| 871 | | London was occupied by the Danes |
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| 886 | | Alfred the Great expelled the Danes from London
Alfred and Guthrum agreed a treaty defining the border of the Danelaw |
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| 959 | | St Dunstan becomes bishop of Worcester and London |
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| 994 | | London was
sucessfully defended against Sweyn and Olaf Trygvasson who withdrew to plunder Essex, Kent and Sussex |
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| 1009 | | Danes over-winter in the Thames raiding the surrounding counties but London stands firm against them (ASC) |
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| 1018 | | A Danegeld of
�72,000 was raised by King Canute in England; plus �11,000 paid by London |
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| 1044 | | The Confessor brings Robert, abbott of Jumieges, to London |
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| 1052 | | Godwin's fleet recruits men from the Cinque Ports of Hastings, Hythe, Dover and Sandwich, sails up the Thames gaining the support of London and forces Edward the Confessor to send his Norman advisers back to France |
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| 1139.Jun | | Stephen\\\'s arrest of Bishop Robert of Salisbury and his nephews, Bishop Alex of London, and Chancellor Roger, on questionable evidence of offense against the majesty of the King allienated the Church |
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| 1140.Mar.26 | | Robert fitz Hubert recaptures Malmesbury and begins devastating the surrounding countryside, declaring himself independent of Stephen and Matilda and intent on seizing the country between Winchester and London
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| 1141.Jun | | Londoners appeal to Matilda to repeal the harsh laws of Henry I and moderate her own demands. The furious Quuen devastates the outskirts of London to enforce her will but is forced to flee, first to Oxford and then to Gloucester when the Londoners rebel against her |
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| 1141.Jun.24 | | Matilda arrives in London toprepare for her coronation |
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| 1143 | | King Stephen arrests Geoffrey de Mandeville for treason at St Albans
Given the choice of execution or the surrender of the Tower of London and his Essex castles to the king, he chose his life |
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| 1144 | | Knights Templar take Geoffrey de Mandeville\'s body to London for burial |
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| 1179 | | Publication of The Dialogue of the Exchequer by Richard Fitz Nigel, treasurer of the exchequer and bishop of London |
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| 1213 | | Reeds, rushes and straw (thatch) forbidden as roofing materials in London |
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| 1331 | | Mason Adam de Corfe settled in London (lived in Farringdon ward) dies leaving a tenement in East St, Corfe |
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| 1344 | | Royal Ordinance orders lepers in London to leave the city and betake themselves to places in the country |
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| 1348 | | Some
two hundred victims of the Black
death were buried a week in Charterhouse Yard in London in 1348-49 |
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| 1370 | | Carthusian monks build the Charterhouse in London |
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| 1381.Jun | | The young Richard II meets with Wat Tyler and the rebels at Smithfield persuading them to quit London by promises of full charters of freedom
Tyler was killed however and the rebels were soon dispersed by military force |
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| 1399.Aug.20 | | Richard II captured on his retunr from Ireland and imprisoned at Flint
Richard was sent to the Tower of London, then Pomfret (Pontefract) Castle, where he is said to have been murdered but nothing is certainly known of his end, and there are strong grounds for believing that he escaped to Scotland where he lived until 1417 or 1419.
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| 1401 | | The Archbishop of Canterbury persuaded King Henry IV to outlaw the Lollards (a religious sect taught by John Wycliffe) as heretics, under the Act De Heretico Comburendo
After travelling to London, William Sawtre was executed by burning for preaching his Lollard beliefs |
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| 1450.Jun.18 | | Battle of Seven Oaks: Jack Cade\'s rebels are driven from London by loyal troops bringing about the collapse of the rebellion |
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| 1483.May.04 | | Gloucester and Edward V arrive in London
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| circa 1483.May | | Edward V is moved to the Tower of London (between the 9th & 14th) |
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| 1483.Jun.16 | | Richard, Duke of York, the Kings brother, is removed from Westminster sanctuary to the Tower of London
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| 1483.Jun.24 | | Duke of Buckingham urged Gloucester\'s title to the crown at the London Guildhall
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| circa 1483.Aug | | Edward, Prince of Wales, the uncrowned son of Edward IV, and his brother Richard seen for the last time in the the Tower of London (Jul-Sept)
The princes in the Tower thought to have been murdered by Richard III |
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| 1485.Aug.08 | | Henry, Earl of Richmond, (later Henry VII)
landed at Mill Bay in Milford Haven, Pembrokshire, Wales, and started his advance to London
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| 1497.Jun | | Lord Audley takes command of the Cornish rebels as they march through Somerset to London |
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| 1498.Jun | | Perkin Warbeck, Henry VII\'s prisoner attempts to escape from Westminster but is captured and moved to the Tower of London |
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| 1509 | | Foundation of St Pauls Scool, London |
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| 1513 | | Epidemic of the plague - the City of London issues regulations to control it |
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| 1531 | | 8,000 women marched through the streets of London in an attempt to lynch Anne Boleyn |
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| 1532 | | The German painter Hans Holbein the Younger settles in London |
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| 1543.Nov.20 | | Death of the painter Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/98�)
Famous miniature painter in London during Henry VIII\'s reign |
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| by 1547 | | City of London levies taxes for poor relief
Such tax levied nationally in 1572 with compulsion imposed on local authorities by 1576 |
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| 1549.Mar.20 | | Execution of Sir Thomas Seymour at the Tower of London for treason
His execution brings disgrace upon Edward Seymour who was replaced as Lord Protector by John Dudley |
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| 1553.Jul.19 | | Mary I, the ardent Catholic daughter of Henry VIII by Katherine of Aragon proclaimed Queen of England in London, she undisputedly succeeds to the throne of England - Lady Jane Grey is deposed and imprisoned
The proclamation made at Cheapside Cross and other accustomed places |
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| 1553.Aug.03 | | Queen Mary I enters London triumphantly accompanied by Elizabeth |
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| 1563 | | Outbreak of the plague in London |
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| 1576 | | James Burbage builds The Theatre, the first permanent playhouse in London |
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| 1585 | | Printing was restricted to London, Oxford and Cambridge
The Archbishop of canterbury, the Bishop of London and the Stationers Company exercised supervision over printers and publishers
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| 1588.Jul.23 | | Queen Elizabeth I meets the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, Common-Council and Lieutenancie of London at Westminster |
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| 1592 | | Outbreak of the plague in London |
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| 1600. | | London\'s theatrical scene is dominated by two rival troupes: the Lord Admiral\'s Men, managed by Philip Henslowe, led by playwright Christopher Marlowe and actor Edward Alleyne; and the Chamberlain\'s Men, co-owned by Richard Burbage and William Shakespeare |
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| 1604.Nov.01 | | William Shakespeare\'s tragedy Othello is presented for the first time at Whitehall Palace in London |
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| 1608 | | Birth of John Milton, London, poet/puritan (Paradise Lost) |
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| 1617.Aug.23 | | The first one-way streets are established in London |
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| 1636 | | Hackney carriages introduced in London |
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| 1641.Feb.09 | | Cromwell speaks in parliament in favor of the petition of the London citizens for the abolition of episcopacy |
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| 1644 | | Death of Sir John Bankes of the plague in London |
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| 1648.Dec.02 | | The army occupies London |
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| 1649 | | The Moderate Intelligencer, published in London, assured would-be emigrants to North America that they could be plentifully fed and clothed with the natural Commodities of the Country which fall into your hands without labour or toyle |
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| 1651.Sep.12 | | Cromwell makes his triumphal entry into London
Parliament granted him Hampton Court as a residence and 4,000 a year |
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| 1658 | | Stage Coach from the George Inn, Aldersgate (London) advertised
To Salisbury in two days for 20 shillings; To Exter in four days for 40 shillings; To Plymouth for 50 shillings |
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| 1661.Jan.30 | | 22nd anniversary of the execution of Charles I: the body of Oliver Cromwell exhumed from Westminster Abbey, hung, drawn, quartered and disposed of in a pit. His head displayed on a pole on Westminster Hall (-1685) |
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| 1662 | | Licensing Act vested control of printing in the government
Printing was restricted to London, Oxford, Cambridge and York and the number of master printers was limited
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| 1665 | | The Great Plague of London |
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| 1665.Sep.15 | | Charles II and the Duke of Monmouth sail into Poole Harbour as the court flees the plague in London and dine with the mayor of Poole
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| 1666 | | The Great Fire of London |
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| 1685 | | Head of Oliver Cromwell, displayed on a pole atop Westminster Hall since 1661, removed
It passed through various hands until 1960 |
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| 1702 | | Monopoly of supplying pharmaceuticals to Royal Navy ships granted to the Society of Apothecaries in London by Queen Anne |
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| 1712 | | Death of French inventor Denis Papin (1647-) in London |
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| 1723 | | Smallpox causes one out of fourteen of all deaths in London |
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| 1737 | | Bristol overtakes London as England s primary slaving port (37 voyages during the course of the year) |
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| 1750 | | The Company of Merchants Trading to Africa takes over the Royal African Company\'s role in slave trading
237 Bristol merchants, 157 London merchants and 89 Liverpool merchants form its membership |
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| 1783.Dec.09 | | First public hangings take place at London s Newgate Prison (moved from Tyburn prison)
The public hangings are held on Mondays outside the prison (-1868), with a seat costing up to �10 |
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| 1784 | | Britain\'s first mail coach service runs between London and Bath (along what is now the A4) |
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| 1787 | | Committee for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade founded in London |
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| 1817.Dec.07 | | Death in London of British naval officer, William Bligh, of the Bounty |
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| 1820 | | Goldsworthy Gurney moves to London |
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| 1823 | | Founding of the Anti-Slavery Committee in London |
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| 1824.Nov.22 | | Foundering on the Dorset coast of the West Indiaman, Colville, outward bound from London, with the loss of 17 lives |
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| 1838 | | Opening of the first section of the Great Western Railway from London Paddington to Taplow near Maindenhead, Berks. |
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| 1838 | | Pumping station built at Kew to supply London with water using a Bolton and Watt steam engine with a 1.6-metre cylinder to raise 590 litres of water with each stroke |
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| 1841.Jun.14 | | Opening of the GWR London to Bristol railway line, the first train reaching Bristol in 4 hours and travelling on to Bridgewater on the Bristol to Exeter line.
Opening of the railway rapidly caused a drop in traffic on the Kennet and Avon Canal |
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| 1844 | | Ragged school movement started in Scotland adopted in England (London)
London Ragged School Union established under the chairmanship of Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury |
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| 1846 | | First Eurasian Otters bred at London Zoo |
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| 1850 | | Population of London doubled since thr turn of the century |
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| 1858.Aug.16 | | Charles
Dickens announces his separation from his wife Catherine in the London
newspaper |
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| 1859 | | The Domesday Book(s) removed to the Public Records Office, London, where they are now displayed |
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| 1859.May.31 | | Big Ben and the quarter bells of the Great Clock of Westminster chimed across London for the first time |
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| 1860 | | London and South Western Railway reaches Exeter |
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| 1862 | | London and South Western Railway leases Exeter and Crediton and the Taw Valley Railways |
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| 1868 | | Lantern with a red and a green signal used to control horse-drawn traffic and pedestrians at a London intersection |
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| 1868 | | Public hangings outside Londons Newgate Prison (1783-) moved inside the prison (-1901) |
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| 1874 | | Building of the Meldon Viaduct, Devon to carry express steam London Waterloo to Plymouth over the West Okement Valley (120 ft below) |
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| 1888.Oct.28 | | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi arrives in London |
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| 1895.Dec.02 | | Chemist/physicist James Dewar exhibits his new apparatus for the production of liquid air (oxygen) in quantity at the Royal Institute in London |
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| 1897.Dec.09 | | Birth of Hermione Gingold, London England, actress (Gigi, Music Man) |
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| 1901 | | public hangings at Londons Newgate Prison (1793-) abolished |
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| 1910.Aug.13 | | Florence Nightingale who founded modern nursing, died in London |
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| 1919.Aug.25 | | Inauguration of the first airplane passenger service (Paris-London) |
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| 1919.Nov.07 | | The London Times runs the headline \'Revolution in science - New theory of the Universe - Newtonian ideas overthrown\'
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| 1923.Jan.01 | | London and South Western Railway becomes part of the Southern Railway |
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| 1933.Nov | | Scheme put forward to convert London\'s tram routes to trolley-bus routes
Trolley-buses had largely superceded trams in the provinces |
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| 1936.Nov.30 | | Burning of the Crystal Palace (built 1851), London |
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| 1939.May.25 | | Anglo-Polish treaty signed in London |
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| 1940.Sep.07 | | German Air Force blitzes London the first of 57 consecutive nights |
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| 1946.Aug.13 | | Death of the author HG Wells in
London |
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| 1951.Sep.30 | | Closing of the Festival of Britain at the South Bank in London |
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| 1952.Oct.08 | | 85 die and 200 injured as three trains collide at Harrow, London
Britain\\\'s worst peacetime rail crash |
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| 1960.Nov.16 | | Death of TV persnality Gilbert Harding in London |
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| 1966.Oct.22 | | Notorious double-agent, George Blake, escapes from Wormwood Scrubs prison in London |
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| 1967.Nov.05 | | 40 die in rail crash at Hither Green, SE London |
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| 1968.Oct.27 | | About 6,000 protesters against USA involvement in Vietnam clash with police in London\'s Grosvenor Square |
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| 1971.Oct.31 | | Bomb blast on 33rd floor of the Post Office Tower in London causes extensive damage but no injuries. Responsibility for the attack was claimed by the IRA |
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| 1972.Jul.10 | | William Whitelaw, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, announces to the House of Commons that he has been involved in secret talks with the provisional IRA in London |
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| 1972.Sep.19 | | Letter bomb explosion kills diplomat Dr Ami Sachori at the Israeli embassy in London - eight devices were sent to the embassy
Devices were also sent to the Israeli embassy in Paris |
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| 1973.Oct.08 | | LBC (London Broadcasting Company) starts broadcasting - Britian\'s first independent(commecial) radio station |
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| 1974.Oct.22 | | Bomb explodes in Brooks Club, London, injuring three staff |
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| 1975.Oct.09 | | One man killed and 20 people injured by terrorist bomb near Green Park Station, Picadilly, London |
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| 1976.Oct.04 | | British Rail starts new Intercity 125mph High Speed Train (HST) service between Cardiff, Bristol and London
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| 1976.Oct.25 | | Queen Elizabeth II officially opens the National Theatre on the South Bank in London designed by Sir Denys Lasdun |
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| 1977.Sep.16 | | Death of UK pop-star Marc Bolan (T-Rex) when a car he was in crashed into a tree in Barnes, London. He was 29 years old |
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| 1978.Aug.20 | | Gunmen open fire on an Israeli El Al Airline bus in London |
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| 1979.Jan.01 | | Beatlemania opens in London |
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| 1983.Oct.22 | | Estimated 200,000 CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) protesters bring central London to a standstill
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| 1985.Oct.01 | | Riots erupt in Toxteth, Liverpool, and Peckham, London |
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| 1987.Oct.16 | | 175-kph winds cause havoc with blackout in London and much of southern England
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| 1987.Nov.18 | | 27 people die in fire at Kings Cross railway station, London |
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| 1993.Sep.17 | | Derek Beackon beat the Labour Party candidate by seven votes in a by-election to take the first council seat for the British National Party (BNP) in Millwall, East London |
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| 2000.Nov.14 | | Hundreds of trucks and tractors converge on London and Edinburgh in fuel tax protest |
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| 2002.Mar.31 | | Death of British comedian and writer Barry Took in London, aged 73
He assembled the Monty Python\'s Flying Circus BBC TV comedy team |
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| 2002.Sep.22 | | Over 400,000 demonstrators converge on London protesting about various issues in the British countryside |
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| 2003.Aug.28 | | Power-cut hits rush-hour London causing chaos
The fault in the national grid at 1826h affected the 275,000 volt a ring around London and power was restored to the distribution network in London at 1900h
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| 2003.Oct.17 | | Broken rail causes second derailment on the London Underground within a year on train carrying 76 passengers from Hammersmith into London. The train derailed 200 yards (182 metres) outside Barons Court station
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| 2003.Oct.19 | | British Prime Minister Tony Bleaire is treated for 5 hours at London\'s Hammersmith Hospital for an irregular heart rythm |
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| 2003.Oct.19 | | Second London tube derailment (at camden Town) within 48hrs |
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