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The London Tavern in 1809. The City of London Tavern or London Tavern was a notable meeting place in London during the 18th and 19th centuries. A place of business where people gathered to drink alcoholic beverages and be served food, the tavern was situated in Bishopsgate in the City of London (the site today of Nos. 1–3 Bishopsgate).
Edward Stanford first publishes Stanford's Library Map of London and its suburbs. 1863 10 January: The first section of the London Underground, the Metropolitan Railway between Paddington and Farringdon Street, opens to the public, operated by steam locomotives, making it the first in the world. [129] 2 March: Clapham Junction railway station ...
Nathaniel Bentley (c. 1735 –1809), commonly known as Dirty Dick, was an 18th and 19th-century merchant of Jewish descent who owned a hardware shop and warehouse in London. He was possibly an inspiration for Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, after he refused to wash following the death of his fiancée on their wedding day.
'Spain, 1809' — the Peninsular War 'The Buried Saviour' 1814-5: Napoleon 'Doom and the Poet' November 17, 1820: Keats 'Wings of a Dove' c.1855: Charles Darwin 'Rose of Parnell' 1880-91: Charles Stewart Parnell 'The Neutrality of Éire' 1939: Irish neutrality during World War II 'Leave' 1939: returning to Cambridge from Bletchley Park 'The ...
The death of John Meares, "a Commander in his Majesty’s Navy", at Bath on 29 January 1809, was noted in a newspaper advertisement by his solicitors inviting his creditors to a meeting at the George and Vulture Tavern, Cornhill, London, to take consideration of the state of his affairs. The value of his estate when probated was estimated to be ...
10 November – The Berners Street Hoax: Theodore Hook manages to attract dozens of people to 54 Berners Street in London. 25 November – Benjamin Bathurst, a British diplomat, mysteriously disappears (having possibly been murdered) in Perleberg, west of Berlin. 9 December – Walcheren Campaign: The last British forces withdraw from ...
1890 London had 5,728 street accidents, resulting in 144 deaths. [109] London was the site of the world's first traffic lights, installed at the crossroads of Bridge, Great George, and Parliament Streets outside the Houses of Parliament. The 20 ft (6-metre) high column was topped by a large gas lamp, and opened in December 1868. [110]
Freemasons' Hall, London, c. 1809 The current building, the third on this site, was built between 1927 and 1933 in the Art Deco style to the designs of architects Henry Victor Ashley and F. Winton Newman as a memorial to the 3,225 Freemasons who died on active service in World War I .