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Simon Jenkins is author of the bestselling A Short History of England, A Short History of Europe, Britains 100 Best Railway Stations, Englands Thousand Best Churches and Englands Thousand Best Houses. He is a former Editor of the Evening Standard and The Times, and columnist for the Guardian. He has served on bodies involved in Londons transport, housing, planning, arts and conservation, and chaired the revision of the Pevsner guides from 1994 to 2011. He has lived in London since infancy, in four of its boroughs, three of them north and one south of the river.
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Landlords to London
Companion Guide to Outer London
The Battle for the Falklands (with Max Hastings)
Images of Hampstead
The Market for Glory
The Selling of Mary Davies
Accountable to None
Englands Thousand Best Churches
Englands Thousand Best Houses
Thatcher and Sons
Wales
A Short History of England
Englands 100 Best Views
Englands Cathedrals
Britains 100 Best Railway Stations
A Short History of Europe
| 43 | London founded in reign of Emperor Claudius |
| 60 | Boudiccas revolt; London sacked |
| 8090 | Building of London Bridge |
| c.120 | London extensively damaged by fire |
| 410 | Roman withdrawal; the city abandoned |
| 604 | Mellitus first Bishop of London; St Pauls founded |
| c.830 | First Viking raids on the Thames |
| 886 | Alfred the Great retakes London, declares it a burgh |
| 1018 | Cnut crowned king |
| 1042 | Edward the Confessor bases court at Westminster |
| 1066 | Norman Conquest spares London expropriation |
| 1087 | First great fire of London; St Pauls destroyed |
| 1189 | First mayor elected in the City |
| 1209 | London Bridge rebuilt |
| 1290 | Expulsion of the Citys Jews |
| 1348 | Black Death arrives |
| 1381 | Peasants revolt; Wat Tyler killed |
| 1397 | Dick Whittington mayor for first time |
| 1476 | Caxton sets up press at Westminster |
| 153641 | Dissolution of the monasteries; mass transfer of wealth from church to crown |
| 1571 | Opening of Greshams Royal Exchange, modelled on Antwerps |
| 1576 | Burbages Theatre opens in Finsbury Fields |
| 1580 | Elizabeth Is first edicts against London growth |
| 1598 | Stows survey of the metropolis published |
| 161619 | Inigo Joness Queens House in Greenwich and Banqueting House in Whitehall |
| 1630 | Earl of Bedford licensed to build Covent Garden piazza |
| 1649 | Execution of Charles I in Whitehall (the Tower rejected for risk of riot) |
| 1653 | First coffee house opened |
| 166069 | Pepyss diary records events in the capital |
| 1665 | Earl of St Albans wins licence for St Jamess Square |
| 1665 | The Great Plague |
| 1666 | Great Fire of London destroys 80 per cent of the City |
| 1673 | Wren begins rebuilding of St Pauls |
| 168384 | Frost fair on the frozen Thames |
| 1688 | William of Orange arrives; he and Mary establish palace at Kensington |
| 1694 | Founding of the Bank of England |
| 1702 | First London newspaper, the Daily Courant, appears |
| 1712 | Act to build fifty Queen Anne churches, twelve finished in the capital |
| 1717 | Handels Water Music played on the Thames; Whig Hanover Square and Tory Cavendish Square laid out |
| 1721 | Grosvenor Square laid out |
| 1729 | Opening of Vauxhall pleasure gardens, followed by Ranelagh in 1741 |
| 1739 | Thomas Coram founds Foundling Hospital |
| 1748 | Henry Fielding appointed first stipendiary magistrate at Bow Street |
| 1750 | Opening of first river crossing since London Bridge at Westminster |
| 1751 | Act to tax and curb gin consumption begins to control the gin menace |
| 1768 | Royal Academy founded, moved to Somerset house ten years later; John Wilkes elected to parliament for Middlesex |
| 1769 | New toll bridge at Blackfriars |
| 1774 | Building Act lays down classes for Georgian houses |
| 1780 | Gordon riots, Londons worst civil disturbance |
| 1812 | Nash publishes his plan for a royal way from Carlton House to Regents Park |
| 1818 | Church Building Act heralds Waterloo churches |
| 1820 | Work on royal way begins |
| 1825 | Cubitt acquires Belgravia leases from Grosvenor estate |
| 1829 | Metropolitan Police Act |
| 1832 | Great Reform Act updates parliament, initiates Poor Law reform |
| 1834 | Destruction of Palace of Westminster by fire; competition demands gothic replacement |
| 1836 | Opening of first London railway from Greenwich to London Bridge |
| 1837 | Railway links Birmingham and Euston |
| 1841 | Repeal of Corn Laws reduces London prices and aids boom |
| 1851 | Great Exhibition initiates Kensington building boom |
| 1858 | The Great Stink spurs reform of London sewerage; building of Embankment begins |
| 1863 | First underground train runs from Paddington to the City under Marylebone Road |
| 1866 | City bank failure and collapse of London shipbuilding |
| 1867 | Hyde Park riots lead to Second Reform Act; most male Londoners enfranchised |
| 1870 | Forster Education Act sets up elementary board schools; women vote and stand for school boards |
| 1871 | Hampstead Heath saved from development and left wild |
| 1880 | First luxury flats built by Norman Shaw next to the Albert Hall |
| 1888 | London County Council replaces Metropolitan Board of Works; women can vote in local elections |
| 1890 | First tube train runs, from King William Street to Stockwell |
| 1891 | Arrival of first trams |
| 1899 | Vestry government outside City boundary replaced by metropolitan boroughs |
| 1903 | Works starts on Yerkess Piccadilly and Bakerloo lines |
| 1904 | LCC takes over board schools |
| 1907 | First petrol buses take to the streets |
| 1915 | Zeppelin bombing raids over London docks |
| 1919 | Addisons homes for heroes leads to rampant house-building boom |
| 1929 | Formation of London Passenger Transport Board, later London Transport |
| 192931 | Wall Street crash and recession have little impact on London |
| 1932 | First Town and Country Planning Act |
| 1934 | LCC declares a green belt around London |
| 194041 | The Blitz |
| 194445 | V-1 flying bomb and V-2 rocket attacks |
| 1947 | Town and Country Planning Act gives teeth to local planning |
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