City of London Timeline Archive
City of London Timeline
a.d 50 Londinium founded by the Romans. First bridge across the river Thames. a.d 60 Boudicca (Queen of the Iceni) revolts & burns London. a.d 61 Romans start
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City of London Timeline
1066 Norman Conquest. 1067 Tower of London, construction begins. 1123 St.Bartholomew’s Hospital founded. 1155 The Weavers become the city’s first Guild. 1189 Henry Fitz-Ailwyn becomes London’s first
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City of London Timeline
1501 First printing press in Fleet Street. 1515 Financed based ‘Pecking Order’ of Guilds established (No.1 Mercers). 1535 Sir Thomas More executed on Tower Hill, 6th July.
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City of London Timeline
1769 Blackfriars Bridge opened. 1773 Stock Exchange opens in Threadneedle Street. 1780 Gordon Riots, over 800 die. 1785 First edition of the Daily Universal Register (becomes ‘The Times’
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City of London Timeline
1914 1st World War starts. 1915-18 City suffers bomb damage, initially from Zeppelin airships and later from bomber aircraft. 1922 New Port of London Authority building completed on Trinity
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