Napoleon defeated at Trafalgar
Anglo-Spanish war ends
Napoleon defeated at Waterloo
The Shot Tower constructed
London University founded
Kings College founded
The Great Reform Act
Slavery abolished in the Empire
Charles Babbage invents the analytical engine
Poor Law sets up workhouses
Palace of Westminster demolished
Victoria becomes queen
The Euston Arch is built
First Opium War
Palace of Westminster rebuild begins
Lords Chamber construction completed
Waterloo Station built
Great Exhibition
Crystal Palace constructed
Commons Chamber construction completed
Victoria & Albert Museum constructed
The Crimean War begins
Victoria Tower construction completed
The Crimean War ends
Elizabeth Tower (then Clock Tower) completed
London Underground: construction begins
Royal Albert Hall construction begins
Disraeli passes Second Great Reform Act
Education Act
Palace of Westminster completed
Royal Albert Hall construction completed
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
Cleopatra's Needle placed on Victoria Embankment
Gladstone passes Third Great Reform Act
Tower Bridge construction begins
National Agricultural Hall is renamed to The Olympia
The Great Dock Strike
National Gallery of British Art construction begins
Tower Bridge construction completed
Westminster Cathedral construction begins
The Highways Act
National Gallery of British Art construction completed
OXO Tower starts life as power station
Queen Victoria dies, Edward VII succeeds her
The Taff Vale case
Boer War ends
Westminster Cathedral construction completed
WSPU formed
The Labour Party becomes a formal party
Edward VII dies, succeeded by George V
Sinking of the Titanic
Suffragettes demonstration
Suffragettes set fire to the Kew Tea Pavilion
Unexploded bomb found in St. Paul's Cathedral
Suffrage Bill lost in Parliament
The Great War begins
The first Woolworth's shops open in London
Air raids damage Cleopatra's Needle
Incendiary bomb damages Oldham's Printing Factory in Long Acre
The Great War ends
Mussolini pens the Fascio
Sex Disqualification Removal Act makes gender discrimination from most jobs illegal
Treaty of Versailles
Republic of Ireland gains independence
Wembley Stadium opened
The Birth of the BBC
Fifth Great Reform Act passed, women over 21 enfranchised
The Wall Street Crash sparks the Great Depression
Battersea Power Station A construction begins
The first two Tesco stores open
Oswald Moseley founds the British Union of Fascists
The Jewish Museum opens in Woburn Place
Senate House construction begins
Battersea Power Station A construction complete
The Scottish National Party is founded
George V dies, succeeded by Edward VIII who abdicates later that year
Crystal Palace destroyed by fire
Senate House construction completed
George VI crowned king
World War II begins
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister
Battle of Britain
The Blitz
House of Commons chamber gutted.
St. Paul's Cathedral emerges unscathed from raids that flattened East London.
Beveridge Report
"Rebuilding Britain" exhibition held at the National Gallery
D Day
Butler Act
V2 ballistic rockets put into service
V2 rocket destroys Whitefields Tabernacle in Tottenham Court Road
World War II ends
Battersea Power Station B construction begins
The NHS is founded
The 14th Olympic Games held at Wembley
The Royal Festival Hall construction completed
Festival of Britain
The Dome of Discovery and the Skylon constructed
Elizabeth II becomes queen
Coronation of Elizabeth II
Battersea Power Station B construction complete
The Shot Tower demolished
The M1 opened
Euston Arch demolished
The National Theatre construction begins
The BT Tower constructed
England wins the World Cup
Abortion and homosexuality are legalized
Concorde makes its maiden flight
IRA bomb explodes at the top of the Post Office Tower, damaging three floors. The observation floor is now closed to the public
The Cromwell Tower construction completed
Guy's Hospital tower construction completed
London Hilton Hotel bombing
The National Theatre construction completed
Margaret Thatcher becomes prime minister
The NatWest Tower (Tower 42) constructed
Brixton race riots
Falklands War
One Canada Square construction begins
The Berlin Wall comes down
Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web
The Gulf War
One Canada Square construction completed
99 Bishopsgate and NatWest Tower damaged by a truck bomb detonated by the Provisional IRA
Shakespeare's Globe construction begins
The SIS Building (MI6 Building) constructed
Space Jam is released in cinemas
Oxo Tower refurbished
Princess Diana is killed in a car crash
Tony Blair becomes prime minister
Shakespeare's Globe construction completed
The Millennium Dome construction begins
People party like it's a certain year
The London Eye construction completed
The Millennium Dome construction completed
9/11 aeroplane attacks
Britain and the US invade Afghanistan
30 St Mary Axe (The Gherkin) construction begins
London City Hall constructed
Britain and the US invade Iraq
30 St Mary Axe (The Gherkin) construction completes
Wembley Stadium demolished
7/7 suicide bomb attacks on London's transport system
Ontario Tower constructed
Strata construction begins
Heron Tower construction begins
New Wembley Stadium: Construction completed in time for the 2007 FA Cup Final
Beetham Tower construction begins
The Pinnacle construction begins
The Shard construction begins
20 Fenchurch Street (The Walkie Talkie) construction begins
Coalition government formed between Liberal Democrats and Conservative Party
Strata construction completed
122 Leadenhall Street construction begins
Fixed-term Parliaments Act
Heron Tower construction completed
Saffron Square construction begins
Queens Jubilee Celebration
London Olympic Games
The Shard constructed
52-54 Lime Street (The Scalpel) construction begins
122 Leadenhall Street construction complete
20 Fenchurch Street construction complete
Saffron Square construction complete
52-54 Lime Street (The Scalpel) construction complete
Beetham Tower construction complete
