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1812
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10.14.1812
Work on London's Regent's Canal starts.
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1814
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10.17.1814
London Beer Flood occurs in London, killing nine.
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11.28.1814
'' The Times'' in London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience. |
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1820
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8.1.1820
London's Regent's Canal opens.
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1828
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10.25.1828
The St Katharine Docks opened in London.
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1834
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1837
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7.25.1837
The first commercial use of an electric telegraph is successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on 25 July 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London.
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1840
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1843
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10.1.1843
The ''News of the World'' tabloid begins publication in London.
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1844
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1848
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7.11.1848
Waterloo railway station in London opens.
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1849
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5.27.1849
The Great Hall of Euston station in London is opened.
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1851
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10.18.1851
Herman Melville's ''Moby-Dick'' is first published as ''The Whale'' by Richard Bentley of London.
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1852
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2.15.1852
Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits its first patient.
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1853
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12.30.1853
A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an Iguanodon created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London.
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1857
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6.26.1857
The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London. |
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1858
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1859
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5.30.1859
Westminster's Big Ben rang for the first time in London.
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1865
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7.5.1865
The Salvation Army is founded in the East End of London, England. |
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1866
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1.12.1866
The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London.
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1867
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12.13.1867
Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, killing six.
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1868
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12.10.1868
The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps. |
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1870
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1872
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3.16.1872
The Wanderers F.C. wins the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1-0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.
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1873
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6.9.1873
Alexandra Palace in London burns down after being open for only 16 days.
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1878
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5.25.1878
Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera ''H.M.S. Pinafore'' opens at the Opera Comique in London.
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1884
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10.13.1884
Greenwich, in London, England, is established as Universal Time meridian of longitude. |
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1887
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11.13.1887
Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.
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1888
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4.3.1888
The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
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8.14.1888
A recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's The Lost Chord, one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London. |
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9.8.1888
In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found. |
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1889
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3.23.1889
The free Woolwich Ferry officially opens in east London.
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1890
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11.4.1890
City & South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell. |
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1895
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4.6.1895
Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London after losing a libel case against the John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry.
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10.5.1895
The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London.
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1897
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12.6.1897
London becomes the world's first city to host licenced taxicabs. |
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1906
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5.26.1906
Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London.
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