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50 The original London bridge is constructed out of wood. Grim's Ditch (Harrow) is dug from this year onwards. 57 – 8 January: The earliest known handwritten document in the UK is created in London, a financial record in one of the Roman 'Bloomberg tablets' found during 2010–13 on the site of Londinium. Another dated to 65/70-80 AD gives ...
16 April – The Times of London abandons use of the term "Imperial and Foreign News", replacing it with "Overseas News" and changes its house style from "to-day" to "today". 17 April – American rock and roll singer Eddie Cochran , 21, is killed in a car crash in Wiltshire .
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 ...
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The Kinks in 1967. Already heralded by Colin MacInnes' 1959 novel Absolute Beginners which captured London's emerging youth culture, [10] Swinging London was underway by the mid-1960s and included music by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the Who, Small Faces, the Animals, Dusty Springfield, Lulu, Cilla Black, Sandie Shaw and other artists from what was known in the US as the ...
This article presents a timeline of events in the history of the United Kingdom from 1950 until 1969. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the related history of the British Isles. For narratives about this time period, see Post-war Britain (1945–1979), Social history of post-war Britain (1945–1979),
1960 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1960th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 960th year of the 2nd millennium, the 60th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1960s decade.
Vladimir Lenin, under the alias Jacob Richter, begins a year's stay in London, where he edits the newspaper Iskra at 37a Clerkenwell Green and studies in the British Museum Reading Room. In October, Leon Trotsky first meets him at Lenin's rented flat, 30 Holford Square, Pentonville. The Roehampton Club is opened as a private members' sporting club.