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AP, Chhattisgarh, UK and France win Pavillion awards
Padma awardees Dr Madhav Gadgil and D Chinnaiah (sitting) pose with UP minister for Information Technology, Rajendra Singh Rana, Karnataka deputy chief minister, BS Yediyurappa and Karnataka's IT and Biotechnology secretary, Dr Anup Pujari (standing from left to right). |
On Day 2 of Bangalore Bio 2006, awards were given to participants under various categories for their design, ingenuity and feedback from delegates. Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister, BS Yediyurappa along with Rajendra Singh Rana and Chattisgarh Culture andTourism Minister,Brij Mohan Agarwal gave away awards and felicitated Padma Bhushan Madhav Gadgil and Padma Shri D Chinnaiah.
Delivering his keynote address, Yediyurappa said, "Karnataka's success in IT and BT was due to the availability of highly qualified skilled workers and technical resources. Our scientists and PhDs have given a lead in the biotech sector and we must improve and progress from here on."
In his special address at the Bangalore Bio 2006 Awards Nite, the UP Minister for Information Technology, Rajendra Singh Rana invited entrepreneurs from Karnataka to come and invest in his state. He also requested them to have a look at what UP has to offer.
To replicate the success of Karnataka in the biotech sector, the Uttar Pradesh government has sought Karnataka's help. A team of state government officials will be visiting UP in the next few weeks to access the situation and to lend a helping hand.
The poster session, a new section in Bangalore Bio 2006, received many creative and sensible posters from upcoming innovators and scientists. Sonu Bhaskar, Rucha Vinay Joshi, Sana Ansari and Satyalakshmi won the top honors.
Aninda Sen, national sales manager, BioSpectrum, receiving the Best Small Pavillion award from UP minister for Information Technology, Rajendra Singh Rana. |
The States of India Pavillion awards went to the Government of Andhra Pradesh and the Government of Chattisgarh. The Research Institute awards were given away to ICAR, CSIR and the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) while BioSpectrum, Varda Biotech and YES Bank bagged awards in the Small Pavillion category. The Medium Pavillion awards were presented to Pall Life Sciences, Strand Life Sciences and Metahelix Life Sciences while Biozeen, Alfa Laval and Sartorius clinched the Pavillion awards. The International Pavillion awards went to France and the UK. On the occasion, a special award was presented to Avesthagen, the event sponsor.
Biotech fraternity speaks on soft aspect of drug development
Dr BV Ravi Kumar, MD, XCyton Diagnostics |
An interdisciplinary session ontranslational research explored the way forward for drug discovery and elaborated on the major theme of soft aspect of drug development.
Chairing the session, Dr BV Ravi Kumar, managing director, XCyton Diagnostics, reflected that the major challenge in the realm for drug designing is the "ability to resurrect dying products".
Dr Gustaaf Van Reet, Board member and scientific advisor – Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, Belgium and Viziphar Biosciences, observed that despite the dramatic reduction in the mortality rate over the past few decades and the coexistence of a plethora of needs and an equal number of opportunities, successful endeavors are still a rarity owing to the current knowledge gaps, technical gaps, reliability, liability, cost and affordability issues. He also suggested prognosis and prevention and individually targeted therapies as the emerging trends and strategies for the future.
Stating the mammoth scope of the biomedicine space, Dr DK Srivastava, professor, Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, North Dakota State University, USA, said that there were many opportunities for young researchers in the space of identification of enzymes as potential drug targets. He also added that currently there are 14,000 proteins and 75 enzymes identifies as potential drug targets.
Dr John Watson, director, Pharma–Biotech, Promega Corporation highlighted India's potential contribution in the drug discovery space. He opined that chemical genomics, movement from genetics to drug discovery R&D, hunting for transitional opportunities and partnering with western companies as the next best step for the emerging Indian biotech fraternity.
Multi skills a must for biotech entry
Dr Anil Paul Kariath, president, training and consulting, Biozeen |
Nobby Nazareth, CEO, Leader Prospects India Pvt Ltd |
If young aspirants plan to make it big in the biotech industry, then they have to build soft skills along with technical capabilities and express themselves as a team player in recruitment interviews.
Participating in a conference on "HRD: Shaping India's talent pool through specialization," prominent industry leaders and HR experts felt that it was difficult to find the right candidates if they are not able to tap their hidden potential.
It remains a challenge to identify the right candidates. Technical quality and people skills are the key criteria for hiring and training was the next biggest challenge.
Nobby Nazareth, CEO, Leader Prospects India Pvt Ltd said, "Most of the time, the candidates are not able to manage simple interviews, which is an opportunity lost for the student and the company as well. To bridge this gap, the industry and academia should work in close collaboration, build and focus beyond syllabi."
Gautham Nadig, director, Metahelix Lifesciences, said that science education needs to be looked afresh as good infrastructure alone will not guarantee great scientists. It is critical to focus on a course content and faculty. "It is difficult to get PhDs and specialized skilled persons. However, what motivates these scientists to join small firms is that their ability to solve difficult scientific problems or due to ownership of enterprise, networking, money and responsibility," he said.
Dr Anil Paul Kariath, president, training and consulting, Biozeen, called for a closer interaction between industry and academia to assess the right type of manpower. "Only then can we solve the problem of quality manpower with quantity manpower. The incorrect assessment of the situation has led to academia drifting from need, students not able to choose career path and hampering growth in the long run," he opined.
Dr Jagadish Mittur, director, Monsanto Research Center, chaired the conference.
Redefining life through stem cells
Technology and biology are converging fast. The result will transform everything from engineering to art and redefine life. This enveloping theme for the session on "Frontier technology: Sowing the seeds for tomorrow" explored several opportunities around stem cells.
Dr Vishwanath R Lingappa, chief technology officer, Prosetta Corporation, addressed the reason for elusiveness of bioinformatics and also highlighted the limitation of high resolution structured biology. A quick mention of Prosetta's ambitious plans for India covered the inception of the animal facility center in Mysore and extension of conformer specific monoclonal antibodies.
S Abhayakumar, chairman, Lifecell, India, reflected on what and why is whipping up so much hope in the vast arena of stem cells. He also observed that the percentage research on stem cells is 85 whereas the application stands negligible (of the order of 0-1 percent) and India being host to maximum number of diseases is amongst the few countries to realize the potential of this concept. He also urged public-private partnership in the scope of research for stem cells. Abhayakumar added that he is confident that in five years "we will have cure for one or two near fatal diseases."
Dr Alok Srivastava, professor, Christian Medical College, also noted on the hope and reality around stem cells.
Dr Franck Molina, scientist with the Centre for Pharmacology and Health Biotechnology, France, analysed biodata integration problems and emphasized that systems biology should challenge ways of selection and development of new therapeutics and diagnostics.
The other speakers at the session were Dr Anupama Gaur, application support manager, Labindia Instruments, Umesh Pawa, national manager, Applied Biosystems, who spoke on Microseq microbila Identification system and Mass Spectrometry and iTRAQ reagent respectively.
EU's offerings for Indian researchers
Dr Andrew Sors, Minister Counsellor, Head of Science and Technology, European Commission Delegation to India, Bhutan and Nepal |
As the international partner in this year's Bangalore Bio 2006, the European Union (EU) announced exciting new opportunities for the research community in India, in particular with the 7th EU Research Framework Program, 2007–2013.
This cooperation will build upon and further extend Indian participation in the current 6th EU Research Framework Program (2002 – 2006). Here, more than 50 collaborative research projects include almost 75 participants in India. A few examples of institutions which are included are the Indian Institute of Science (Bangalore), the Indian Institutes of Technology in Mumbai, New Delhi, and Roorkee, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (New Delhi) and many others.
FP7 will be the largest international research and development program in the world. It is likely to have a budget in the region of 55 billion Euros (about $70 billion) during the period 2007–2013. It includes a wide range of activities, including collaborative research, investigator-driven research and research fellowships.
Addressing a press conference, Dr Andrew Sors, Minister Counsellor, Head of Science and Technology, European Commission Delegation to India, Bhutan and Nepal, underlined the great mutual advantages both for India and the EU. "India and the EU share the proud tradition of scientific excellence as well as a strong commitment to the crucial growth of science and technology for economic growth as well as for society needs. The EU is pleased to be closely and actively associated with Bangalore Bio 2006, which is seen as a major opportunity to strengthen links and partnerships across academia and enterprise in these fields of science and technology," he added.
The European Union greatly welcomes participation by Indian researchers and research institutions in FP7, in collaboration with scientists and institutions in Europe. The EU may fund successful applications based on independent peer review of proposals for joint research projects or for fellowships, he said.
Science Trek draws huge crowds
The centre of attraction at this year's Bangalore Bio 2006 was Science Trek, a state-of-the-art, world class laboratory on wheels dedicated to biotech, pharmacology and other science students in India. The lab on wheels is an initiative by Millipore India, Eppendorf India and Micro Devices Metrohm. It is for the first time ever that three majors have come together and invested in an initiative for students.
The mission of Science Trek is to showcase and demonstrate the latest lab equipment for applications ranging from PCR, membrane filtration, ion analysis and tissue culture to sample preparation for HPLC, LCMS among others. The mobile lab will visit educational/research institutions all over the country providing a opportunity for students to see the latest lab equipment in use, get practical insights, ask questions and widen their scientific horizons.
Additionally, the mobile lab will bridge the gap between the privileged, urban centers of learning in metros and the relatively unequipped labs in semi-urban and rural colleges. "Students in rural schools and colleges are at a major disadvantage, very often even basic lab equipment is not accessible to them. Science Trek will do its bit by making biotech lab related education more accessible," said Sudhir Kant, president, Millipore India. "Everyone should and will get a chance to see, touch, feel the latest in lab equipment. Our people will be at hand to explain and answer questions, clarify concepts. It is for this that all three companies have invested nearly Rs 25 lakhs in the van and the equipment," he added.
Among the many Millipore products on display in the lab is Direct Q 3 - the water purification system specially designed for educational institutions. The other products from Millipore include sample preparation kits and devices, sterile and non sterile filtration units, centrifugals, general filtration accessories, ion analysis instruments from Metrohm and
Cell manipulation and DNA amplification devices from Eppendorf India.
The lab was inaugurated by Dr Goverdhan Mehta, former director of IISc, Bangalore. Subhash Bagaria, chairman, Millipore India and teams from Eppendorf and Metrohm were present.
To begin with, Science Trek will cover educational institutions in the four states of South India. With success, the concept will be extended to other states as well.
Namratha Jagtap
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London historical events
also rail transport for development of London's
also road transport for road development in
Colour key:
Parks / Green Belt
Urban unrest
to services economy
World War
Two events
World War
One events (& arms race)
Population – see Appendix One. For
IRA bombing locations see Ireland.
22/5/2013, A soldier wearing a 'Help for Heroes' T shirt, near Woolwich Barracks,
SE London, was hacked to death in the street by two Africans who had converted
to Islam. The perpetrators then waited for police to arrive and were shot
but not fatally. Hate crimes in the UK against Islamic targets over the next
two days amounted to 160, ten times the usual level.
5/7/2012, The Shard in London was opened. The tallest building in Europe, it
is 309.6 metres, 1,016 feet, high.
28/2/2012, Occupy Wall Street protestors were evicted from the front of St Pauls, London.
7/12/2006, A tornado lasting under a minute ripped through Kensal Green, NW
London, damaging 150 homes and injuring 6 people.
22/7/2005, A Brazilian electrician, Charles de
Menezes, was shot dead by police at a London Underground station; they mistook him for a suicide bomber.
21/7/2005, A second terrorist attack on London Transport, similar to the one on
7/7/2005. There were 4 attempted
bomb attacks on 3 underground trains and a London bus. However the bombs all failed to explode
properly and there was only one injury.
7/7/2005, Four Islamist suicide
bombers struck London in the morning rush hour. Three separate Underground
trains and a bus were hit, killing 50 and injuring over 200 commuters. Al Quaeda gave British military
involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq as justification for the attacks.
4/6/2002. On the final day of the
extended Bank Holiday to mark the Golden Jubilee, the Queen rode through London
in the State gold coach.
2/6/2002. In the middle of
preparations for a concert at Buckingham Palace, London, to mark the Queen
Elizabeth's Golden Jubilee celebrations, fire broke out at the
31/12/2000. The Dome in Greenwich closed after a year of financial problems,
insufficient visitor numbers, and general ridicule.
4/5/2000. Ken
Livingstone was elected Mayor of London.
30/4/1999, Another nail bomb exploded, (see 17/4/1999), in the Admiral Duncan pub in Old Compton
Street, Soho, London. A pregnant woman
and two friends were killed, and seventy injured. This was part of a hate
campaign against gays and ethnic minorities by David
presenter Jill Dando was shot dead on the doorstep of her Fulham house in London. Barry George, a loner obsessed with guns and celebrities, was convicted of the
murder in 2001.
17/4/1999, A nail bomb
exploded in a busy market in Brixton, south London. See 30/4/1999.
1/3/1998, 250,000 pro-foxhunting demonstrators marched through
the centre of London.
6/9/1997, Funeral of Diana
Princess of Wales in Westminster Abbey.
It was watched on television worldwide by over one billion people.
18/8/1995, The largest traditional stone-built Hindu temple
in the world outside India opened in Neasden, N W London.
1/10/1993. Buckingham Palace closed after being open to the
public for 8 weeks. 400,000 people visited, raising some £2.2 million.
7/8/1993, Buckingham Palace, London, opened to the public
for the first time ever. 4,314 visited on the first day, paying an £8 entrance
22/4/1993, A Black teenager, Stephen Lawrence, 18, was
stabbed to death in Eltham, south east London, in a racist attack.
22/3/1992. The developers of Canary Wharf, London Docklands,
Olympia and York, were on the verge on bankruptcy. The UK recession, and poor transport links to
Docklands, meant 40% of its offices stood empty.
3/10/1991, Sir Allen Green QC, 56, the British Director of Public Prosecutions,
resigned after having been stopped by the police for kerb-crawling in the Kings
Cross area of London.
30/7/1991, Pavarotti
gave a free concert in Hyde Park.
10/7/1991, The Queen opened the new Sainsbury wing at the National Gallery.
1/3/1991. Wandsworth set the lowest Poll Tax in Britain, £136. Other councils were
£400 or more.
30/12/1990, Patrick Harward-Duffy, a 36-year-old
Glaswegian, attacked the 70-foot Christmas Tree in London's Trafalgar Square
with a chainsaw, cutting a third of the way through the trunk before police
stopped him. He was protesting against 'the unfairness of the Norwegian legal
system'. Ever since 1947 the people of Oslo have donated a Christmas Tree to
London in gratitude for liberation from the Nazis.
31/3/1990. Anti-Poll Tax demonstrations in Trafalgar
Square, London. 300,000 protested, led by MP Tony Benn.
21/3/1990, A large demonstration in London's Trafalgar
Square against the Poll Tax
turned into a riot. 417 people were injured and 341 arrested.
9/3/1990. Poll tax
riots in Brixton, London. There were also riots in Lewisham, Hackney, Haringey, Maidenhead, Reading,
Bristol, Plymouth, Gillingham, Norwich, Birmingham, Stockport, Leeds, Bradford,
and many other places. Both Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, and the
Labour leader, Neil
Kinnock, condemned the riots.
20/8/1989. The Thames pleasure
cruiser Marchioness was hit by a
dredger; 51 young persons attending a party on board were killed. She was hit
by the sand dredger Bowbelle under
Southwark Bridge in the early hours of the morning. Survivors said the dredger
loomed up in the night without lights.
29/3/1988. Plans were unveiled by Canadian
developers for an 888-foot tower block, costing £3 billion, at Canary Wharf,
London Docklands, to be completed by 1992.
21/2/1988. The grave of the warrior queen Boadicea
discovered under platform 8 of Kings Cross railway station, London.
31/8/1987, London's Docklands Light Railway began running, a month behind
9/4/1987, The UK government launched an inquiry into the Al Fayed takeover of Harrods.
19/3/1987, Three men were sentenced to
life imprisonment for the murder of PC Blakelock on
Broadwater Farm Estate, Tottenham, north London.
5/2/1987, SOGAT called off its picket of Rupert Murdoch's Wapping plant.
27/10/1986. It was the
'Big Bang' day on the London Stock Exchange, the day the
money market was deregulated. But a computer failed and a shambles ensued.
23/7/1986, Prince Andrew married Miss Sarah
Ferguson in Westminster Abbey, and was created Duke of York.
3/5/1986, Violent protests at Wapping between pickets and police.
31/3/1986, (1) The Greater
London Council was abolished, along
with other Metropolitan Councils in large UK cities; municipal responsibilities
passed to the individual Boroughs. Mrs Thatcher
saw the GLC, led by Ken Livingstone,
as too Left wing. Mrs Thatcher especially objected to the GLC's Fares Fare
policy, involving subsidy of transport fares.
(2) Fire badly damaged Hampton Court Palace, London.
16/2/1986, Clashes between police and 5,000 pickets at Rupert
Murdoch's Wapping newspaper plant. Murdoch had moved production of The Sunday Times and News of the World to Wapping to outflank
striking print workers; the papers were being produced by managers and
7/10/1985. Riots erupted in Broadwater
Farm Estate, Tottenham, London, after a Black woman, Cynthia Jarrett,
collapsed and died whilst police searched her home. Within hours, police weer
lured to the estate by fake 999 calls and then came under attack from bricks,
stones, petrol bombs, and were even shot at. From 6.30 pm until well after
midnight both Black and White youths fought 500 police in riot gear. PC Blakelock,
40, was hacked to death.
29/9/1985, 209 people have been arrested in rioting in Brixton.
28/9/1985, Riots erupted in Brixton after a Black woman, Cherry Groce, was shot during a
police raid.
17/4/1984. In London, the Libyans opened fire from their
People's Bureau, killing 25 year-old policewoman, Yvonne
Fletcher. A police siege of the Libyan Embassy began and on
22/4/1984 the UK Government broke off diplomatic relations with Libya. The
siege ended on 27/4/1984 and 30 Libyans from the Bureau were deported. The
British Ambassador and other diplomats returned from Tripoli.
26/11/1983. 6,800 gold bars worth £25 million were stolen from
the Brinks-Mat security warehouse at
Heathrow Airport. Only a fraction of the gold was ever recovered, and only 2
men were ever convicted of the crime.
7/10/1983, Plans to abolish the Greater London Council were
Dennis Nilsen, mass murderer, was
arrested after human remains were found at his house in Muswell Hill, north
London. Nilsen, 37 years old, confessed
to police to the murders of 15 men over 4 years.
31/10/1982. The Thames
Flood Barrier was raised for the first time.
12/10/1982,, A Falklands Victory Parade was held in the City
of London.
9/7/1982. An intruder entered the Queen's bedroom at
Buckingham Palace. Michael Fagan, 35, asked the
Queen for a cigarette whilst sitting on the end of her bed in Buckingham
21/6/1982, Prince William (Arthur Philip Louis) was born
in London to Prince
Charles (Prince of Wales) and Princess Diana.
3/3/1982, The Queen formally
opened the Barbican Centre, London.
19/1/1982, London's new Billingsgate market
opened on the Isle of Dogs, three days after the old Billingsgate in Lower
Thames Street, EC3, closed.
29/7/1981. Marriage of Prince
Charles, Prince of Wales (born 14/11/1948), to Lady
Diana Spencer. The wedding was at St Paul's Cathedral, London, and
was watched on TV by 700 million viewers worldwide. The design of Diana's
wedding dress had been kept a close secret until she emerged from Clarence
House on the wedding day; then Ellis
Bridals made a copy that went on sale in Debenhams, Oxford Street, just 5 hours
later, for £450. 750 million people watched the ceremony.
15/7/1981, Rioting in Brixton,
10/7/1981. Following the riots in Toxteth,
riots broke out in other British cities. Riots in Moss Side (Manchester) and Wood Green
(London). Brixton
saw riots on 15/7/1981. Hull, Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Reading, Preston and
Chester also saw riots.
5/7/1981. Youth rioted
in Toxteth, Liverpool for a second night
running. There were also riots in Brixton and Southall in London.
28/6/1981. Asians rioted
in Southall, west
London, after racist aggression by skinhead youths.
13/6/1981, Marcus Sarjeant fired blank shots at Queen Elizabeth
II during the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London. He was later charged with treason.
13/5/1981. Queen Elizabeth
II opened the 'Shopping City' in Wood Green, north London. It had
taken seven years to build.
11/4/1981. Riots in Brixton. Mobs of youths went on the rampage,
throwing petrol bombs, looting shops, and attacking police. Over 300 civilians,
and 65 police officers, were injured.
Over three days of unrest, 779 crimes were reported. The riots were sparked by a controversial
initiative to cut street crime, the 'stop
and search' laws, and were the worst riots in London for a century.
3/4/1981, Riots in Brixton and Southall.
19/1/1981, Thirteen Black people died in a fire at Deptford,
south London., during an all-night party.
The West Indian community suspected the fire had been started by
10/7/1980. The 105 year old Grand
Exhibition Hall at Alexandra Palace,
north London, was destroyed by a fire.
14/9/1979, The UK Government announced plans
to redevelop London's Docklands.
23/4/1979, A teacher, Blair Peach, was killed, and 300 were arrested
after violent clashes between the National Front and the anti-Nazi League in Southall,
11/9/1978. Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov, a broadcaster on
the BBC's foreign service, was stabbed in the thigh with a poisoned umbrella in
13/8/1977, The police used riot shields on the British
mainland for the first time, during an anti-fascist demonstration in Lewisham,
31/1/1977. Wembley
Conference Centre opened by the
Duke of Kent.
25/10/1976, Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the National Theatre on London's South
30/8/1976, Over 100 police officers were taken to hospital after clashes at
London's Notting Hill Carnival.
2/3/1976, Brent Cross shopping
centre, N W London, was opened; it was the first regional shopping centre in
8/11/1974. Covent Garden
Market moved from central
20/3/1974, A kidnap attempt
was made on Princess
Anne, in The Mall,
1/11/1973. The new bronze statue of Sir Winston Churchill was
unveiled in
30/12/1972, The Tutankhamun
exhibition closed in
22/1/1972. As the British Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath signed the Treaty of
Brussels, he had ink thrown over him by protestors against the redevelopment of
Covent Garden Market.
16,5/1968, The Ronan Point
block of flats collapsed in
16/5/1966. Post Office Tower,
15/4/1966, Time Magazine declared
London 'the city of the decade', for its fashion, and opportunities for young
1/4/1965, Greater
1962, Britain's
first Hindu Temple opened in London.
23/4/1962, 150,000 people gathered in Hyde Park, London, for
the biggest-ever Ban the Bomb
19/4/1960, A crowd of between 60,000 and 100,000 protested in
14/3/1960, Plans were announced for a Thames Flood Barrier at London.
20/9/1959, The last fly-past of Hurricane aircraft over
24/8/1959, House of Fraser
beat Debenhams in a takeover battle for Harrods.
7/4/1958. The first CND march from
27/7/1955, The Clean Air Bill was
presented to Parliament, to prevent the reappearance of the 1952 Smog
that killed 4,000, see 4/12/1952.
9/1/1955, 400 Jamaicans arrived in
17/10/1953, Queen Elizabeth II unveiled a monument to
members of the Commonwealth air forces who lost their lives in WW2 and had no
known grave, at Coopers Hill, Runnymede.
25/3/1953, Police hunted for John Christie after the remains
of three women were found at his former house in Notting Hill, London. See
24/3/1953, Queen Mary, widow of King George V, died at her
London home, Marlborough House in Pall Mall, aged 85. Her funeral was on
4/12/1952. Smog enveloped
30/9/1951, The Festival of Britain
closed, see 3/5/1951.
13/6/1951, Elizabeth, heir to the British throne, laid the
foundation stone of the National Theatre,
on London's South Bank.
3/5/1951. King George V
opened the Festival of Britain, on 11 hectares (27 acres) of a former
bombsite near
26/10/1950. The rebuilt chamber of the House of Commons was opened by George VI,
it having been destroyed by bombing on
15/8/1950, Princess Anne (Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise)
was born in Clarence House,
19/9/1949, 'Twiggy', British model, actress,
and singer, was born in Neasden,
22/7/1949, The London docks strike ended.
29/6/1949, A docks
strike began in
9/5/1949. Britain's first launderette opened in Queensway,
14/11/1948. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, was
born in
12/4/1948. The Roosevelt Memorial was unveiled in
28/6/1947, The statue
of Eros returned to
10/12/1946, Heavy
smog in London caused bus conductors to have to walk in front of their buses,
carrying lighted newspapers.
5/6/1946, King George V took the salute at the Victory Parade in The
2/4/1946. The
30/4/1945. The face
of Big Ben, London, was lit once more for the first time in 5 years 123 days,
an important sign that the War was nearly over.
28/3/1945,. Last air raid warning siren sounded in London.
27/3/1945. The last German V-2 rocket fell on Britain, at Orpington. (see 8/9/1944).
The Allies then overran the last V-2 launching site. In all, 1,050
rockets fell on England, each carrying a ton of explosive with a range of 200
miles. The V-2s were designed by Werner von Braun, who surrendered to the Americans in 1945. Von Braun was given US citizenship and helped
design the rockets for the US space programme, including the Saturn rockets and
the Apollo missions.
3/12/1944, The Home Guard was formally disbanded in London as King George VI witnessed its final parade.
Britons were jubilant that this symbolised imminent victory in the War. The
Black-Out was replaced by the Dim-Out as the
Luftwaffe was no longer a credible threat. However British strikes rose,
particularly in the coal mines. Coal miners pay was relatively low compared to
other occupations, and conditions were poor.
20/11/1944, After five years of black-out, the lights were switched on again in Piccadilly,
8/9/1944, The first V-2 fell in on Chiswick in the London area, killing three
people. By the end of the war, 1,100
V-2s fell in England an a further 1,675 on the continent, mainly on
Antwerp. V-2 stood for Vergeltungswaffe,
or 'reprisal weapon'. The V-2 rocket weighed 12 tons and travelled at 3,600
mph, faster than sound, so there was no warning of its imminent arrival. It had
a range of 200 miles and carried a one ton bomb. The Germans fired them from
launchers in The Netherlands, but the explosions in London were attributed, by
the authorities, to gas explosions to mislead the German intelligence. The
earlier V-1 rocket was slower and had a shorter range; V-1 strikes on London
ceased as the Allies captured the launch sites in France.
3/7/1944, Evacuation of children from London because of the
V-1 bombings.
15/5/1944. In St Pauls
School, London, the D-Day landings of 6/6/1944 were planned using a huge map of
the area.
8 divisions, 5 seaborne and 3 airborne, were to be landed in the first 48
hours. The Germans had 60 divisions defending the coast of the Netherlands,
Belgium and France. An elaborate deception was mounted to make Germany think
Calais was the landing point with fake radio traffic, misleading reports from
Nazi agents who had been 'turned' to serve the Allies, and a phantom army with wooden tanks
stationed in south-east England. In May 1944 Montgomery received a decode of a
message from Field Marshall Rommel to Hitler saying that Allied bombing of railways
in northern France was disrupting his efforts to defend the Calais area from an
Allied invasion.
14/3/1944, Heavy
German air raid on London, with 100 Luftwaffe bombers.
21/1/1944, The
Luftwaffe resumed bombing raids on London, after a lull of over two years. 268
tons of bombs were dropped, followed by a similar raid a week later.
3/3/1943, 178
people were crushed to death whilst descending the stairs into Bethnal Green
tube station to shelter during an air raid. A woman at the top of the stairs,
carrying a child, slipped and fell on those immediately in front of her,
causing those below to lose their balance too.
17/1/1943, The
Luftwaffe conducted the first night raid on London since May 1941.
See France/Germany for main events of World War Two
10/5/1941. The House of Commons was almost destroyed
by incendiary bombs. It was rebuilt, and reopened by George VI on 26/10/1950. This was the worst night of the Blitz;
550 German bombers dropped 100,000 incendiaries, and over 1,400 people were
killed. The House of Commons had to meet in the Lords.
19/3/1941. The
Luftwaffe resumed raids on London, following its failure in the Battle of
12/1/1941, Bank Underground station, London, received a direct bomb hit during
the Blitz.
5/1/1941. A bomb
hit Wormwood Scrubs prison, west
30/12/1940, 136 German
bombers dropped 22,000 incendiary bombs and 127 tons of high explosive on
10/12/1940, In London, two
Germans were hanged after being convicted as spies.
2/11/1940, The only
air-raid free night in London during the period 7 September to 13 November, due
to bad weather that night. Over this period, 27,500 high explosive bombs had
fallen on London, along with incendiaries, parachute mines and oil explosive
17/10/1940, A bomb
knocked out all the automatic railway signalling within two and half miles of
Waterloo Station, London.
15/10/1940, Over
London, a full Moon coincided with clear weather, leading to heavy German
bombing raids. 410 German aircraft dropped 538 tons of high explosive bombs,
killing 400 people.
9/10/1940. St Paul's
Cathedral was bombed as the Luftwaffe made heavy raids on London. A German bomb went through the dome of the
cathedral, destroying the high altar. An unexploded bomb had to be removed from
the cathedral roof. German air raids continued throughout the rest of 1940 but
the cathedral suffered little more damage. Surrounding buildings were
destroyed, but the image of the dome
standing intact amidst smoke and rubble became a national image symbolising the
fighting spirit of Britain against Nazi Germany.
17/9/1940. Marble Arch became the first tube station to
be hit by German bombs.
13/9/1940, Buckingham Palace hit by German bombs. The
King and Queen would have been seriously injured by flying glass had the
windows been closed. The incident was a PR blunder for the Germans, as now the
monarch could claim to have shared the privations of London's east enders.
11/9/1940. The Lord Mayor of London launched the Mansion House
Fund to relieve the suffering of those made homeless by bombing.
8/9/1940, A heavy
German air raid on the London Docks
area; 400 died. The following day, 200 bombers came in the daytime and another
170 after darkness. A further 370 east enders died on 9/9/1940.
23/8/1940. The Blitz on London
began. Bombs initially fell on the
Docks and the East End, but then hit targets further west, including
18/8/1940. The first German
plane was shot down over
16/8/1940, Wimbledon, south west London, was bombed.
15/8/1940, Croydon aerodrome was bombed
12/6/1940, At a
by-election in Bow and Bromley, east London, the anti-War candidate won just 6%
of votes cast.
8/6/1940, The first
German bombs fell in the London area, in open country near Addington. The only
casualty was a goat.
20/11/1939, The first
German aircraft to approach London ventured up the Thames estuary. It was
repelled with heavy ant-aircraft fire and retreated without causing any damage.
25/8/1939, Moveable treasures from
25/2/1939. The first
2/6/1938. Robert and
Edward Kennedy, youngest sons of the American Ambassador to
9/5/1938, Scotland Yard announced they were to use police
1937, Earls Court Exhibition Hall opened. It stood on the site of an
entertainment ground going back to 1887.
27/4/1937, The National Maritime Museum, beside the Thames at
30/11/1936. The
Crystal Palace, in south London, was destroyed by fire. The blaze was seen
as far away as Brighton. Wooden floorboards had been dried to tinder by the
heating system, and 20,000 wooden chairs were stored under the (wooden)
orchestra pit. Flames reached 500 feet, and drove swarms of rats out of the
building. 438 firemen from all over London could do nothing to put out the
11/10/1936. In
1935, The development of New Addington began, with houses to be
let 'at reasonable rents'..
20/11/1935, Lord Jellicoe, Admiral of the Fleet in WW I and naval commander
at the Battle of Jutland, died in
1/4/1935, The Green Belt Scheme for the
environs of |London came into force.
29/1/1935, The London County Council
approved the Green Belt scheme.
1934, The Becontree
housing development, east London, was completed; constructiuon had begun in
1921. It covered 2,770 acres (4 square miles), with over 25,000 dwellings
accommodating 112,000 people.
9/9/1934. Fascists and their opponents clashed in
8/6/1934, Fierce fighting
broke out at a fascist rally staged by Oswald Moseley at London's Olympia.
10/5/1934, The Police
Training College in Hendon,
11/2/1934, Mary Quant, English fashion designer who invented the mini-skirt, was born in
11/10/1931. Large march in
Chessington Zoo opened.
26/10/1929, All London
buses to be painted red. Earlier trials with yellow and red proved
8/8/1929, Ronald Biggs, great train robber, was born in Lambeth, south London.
4/2/1929, The first Green Belt area was approved, a five-mile wide strip near Hendon.
19/8/1928, Lord Haldane, who founded the
Territorial Army in 1908, died in
26/4/1928, Madame Tussauds waxworks museum re-opened on
17/1/1928, Vidal Sassoon,
English hair stylist, was born in
20/6/1927, Fighting between Communists and Fascists in Hyde Park, London.
1/11/1924, The British
Empire Exhibition at Wembley,
23/4/1924. King George V opened the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley Stadium,
21/8/1923, In London, a 7-week dockworkers strike ended.
26/4/1923, King George V, then the Duke of York, married Lady Elizabeth
Bowes-Lyon in Westminster Abbey.
1/1/1923, 100 acres of Ken Wood Estate were bought for the nation to extend Hampstead Heath. See also Great Britain (1866) Metropolitan
Commons Act.
1922, County
Hall, London (LCC), was completed.
/9/1921, Five female councillors in Poplar faced jail for
refusing to set a domestic rate (property tax). Labour-controlled Poplar, led
by George Lansbury, objected
to a central rate equalisation scheme which, it says, meant poor areas like
Poplar paid more than wealthier areas.
11/11/1920, The 35-foot Cenotaph war memorial
(Greek cenos taphos = empty tomb) in
10/11/1920, The body of an
unknown British soldier was brought to
22/9/1920, The Metropolitan Police 'Flying Squad' was formed.
13/7/1920, The LCC banned the employment of foreigners in
council jobs.
18/7/1919, The first
Cenotaph, a temporary structure of
wood and plaster, was erected in Whitehall, London, for a parade celebrating
the Treaty of Versailles. It was so popular the Government decided to erect a
permanent version.
3/2/1919, London tube workers went on strike for shorter
30/8/1918. London police went on strike. Prisoners had to be taken to court in
taxis, but a major crime wave did not materialise. Bus drivers did traffic duty
at major junctions. 2,000 police officers marched to a rally at Tower Hill,
demanding wage rises and the reinstatement of a colleague dismissed for
political activities. The key issue, however, was trade union recognition.
Trade Unions had grown significantly during the War, from 4,145,000 members in
1914 to 6,533,000 members in 1918. Now working-class policemen, who kept union
disputes in check, wanted their own union representation.
14/6/1917. Air raid on London, the
first by German fixed-wing aircraft. In a daylight raid, 162 Londoners died and
432 were injured. 16 children died in a Poplar school.
24/8/1916. Eight people were
killed in a Zeppelin raid on
25/4/1916, Anzac Day was first celebrated in London.
23/1/1916, London's Natural History Museum and British Museum were closed for the
duration of the War.
See France-Germany for main events of World War One
31/5/1915, German airship
bombing raid on London; Stoke Newington was badly damaged and 7
Londoners died.
10/8/1914, Olympia was used as a detention centre for 300 German-born
citizens under the wide emergency
powers of the Defence of the Realm Act.
18/12/1913, Lord Plymouth gave money to enable the Crystal
Palace to be bought for the nation.
20/5/1913. The first Chelsea
Flower Show opened in
11/5/1915, German-owned
businesses, shops and restaurants, in the London suburbs of Bethnal Green, Camden Town, Limehouse,
Poplar, Stepney and Walthamstow
were attacked, burnt and destroyed. Traders at Smithfield Market refused to trade with ethnic Germans, even if
they had been naturalised as Britons. An American trader at Smithfield who was
inclined to trade with the foreigners was also beaten up. The unrest was in
response to the sinking of the Lusitania
four days earlier.
8/3/1912, The foundation stone of London's County Hall was laid.
12/5/1911. The Festival of Empire opened at
3/1/1911. The
siege of Sydney Street took place when 1,000 police and soldiers besieged
three anarchists suspected of killing three policemen at a house in
26/6/1909. King Edward
VII opened
16/3/1909, The first
meeting of the Port of London Authority.
15/3/1909. The new Selfridges (American-owned) store opened on a 6 acre site in Oxford Street,
21/12/1908, The Port of
London Authority was constituted.
27/7/1908, The 4th
Olympic Games opened in London, see 14/5/1908.
14/5/1908, The
Franco-British exhibition opened on 200 acres of land at Wood Lane, north of
Shepherd's Bush, London. The site, called White City, was served by an extension of the Central Line from
Shepherds Bush. The Prince of Wales opened the exhibition, which
was also used for the 1908 Olympic Games,
see 27/7/1908.
1907, Hampstead Garden Suburb was founded by Dame Henrietta Barnett.
27/2/1907, London's Central Criminal Court (The Old Bailey) was opened on the site
of Newgate Prison, by King Edward VII.
9/4/1906, The Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell
was born in London.
27/1/1906. The River Thames caught fire as oil on the surface ignited.
1905, The new Aldwych road opened.
2/7/1903, Sir Alec Douglas Home, Conservative Prime Minister, was born in
16/3/1903. Trial of Jack the Ripper.
9/8/1902. King Edward VII, born 9/11/1841, was crowned in
Westminster Abbey. The coronation had been delayed from June because the King
had appendicitis.
4/8/1902, The
Greenwich foot tunnel under the Thames opened. It replaced a ferry that had
existed here since 1676.
1900, Work on clearing housing
and theatres for the new Aldwych road began. Widening work on the Strand also
29/10/1900, In London, huge crowds greeted
returning Boer War soldiers.
1899, London Borough Councils were
17/5/1899. Queen Victoria
laid the foundation stone of the Victoria
and Albert Museum.
1897, London's Tate Gallery
16/11/1896. Birth of
the British fascist leader Oswald Mosley, in London.
23/6/1894 King Edward VIII was born at White Lodge,
Richmond, Surrey, the eldest son of George V and Queen Mary.
10/2/1894, Harold Macmillan,
Lord Stockton, British Conservative Prime Minister, was born in London.
1893, The statue of Eros in
Picadilly Circus, London's first aluminium statue, was unveiled.
23/4/1893, Billy Smart, British circus proprietor, was
born in London, the son of a fairground owner.
6/8/1889 The
Savoy Hotel in London was opened.
1888, Temple Bar, designed by Sir Christopher
Wren and originally erected at the junction of Fleet Street and
Strand at a cost of £1,398 in 1669-70, was re-erected at Theobalds Park,
9/11/1888, Mary Kelly, fifth and last of The Ripper's victims, was found dead in her room at 13
Millers Court, London.
30/9/1888. Jack the Ripper butchered 2 more women. They were Liz Stride found behind 40 Berber
Street, and
Kate Eddowes, in Miter
Square, both in London's East End.
27/9/1888. The
Central London News Agency received a letter which began 'Dear Boss, I keep on
hearing the
police have caught me but they won't fix me just yet..'. It was signed 'Jack the Ripper'
the first time the name had been used.
8/9/1888, Jack the Ripper claimed his 2nd victim,
Chapman, who was found disembowelled at 29 Hanbury Street, London.
31/8/1888, Mary Ann 'Polly' Nichols, the first victim
of Jack the Ripper, was found mutilated in
Bucks Row in the early hours of the morning.
3/1/1888, Herbert Morison, Labour politician, was born in Lambeth, London.
17/11/1887, Viscount Montgomery, World War Two army
commander who defeated Rommel in
Africa in World War Two, was born in
Kensington, London, the son of a vicar.
13/11/1887, Bloody
Sunday in Trafalgar Square, London, when police clashed with Socialist
demonstrators. The protestors were calling for the end of a ban on open air
meetings and the release of an Irish MP who had been jailed for supporting a
rent strike. Two protestors were killed.
2/1/1885, A further
terrorist attack on the London Underground, by Irish
Republicans. James Canningham set a bomb off in the tunnel between Kings
Cross and Gower Street (now Euston) stations; only slight damage to a train was
caused. Later that month, he was seen detonating a bomb which seriously injured
four people at the Tower of London, and was sentenced to life imprisonment with
hard labour. Bomb attacks by these so called 'dyamitards' tailed off after
others were caught or blew themselves up.
1884, The Exhibition Hall at
Olympia opened. It was known as the National Agricultural Hall until 1886.
30/10/1883, The first terrorist attack on the London Underground. Two bombs were
set off by Fenian fighters for Irish independence, one at Praed Street Station
(now Paddington) on a Metropolitan Line train going towards Edgware Road, and
one on a District Line train between Westminster and Charing Cross (now
Embankment). Nobody was killed and there were only slight injuries from flying
glass. The perpetrators were never found. In February 1884 more serious bomb
attacks were attempted, with devices planted at Victoria, Charing Cross,,
Ludgate Hill and Paddington. Fortunately only the Victoria bomb exploded and as
the station was nearly empty at the time nobody was killed. Again the bombers
were never discovered. Other terrorist plans of the time included an attempt to
blow up Scotland Yard., by Clan na Gael.
Some damage was done, with records on Irish Republicans destroyed, but had all
the dymanite detonated the building would have been totally destroyed.
3/1/1883. Clement Richard Attlee, Labour Prime Minister from 1945 to 1951, was born in Putney, London.
1882, The London Hydraulic Power Company began
operations. Hydraulic lifts became commonplace in London office buildings,
meaning they could be erected with more floors.
6/5/1882, Queen Victoria
opened Epping
Park to the public. See also 1777.
12/9/1878. Cleopatra's Needle,
an ancient red granite Egyptian obelisk 68.5 feet high, originally made for Thothmes III
in 1460 BC, was presented to Britain and re-erected on the Thames Embankment.
28/7/1875, Lewisham
Town Hall, S London, officially opened. It was replaced by a new building in
24/5/1873, In north London, Alexandra Palace
1/7/1872, The Albert
Memorial in Hyde Park, London, was unveiled by Queen Victoria.
29/3/1871. Queen Victoria
opened the Royal Albert Hall in London; named in memory of Prince Albert. The Hall was
intended as a cultural centre following on from the success of the Great
Exhibition of 1851. The original plan was to have an auditorium seating 30,000
but due to financial difficulties they ended up with an oval hall with a glass
and iron dome with 7,000 seats. The foundation stone was laid on 20/5/1867.
12/7/1870, Victoria
Embankment, London, constructed by Sir
J W Bazalgette, was opened by the Prince
of Wales, later King Edward
1869, Finsbury Park, north London, 115 acres, opened. It was one of
the first municipal parks in London.
1869, Holborn
Viaduct was built.
26/5/1867, Queen Mary, wife of King George V, was born in
Kensington Palace as Princess Mary of York.
20/5/1867, The foundation stone of the Royal Albert Hall was laid by Queen Victoria.
3/6/1865, King George V, second son of Edward VII
and Queen
Alexandra, was born at Marlborough House in London.
25/12/1864, The tradition of a Christmas Day swim in the Serpentine,
Hyde Park, London, began.
29/2/1864, The Peabody Trust opened
the Commercial Street flats in Spitalfields. It boasted previously unheard-of
luxuries such as separate laundry rooms and a play area for children.
1860, Battersea Dogs Home was founded, initially sited in
Holloway. By 1869 around 200 dogs were housed there and neighbours complained
about the noise, and in 1871 the Home was moved to Battersea. Stray cats have
also been taken in since 1882.
25/11/1859, The London Irish Volunteer Rifles was formed.
31/5/1859. Big Ben on the
Houses of Parliament started telling the time.
1858, Battersea Park, 185
acres, was laid out 1852-5, at a cost of £318,000.
10/4/1858, Big Ben,
the bell inside the famous Westminster clock, was cast in Whitechapel, London. The bell, weighing 13 ½ tons, was
named after Sir
Benjamin Hall, Commissioner
for Works, who was a large tall man nicknamed 'Big Ben'.
26/6/1857, The first
investiture ceremony of Victoria Crosses took place, in Hyde Park. 67 servicemen were awarded.
22/2/1857, Robert Baden-Powell,
British army officer and founder of the Boy
Scouts movement in 1908, was born in London, the son of an Oxford
11/1/1857. Birth of Henry Gordon Selfridge,
founder of Britain's first large department store.
3/8/1856, London
was divided into postal districts to speed up the mail delivery.
11/6/1855, The last
market for live animals was held at Smithfield, London. Thereafter live animals
were traded further north, at Copenhagen Fields. Central London Meat Market
(Smithfield) was begun in 1862 and opened for meat trading in 1868.
10/6/1854, Queen Victoria opened the Crystal Palace
on its new site in Sydenham, south
18/11/1852, Funeral of Lord Wellington in St Paul's Cathedral.
4/11/1852, The building of the new House of Commons, following the fire of
1834, was completed, to the designs
of Sir
Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin.
5/8/1852, The
re-erection of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, south London.
15/10/1851, The
Great Exhibition at Hyde Park, London, closed. It had opened on 1/5/1851. A total of 6
million visitors had attended. The Exhibition made a profit of £186,000 which
was used to buy land in South Kensington where the Victoria and Albert Museum
now stands.
1/5/1851. The Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace was
opened by Queen Victoria, in Hyde Park,
London. There were 13,000 exhibits from around the world in an 1,840 foot long,
408 foot wide, 108 foot high steel and glass hall, designed by Joseph Paxton in only 10 days and prefabricated
before being brought to Hyde Park by rail. The hall took 17 weeks to erect. 6
million people, 17% of the UK population, visited, also mainly on the new
railways across the nation. The exhibition ended on 15/10/1851. After the Great
Exhibition, the Crystal palace was re-erected at Sydenham where it stood till
destroyed by fire in 1936.
Prince Albert conceived
the idea of the Great Exhibition to promote trade between nations and worldwide
peace. The Exhibition was open for 6 months and in that time Queen Victoria visited 41 times. Profits from the
event funded the opening of the Royal Albert Hall, the Science Museum, the
Natural History Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
9/1850, Work
began in Hyde Park on erecting the venue of the Great Exhibition (see 1/5/1851). 2,000 workmen erected the 'giant
greenhouse', and fears that 'mobs of slum dwellers' would invade the park and
pillage the homes of the wealthy nearby proved unfounded.
2/7/1850, Sir Robert Peel,
British Conservative Prime Minister and
founder of the police force in 1829, died in London due to a riding
25/5/1850, The first hippopotamus
to be kept in Britain arrived at London Zoo.
16/4/1850. Swiss waxworks show proprietor Madame Marie Tussaud died. She was born on 1/12/1761 in Strasbourg. She learnt the
art of wax modelling from her uncle, Philippe Curtius. Before the French Revolution
Mme Tussaud
was art tutor at Versailles to Louis XVI's sister, Elizabeth. After a period in
prison she was tasked with making death masks from the heads of those
guillotined, some of whom she recognised as friends. She left Paris in 1802,
along with her waxwork models, and two sons from a failed marriage to a French
engineer, Francois
Tussaud. She spent 33 years touring Britain before opening a
permanent display in London.
29/1/1850, Sir Ebenezer Howard, who started the Garden City movement, was born in
3/1/1850, Work began in Hyde Park, London, on the glass and
iron Crystal Palace, built for the Great Exhibition.
1849, Henry Charles Harrod took over a
grocers shop in the village of Knightsbridge. His son, Charles Digby Harrod, took over
the store in 1861, aged 20; by 1867 the
shop was large enough ti employ 5 assistants, and had a staff of 16 by 1870.
The store burnt down in December 1883 but was rebuilt, and all Christmas orders
only delayed by a few days. Customers were impressed, and by 1889 the store was
worth £120,000. The first escalator in London was installed at Harrods in 1898.
Most of the current building dates from 1901-05. In 1985 Harrods was bought by
the Al-Fayed brothers for £615 million.
5/1847, Chelsea Embankment was opened.
1845, Victoria Park, N E London, opened to the public.
Designed by James
Pennethorne, with planned
spaces for promenading and sports undert the watchful gaze of park keepers,
in 1892 it had 303,515 visitors on a single day. The UK Government had promised
£90,000 to create this park in 1841, in response to rising ill-health, 'moral
decline' and overcrowding in the East End of London.
15/4/1845, The new House of Lords buildings were
completed, after a fire in 1834, to the designs of Sir
Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin.
28/10/1844, London's third Royal Exchange
Building opened.
22/7/1844, The Reverend William Spooner,
educationalist and originator of 'spoonerisms', was born in London.
15/8/1842. The
first regular British detective force was formed as a division of the
Metropolitan Police, later assuming the name C.I.D.
30/5/1842. An attempt was made on the life of Queen Victoria as she drove down
Constitution Hill with Prince Albert. The would – be assassin was John Francis.
9/11/1841, King Edward VII, second child
and oldest son of Queen Victoria, was born at St James Palace,
30/10/1841, Fire at the Tower of
30/9/1840. The foundation stone of Nelson's Column was
laid in London.
10/6/1840, Edward Oxford, a servant in a pub, fire two
shots at Queen
Victoria and Prince Albert as they drove up Constitution Hill in an
open carriage. Both shots missed. Oxford was sent to a mental hospital, then
27/4/1840, Edward Whymper, mountaineer and
the first person to climb the Matterhorn,
was born in London.
5/1839, The famous Highgate
Cemetery was consecrated by the Bishop of London
1838, The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square,
28/6/1838, The coronation
of the nineteen-year-old Queen Victoria took place in Westminster
13/7/1837. Queen Victoria moved into Buckingham Palace, the first
monarch to live there.
28/2/1837, The London
Working Men's Association presented a petition to the UK Parliament. They
wanted universal adult male suffrage, reform of voting districts to make them
equal size (i.e. to get rid of 'rotten boroughs), voting by secret ballot,
annual parliaments, abolition of property qualifications for MPs, and MPs to be
paid a salary.
8/7/1836. Joseph Chamberlain,
British Liberal politician, was born in London.
16/10/1834. Houses of Parliament almost totally destroyed by
fire. Firemen managed to save Westminster Hall and St Stephens Chapel.
25/5/1833, The first
flower show in Britain was held by the Royal Horticultural Society, in
Chiswick, West London.
28/1/1833, General Gordon, British Army Commander, was
born in Woolwich, London.
19/6/1829. The London
Metropolitan Police was founded, set up by the Home Secretary, Sir Robert Peel. The policemen
were known as 'Peelers', or 'Bobbies'. 3,314 professional police
now guarded London.
27/4/1828. London Zoological Gardens opened in Regents Park. Regents
Park, 464 acres in North London, was opened.
16/2/1824, The Athenaeum Club, London, was founded.
19/7/1821, Coronation
of King George IV in Westminster
4/5/1820, The English publisher, Joseph Whitaker, was born in
London, the son of a silversmith.
1/5/1820. The militant radicals involved in the Cato Street conspiracy (just off the
Edgware Road) to kill the Prime Minister were executed. Their leader, Arthur Thistlewood, was suspected of being a
police informer.
23/2/1820, The Cato Street conspiracy was discovered. This was a plot to blow up the entire
Cabinet with explosives and set up a provisional government. The conspiracy
was led by Arthur
Thistlewood. This led to
renewed fears of radicalism and set back the cause of moderate reformists.
1819, Picadilly Circus was laid
out; Regent Street was then under construction.
24/5/1819, Queen (Alexandrine)
Victoria was born at Kensington Palace, daughter of Edward Duke of
Kent and Mary, daughter of Francis, Duke of Saxe – Coburg - Saalfeld.
She was the granddaughter of King George III, and niece of King William IV.
20/3/1819, The Burlington Arcade, Piccadilly, London,
1816, Finchley Common, a large
uninhabited area just east of Finchley Village, crossed by the Great North Road
and an infamous haunt of highwaymen, was enclosed.
2/12/1816. Rioting broke out at Spa Fields in London during a
meeting to promote demands for parliamentary reform. Demands were for
the vote for all men aged 18 and over,
and for no property qualifications for
MPs. The response was a series of Coercion
Acts, including a temporary
suspension of Habeas Corpus and an extension
of the 1978 Act against seditious meetings.
21/8/1813, The
Archway cutting under Hornsey Lane opened, see 13/4/1812. Tolls for the cutting
were 'not exceeding' 6d per horse and carriage, 3d for a horse or mule not
drawing a carriage, and 1d for a pedestrian. Tolls ceased in 1871.
13/4/1812, A road tunnel being constructed at Archway, north
London, for an extension of Archway Road northwards under Hornsey Lane,
collapsed due to too few bricks and inferior cement being used for the tunnel.
The tunnel was replaced by s deep cutting, with Hornsey Lane being carried
across on a viaduct. See 21/8/1813.
4/6/1805. First Trooping The Colour ceremony in Horse Guards Parade, London.
21/2/1804. Benjamin Disraeli, British Tory Prime
Minister, was born at 22 Theobald's Road, London.
1800, Russell Square was laid
15/5/1800. King George III survived two
assassination attempts in one day. James Hatfield tried to assassinate the King
at a theatre in Drury Lane.
2/3/1797, Horatio Walpole, British politician, died in
London. He never married.
20/10/1784, Lord Palmerston
was born at 20, Queen Anne's
Gate, Westminster as Henry John Temple.
7/6/1778. Beau Brummel was born in London, as George Bryan Brummell. Although he became a
leader of fashion and a friend of the Prince Regent, he died destitute in France, aged 64, through gambling and extravagance.
11/5/1778, William Pitt
the Elder, British Prime Minister, Earl of Chatham, died at Hayes, Middlesex.
1777, Epping Forest, which once
covered most of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, had shrunk to 20 square miles
(12,000 acres) through encolsures. By 1851 it covered just 10 square miles (6,000
acres), and by 1871
was down to 5 square miles (3,000 acres). The Corporation of London obtained a
legal ruling in 1874 that all enclosures since 1851 were illegal, and in 1878
an Act of Parliament handed over 6,000 acres of the Forest to the Corporation
of London. On 6/5/1882 the Forest was opened to the public by Queen Victoria.
28/5/1759, William Pitt the Younger, British Tory Prime Minister, was born at Hayes,
near Bromley, Kent. He became Britain's
youngest Prime Minister at age 24.
16/1/1759. British Museum, London, opened to the public, in
premises formerly known as Montague House. Funded by a lottery that raised UK£
300,000, the museum contained a collection of books, manuscripts and natural
objects amassed by Sir Hans Sloane, also collections by Edward and Robert Harley and Sir Robert
Bruce Cotton.
1756, The Euston Road,
originally 'New Road' was created by the 2nd Duke of Grafton to
drive cattle from the west of London to Smithfield Market, avoiding Oxford
Circus and Holborn. Objections from the Capper family, who grew hay in the area
and feared the effects of clouds of dust on their crop, were overruled.
8/10/1754. Henry Fielding died, aged 47. He is famous as
the author of the novel Tom Jones but he also, as a Justice of the Peace,
organised the detective force that
became Scotland Yard.
28/9/1745. The National Anthem God save the King was
first played at the Drury Lane Theatre, London.
18/3/1745, Sir Robert Walpole,
British Whig Prime Minister from 1721 to 1742 died in London. He had been
created the Earl of Orford.
4/6/1738, King George III, grandson of George II,
was born in lodgings in St James Square, London.
1737, The Fleet River was roofed over and
Farringdon Street created on the surface.
27/4/1737, Thomas Gibbon, historian and
writer of The Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire, was born at Putney, London.
22/9/1735. Sir Robert Walpole became
the first Prime Minister to move into 10 Downing Street. The office of 'Prime Minister' was not
officially recognised, and some considered it unconstitutional. However
Walpole had widespread support of both the King and Parliament. Walpole was
educated at Eton and Cambridge, and at age 24 inherited a country estate, which
gave him the means of self-sufficiency to enter politics. In 1701 he became the
Whig member for castle rising in Norfolk. An excellent speaker, he rose rapidly
within the party. In 1717 he resigned amid in-party fighting, returning as
Paymaster General in 1720.
17/10/1727, John Wilkes, British political reformist who
called for a free press, was born in Clerkenwell, London, the son of a
1720, Development of Mayfair began,
and was completed by the 1770s. Belgravia was developed in the 1820s, followed
by Pimlico in the 1850s.
20/3/1727. Sir Isaac Newton,
born 5/1/1642, died in London aged 84. He was buried in Westminster Abbey.
1717, Britain's first Druid
revivial ceremony was held, on the Autumn Equinox at Primrose Hill.
24/9/1717, Horatio Walpole, British
politician, was born in London.
17/7/1717. George I, Hanoverian King of England, held a
public concert on the Thames for Handel to conduct his hour-long Water Music. The King liked it so much he asked for two
complete encores.
24/6/1717. The Grand Lodge of the English Freemasons, London's
first Freemason Lodge, was formed.
1/8/1715, Doggett's
Coat and badge race first run on the Thames. The race was created by Thomas Doggett,
an Irish actor and stage manager at the Drury Lane Theatre, London, who was
grateful to an apprentice Thames waterman who rowed him home on a windy night
when older ferrymen had refused.
15/11/1708. Birth of William Pitt the Elder, at Westminster.
1707, Fortnum & Mason
department store, London, was established.
23/5/1701, William Kidd, pirate, was hanged, aged 56, see
8/5/1701. The Scottish
pirate Captain
William Kidd went on trial at the Old Bailey for piracy. He was
hanged on 23/5/1701, at Execution Dock, London. He had to be hanged three times
because the rope broke twice.
4/1/1698, The Palace of Whitehall,
London, was destroyed by fire.
1697, The
refuge priveliges of 'Alsatia' were revoked. Alsatia was a district of
London between Fleet Street and the Thames, adjoining the Temple, formally
known as Whitefriars, where rights of refuge existed. It therefore became a
haunt of criminals, and was named after Alsace, a border district between
France and Germany whetre similarly criminals could hide.
11/3/1682. King Charles II founded the Chelsea Hospital
for old soldiers (Chelsea Pensioners).It
was designed by Wren, and opened in 1692.
21/6/1675. The foundation stone of Sir Christopher Wren's new St Paul's Cathedral, London, was
laid. The new place of worship faced the old church that burned down in the
Great Fire of London, (see 2/9/1666). The first Sunday service there was held
on 5/12/1697.
9/5/1671. Irish adventurer Captain James Thomas Blood made
an unsuccessful attempt, dressed as a clergyman, to steal the Crown Jewels from
the Tower of London. See 24/8/1680.
1670, The original fruit and
vegetable market in Covent Garden opened when King Charles II granted a
charter to the Earl of Bedford to hold a market in the area. See 9/11/1974.
28/9/1669, London's Royal
Exchange Building was completed.
23/10/1667, The foundation stone of London's Royal Exchange was laid by King Charles II.
19/9/1666, Several plans for the reconstruction of London were
drawn up or in progress. The first was by Christopher
Wren (11/9); John Evelyn's was
complete on 13/9, and Robert Hooke's was
finished on 19/9. Plans, according to a Royal proclamation of 13/9, must
include wider streets, replacement of wooden buildings by brick and stone, and
a quayside along the Thames. However questions of accurate compensation
precluded many of the concepts for wide boulevards. Instead, the Rebuilding Act
of 1667 set standards and heights for new buildings according to the width of
the street they were in.
6/9/1666, The Great Fire of London ended – see 2/9/1666.
2/9/1666. The Great Fire of London began on a
Sunday morning at the house and shop of Thomas Farynor (Farriner), baker to King Charles II,
in Pudding Lane. Farynor
allegedly forgot to put out the fire in his oven, which spread to nearby
stacked firewood. Farynor and his family escaped their burning
house by climbing out of a window and along roof tops. Their maid was too
scared to climb along the rooftops, and became the fire's first victim. The
fire rapidly spread. It burns for 4 days. In all, 436 acres were burned,
destroying 87 churches and over 13,000 houses. However only nine lives were
lost. The fire also helped end the Great
1663, The first Drury Lane
Theatre opened.
1656, Covent Garden fruit and
vegetable market began, as a few stalls in tbe garden of the Duke of Bedford.
1/12/1655, Samuel Pepys married Elizabeth St Michael in St
Margarets, Westminster.
2/2/1650, Nell Gwynne, mistress of King Charles II, was born Eleanor Gwynne,
the daughter of a fishwife. Originally an orange-seller, she became an actress
at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
10/1/1645, At Tower Hill, William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury since
1633, was beheaded for treason. He was
not replaced until 1660.
29/9/1613, The New River water supply for London opened.
18/3/1612, Bartholomew Legate became the last person in London to be executed for their religious beliefs. A cloth dealer, he became a preacher for a
sect called 'The Seekers', who held unorthodox views about the divinity of
Jesus.. He was jailed in Newgate Prison
for heresy in 1611, and burnt to death at Smithfield.
31/1/1606, Guy
Fawkes and co-conspirators were executed.
5/11/1605. Guy Fawkes attempted to blow up King James I
and the Houses of Parliament with 36 barrels of gunpowder (see 11/12/1604). His
trial was at Westminster Hall on 27/1/1606. This was part of a Catholic plot to overthrow the Protestant English
monarchy BUT see 11/12/1604. However
the gunpowder barrels were discovered in the cellars of Parliament before they
were detonated. Lord Monteagle, a Catholic peer, had received a letter
warning him to stay away from the State Opening of Parliament and hinting at an
explosion. Monteagle
and the Lord Chamberlain investigated the cellars below the House of Lords and
discovered a man piling wood, who gave his name as Guy Fawkes, and claimed that the
wood belonged to his master, Lord Percy. They let him go but after further
investigating the wood pile they found 36 barrels of gunpowder underneath. Guy Fawkes,
a 36-year-old Yorkshireman, was arrested when he returned at midnight to make
final preparations for the explosion. Guy Fawkes was hung, drawn, and quartered on
31/1/1606. Sir Everard Digby, Thomas Winter,
John Grant,
and Thomas
Bates, other conspirators, were hung, drawn, and quartered on
11/12/1604, Guy Fawkes began digging a
tunnel from a house he had rented near the Houses of Parliament (see
5/11/1605). His plan was to reach the cellars under the House and fill it with
gunpowder to blow it up. They reached the foundations of the House by Christmas
1604, but then the opening of Parliament was unexpectedly postponed, from
7/2/1605, first to 3/10/1605 and then to 5/11/1605. This was lucky for Guy
Fawkes because the foundations, 12 foot thick, were difficult to dig through,
and then the coal merchant who had been renting the House cellars gave up his
lease. Allegedly a roaring noise above the tunnelers first alarmed them, then
alerted them to the vacated rent, the noise being due to the removal of the
coal stored there. The conspirators quickly took up the rent themselves. However
some historians have doubted elements of this story, such as the tunnel being
dug under a busy part of London; it is possible that the entire episode was in
fact a Protestant scheme to discredit English
10/8/1585, At Nonsuch Palace, south of London,
an alliance was signed between the English and the Dutch; the latter were
trying to throw off Spanish rule.
1573, Naval docks and a resupply depot were established at
22/1/1561, Francis Bacon,
author, philosopher, and statesman, was born
at York House in The Strand, London.
6/7/1553, King Edward VI died in
Greenwich of tuberculosis.
1370, Charterhouse
built by Carthusian monks.
13/11/1295, King Edward I of England summoned
the Model Parliament to Westminster,
the composition of which serves as a model for later parliaments.
17/6/1239, King Edward I
was born at Westminster. He was the
eldest son of Henry
III and Eleanor of Provence.
1150, The earliest mention of
the cattle market at Smithfield.
1141, The first palace for the
Bishops of London was built, in Fulham.
24/8/1133, In London, the first Bartholomew's Day Fair was held.
It was held annually thereafter until 1855.
1122, St
Bartholomew's Hospital, London, founded.
1078, Building work began on the Tower of London.
979, Earliest mention of Billingsgate Wharf.
Appendix 1 - Population
1/7/1861, The population of Acton, west
London, was 3,000. By 1901 it had grown to 38,000, and stood at 65,000 in the
1901, The population of Barking was 21,547. It peaked at
78,170 in 1951 and has declined since then.
30/6/1911, In
London, the population of Barnet was 11,335; in 1901 it had been 3,375.
1801, The population of Battersea was 3,000. It reached 107,000 by 1881 and peaked in 1901
at 169,000.
1951, Chingford had a population of 48,355, up from
2,731 in 1891. Hornchurch, Essex, had a population of 104,092, up from 3,841 in
1801, The population of Chiswick was 3,235, rising to 15,663 in 1881 and 28,513 in 1901.
1801, The population of Croydon was 5,743, rising to 134,037 by 1901.
1921, The population of Dagenham
was around 9,000. It rose to a peak of 114,568 in 1951.
1851, The population of Dulwich was 1,632, rising to 10,247 in 1901.
1/7/1901, The
population of Ealing, west
1851, East Ham had only around 300 houses, and
a population of 1,750; West Ham had 3,300 houses at that time. By 1881 however
East Ham had rapidly urbanised (railway station opened 1858) and then had a
population of 10,700. By 1911 East Ham had 133,500 inhabitants.
1801, The population of Hackney was 12,730, rising to 22,494 in 1821, 53,589 in 1851 and
over 200,000 by 1901.
1931, The population of Hendon reached 116,000, more than twice its 1921 level.
23/6/1891, The
population of the London Borough of Hornsey
was 61,097, up from 19,387 in 1871.
1891, The population of Ilford was 10,913, rising to 179,600 in 1957.
1991, The population of Islington was 165,000.
1/7/1841, Kingston on Thames was the
second largest town in Surrey, with 8,147 people.
28/1/1902, London's population reached 6,581,372,
according to the 1901 census.
23/8/1921. The 1921 Census of Britain showed the population had
increased by almost 2 million to 42,767,530. 7.4
million of these lived in London.
War losses affected the total, but the loss due to emigration was greater.
Women exceeded men by 2 million, much the same as in 1911.
6/7/1931, The 1931 Census showed Britain's population almost
static since the last census, at 44.8 million. However there had been a drift to the south, and
now had 8
million people, a rise of almost 10% since 1921.
1921, The population of Kenton, N
W London, was just 268. It stood at 6,171 by 1931 and the area was completely
urbanised by 1938.
1801, The population of Newham, east London, was around 7,750. After rapid urbanisation in
the 1880s the Borough of Newham had 363,000 people in 1901, peaking at 450,000
in the 1920s. Subsequently, war damage and a move to the outer suburbs has
reduced the total.
1801, The population of Plumstead was 1,166. It rose to 24,502 by 1861,
1801, The population of Shoreditch was 34,766, rising to 68,564 in 1831 and 129,364 in 1861.
1841, The population of Streatham was 6,000. It rose to 20,000 in 1881 and to 70,000 by
1991, The population of Tower Hamlets was 161,000. This was attributable to
large-scale residential development in the Docklands area, and a high birth
rate amongst the Bangladeshi community.
1801, The population of West Ham was 6,500, rising to 267,400 in 1901. It peaked at 320,000
in the 1920s.


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1 baked pie shell
1 package sugar-free vanilla instant pudding
1 package sugar-free strawberry gelatin
2-1/2 cups cold water
4 cups fresh Driscoll's strawberries, washed and hulled
In a saucepan, mix dry pudding and gelatin with water. Stir over medium heat until mixture comes to a boil.
Remove from heat. Cool until slightly thickened.
Arrange small whole or large sliced strawberries in pie shell. Pour cooled mixture over berries.
Refrigerate until set.
Serve with whipped topping, if desired. Add a whole strawberry with stem for garnish.
Nutritional Facts
- Servings
- 8
- Per serving
- cals 131
- fat 6.4g
- 42% cals from fat
- chol 0mg
- protein
- 2.6g
- carbs 17.3g
- fiber 2.1g
- sugar 3.9g
- sod 177mg
- diet points 3.2.
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Sounds Yummy!I will half to try this recipe..
sounds great going to try it this week


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