| 1 | 29.11.1531 | Event | Cardinal and Lord Chancellor, Thomas Wolsey, died on his way from York to London |
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| 2 | 6.7.1535 | Event | Sir Thomas Moore was beheaded for treason on Tower Hill, London |
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| 3 | 17.11.1558 | Event | Queen Mary I, known as 'Bloody Mary', died in St James's Palace London; succeeded by Elizabeth I |
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| 4 | 23.1.1571 | Event | The Royal Exchange, in London, was founded |
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| 5 | 22.4.1662 | Event | The Royal Society of London was granted its royal charter |
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| 6 | 16.11.1665 | Event | The 'London Gazette' was first published |
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| 7 | 2.9.1666 | Event | A fire in a bakery in Pudding Lane, spread to engulf 13,000 buildings; 'The Great Fire of London' |
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| 8 | 6.9.1666 | Event | The Great Fire of London was finally put out after four days |
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| 9 | 18.4.1689 | Event | Judge Jeffreys (of the 'booody assizes') was put to death in the Tower Of London |
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| 10 | 26.12.1717 | Event | The first ever English pantomime, 'Harlequin Executed', was performed at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, in London |
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| 11 | 4.12.1732 | Event | The poet and playwright, John Gay, died in London |
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| 12 | 15.1.1759 | Event | The British Museum in London was opened to the public |
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| 13 | 25.10.1760 | Event | In London, King George II died suddenly |
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| 14 | 5.12.1766 | Event | The founder of the famous London auctioneers, James Christie, held his first sale |
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| 15 | 7.11.1783 | Event | At Tyburn, near Marble Arch in London, Britains last public hanging took place |
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| 16 | 18.6.1817 | Event | Waterloo Bridge, in London, was opened |
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| 17 | 7.12.1817 | Event | The captain of the famous 'Bounty', William Bligh, died in London |
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| 18 | 25.9.1818 | Event | The first human blood transfusion took place at Guy's Hospital in London |
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| 19 | 11.3.1819 | Birthday | Sir Henry Tate, Founder of London's Tate Gallery |
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| 20 | 4.7.1829 | Event | Britain's first regular bus service began running in London |
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| 21 | 29.9.1829 | Event | Britains police force began in London, with Robert Peels 'bobbies' |
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| 22 | 2.2.1836 | Event | The first public railway in London opened |
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| 23 | 20.7.1837 | Event | London's first railway station, Euston, was opened |
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| 24 | 11.9.1841 | Event | The London to Brighton commuter express began a regular service |
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| 25 | 14.5.1842 | Event | The Illustrated London News, Britains first periodical, was published for the first time |
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| 26 | 11.7.1848 | Event | London's Waterloo railway station was officially opened |
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| 27 | 1.11.1848 | Event | The first W.H Smith bookstall opened at Euston station, London |
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| 28 | 23.12.1848 | Event | The 'London Illustrated News' published the first Christmas supplement |
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| 29 | 19.12.1851 | Event | The renowned landscape painter, Joseph Turner, died in a lodging house in Chelsea, London |
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| 30 | 2.2.1852 | Event | The first 'flushing' mens public toilet was opened in Fleet street, London |
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| 31 | 11.4.1855 | Event | The first pillar boxes in London were erected, which were painted green |
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| 32 | 23.3.1861 | Event | London's first trams starting operating in Bayswater |
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| 33 | 10.1.1863 | Event | The first section of the London Underground was opened |
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| 34 | 24.12.1863 | Event | The author of 'Vanity Fair', W.M.Thackery, died in London |
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| 35 | 25.12.1864 | Event | The now traditional Christmas day dip, in London's Serpentine pond in Hyde park, first took place |
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| 36 | 2.7.1865 | Event | William Booth formed the Salvation Army at Whitechapel, London |
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| 37 | 12.1.1866 | Event | The Royal Aeronautical Society was founded in London |
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| 38 | 10.12.1868 | Event | Londons first traffic lights came into operation near Parliament Square |
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| 39 | 6.11.1869 | Event | Blackfriars Bridge, over the river Thames in London, was opened |
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| 40 | 26.1.1871 | Event | The English Rugby Union was formed in London |
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| 41 | 29.3.1871 | Event | Queen Victoria opened the Royal Albert Hall in London |
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| 42 | 2.8.1875 | Event | Britain's first roller skating rink was opened in London |
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| 43 | 12.1.1876 | Birthday | Jack London, American author |
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| 44 | 2.4.1877 | Event | In London, the first ever human cannonball act was shown to the public |
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| 45 | 12.9.1878 | Event | Cleopatra's Needle was erected on London's Embankment |
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| 46 | 18.4.1881 | Event | The Natural History Museum in London was opened |
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| 47 | 4.3.1882 | Event | Britain's first electric trams ran in East London |
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| 48 | 6.12.1882 | Event | The English novelist, Anthony Trollope, died in London |
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| 49 | 8.7.1884 | Event | The childrens charity, the NSPCC, was founded in London |
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| 50 | 10.3.1886 | Event | The first Crufts dog show to be held in London took place, having first taken place in Newcastle in 1859 |
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| 51 | 9.5.1887 | Event | Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show opened in London |
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| 52 | 31.8.1888 | Event | The first victim of the infamous 'Jack the Ripper' was discovered in Buck's Row, London |
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| 53 | 17.5.1890 | Event | The first weekly comic was published, in London |
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| 54 | 18.12.1890 | Event | The newly electrified underground system, on Londons City and South London line, carried it's first passengers |
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| 55 | 30.6.1894 | Event | Londons Tower Bridge was officially opened to traffic |
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| 56 | 10.8.1895 | Event | The first London Promenade Concert took place |
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| 57 | 19.8.1897 | Event | Taxi cabs began operating in London |
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| 58 | 13.12.1904 | Event | In London, the Metropolitan Underground railway system went electric |
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| 59 | 24.12.1904 | Event | The London Coliseum opened, with Britains first revolving stage |
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| 60 | 10.3.1906 | Event | London Underground's Bakerloo line was opened |
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| 61 | 15.12.1906 | Event | The Piccadilly branch of the London Underground system was opened |
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| 62 | 22.3.1907 | Event | Taxi metres were used for the very first time in London cabs |
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| 63 | 15.3.1909 | Event | G.S Selfridge, the American tycoon, opened his first store in London |
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| 64 | 22.10.1910 | Event | At the Old Bailey in London, Dr Crippen was found guilty of the murder of his wife and sentenced to hang |
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| 65 | 17.6.1911 | Event | There was a massive Suffraget march through London |
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| 66 | 7.3.1912 | Event | A Frenchman made the first non-stop flight from Paris to London |
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| 67 | 1.8.1912 | Event | An airmail service between London and Paris began |
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| 68 | 4.9.1912 | Event | The first accident to happen on the 'London Underground' injured 22 people when two trains collided on the Piccadilly line |
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| 69 | 19.10.1914 | Event | In London, wartime licensing laws came into operation, premises having to close at 10pm |
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| 70 | 19.1.1915 | Event | German zeppelins bombed London for the first time in World War I |
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| 71 | 10.5.1915 | Event | Zeppelin airships made their first raids on London |
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| 72 | 9.9.1915 | Event | German Zepplins dropped bombs on London |
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| 73 | 3.9.1916 | Event | Captain L. Robinson, flying over London, became the first pilot to shoot down a Zeppelin; he was awarded a 'Victoria Cross' |
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| 74 | 18.7.1919 | Event | The Cenotaph in Whitehall, London, was unveiled |
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| 75 | 25.8.1919 | Event | The first international air service began between Paris and London |
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| 76 | 11.10.1919 | Event | The first ever 'inflight' meals were served on a flight from London to Paris |
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| 77 | 14.11.1922 | Event | The first regular news bulletin was broadcast by the BBC station 2LO, in London's Strand |
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| 78 | 27.3.1923 | Event | The inventor of the vacuum flask, Sir James Dewar, died in London |
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| 79 | 2.10.1925 | Event | London's famous red double decker buses began operating |
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| 80 | 7.1.1927 | Event | A telephone service between London and New York began operating |
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| 81 | 13.10.1927 | Event | Britain's first ever veteran car rally took place in London |
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| 82 | 12.11.1927 | Event | The first veteran car rally from London to Brighton took place |
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| 83 | 14.12.1932 | Event | The first ever floodlit Rugby League match took place at the White City Stadium in London |
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| 84 | 30.11.1936 | Event | In London, the 'Crystal Palace' was destroyed by fire |
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| 85 | 4.6.1938 | Event | Sigmund Freud left Austria for refuge in London |
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| 86 | 25.2.1939 | Event | The first 'Anderson' air raid shelters were erected, in London |
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| 87 | 23.8.1940 | Event | German bombers began night time attacks (The Blitz) on London |
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| 88 | 8.9.1944 | Event | German V2 rockets struck London for the first time |
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| 89 | 27.11.1944 | Event | In a storage cavern beneath Staffordshire, 4,000 tons of explosives exploded. The explosion was heard 100 miles away in London |
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| 90 | 28.3.1945 | Event | The last V2 German rocket of World War II fell on London |
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| 91 | 15.7.1948 | Event | The British branch of Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in London |
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| 92 | 3.5.1949 | Event | A ten nations conference in London formed the Council of Europe |
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| 93 | 9.5.1949 | Event | The first British laundrette opened in London |
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| 94 | 19.4.1951 | Event | The first 'Miss World' contest was held in London, as part of the Festival of Britain |
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| 95 | 1.9.1951 | Event | Britains first supermarket opened in Earls Court, London |
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| 96 | 6.7.1952 | Event | Londons last trams stopped runnung |
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| 97 | 25.11.1953 | Event | At the Ambassador Theatre in London, Agatha Christie's long running play 'The Mousetrap' opened |
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| 98 | 25.11.1953 | Event | Hungary beat England 6-3 at Wembley in London, the first ever foreign team to achieve an away win at the ground |
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| 99 | 19.12.1957 | Event | An air service between London and Moscow was inaugurated |
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| 100 | 21.3.1958 | Event | The London Planetarium opened |
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| 101 | 26.3.1958 | Event | Parking Tickets were first issued to motorists in London |
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| 102 | 20.6.1958 | Event | The London bus strike ended after seven weeks |
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| 103 | 10.7.1958 | Event | Britain's first parking meters were installed in London |
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| 104 | 26.8.1959 | Event | The Radio Show opened at Earls Court in London, with the appearance of some of the first 'transistor' radios |
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| 105 | 2.11.1959 | Event | The main M1 mototway, London to Birmingham section, was opened |
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| 106 | 29.6.1960 | Event | The BBC opened its present TV Centre in London |
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| 107 | 15.10.1962 | Event | Amnesty International was formed in London |
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| 108 | 17.10.1962 | Event | Hyde Park underpass in London was opened, resulting in large traffic jams |
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| 109 | 5.1.1964 | Event | The London Underground installed its first automatic ticket barrier |
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| 110 | 1.4.1965 | Event | The Greater London Council was created from the City of London and 32 boroughs |
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| 111 | 18.4.1968 | Event | An oil tycoon bought the old London Bridge, and shipped it stone by stone to the USA |
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| 112 | 14.10.1968 | Event | In London, the new Euston railway station was opened |
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| 113 | 7.3.1969 | Event | The Victoria line on the London underground was opened |
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| 114 | 12.8.1969 | Event | A three day street battle started in Londonderry, Northern Ireland |
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| 115 | 25.1.1972 | Event | The Worlds first kidney & pancreatic tissue transplant was carried out in London |
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| 116 | 26.1.1972 | Event | The first London performance of 'Godspel' took place |
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| 117 | 1.2.1973 | Event | Londons Stock Exchange admitted women for the first time |
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| 118 | 16.3.1973 | Event | The Queen opened the new London Bridge, the previous one having been sold for 1 million pounds and rebuilt in the US |
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| 119 | 17.7.1974 | Event | A terrorist bomb exploded in London's Tower of London |
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| 120 | 8.11.1974 | Event | After 300 years Covent Garden Market was moved to a new site at Nine Elms London |
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| 121 | 5.9.1975 | Event | At London's Hilton Hotel a bomb exploded, killing two people and injuring sixty three |
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| 122 | 25.10.1976 | Event | The National Theatre on London's South Bank was officially opened by Her Majesty The Queen |
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| 123 | 13.8.1977 | Event | A National Front march in London led to violent clashes |
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| 124 | 4.1.1978 | Event | The PLO representative in London was shot dead |
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| 125 | 10.6.1978 | Event | There were riots in Londonderry, Northern Ireland |
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| 126 | 21.6.1978 | Event | The musical 'Evita' opened in London |
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| 127 | 9.7.1978 | Event | The fomer Prime Minister of Iraq was shot in London |
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| 128 | 10.9.1979 | Event | London talks on the Zimbabwe Rhodesian constitution opened |
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| 129 | 30.4.1980 | Event | Armed men took control of the Iranian Embassy in London |
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| 130 | 29.3.1981 | Event | The first ever London marathon was held; won by an American, Dick Beardsley |
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| 131 | 8.7.1981 | Event | There were riots in Moss Side, Manchester, & Wood Green, London |
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| 132 | 3.3.1982 | Event | The Queen opened the Barbican Arts Centre in London |
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| 133 | 2.12.1982 | Event | The film 'Gandhi' received it's premiere in London attended by the Princess of Wales |
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| 134 | 16.5.1983 | Event | The London police began using wheel clamps on illegally parked cars |
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| 135 | 26.11.1983 | Event | At Heathrow airport near London, The Brinks Mat security warehouse was robbed of 25 million in gold bars |
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| 136 | 27.4.1984 | Event | The seige at the London office of the Libyan embassy ended |
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| 137 | 25.11.1984 | Event | In a London studio 'Band Aid' recorded 'Do They Know It's Christmas', in aid of charities |
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| 138 | 31.1.1986 | Event | The Greater London Council & six Metropolitan councils were abolished |
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| 139 | 31.3.1986 | Event | The largest local government in the world, 'The Greater London Council', was abolished |
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| 140 | 24.4.1986 | Event | There was a terrorist bomb explosion in Oxford Street, London |
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| 141 | 29.10.1986 | Event | The final section of London's orbital motorway (M25),was opened |
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| 142 | 20.10.1987 | Event | Hundreds of homes and roads were flooded,when torrential rain struck London and the south east |
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| 143 | 26.10.1987 | Event | In London's dockland, the City Airport was opened for short take off and landing aircraft |
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| 144 | 30.11.1987 | Event | At auctioneers 'Christies'in London, a painting by Edgar Degas, 'The Laundry Maids', was sold for 7.48 million |
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| 145 | 30.1.1988 | Event | A microlight aircraft landed near Sydney, Australia, to create a record time of 55 days since leaving London |
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| 146 | 29.3.1988 | Event | Plans were announced, for the construction of Europe's tallest 'skyscraper', on Canary Wharf, London |
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| 147 | 25.8.1988 | Event | Romanian Chess master Mihai Suba & his son defected to the West during an international tournament in London |
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| 148 | 1.2.1989 | Event | Students marched in London against government plans to introduce student loans |
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| 149 | 12.10.1989 | Event | The remains of the 'Globe' theatre were discovered by archaeologists working on the South Bank of the Thames in London |
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| 150 | 13.10.1989 | Event | Shares on the 'Wall Street' stock exchange plunged to record lows following similar falls in London |
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| 151 | 26.10.1989 | Event | The re-built Globe Theatre in London reopened for the first time in 350 years |
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| 152 | 25.1.1990 | Event | The American film actress, Ava Gardener, died in London |
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| 153 | 21.3.1990 | Event | A London demonstration against the Poll Tax ended as a riot, with many arrests |
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| 154 | 6.5.1990 | Event | Telephone numbers in London were changed to 071/081 |
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| 155 | 24.3.1994 | Event | The new Jewel House, at the Tower of London, was opened by the Queen |
