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3 May: A total solar eclipse is the last total eclipse visible in London for almost 900 years. 1 August: The Watermen first compete in a rowing race on the Thames for the Doggett's Coat and Badge sponsored by the actor-manager Thomas Doggett. Allen & Hanburys are established as pharmacists by Silvanus Bevan at Old Plough Court. [68] 1716
1st millennium BC · 1000–1 BC 10th century BC: 990s BC: ... 1960s: 1970s: 1980s: 1990s: ... See calendar and list of calendars for other groupings of years. See ...
Up until 1750, London Bridge was the only crossing over the Thames, but in that year Westminster Bridge was opened and, for the first time in history, London Bridge, in a sense, had a rival. In 1798, Frankfurt banker Nathan Mayer Rothschild arrived in London and set up a banking house in the city, with a large sum of money given to him by his ...
Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee, marking 70 years on the British throne. 8 September Elizabeth II dies aged 96. Automatic accession of Charles III. Aged 73, he becomes the oldest person to accede to the throne. 20 October Liz Truss resigns as prime minister after 44 days, making her the shortest-serving prime minister in British history. 25 October
This article lists the largest human settlements in the world (by population) over time, as estimated by historians, from 7000 BC when the largest human settlement was a proto-city in the ancient Near East with a population of about 1,000–2,000 people, to the year 2000 when the largest human settlement was Tokyo with 26 million.
1035 Death of Cnut, Harold Harefoot became regent of England for 2 years before becoming king of England in 1037; 1040 Death of Duncan I, Macbeth accedes to the Scottish throne; 1040 Death of Harold Harefoot, his brother Harthacnut accedes to the English throne; 1042 Death of Harthacnut, Edward the Confessor accedes to the English throne
www.london-city-history.org.uk; A List of the MAYORS and SHERIFFS of London from the earliest Accounts. from British History Online: Pages 889–893 of A New History of London Including Westminster and Southwark. Originally published by R Baldwin, London, 1773. The Mayors and Sheriffs of London database from University of Toronto
The Miss World 1970 beauty pageant, hosted by Bob Hope at the Royal Albert Hall, London is disrupted by Women's Liberation protesters. Earlier on the same evening a bomb is placed under a BBC outside broadcast vehicle by The Angry Brigade anarchist group in protest at the entry of separate black and white contestants by South Africa .