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Timeline of London

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The following is a timeline of the history of London, the capital of England and the United Kingdom.

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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.{{cite web|title=Heathrow's archaeology, including Stanwell Cursus is finally announced|url=http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=2146411025|work=The Megalithic Portal|date=2003-11-02|access-date=2016-06-20}}
  • 4000 BC – Mesolithic timber structure exists on the River Thames foreshore, south of the site of Vauxhall Bridge.{{cite web|url=http://www.thamesdiscovery.org/frog-blog/london-s-oldest-find-discovered-at-vauxhall|title=London's Oldest Foreshore Structure!}}
  • 3800 BC – Stanwell Cursus is constructed.
  • 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.{{cite journal|url=http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba46/ba46news.html|title=First 'London Bridge' in River Thames at Vauxhall|journal=British Archaeology|issue=46|date=July 1999|access-date=2015-06-13|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110427021948/http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba46/ba46news.html|archive-date=2011-04-27}}
  • 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.Saint, A., Guillery, P. (2012). Survey of London, Volume 48: Woolwich. Yale Books, London. {{ISBN|978-0-300-18722-9}}. p. 2.

Early history to the 10th century

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  • 47 AD – Original settlement of Londinium founded by the Romans.{{Cite book|last=Hingley, Richard|title=Londinium : a biography : Roman London from its origins to the fifth century|date=9 August 2018|isbn=978-1-350-04730-3|location=London|pages=27–32|oclc=1042078915}}{{Cite book|last=Hill, Julian. and Rowsome, Peter|title=Roman London and the Walbrook stream crossing : excavations at 1 Poultry and vicinity, City of London|date=2011|publisher=Museum of London Archaeology|others=Rowsome, Peter., Museum of London Archaeology.|isbn=978-1-907586-04-0|location=London|pages=251–62|oclc=778916833}}
  • 50
  • The original London bridge is constructed out of wood.
  • Grim's Ditch (Harrow) is dug from this year onwards.
  • 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.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-36415563|title=UK's oldest hand-written document 'at Roman London dig'|work=BBC News|date=2016-06-01|access-date=2020-09-29}}
  • 60 or 61 – Londinium is sacked by forces of Boudica.{{sfn|Ackroyd|2001}}
  • 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml|work=British History|title=Timeline|publisher=BBC}}
  • 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.{{sfn|Ackroyd|2001}}
  • 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.{{citation|publisher=Institute of Historical Research, Centre for Metropolitan History.|work=Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516|first=Samantha|last=Letters|year=2005|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40425|title=Middlesex}}
  • 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.{{cite book|publisher=G. & C. Merriam Co.|ol=5812502M|location=Springfield, Mass.|title=Webster's Geographical Dictionary|date=1960|chapter=London|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/webstersgeograph00gcmerich#page/627/mode/1up|page=627}}
  • 871 – Autumn: Danes take up winter quarters in Mercian London.
  • 886
  • King Alfred the Great restores London to Mercia.{{sfn|Ackroyd|2001}}
  • The London Mint is established.
  • 893 – Spring: Edward, son of Alfred the Great, forces invading Danish Vikings to take refuge on Thorney Island.{{cite book|first=Paul|last=Hill|year=2009|title=The Viking Wars of Alfred the Great|pages=124–5|isbn=978-1-59416-087-5|location=Yardley, PA|publisher=Westholme}}
  • 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.
  • 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

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16th century

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17th century

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  • 1600
  • January: Carpenter Peter Street is contracted to build the Fortune Playhouse just north of the City by theatrical manager Philip Henslowe and his stepson-in-law, the leading actor Edward Alleyn, for the Admiral's Men, who move there from The Rose by the end of the year.
  • 31 December: The East India Company is granted a Royal Charter.
  • 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, making him the last person beheaded on Tower Green in the Tower of London, with the sword being wielded by Thomas Derrick.
  • 1603
  • 24 March: Elizabeth I dies at Richmond Palace and is succeeded on the throne of England by her cousin James VI of Scotland.
  • c. April: 1603 London plague: Outbreak of bubonic plague epidemic, spreading from the eastern suburbs, in which between 29,000 and 40,000 people die.{{cite book|author-link=Thomas Dekker (writer)|first=Thomas|last=Dekker|title=The Wonderfull Yeare 1603, wherein is shewed the picture of London lying sicke of the plague}}{{cite book|first=Christopher|last=Lee|author-link=Christopher Lee (historian)|title=1613: The Death of Queen Elizabeth I, the Return of the Black Plague, the Rise of Shakespeare, Piracy, Witchcraft, and the Birth of the Stuart Era|publisher=St Martin's Press|year=2014|isbn=9781466864504}}{{cite web|url=http://www.shakespeare-online.com/biography/londondisease.html|title=Worst Diseases in Shakespeare's London|access-date=2021-05-15}}{{cite book|last=Bell|first=Walter George|year=1951|editor=Hollyer, Belinda|title=The Great Plague in London|publisher=Folio Society|pages=3–5}}
  • 28 April: The funeral of Elizabeth I takes place in Westminster Abbey.
  • 7 May: Crowds welcome James's arrival in London for his coronation as king of England in Westminster Abbey on 25 July. He subsequently orders the creation of St. James's Park.
  • 1604 – 15 March: The Royal Entry of King James into London takes place.{{cite book|url=http://special-1.bl.uk/treasures/festivalbooks/BookDetails.aspx?strFest=0238|title=The Magnificent Entertainment: Giuen to King Iames, Queene Anne his wife, and Henry Frederick the Prince, vpon the day of his Maiesties Triumphant Passage (from the Tower) through his Honourable Citie (and Chamber) of London being the 15. of March. 1603 [modern reckoning: 1604]|publisher=Tho. Man|location=London|date=1604|access-date=2016-06-10}}
  • 1605
  • 5 November: Gunpowder Plot: A plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament and the King is foiled when the Catholic plotter Guy Fawkes is found in a cellar below the Parliament with 36 barrels of gunpowder following an anonymous tip-off. On 30 January 1606, 4 of the conspirators are hanged, drawn and quartered for treason outside St Paul's, and the following day Fawkes and the remainder are executed in the same manner in Old Palace Yard, Westminster.
  • The Worshipful Company of Gardeners and the Worshipful Company of Butchers are chartered.{{sfn|Weinreb|2008}}
  • Approximate date: Construction of Northumberland House at Charing Cross for Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, begins.
  • 1606
  • 28 March: Catholic priest Henry Garnet is tried for misprision of treason at Guildhall in connection with the Gunpowder Plot, and found guilty. On 3 May he is brought from the Tower and hanged at St Paul's Churchyard.{{cite book|last=Fraser|first=Antonia|authorlink=Antonia Fraser|title=The Gunpowder Plot|publisher=Phoenix|year=2005|orig-year=1996|isbn=0-7538-1401-3}}
  • 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.{{cite web|title=Heritage|url=http://www.royalblackheath.com/heritage|publisher=Royal Blackheath Golf Club|location=Eltham|access-date=2016-06-12}}
  • 1609 – The Lord Mayor's Show is revived.
  • 1611
  • King James Bible first published.
  • Thomas Sutton founds Charterhouse School on the site of the old Carthusian monastery in Charterhouse Square, Smithfield.
  • The Worshipful Company of Plumbers is chartered.
  • 1612 – Hicks Hall is built.{{cite book |editor-first=Philip |editor-last=Temple |chapter=Hicks' Hall (demolished) |title=Survey of London: South and East Clerkenwell |series=Survey of London |volume=46 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=London |year=2008 |isbn=9780300137279 |pages=206–209 (206) |chapter-url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol46/pp203-221#h3-0003 }}
  • 1613
  • 29 September: New River opens to supply London with fresh water.
  • The Honourable The Irish Society is incorporated as a consortium of City livery companies to colonise County Londonderry during the Plantation of Ulster.
  • 1614 – October: The Hope Theatre opens in Southwark.{{sfn|Baker|1904}} On 31 October Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fayre: A Comedy debuts here.
  • c. 1615 – Clerkenwell Bridewell (prison) is in operation.
  • 1616
  • The Anchor Brewery is established by James Monger next to the Globe Theatre in Southwark. It will be the world's largest by the early 19th century and brew until the 1970s.{{cite book|author1=Lesley Richmond|author2=Alison Turton|title=The Brewing Industry: A Guide to Historical Records|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NB8NAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA54|year=1990|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-3032-1|page=54}}
  • The engraved Visscher panorama of London is published.
  • 1616–35 – The Queen's House is built in Greenwich to a design by Inigo Jones.
  • 1617
  • 23 August: The first one-way streets are created in alleys near the Thames.{{cite book|first=Trevor|last=Homer|title=The Book of Origins|location=London|publisher=Portrait|year=2006|isbn=0-7499-5110-9|pages=283–4}}
  • December: The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries is incorporated.{{sfn|Allen|1839}}
  • Aldersgate is rebuilt.
  • The Goldsmiths' Company's barge is built.
  • Approximate date: New Prison in operation.
  • 1618 – The Company of Adventurers of London Trading to the Ports of Africa is granted a monopoly on trade from Guinea.
  • 1619
  • January: The royal Banqueting House, Whitehall, is destroyed by fire, and Inigo Jones is commissioned to design a replacement.
  • 21 June: The College of God's Gift is established by the actor-manager Edward Alleyn at Dulwich, incorporating the school, Dulwich College.
  • Greenwich Park is enclosed by a brick wall on the orders of King James I.
  • 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
  • Between Spring and October: The Corante: or, Newes from Italy, Germany, Hungarie, Spaine and France, one of the first English language newspapers translated from the Dutch, circulates in London.{{cite book|title=Famous First Facts|year=2000|publisher=H.W. Wilson Co.|editor1=Anzovin, Steven|editor2=Podell, Janet|isbn=0824209583|title-link=Famous First Facts}}
  • The Hackney coach is first recorded.
  • 1622
  • 6 January (probable date): The new Banqueting House, Whitehall, opens with a performance of Ben Jonson's The Masque of Augurs to a design by the building's architect, Inigo Jones.{{cite web|title=Banqueting House|url=http://www.roughguides.com/travel/europe/england/london/whitehall/banqueting-house.aspx|work=London Guide|publisher=Rough Guides|access-date=2012-08-27}}{{dead link|date=November 2017|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}
  • 23 May: Nathaniel Butter begins publication of Newes from Most Parts of Christendom or Weekley Newes from Italy, Germany, Hungaria, Bohemia, the Palatinate, France and the Low Countries.
  • Boston Manor House is built by Dame Mary Reade.
  • 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.{{cite journal|author-link=Alexandra Walsham|first=Alexandra|last=Walsham|title=Fatal Vespers|journal=Past & Present|issue=144|year=1994|pages=36–87|doi=10.1093/past/144.1.36}}
  • 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".{{cite book|last=Halliday|first=F. E.|author-link=F. E. Halliday|title=A Shakespeare Companion 1564–1964|location=Baltimore, Md|publisher=Penguin|year=1964|page=249}}
  • 1624 – The Latymer School and Latymer Upper School are founded by the bequest of Edward Latymer.
  • 1625
  • Around August: Over 40,000 people are killed by the bubonic plague in London, and so the court and Parliament temporarily move to Oxford.{{cite book|author-link=Thomas Dekker (writer)|first=Thomas|last=Dekker|title=A Rod for Run-awayes|year=1625}}
  • Queen's Chapel is completed in Westminster.
  • 1626 – 2 February: The coronation of Charles I of England takes place in Westminster Abbey.{{sfn|Cook|1921}}
  • 1629
  • May: The Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers is chartered.
  • Approximate date: Development of Lincoln's Inn Fields for housing begins.
  • 1630
  • The central square of Covent Garden is laid out, and a market begins to develop there.
  • Sion College is chartered as a college, guild of London parochial clergy, almshouse and library under the will of Thomas White, vicar of St Dunstan-in-the-West.
  • 1631
  • 31 January: The rebuilt St Katharine Cree church is consecrated by William Laud, Bishop of London.{{sfn|Godfrey|1911}}
  • 20 February: A fire breaks out in Westminster Hall, but it is put out before it can cause serious destruction.{{cite book|chapter=Fires, Great|title=The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance|editor=Walford, Cornelius|publisher=C. and E. Layton|year=1876}}
  • 7 June: St Paul's, Hammersmith is consecrated as a chapel of ease by Laud.
  • December: The Holland's Leaguer, a notorious brothel in Southwark which has been ordered to close, is besieged for a month before this can be carried out.
  • The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers is established.
  • Tottenham Grammar School is re-endowed.
  • London's population reaches 130,163 residents.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 5 August: Theatres closed because of plague in London.{{cite book|first=Barbara|last=Wooding|title=John Lowin and the English Theatre, 1603–1647: Acting and Cultural Politics on the Jacobean and Caroline Stage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JAuiAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT209|year=2013|publisher=Ashgate Publishing|isbn=978-1-4724-0687-3|page=209}}
  • 23–27 December: Rioting in Westminster provoked by Charles I's response to the Long Parliament's Grand Remonstrance.
  • 1642
  • 4 January: Charles I attempts to arrest 5 leading members of the Long Parliament, but they escape.[http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/timelines/1642.htm British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate 1638–60] This is the last time any monarch will enter the House of Commons.
  • 2 September: London theatre closure 1642: Parliament orders closure of London's playhouses, effectively ending the era of English Renaissance theatre.
  • 12 November: Battle of Brentford (First English Civil War): Royalist victory.
  • 13 November: Battle of Turnham Green (First English Civil War): Royalist forces withdraw in face of the Parliamentarian army and fail to take London.
  • 1642–43 – The Lines of Communication are constructed to defend the city.
  • 1647
  • 7 August: Oliver Cromwell takes control of the Parliament of England with the New Model Army, an attempt by Presbyterian MPs to raise the City of London having been unsuccessful.
  • The original Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross is demolished.
  • Wenceslaus Hollar's Long View of London from Bankside is etched in Antwerp.
  • 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).{{cite web|title=Leveller petition 1648|url=https://www.marxists.org/history/england/english-revolution/leveller-petition.htm|access-date=2016-07-25}}
  • 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.
  • 1649
  • 3 January: An explosion of several barrels of gunpowder in Tower Street, London kills 67 people and destroys 60 houses.{{cite book|title=The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|url=https://archive.org/details/everydaybookhis00munsgoog|publisher=D. Appleton & Co|first=Joel|last=Munsell|year=1858}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2005/05/03/tower_street_feature.shtml|title=BBC London, Features, Tower Street|access-date=5 December 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060225175716/http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2005/05/03/tower_street_feature.shtml|archive-date=25 February 2006|url-status=dead}}
  • 30 January: Charles I is executed outside the Banqueting House, Whitehall.{{cite web|work=British History Timeline|title=Civil War and Revolution|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/timeline/civilwars_timeline_noflash.shtml|publisher=BBC|access-date=2014-01-11}}
  • April: Bishopsgate mutiny: Soldiers of the New Model Army refuse to leave London; some are court martialled and one is executed.
  • 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
  • 10 April: Prudence Lee becomes the last woman in England burned alive at the stake for mariticide, at Smithfield{{cite book|first=Gordon|last=Napier|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H2AuDwAAQBAJ&dq=Prudence+Lee+1652&pg=PT170|title=Maleficium: Witchcraft and Witch Hunting in the West|date=15 July 2017 |publisher=Amberley Publishing Limited |isbn=978-1-4456-6511-5 }} (subsequent recipients of the sentence being in practice strangled before burning).
  • A coffee house is in business near Cornhill, opened by Pasqua Rosée.
  • 1654 – St Matthias Old Church in Poplar is completed.
  • 1656
  • May: First performance of The Siege of Rhodes, Part I, by Sir William Davenant takes place, making it the first English opera (under the guise of a recitative), in a private theatre at his home, Rutland House, in the City. This also includes the innovative use of painted backdrops and the appearance of England's first professional actress, Mrs. Coleman.
  • Winter: Lisle's Tennis Court built in Lincoln's Inn Fields for real tennis.
  • 1657
  • 8 January: Miles Sindercombe and his group of disaffected Levellers are betrayed in their attempt to assassinate Oliver Cromwell by blowing up the Palace of Whitehall and arrested.{{cite web|url=http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/timelines/1657.htm|title=1657|work=British Civil Wars. Commonwealth and Protectorate 1638–60|date=2010-06-07|access-date=2012-02-17|archive-date=2008-05-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509162328/http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/timelines/1657.htm|url-status=dead}}
  • 4 February: Resettlement of the Jews in England: Oliver Cromwell gives Antonio Fernandez Carvajal the assurance of the right of Jews to remain in England. This year the country's first synagogue (in Creechurch Lane) and Jewish cemetery in modern times open in London.{{cite web|title=Sephardi Velho (Old) Cemetery|work=London Gardens Online|publisher=London Parks & Gardens Trust|url=http://www.londongardensonline.org.uk/gardens-online-record.asp?ID=THM050|access-date=2014-07-16|archive-date=2014-07-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140724123721/http://www.londongardensonline.org.uk/gardens-online-record.asp?ID=THM050|url-status=dead}}
  • England's first chocolate house opens in London,{{cite web |title=Chocolate Arrives in England |url=http://www.cadbury.co.uk/cadburyandchocolate/historyofchocolate/Pages/chocengland.aspx |publisher=Cadbury |access-date=2012-02-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304031323/http://www.cadbury.co.uk/cadburyandchocolate/historyofchocolate/Pages/chocengland.aspx |archive-date=2012-03-04 |url-status=dead }} together with the Rainbow Coffee House, the city's second such establishment; while tobacconist and coffee house owner Thomas Garway in Exchange Alley is the first person to introduce tea in England.{{cite book|first=William H.|last=Ukers|title=All About Tea|volume=I|url=https://archive.org/details/AllAboutTeaV2|location=New York|publisher=The Tea and Coffee Trade Journal|year=1935|page=38}}{{cite book|url={{google books|id=_TR_PQAACAAJ|page=169|plainurl=yes}}|title=The True History of Tea|last1=Mair|first1=Victor H.|last2=Hoh|first2=Erling|publisher=Thames & Hudson|location=London; New York|year=2009|isbn=978-0-500-25146-1|page=169}}
  • 1658
  • 10 March: New London, Connecticut is named.
  • The earliest surviving terrace houses in London are built on Newington Green.
  • 1660
  • 1 January: Samuel Pepys begins writing his diary.{{cite web |url=http://archive.museumoflondon.org.uk/Londons-Burning/Timeline/timeline_long.htm|publisher=Museum of London|title=The Great Fire of London|access-date=2016-08-06}}
  • 3 February: Colonel George Monck and his regiment arrive in London.
  • February: John Rhodes reopens the old Cockpit Theatre, forms a company of young actors and begins to stage plays. His production of Pericles will be the first Shakespearean performance of the Restoration era.
  • 29 May: Charles II arrives in London via Deptford and assumes the throne, marking the beginning of the English Restoration. He subsequently orders the remodelling of St. James's Park in the French style.
  • 13–17 October: 8 regicides of Charles I are hanged, drawn and quartered at Charing Cross.
  • 28 November: Royal Society founded at Gresham College.{{sfn|Wilson|2004}}
  • 8 December: The first actress to appear on the professional stage in a non-singing role, as Desdemona in Othello. This is variously considered to be Margaret Hughes, Anne Marshall or Katherine Corey.{{cite book|title=The Hutchinson Factfinder|publisher=Helicon|year=1999|isbn=1-85986-000-1}}{{cite book|first=Elizabeth|last=Howe|title=The First English Actresses: Women and Drama, 1660–1700|url=https://archive.org/details/firstenglishactr0000howe|url-access=registration|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1992|page=[https://archive.org/details/firstenglishactr0000howe/page/24 24]}}{{cite book|first=Rosamond|last=Gilder|title=Enter the Actress: The First Women in the Theatre|location=Boston|publisher=Houghton Mifflin|year=1931|page=166}}
  • Approximate date: Vauxhall Gardens open as the New Spring Gardens.
  • 1661
  • 6 January: The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London, and George Monck's regiment defeats them.
  • 30 January: 4 deceased regicides of Charles I suffer posthumous execution at Tyburn; Oliver Cromwell's head, with the others', is raised above the Palace of Westminster Hall where it remains until the 1680s, later becoming a tourist attraction in private hands.
  • 23 April: The coronation of Charles II of England takes place in Westminster Abbey.{{cite web|url=http://special-1.bl.uk/treasures/festivalbooks/BookDetails.aspx?strFest=0249|title=Coronation of Charles II. (London: 1661)|work=Treasures in Full: Renaissance Festival Books|publisher=British Library|access-date=2016-08-06}}
  • 28 June: Lisle's Tennis Court in Lincoln's Inn Fields opens as a playhouse.
  • September: Pall Mall is laid out as a thoroughfare in Westminster.
  • The diarist John Evelyn publishes his pamphlet {{lang|enm|Fumifugium, or, The inconveniencie of the aer and smoak of London dissipated together with some remedies humbly proposed by J.E. Esq. to His Sacred Majestie}}, making it the earliest discussion of the city's air pollution.{{sfn|Weinreb|2008}}
  • 1662
  • 9 May: Pepys witnesses a Punch and Judy show in Covent Garden, making it the first on record.
  • 23 August: An extravagant pageant on the Thames greets the arrival of Charles II and his new queen Catherine of Braganza at the Palace of Whitehall from Hampton Court.{{cite ODNB|first=S. M.|last=Wynne|title=Catherine (1638–1705)|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4894?docPos=1|access-date=2012-06-04|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/4894}}
  • September: Henry Jermyn, 1st Earl of St Albans, begins residential development of the West End.{{cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vols29-30/pt1/pp56-76#google_vignette|title=St. James's Square: General|last=Sheppard|first=F. H. W.|date=1960|website=Survey of London: Volumes 29 and 30, St James Westminster, Part 1|via=British History Online|access-date=2024-07-14}}
  • The London and Westminster Streets Act 1662 (14 Cha. 2. c. 2) is passed, and the first hackney carriage licences are issued.
  • John Graunt publishes information about births and deaths in London in one of the earliest uses of statistics.
  • 1663
  • 7 May: Theatre Royal, Drury Lane opens.{{cite book|title=Cambridge History of British Theatre|volume=2: 1660 to 1895|editor=Donohue, Joseph|year=2004|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-65068-7|chapter=Chronology|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X4aY4xd0q6kC&pg=PR19}}
  • The Olde Wine Shades is built as a merchant's house in Martin Lane.
  • Diarist John Evelyn obtains a lease of Sayes Court and begins to lay out the garden there.
  • 1664
  • Francis Child enters the London goldsmith's business which, as the private banking house of Child & Co., will still exist the 21st century.
  • The Russian ambassador to England donates the first pelicans to live in St. James's Park.
  • Eltham Lodge is completed by Hugh May for Sir John Shaw, 1st Baronet (created 15 April 1665).
  • The construction of Burlington House begins.
  • 1665
  • 6 March: The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society begins publication.
  • March: 15-year-old Nell Gwyn makes her first definitely recorded appearance as an actress on the London stage, having previously been a theatre orange-seller.
  • 12 April: The first recorded victim of the Great Plague of London dies.{{sfn|Haydn|1910|pp=839–848}} On 7 July the King and court leave London to avoid the plague, moving first to Salisbury, then to Oxford from 25 September to 1 February 1666, where in October Parliament convenes. The City begins use of Bunhill Fields as a burial ground for the victims. By the time the plague ends, over 70,000 people have died.
  • 13 June: The Worshipful Company of Poulters is granted a royal charter.
  • Thomas Firmin sets up a textile factory to provide work for the unemployed.
  • Approximate date: The Grecian Coffee House is established in Wapping.
  • 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.{{sfn|Haydn|1910|pp=839–848}}
  • 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.{{cite book|first=Rebecca|last=Rideal|title=1666: Plague, War and Hellfire|publisher=John Murray Press|year=2016}} The Court, sitting at Clifford's Inn near Fleet Street, hears cases starting on February 27 and continuing until the end of 1668.{{cite book|first=Jacob F.|last=Field|title=London, Londoners and the Great Fire of 1666: Disaster and Recovery|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2017}} The London Building Act enforces fireproof construction in the reconstruction of the City.
  • Hedges & Butler is established as wine merchants.
  • 1668
  • 23 March (Easter): The Bawdy House Riots of 1668 break out.
  • The Carmen's Company is established.{{sfn|Weinreb|2008}}
  • The Lamb and Flag, Covent Garden is built{{NHLE|num=1265122|desc=The Lamb and Flag public house|access-date=2017-02-26|mode=cs2}} (although first definitely recorded as a public house – The Cooper's Arms – in 1772).
  • 1669
  • The Quaker goldsmiths John Freame and Thomas Gould form a partnership as bankers in the City, an origin of Barclays.
  • Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, visits the Tower of London and gives the Yeomen Warders the nickname "Beefeaters".{{cite book|title=The People's Chronology|editor=Everett, Jason M.|publisher=Thomson Gale|year=2006}}
  • 1670
  • 21 January: The French-born gentleman highwayman Claude Duval, who was particularly active in Holloway, is hanged at Tyburn, and is thought to have been buried in St Paul's, Covent Garden.{{sfn|Weinreb|2008}}
  • 14 August: Quakers William Penn and William Mead preach in Gracechurch Street in the City, in defiance of the recently passed Conventicles Act 1670, and are arrested and tried but on 5 September the jury refuses to convict, leading to Bushel's Case.{{cite book|first=Hans|last=Fantel|title=William Penn: Apostle of Dissent|publisher=William Morrow & Co.|location=New York|year=1974|pages=117–24|isbn=0-688-00310-9}}
  • The second Rebuilding Act is passed to raise the tax on coal to provide funds for rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral and other City churches destroyed in the Great Fire.
  • Leicester Square is laid out.
  • The Apothecaries' Hall{{sfn|Godfrey|1911}} and the Brewers Hall{{sfn|Godfrey|1911}} are built.
  • 1671
  • 9 May: Thomas Blood attempts to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London whilst disguised as a clergyman.
  • 6 June: The rebuilt Vintners' Company Hall is in use in the City.
  • 9 November: The Duke of York's Theatre is opened at Dorset Garden by the players of the Duke's Company.{{cite book|editor1=Carter, Tim|editor2=Butt, John|title=Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music|year=2005|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-79273-8|chapter=Chronology|author=Rose, Stephen|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mHJvKVq0vXoC&pg=PA533}}
  • The Merchant Taylors' Hall is rebuilt.{{sfn|Godfrey|1911}}
  • The Board of Ordnance takes over the site in Woolwich known as "The Warren" as a military storage facility, predecessor of the Royal Arsenal.
  • 1672
  • 25 January: The Theatre Royal in Bridges Street burns down, forcing the King's Company to relocate to the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre while the Theatre Royal is rebuilt in Drury Lane.{{cite book|first=Brian|last=Dobbs|title=Drury Lane: Three Centuries of the Theatre Royal, 1663–1971|publisher=Cassell|location=London|year=1972|page=51}}
  • 30 December: The first commercial public concert series in Europe begins, organised by John Banister in Whitefriars near Fleet Street.
  • Ludgate, Moorgate, and Newgate are rebuilt, and the rebuilding of Temple Bar and the church of St Stephen's, Walbrook in the City begin to the designs of Christopher Wren.
  • The Worshipful Company of Paviors is granted a royal charter.
  • Richard Hoare becomes a partner in the London goldsmith's business which, as private banking house C. Hoare & Co., will survive through to the 21st century.{{cite book|first=Victoria|last=Hutchings|title=Messrs Hoare, Bankers: a History of the Hoare Banking Dynasty|year=2005}}
  • The Fulham Pottery is established by John Dwight, making it the earliest certainly known native stoneware manufacturer in England; it will survive until the second half of the 20th century.{{cite book|last=Bergesen|first=Victoria|title=Bergesen's Price Guide: British Ceramics|year=1992|publisher=Barrie & Jenkins|location=London|isbn=0712653821|page=71}}
  • 1673
  • 22 January: The impostor Mary Carleton is hanged in Newgate Prison for multiple thefts and returning from penal transportation.
  • The rebuilding of St Mary-le-Bow church in Cheapside and Temple Bar gate across Fleet Street are completed to designs by Wren.
  • The Apothecaries' Garden is laid out in Chelsea.{{sfn|Elmes|1831}}
  • Approximate date: Berkeley House, later known as Devonshire House, is completed in Piccadilly.
  • 1674
  • 26 March: Theatre Royal, Drury Lane reopens having been rebuilt after a fire in 1672.
  • 17 July: 2 skeletons of children are discovered at the White Tower (Tower of London) and believed at this time to be the remains of the Princes in the Tower; they are subsequently buried in Westminster Abbey.{{cite web|url=http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page49.asp|work=History of the Monarchy|title=Edward V|access-date=2007-10-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071018023032/http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page49.asp|archive-date=2007-10-18}}
  • The Court house is rebuilt.
  • The Worshipful Company of Farriers is chartered.
  • 1675
  • 7 May: The York Buildings Company ("The Governor and Company for raising the Thames Water at York Buildings") is established.
  • c. 21 June: The reconstruction of St Paul's Cathedral under Sir Christopher Wren begins.
  • 10 August: Charles II places the foundation stone of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, designed by Wren.
  • c. October: Equestrian statue of Charles I (cast probably in 1633 to a design by Hubert Le Sueur and supposedly broken up during the Interregnum) is re-erected at Charing Cross.
  • 19 December: St Bride's Church, rebuilt to a design by Wren, reopens.
  • December: Charles II issues a "Proclamation for the suppression of Coffee Houses" due to the political activity which is occurring in the newly popular establishments,{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-130276491.html|title=The rise and fall of English coffee houses|access-date=2007-12-28|archive-date=2008-03-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080325081729/http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-130276491.html|url-status=dead}} but it is quickly rescinded.
  • The Green Ribbon Club founded, based in Fleet Street, making it the earliest political club.
  • 1676
  • Early: Thomas Firmin starts a workhouse in Little Britain for the employment of the poor in linen manufacture.
  • 26 May: A fire in Southwark destroys 625 houses.
  • July: Bethlem Hospital for the insane moves to new buildings in Moorfields designed by Robert Hooke, which had begun construction in April 1675.
  • Summer: The Royal Greenwich Observatory, designed by Sir Christopher Wren, is completed.{{cite book|first=R.|last=Chambers|author-link=Robert Chambers (publisher born 1802)|title=The Book of Days|url=https://archive.org/details/b22650477_0002|year=1878}}
  • Exeter Exchange is built, Wren's rebuilt St Magnus-the-Martyr church{{sfn|Godfrey|1911}} completed, and the first Greek Orthodox church in England is consecrated on Hog Lane.
  • The hatters that become James Lock & Co. of St James's is established by Robert Davis.
  • 1677
  • 10 October: The Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair comes into the hands of the Grosvenor family when Sir Thomas Grosvenor, 3rd Baronet, marries the heiress Mary Davies.{{cite web|title=The life of Mary Davies 1665-1730, Founder of Mayfair|first=Tyne|last=O’Connell|author-link=Tyne O'Connell|url=https://www.mayfaireccentrics.com/eccentrics/mary-davies/|work=Mayfair Eccentrics|access-date=2018-08-10}}
  • Monument to the Great Fire of London, designed by Wren and Hooke, is completed.
  • The George Inn, Southwark rebuilt.{{citation needed|date=January 2014}}
  • The John Roan School is established in Greenwich for poor boys.
  • 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
  • 17 November: An effigy of the Pope is burned after a large procession through the streets of London.
  • 27 November: The Duke of Monmouth enters London amid scenes of widespread celebration, having subdued the Scottish Covenanters.
  • 18 December: Rose Alley ambuscade: The writer John Dryden is set upon by 3 assailants, who are thought to have been instigated by the Earl of Rochester in a literary dispute.{{cite book|first1=John|last1=Sutherland|author-link1=John Sutherland (author)|first2=Stephen|last2=Fender|title=Love, Sex, Death & Words: surprising tales from a year in literature|location=London|publisher=Icon Books|year=2011|isbn=978-184831-247-0|chapter=18 December – Dryden mugged|pages=479–80}}
  • The new churches of St Edmund, King and Martyr and St Stephen's, Walbrook are completed to designs by Wren.{{cite book|title=The Old Churches of London|last=Cobb|first=Gerald|location=London|publisher=Batsford|year=1942}}
  • Joseph Truman acquires the Black Eagle Brewery in Brick Lane to form Truman's Brewery.
  • Approximate date: First bagnio opens in London.{{cite book|first1=Ian|last1=Gordon|first2=Simon|last2=Inglis|author-link2=Simon Inglis|title=Great Lengths: the historic indoor swimming pools of Britain|location=Swindon|publisher=English Heritage|year=2009|isbn=978-1-90562-452-2}}
  • 1680
  • February: Rev. Ralph Davenant's will provides for foundation of the Davenant Foundation School for poor boys in Whitechapel.
  • 27 March: William Dockwra's London Penny Post mail service begins.
  • The York Buildings are built.
  • Approximate date: Jonathan's Coffee-House is in business.
  • 1681
  • June–July: The City's Court of Common Council orders inscriptions for the Monument to the Great Fire of London and the house in Pudding Lane where the fire started blaming it on Papists.{{cite web|title=Inscriptions|work=The Monument|url=http://www.themonument.info/history/inscriptions.html|access-date=2016-06-24}}
  • 1 July: Oliver Plunkett, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, falsely convicted of treason, is hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn, making him the last Catholic martyr to die in England.{{cite encyclopedia|title=Blessed Oliver Plunket|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12169b.htm|encyclopedia=Catholic Encyclopedia|year=1913|access-date=2011-03-22}} The Catholic intriguer Edward Fitzharris is also executed on the same day.
  • 22 December: Charles II issues a warrant for the building of the Royal Hospital Chelsea for wounded and retired soldiers.
  • 1682
  • 11 March: Work begins on construction of the Royal Hospital Chelsea to a design by Wren; it will open to Chelsea pensioners in 1692.
  • 19 November: A fire in Wapping makes 1,500 people homeless.
  • Hungerford Market is built in Westminster.
  • 1683
  • 12 December: The River Thames frost fair begins, and lasts for several months. The Chipperfield's Circus dynasty begins when James Chipperfield introduces performing animals to England at the fair in 1684.
  • The Churches of St Benet's, Paul's Wharf and St James Garlickhythe, rebuilt to designs by Wren, are completed.{{sfn|Godfrey|1911}}
  • Richard Sadler opens the first Sadler's Wells Theatre as a "Musick House".
  • The Friendly Society of London, an early fire insurance company, is in business.
  • 1684
  • 10 Downing Street is built in Westminster.
  • Clarendon House, built between 1664 and 1667, is demolished for the construction of Albemarle Street.
  • 1685
  • 23 April: The Coronation of James II and VII and Mary takes place in Westminster Abbey.{{cite web |url=https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/building/palace/westminsterhall/other-uses/spectacular-coronation/#:~:text=The%20coronation%20feast%20of%20James,the%20galleries%20above%20the%20tables. |title=A spectacular coronation |author= |website=www.parliament.uk |publisher=UK Parliament |access-date=10 March 2024}}
  • 29 September: Edward Hemming establishes the first organised street lighting in London, with oil lamps to be lit outside every 10th house on moonless winter nights.
  • 18–19 October: Louis XIV of France issues the Edict of Fontainebleau, which revokes the Edict of Nantes and deprives Huguenots of civil rights. Many flee to London where they establish a domestic silk weaving industry in Spitalfields and "French ordinaries" (restaurants) in Soho.
  • 23 October: Elizabeth Gaunt, burned at the stake at Tyburn for alleged complicity in the Rye House Plot, becomes the last woman executed for political treason in England.
  • Kensington Square laid out.
  • 1686
  • January: Montagu House, Bloomsbury is destroyed by fire when barely 6 years old.
  • 1 May: The annual May Fair opens on a new site at Shepherd Market.
  • St Andrew Holborn church, rebuilt to a design by Wren, is completed.{{sfn|Godfrey|1911}}
  • 1687
  • 5 July: Isaac Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known as the Principia, is published by the Royal Society of London.
  • Christ Church Greyfriars (Newgate Street){{sfn|Godfrey|1911}} and the churches of St Lawrence Jewry and St Clement's, Eastcheap, all rebuilt to designs by Wren, are completed.{{cite book|last1=Bradley|first1=Simon|last2=Pevsner|first2=Nikolaus|title=London: the City Churches|series=The Buildings of England|year=1998|publisher=Penguin Books|location=London|isbn=0-14-071100-7}}
  • 1688
  • By July: The first definitely known performance of the Henry Purcell opera Dido and Aeneas takes place at Josias Priest's girls' school in Chelsea.{{cite journal|last=White|first=Bryan|title=Letter from Aleppo: dating the Chelsea School performance of Dido and Aeneas|journal=Early Music|volume=37|issue=3|year=2009|pages=417–428|doi=10.1093/em/cap041}}
  • 18 December: Glorious Revolution: William of Orange enters London.
  • Old Palace Terrace is built in Richmond.
  • Over the next 5 years Lloyd's of London marine insurance market begins to form on the premises of Edward Lloyd (coffeehouse owner).
  • 1689 - 13 February: William III and Mary II are proclaimed co-rulers of England in a ceremony at Guildhall,{{cite ODNB|first=Tony|last=Claydon|title=William III and II (1650–1702)|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29450|access-date=2012-07-16|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/29450}} with their coronation taking place in Westminster Abbey on 11 April by the Bishop of London, Henry Compton.{{sfn|Cook|1921}} In May, work begins on remodelling Hampton Court Palace to the design of Sir Christopher Wren for them{{cite web|title=A new palace|url=http://www.hrp.org.uk/hampton-court-palace/history-and-stories/a-building-history/a-new-palace/#gs.r=rXa5M|work=Hampton Court Palace|publisher=Historic Royal Palaces|access-date=2016-06-22|archive-date=14 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160614120419/http://www.hrp.org.uk/hampton-court-palace/history-and-stories/a-building-history/a-new-palace#gs.r=rXa5M|url-status=dead}} 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
  • 7 January: The first recorded full peal is rung at St Sepulchre-without-Newgate in the City, marking a new era in change ringing.
  • March: London, Quo Warranto Judgment Reversed Act 1689 ("An Act for Reversing the Judgment in a Quo Warranto against the City of London and for Restoreing the City of London to its antient Rights and Privileges") passed by Parliament.{{cite book|first=John|last=Noorthouck|author-link=John Noorthouck|title=A New History of London Including Westminster and Southwark|location=London|publisher=R. Baldwin|year=1773|volume=1|chapter=Chapter 17: From the Revolution to the death of William III|chapter-url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/new-history-london/pp272-288|access-date=2015-05-06}}
  • The Worshipful Company of Haberdashers establishes Aske's Hospital, comprising almshouses and a school at Hoxton, from the bequest of Robert Aske, origin of Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School and others.
  • Approximate date: The Great Synagogue of London is built for Ashkenazi Jews.
  • 1691 – 9 April: A fire at the Palace of Whitehall destroys its Stone Gallery.
  • 1693
  • 27 February: The Ladies' Mercury, the first periodical specifically for women, begins publication but lasts only for four weeks.
  • The financier Richard Hoare relocates Hoare's Bank (founded 1672) from Cheapside to Fleet Street.
  • White's is established as "Mrs. White's Chocolate House" in Mayfair by Francesco Bianco.
  • 1694
  • February: The première of Thomas Southerne's play The Fatal Marriage takes place at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
  • 27 July: The Bank of England is established by royal charter.
  • 25 October: Queen Mary II founds the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich;{{cite web|title=Greenwich Hospital History|publisher=Greenwich Hospital|url=http://www.grenhosp.org.uk/about/greenwich-hospital-history/|year=2013|access-date=2016-06-24}} first section completed 1705.
  • The new All Hallows Lombard Street church is completed to a design by Wren.{{sfn|Godfrey|1911}}
  • Approximate date: Development of Seven Dials begins.
  • 1695
  • May: The [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/643152512 Flying-Post] newspaper begins publication.
  • June?: Première of Purcell's opera The Indian Queen.
  • Trinity Hospital on the Mile End Road is established as almshouses for "28 decay’d Masters & Commanders of Ships or the Widows of such"{{cite book|last=Jones|first=Richard|title=Walking Dickensian London|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YrgJ_aPwahAC&pg=PA172|year=2004|publisher=New Holland Publishers|isbn=978-1-84330-483-8|page=172}} by Trinity House.
  • Hoxton House is established as a private lunatic asylum.
  • "Don Saltero's Coffee Shop" opens in Chelsea.
  • 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
  • 4 January: The Palace of Whitehall is destroyed by fire.{{sfn|Weinreb|2008}}
  • 11 January–21 April: Czar Peter I of Russia visits England as part of his Grand Embassy, making a particular study of shipbuilding at Deptford Dockyard.{{cite web|url=http://www.thebookofdays.com/months/jan/28.htm|title=January 28th|work=Chambers' Book of Days|access-date=2007-12-28|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071217212219/http://www.thebookofdays.com/months/jan/28.htm|archive-date=2007-12-17}}
  • December: The Chalybeate well is given to the poor of Hampstead.
  • The widow Bourne sets up the business which becomes Berry Bros. & Rudd, who will still be operating as wine merchants in the 21st century.{{cite web|title=Berry Bros. & Rudd History - Key Dates|url=http://www.bbr.com/about/history-key-dates|publisher=Berry Bros. & Rudd|access-date=2010-11-05|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100721215802/http://www.bbr.com/about/history-key-dates|archive-date=2010-07-21}}
  • 1699
  • 10 May: Billingsgate Fish Market is sanctioned as a permanent institution by Act of Parliament.{{citation|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=46945|title=William III, 1698: An Act for making Billingsgate a Free Market for Sale of Fish, Chapter XIII. Rot. Parl. 10 Gul. III. p.3. n.4.]|work=Statutes of the Realm. Volume 7: 1695–1701|year=1820|pages=513–14|access-date=2016-06-15}}
  • The Howland Great Wet Dock opens as the first of what become the Surrey Commercial Docks.{{cite book|first=Denis|last=Smith|title=Civil Engineering Heritage – London and the Thames Valley|location=London|publisher=Thomas Telford|year=2001|isbn=978-07277-2876-0}}

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19th century

{{main|19th-century London|Timeline of London (19th century)}}

20th century

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21st century

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See also

{{Portal|London}}

References

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Bibliography

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  • {{cite book

|first=James

|last=Elmes

|author-link=James Elmes |title=Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs |url=https://archive.org/details/atopographicald00elmegoog

|year=1831

|publisher=Whittaker, Treacher and Arnot |location=London

}}

  • {{cite book

|author1=Thomas Allen |author2-link=Thomas Wright (antiquarian) |author2=Thomas Wright |title=History and Antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and Parts Adjacent |location=London |year=1839 |volume=2 |chapter=Account of the Companies of the City of London, Alphabetically Arranged |pages=376–429

| ref = {{harvid|Allen|1839}}

|hdl=2027/hvd.hwh1uq |author1-link=Thomas Allen (topographer) }}

  • {{cite book

|title=Penny Cyclopaedia |chapter=London |publisher=Charles Knight |year=1839

|location=London |volume=14 |pages= 109–129

| ref = {{harvid|Penny Cyclopaedia|1839}}

|hdl=2027/ucm.5319406728 |title-link=Penny Cyclopaedia }}

  • {{Citation

|publisher = C. Knight & Co. |location = London |title = London |editor = Charles Knight |editor-link=Charles Knight (publisher) |date = 1844

|volume=6 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/londonkn06kniguoft#page/257/mode/1up |chapter=Metropolitan Boroughs

| ref = {{harvid|Knight|1844}}

}}

  • {{Citation

|publisher = John Murray |location = London |title = Handbook of London |author = Peter Cunningham |author-link=Peter Cunningham (writer, born 1816)

|date = 1850

|edition=2nd |oclc = 4773921 |chapter=Chronology of London Occurrences |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/handbookoflondon00cunn#page/n41/mode/1up

| ref = {{harvid|Cunningham|1850}}

}}

  • {{cite book

|title=Index of Dates ... Facts in the Chronology and History of the World |author= J. Willoughby Rosse |location= London |publisher=H.G. Bohn

|year=1859

|via=Hathi Trust |chapter= London

|series= Bohn's reference library |hdl= 2027/hvd.32044098621048 }}

  • {{Citation

|publisher = J. Bentley |location = London |title = Club Life of London |first = John |last = Timbs |author-link = John Timbs

|date = 1866

|ol = 7098926M }}

  • {{Citation

|publisher = Frederick Warne & Co. |location = London |author = George Henry Townsend |title = A Manual of Dates

|date = 1867

|edition=2nd |chapter=London |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/manualofdatesdic00townrich#page/587/mode/1up |pages=587–590

| ref = {{harvid|Townsend|1867}}

|author-link = George Henry Townsend }}

  • {{Citation

|publisher = William Tegg |location = London |title = Dictionary of Chronology |editor = William Henry Overall |date = 1870 |oclc = 2613202 |chapter=London |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofchro00overiala#page/508/mode/1up

| ref = {{harvid|Overall|1870}}

}}

  • {{Citation

|publisher = Macmillan & Co. |location = London |author = Charles Dickens |title = Dickens's Dictionary of London

|date = 1882

|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/dickenssdictiona00dick#page/n23/mode/1up |chapter=Historical Events

| ref = {{harvid|Dickens|1882}}

|author-link = Charles Dickens, Jr }}

  • {{cite book

|author=John and Robert Maxwell|title=Concise Guide to London |location=London

|chapter=Memorable Dates |year=1885 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LJsHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA125

| ref = {{harvid|Maxwell|1882}}

}} circa 1882

  • {{citation

|work=Journal of the Statistical Society |volume=48

|year=1885

|author= R. Price-Williams |title=Population of London, 1801–81 |pages=349–432

| ref = {{harvid|Price-Williams|1885}}

|hdl=2027/uc1.b4148209

}}

  • {{cite book

|author=Mrs. Basil Holmes|title= London Burial Grounds

|year=1896

|publisher=Macmillan |chapter=Burial-Grounds within the Metropolitan Area |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=mQpIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA279

| ref = {{harvid|Holmes|1896}}

}}

;published in the 20th century

  • {{Citation

|publisher = Routledge |location = London |author = Henry Barton Baker |title = History of the London Stage and its Famous Players (1576–1903)

|date = 1904

|chapter=Chronological List of the London Theatres |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/historyoflondons00bakeuoft#page/ix/mode/1up

| ref = {{harvid|Baker|1904}}

}}

  • {{Cite EB1911|editor-last=Chisholm |editor-first=Hugh|wstitle= Westminster |volume= 28 |date=1910 | pages = 549–551 | ref = {{harvid|Britannica|1910|p=549|ps=: Westminster }} }}
  • {{cite book

|chapter=London |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Br0ZAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA10 |pages=5–47 |title= Municipal Year Book of the United Kingdom for 1907 |editor=Robert Donald |location=London |publisher=Edward Lloyd

|year=1907

| ref = {{harvid|Donald|1907}}

}}

  • {{Cite EB1911|wstitle= London |volume= 16|date=1910 |last1= Howarth |first1= Osbert John Radcliffe |last2= Ingram |first2= Thomas Allan |last3= Wheatley |first3= Henry Benjamin | pages = 938–968; see pages 945 and 951 |quote=IV. Population, Public Health, &c. & VII. Government | ref = {{harvid|Britannica|1910|p=945|ps=: London: Population}} }}
  • {{cite book

|author=Francis Miltoun

|title=Dickens' London

|year=1908

|publisher=L.C. Page & Company |location=Boston |chapter= Brief Chronology |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=WCWgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA287

| ref = {{harvid|Miltoun|1908}}

}}

  • {{Citation

|publisher = Ward, Lock & Co. |location = London |title = Haydn's Dictionary of Dates |author = Benjamin Vincent |edition = 25th

|date = 1910

|chapter=London

|chapter-url = https://archive.org/stream/haydnsdictionary00hayd#page/839/mode/1up |pages=839–848

| ref = {{harvid|Haydn|1910|pp=839–848}}

|title-link = Haydn's Dictionary of Dates }}

  • {{Citation

|publisher = B.T. Batsford |location = London |author = Walter H. Godfrey |title = History of Architecture in London

|date = 1911

|chapter=List of Buildings on ... Map 1: The City of London and Southwark |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/historyofarchite00godf#page/351/mode/1up

| ref = {{harvid|Godfrey|1911}}

|author-link = Walter Godfrey }}

  • {{cite book

|location=London |title=Cook's Handbook to London

|year=1921

|publisher=Thos. Cook & Son |url= http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007971638

| ref = {{harvid|Cook|1921}}

}}

  • {{Cite EB1922 |wstitle= London |volume = 31 |last= Muirhead |first= James Fullarton |author-link= James Fullarton Muirhead|short= 1}}
  • {{cite book |author=George F.E. Rudé |title=Hanoverian London, 1714–1808 |year=1971 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-01778-8 |series=History of London |ref={{harvid|Rudé|1971}} |url=https://archive.org/details/hanoverianlondon00rudg |author-link=George Rudé }}
  • {{cite book

|first=Louise

|last=Nicholson

|author-link=Louise Nicholson |title=London

|year= 1998

|publisher=Abbeville Press |isbn=978-0-7112-1187-2 |chapter=London Chronology |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aXzsP33a3EsC&pg=PA204

}}

;published in the 21st century

  • {{cite book

|author=John Richardson

|title=The Annals of London: A Year-by-year Record of a Thousand Years of History

|year=2000

|publisher=University of California Press

|isbn=978-0-520-22795-8

|ref={{harvid|Richardson|2000}}

|url=https://archive.org/details/annalsoflondonye00rich

}}

  • {{cite book

|editor=Peter Clark |title=Cambridge Urban History of Britain

|year=2000

|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-43141-5 |volume=2 |author=Leonard Schwarz |chapter=London, 1700–1840 |page= 641+ |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=8sTabkXK6XEC&pg=PA641

| ref = {{harvid|Schwarz|2000}}

}}

  • {{Citation |publisher = Nan A. Talese |isbn = 9780385497701 |title = London: the Biography |first = Peter |last = Ackroyd |author-link = Peter Ackroyd |year = 2001 |chapter = Chronology |chapter-url-access = registration |chapter-url = https://archive.org/details/londonbiography2001ackr }}
  • {{cite book

|author=Erika Diane Rappaport|title=Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London's West End

|year=2001

|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=0-691-04476-7

| ref = {{harvid|Rappaport|2001}}

}}

  • {{cite book

|author=A.N. Wilson |title=London: A History

|year= 2004

|publisher=Modern Library |isbn=978-0-307-42665-9 |chapter=Chronology of London History |page=193+ |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h5Se8d8YfW0C&pg=PA193

| ref = {{harvid|Wilson|2004}}

|author-link=A.N. Wilson

}}

  • {{cite book

|author=Ben Weinreb

|title=The London Encyclopaedia |edition=3rd

|year= 2008

|publisher= Macmillan|isbn=978-0-230-73878-2|display-authors=etal

| ref = {{harvid|Weinreb|2008}}

|author-link=Ben Weinreb |title-link=The London Encyclopaedia }}

  • {{cite book

|title=London |series=Michelin Green Guide

|year= 2012

|isbn=978-2-06-718238-7 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WCh1M90AVQUC&pg=PT83 |chapter= 20C to Today (timeline)

| ref = {{harvid|Michelin|2012}}

|author1=Michelin

|last2=Lifestyle

|first2=Michelin Travel

}}

  • {{cite book

|author=Jonathan Conlin|title=Tales of Two Cities: Paris, London and the Birth of the Modern City

|year= 2013

|publisher=Counterpoint LLC|isbn=978-1-61902-225-6

| ref = {{harvid|Conlin|2013}}

}}

  • {{cite book

|author= Marc Matera |title=Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7d3qBgAAQBAJ

|year= 2015

|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-95990-3

| ref = {{harvid|Matera|2015}}

}}

{{refend}}

External links

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  • British History Online. [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/place.aspx?region=1 London]
  • {{cite web|url=http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/static/London-life.jsp|title=London and its Hinterlands: Life in London, 1674–1913|work=Old Bailey Proceedings Online|publisher=University of Sheffield}}
  • {{cite web|url=http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/timeline|title=Timeline|work=Exploring 20th Century London|publisher=Renaissance London|access-date=14 January 2014|archive-date=23 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223134618/http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/timeline|url-status=dead}}
  • {{citation|work=Historical Directories|publisher=University of Leicester|location=UK|title=London|url=http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/findbylocation.asp|access-date=2014-01-15|archive-date=2013-07-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130705215819/http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/findbylocation.asp|url-status=dead}}.
  • Europeana. [https://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=what%3Alondon&rows=96 Items related to London], various dates.
  • Digital Public Library of America. Items related to [http://dp.la/search?utf8=✓&page_size=100&q=london+england London], various dates
  • {{cite web|url=http://www.victorianlondon.org/dates/dates.htm|title=Dates and Events – Chronology|work=Dictionary of Victorian London|publisher=Lee Jackson|location=Stoke Newington}}

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