, and there are at least 19,000 deaths up to December 1593; theatres are consequently closed for much of the period.[16]
- 1593
- 1594 – Bevis Bulmer sets up a system at Blackfriars to pump water to London.
- 1595 – The Swan (theatre) is built in Southwark.
- 1596
- 1597 – Gresham College is founded in the City.
- 1598
- 1598–1600 – The Damned Crew is at large.
- 1599 – Spring/Summer: the Globe Theatre opens in Southwark using building material from The Theatre.
17th century
See main article: Stuart London.
- 1600
- 1601 – 25 February: Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, is executed for treason for his part in a short-lived rebellion in the previous month against the Queen,[16] making him the last person beheaded on Tower Green in the Tower of London, with the sword being wielded by Thomas Derrick.
- 1603
- 1604 – 15 March: The Royal Entry of King James into London takes place.[68]
- 1605
- 1606 – 19 December: The Susan Constant sets out from the Thames leading the Virginia Company's fleet for the foundation of Jamestown, Virginia.
- 1608
- July–December: Plague in London, which recurs in the 2 following years.
- The foundation of the Royal Blackheath Golf Club is claimed.[69]
- 1609 – The Lord Mayor's Show is revived.
- 1611
- 1612 – Hicks Hall is built.[70]
- 1613
- 1614 – October: The Hope Theatre opens in Southwark. On 31 October Ben Jonson's debuts here.
- c. 1615 – Clerkenwell Bridewell (prison) is in operation.
- 1616
- 1616–35 – The Queen's House is built in Greenwich to a design by Inigo Jones.
- 1617
- 1618 – The Company of Adventurers of London Trading to the Ports of Africa is granted a monopoly on trade from Guinea.
- 1619
- 1620 – July: The Mayflower embarks from or near her home port of Rotherhithe with around 65 Pilgrims bound for Cape Cod in North America.
- 1621
- 1622
- 1623
- 26 October: "Fatal Vespers": 95 people are killed when an upper floor of the French ambassador's house in Blackfriars collapses under the weight of a congregation attending a Catholic mass.[75]
- Between 8 November and 5 December: Publication of the "First Folio" (Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies), a posthumous collection of 36 of Shakespeare's plays, half of which have not previously been printed, by Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount in the Jaggard printshop "at the sign of the Half-Eagle and Key in Barbican".[76]
- 1624 – The Latymer School and Latymer Upper School are founded by the bequest of Edward Latymer.
- 1625
- 1626 – 2 February: The coronation of Charles I of England takes place in Westminster Abbey.
- 1629
- 1630
- 1631
- 1632 – Forty Hall, Enfield is completed.
- 1633
- 13 February: Fire engines are used for the first time in England to control and extinguish a fire that breaks out on London Bridge, but not before 43 houses are destroyed.[78]
- St Paul's, Covent Garden, designed by Inigo Jones in 1631 overlooking his piazza, opens to worship, making it the first wholly new parish church built in London since the English Reformation.
- 1635 – The first General Post Office opens to the public in Bishopsgate.
- 1636 – Goldsmith's Hall is rebuilt.
- 1636–37 – Plague in London.
- 1637 – Hyde Park opens to the public in Westminster.
- 1638 – The Worshipful Company of Distillers is granted a royal charter.
- 1640 – 11 December: The Root and Branch petition is presented to Parliament.
- 1641
- 1642
- 1642–43 – The Lines of Communication are constructed to defend the city.
- 1647
- 1648
- 11 September: The Levellers' largest petition, "To The Right Honourable The Commons Of England" (The humble Petition of Thousands well-affected persons inhabiting the City of London, Westminster, the Borough of Sonthwark Hamblets, and places adjacent), is presented to the Long Parliament after amassing signatories including about a third of all Londoners (including women).[81]
- 6 December: Pride's Purge: Troops of the New Model Army under the command of Colonel Thomas Pride (and under the orders of General Ireton) arrest or exclude Presbyterian members of the Long Parliament who are not supporters of the Army's Grandees or Independents, creating the Rump Parliament.[16]
- 1649
- Mid 17th century: London population reaches 500,000.
- 1650 – 29 September: Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters, a short-lived form of employment exchange, in Threadneedle Street.
- 1652
- 1654 – St Matthias Old Church in Poplar is completed.
- 1656
- 1657
- 1658
- 1660
- 1661
- 1662
- 1663
- 1664
- 1665
- 1666 – 2–5 September: Great Fire of London: A large fire which breaks out in the City in the house of baker Thomas Farriner on Pudding Lane destroys more than 13,000 buildings, including the Old St Paul's Cathedral, but only 6 people are known to have died. It then takes over 10 years to rebuild the City.
- 1667
- 8 February: The first part of the Rebuilding of London Act 1666, following last year's Great Fire of London, goes into effect as royal assent is given to the Fire of London Disputes Act 1666, which establishes the Fire Court.[99] The Court, sitting at Clifford's Inn near Fleet Street, hears cases starting on February 27 and continuing until the end of 1668.[100] The London Building Act enforces fireproof construction in the reconstruction of the City.[20]
- Hedges & Butler is established as wine merchants.[53]
- 1668
- 1669
- 1670
- 1671
- 1672
- 1673
- 1674
- 1675
- 1676
- 1677
- 1678 – 17 October: The magistrate Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey is found murdered in Primrose Hill, and Titus Oates claims it as a proof of the fabricated "Popish Plot".
- 1679
- 1680
- 1681
- 1682
- 1683
- 1684
- 1685
- 1686
- 1687
- 1688
- 1689 - 13 February: William III and Mary II are proclaimed co-rulers of England in a ceremony at Guildhall,[118] with their coronation taking place in Westminster Abbey on 11 April by the Bishop of London, Henry Compton. In May, work begins on remodelling Hampton Court Palace to the design of Sir Christopher Wren for them[119] together with the Hampton Court Maze. Also this summer, the royal couple purchase Nottingham House and commission Wren to expand it to form Kensington Palace, and William commissions a new royal barge (shallop) for Mary.
- 1690
- 1691 – 9 April: A fire at the Palace of Whitehall destroys its Stone Gallery.
- 1693
- 1694
- 1695
- 1696
- Queenhithe windmill is built.
- The evening newspaper Dawk's News-Letter begins publication.
- 1697 – 2 December: St Paul's Cathedral holds its first service after rebuilding to celebrate the Treaty of Ryswick.
- 1698
- 1699
18th century
1700 to 1749
- c. 1700 – The Kit-Cat Club is established.
- 1701
- 1702
- 1703
- 1704 – Aaron Hart becomes rabbi of the Great Synagogue of London and de facto the country's first chief rabbi.[126]
- 1705
- 1706 – October:[53]
- Thomas Twining opens Twinings in the Strand as Britain's first known tea house, and it will still be in business into the 21st century.
- The predecessors of food manufacturers Crosse & Blackwell set up business in London.
- 1707
- 17 December: Major breach of the Thames embankment in Dagenham.[125]
- The London Building Act is passed to prevent use of combustible façade materials in the City;[60] subsequently extended to Westminster.[20]
- Fortnum & Mason is in business in Westminster.
- 1708
- 1709
- 12 April: The Tatler magazine begins publication, and on 8 July, The Female Tatler follows.
- 19 April: The Worshipful Company of Fan Makers is chartered.
- 11 November: Henry Sacheverell preaches an incendiary sermon The Perils of False Brethren at St Paul's Cathedral, which leads to his impeachment by Parliament.
- 1710
- 1710–12: Roehampton House is built.
- 1710–28: Church Road, Hampstead is built up.
- 1711
- 1711–14 – The Hawkubites gang is at large.
- 1712
- 1713
- 1714
- 1715
- 1716
- 1717
- 1 January: Count Carl Gyllenborg, the Swedish ambassador to the UK, is arrested in London over a plot to assist the Pretender James Francis Edward Stuart.[16]
- 2 March: The dancer John Weaver performs in the first ballet in Britain, which is shown at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, The Loves of Mars and Venus.
- 24 June: The Grand Lodge of London and Westminster, the first Freemasonic Grand Lodge (modern-day United Grand Lodge of England), is founded.[39]
- 17 July: George Frideric Handel's Water Music is performed on a barge on the Thames for King George I.[16] In August, Handel becomes the house composer at Cannons.
- September (Autumnal Equinox): The first known Druid revival ceremony is held by John Toland at Primrose Hill to found the Mother Grove, which is later to become the Ancient Order of Druids.
- Thomas Fairchild, a nurseryman at Hoxton in the East End, becomes the first person to produce a successful scientific plant hybrid, Dianthus Caryophyllus barbatus, which is also known as the "Fairchild's Mule".[133]
- The Royal Brass Foundry is established at Woolwich Arsenal in a building designed by Sir John Vanbrugh.
- 1719
- February: A Royal Academy of Music is established as a company to perform operas under the direction of Handel.
- Raine's Foundation School is established by Henry Raine in Wapping. It closes on 31 August 2020.
- The Hellfire Club is founded.
- The Hand in Hand Fire & Life Insurance Society is founded.
- 1720
- 1721
- 1722
- 1722–23 – Ranger's House, Blackheath is probably constructed.[135]
- 1723 – 8 March: The Chelsea Waterworks Company receives a Royal Charter.[136]
- 1724
- 1725
- 1726
- 1727 – 11 October: The coronation of George II of Great Britain takes place in Westminster Abbey.
- 1728
- 1729
- 1730
- 1731
- 1732
- 1732–37 – The first section of River Fleet is culverted.
- 1733
- 1734 – The Bank of England moves to its modern-day location in Threadneedle Street.
- 1735
- 1736
- 1737
- 1738
- 1739
- 1740
- 1741
- 1742
- 1743
- c. 1743–45 – The Chelsea porcelain factory is established.
- 1744
- 1745
- 1746
- 1747
- 1748
- 1749
1750 to 1799
- 1750
- 1751
- 1752
- 1753
- 1755 – 15 April: Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published by the group of London booksellers, who commissioned it in June 1746,[147] with Johnson and his assistants having worked on the project at his home, 17, Gough Square.
- 1756
- 1757
- 1758 – 11 April: A temporary wooden bridge over the Thames, erected while the centre stone span of London Bridge is under repair, burns down.
- 1759
- 1760
- 1761
- 1762
- 1763
- 1764
- 1765 – February: Almack's Assembly Rooms open in St James's.
- 1766
- 1767 – Newgate is demolished, leaving Temple Bar as the last remaining City gate.
- 1768
- 1769
- 1770
- 1771
- 1772
- 1773
- 1774
- 1775–76 – Winter: An unusually deadly influenza epidemic kills nearly 40,000 people.[157]
- 1776
- 1777
- 1778
- 1779
- 1780
- 1781 – July: Barclay Perkins & Co take over the Anchor Brewery in Southwark from Hester Thrale for the brewing of porter.
- 1782
- 1783
- 1784
- 1785
- 1786
- 21 June: First woman to be burnt at the stake at Newgate Prison (as distinct from Tyburn or Smithfield), Phoebe Harris for coin counterfeiting. She is led to the stake past the hanged bodies of her accomplices but is allowed to be strangled before the flames are lit.[164]
- 2 August: A delusional needlewoman, Margaret Nicholson, attempts to stab the king outside St James's Palace; she will be confined for the remaining 42 years of her life in Bethlehem Hospital for the insane.[165]
- 1787
- 1788
- 1789
- 1790 – 23 June: The alleged London Monster is arrested, and he later receives 2 years' imprisonment for 3 assaults.
- 1791
- 1792
- 1793
- 1794
- 1795
- 1796
- 1 February: Protests over the price of bread culminate in Queen Charlotte being hit by a stone as she and George III return from a trip to the theatre.[166]
- December: The coldest day in London is recorded, reaching −21.1 °C (−6 °F) in Greenwich.
- 1797
- 1798
- 1799
19th century
See main article: 19th-century London and Timeline of London (19th century).
21st century
See main article: Timeline of London (21st century).
See also
Bibliography
See also lists of works about London by period: Tudor London, Stuart London, 18th century, 19th century, 1900–1939, 1960s
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- Book: Elmes
, James
. James Elmes . Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs . 1831. Whittaker, Treacher and Arnot . London.
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- Book: John and Robert Maxwell. Concise Guide to London . London. Memorable Dates . 1885 . https://books.google.com/books?id=LJsHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA125. . circa 1882
- Book: Mrs. Basil Holmes. London Burial Grounds. 1896. Macmillan . Burial-Grounds within the Metropolitan Area . https://books.google.com/books?id=mQpIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA279. .
- published in the 20th century
- Chisholm . Hugh. Westminster . 28 . 1910 . 549 - 551 . .
- Book: London . https://books.google.com/books?id=Br0ZAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA10 . 5–47 . Municipal Year Book of the United Kingdom for 1907 . . London . Edward Lloyd. 1907. .
- London . 16. 1910 . Howarth . Osbert John Radcliffe . Ingram . Thomas Allan . Wheatley . Henry Benjamin . 938 - 968; see pages 945 and 951 . IV. Population, Public Health, &c. & VII. Government . .
- Book: Francis Miltoun. Dickens' London. 1908. . Boston . Brief Chronology . https://books.google.com/books?id=WCWgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA287. .
- London . 31 . Muirhead . James Fullarton . James Fullarton Muirhead. 1.
- Book: George F.E. Rudé . Hanoverian London, 1714–1808 . 1971 . University of California Press . 978-0-520-01778-8 . History of London . . George Rudé .
- Book: Nicholson
, Louise
. Louise Nicholson . London. 1998. Abbeville Press . 978-0-7112-1187-2 . London Chronology . https://books.google.com/books?id=aXzsP33a3EsC&pg=PA204.
- published in the 21st century
- Book: John Richardson. The Annals of London: A Year-by-year Record of a Thousand Years of History. 2000. University of California Press. 978-0-520-22795-8. .
- Book: . Cambridge Urban History of Britain. 2000. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-43141-5 . 2 . Leonard Schwarz . London, 1700–1840 . 641+ . https://books.google.com/books?id=8sTabkXK6XEC&pg=PA641. .
- Book: Erika Diane Rappaport. Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London's West End. 2001. Princeton University Press. 0-691-04476-7. .
- Book: A.N. Wilson . London: A History. 2004. Modern Library . 978-0-307-42665-9 . Chronology of London History . 193+ . https://books.google.com/books?id=h5Se8d8YfW0C&pg=PA193. . A.N. Wilson.
- Book: Ben Weinreb. The London Encyclopaedia . 3rd. 2008. Macmillan. 978-0-230-73878-2. etal. . Ben Weinreb . The London Encyclopaedia .
- Book: London . Michelin Green Guide. 2012. 978-2-06-718238-7 . https://books.google.com/books?id=WCh1M90AVQUC&pg=PT83 . 20C to Today (timeline). . Michelin. Lifestyle. Michelin Travel.
- Book: Jonathan Conlin. Tales of Two Cities: Paris, London and the Birth of the Modern City. 2013. Counterpoint LLC. 978-1-61902-225-6. .
- Book: Marc Matera . Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century. 2015. University of California Press. 978-0-520-95990-3. .
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