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Timeline of Events
YearMonthDayEvent
1065 Dec 28 Westminster Abbey Is Consecrated
1091 Oct 17 Strong Tornado Strikes London, 1091
1571 Jan 23 The Royal Exchange Opens In London
1604 Nov 01 Shakespeare's Othello For The First Time In London
1611 Nov 01 The Tempest Performed At Whitehall
1650 Sep 29 Henry Robinson Opens Office Of Addresses And Encounters
1661 Jan 06 Fifth Monarchists Fail To Control London
1666 Sep 03 London: Great Fire Destroys Royal Exchange
1726 May 09 Five Men Arrested In Molly House Raid And Executed At Tyburn
1732 Dec 07 London: Royal Opera House Opens
1747 Jan 31 London Lock Hospital Opens Veneral Disease Clinic
1749 Apr 27 Handel's, Music For Royal Fireworks, First Performed In London
1755 Apr 15 Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Published In London
1768 Apr 04 Philip Astley Stages First Modern Circus In London
1772 Jan 01 First European Cheques Selling In London, England
1776 Aug 10 London Learns Of Revolutionary War And Declaration
1783 Nov 03 Austin Last Man Publicy Hanged
1788 Jan 01 First Edition Of Times Of London Published
1809 Feb 24 London: Drury Lane Theatre Burns Down
1809 Sep 18 The Royal Opera House In London Opens
1810 Nov 27 Hook Perpetrates Berners Street Hoax
1812 May 11 Spencer Perceval Assassinated By John Bellingham
1812 Oct 14 Work On London's Regent's Canal Starts
1814 Oct 17 Eight Die In London Beer Flood
1826 Feb 11 UCL Founded As University Of London
1828 Oct 25 St Katharine Docks Open In London
1831 Aug 01 A New London Bridge Opens
1834 Oct 16 Palace Of Westminster Burns To Ground
1840 Apr 27 Sir Barry Lays Westminster Palace Foundation Stone
1842 May 30 John Francis Attempts To Murder Queen Victoria
1843 Oct 01 News Of The World Publishes First Issue
1844 Jun 06 YMCA Founded In London
1848 Jul 11 Waterloo Railway Station In London Opens
1849 May 27 Londons Great Hall Of Euston Station Opened
1851 Oct 18 Moby-Dick First Published As The Whale
1854 Oct 21 Nightingale And Staffs On Crimean War
1855 Apr 19 Visit Of Napoleon III To Guildhall, London
1857 Jun 26 Victoria Cross's Investiture In Hyde Park
1863 Oct 26 Football Association First Formed In London
1866 Jan 12 The British Form Royal Aeronautical Society
1873 Jun 09 London: Alxandra Palace Burns Down
1873 Aug 23 Albert Bridge In Chelsea, London Opens
1884 Jan 04 Fabian Society Founded In London
1887 Nov 13 Bloody Sunday Clashes In Central London
1895 Oct 05 First Cycling Time Trial London
1897 May 22 Thames's Blackwall Tunnell Opened
1897 Dec 06 London Hosts Licensed Taxicabs
1906 May 26 Vauxhall Bridge Is Opened In London
1909 Jun 26 London: Science Museum Comes Into Existence
1917 Jan 19 Silvertown Explosion, 73 Killed, Hundreds Injured
1924 Dec 19 Last Silver Ghost Rolls Sold In London
1936 Jun 11 London International Surrealist Exhibition Opens
1936 Sep 10 Wembley Stadium: Motorcycle Speedway Championship
1936 Oct 05 The Jarrow March Sets Off For London
1936 Nov 30 London's Crystal Palace Burns
1940 May 05 Norwegian Refugees Exiled In London Form Government
1944 Sep 08 London Is Hit By V-2 Rocket
1946 Jan 10 Fifty-one Nations Represent First UN London Opening
1948 Jul 28 Police Flying Squad Foils A Bullion
1952 May 02 The De Havilland Comet 1 Flew
1954 Mar 22 London Bullion Market Reopens
1975 Sep 28 London Spaghetti House Siege, 9 Hostages
1976 May 24 Commencement Of Concorde Service From London To Washington, D.C
1977 Apr 11 London's Silver Jubilee Buses Launched
1977 Nov 22 British Airways Inaugurates London - New York Service
1980 Apr 30 The Iranian Embassy Siege Begins In London
1982 Jun 19 Body Of Roberto Calvi Found Hanging
1984 May 08 The Thames Barrier Is Officially Opened
1986 Jul 23 London: Prince Andrew Marries Fergie
1986 Oct 09 The Phantom Of The Opera: Majesty's Theatre
1990 Mar 31 Londoners Protest Poll Tax
1993 Apr 24 Bishopgate Destroyed In IRA Bombing
1997 Jun 12 Queen Elizabeth II Reopens London Globe Theatre
1999 Oct 05 London Rail Crash Kills 31
2006 Dec 07 150 Properties Damaged By Tornado In London
2007 Jul 01 Wembley Stadium Held The Diana Concert
2012 Jul 27 London: Opening Of 2012 Summer Olympics