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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]
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 ...
18th-century London; 1700–1800: ... compared to a map made in 1763 (in colour). London has spread much further west in the second map, as far as Park Lane (marked ...
The Census Act 1800 resulted in Great Britain's first modern Census a year later, and other than 1941 a census has been taken every ten years since. [15] The resulting populations of England's towns and cities clearly shows the effect of the Industrial Revolution on the urban population, particularly in the growth of the cities of the north and ...
A detailed copy of John Rocque's Map of London, 1741–5. 19th century ... The Environmental History of London, 1800-2000 (U of Pittsburgh Press, 2020) ...
Rocque's Map of London is published. 1747 31 January: The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital. [50] The piers of Westminster Bridge, which are under construction, are found to be sinking. [22] 1748 28 March: A 2-day fire in the City, starting in Change Alley on Cornhill, causes over £1,000,000 worth of damage. [21]
John Strype's map of 1720 describes London as consisting of four parts: The City of London, Westminster, Southwark and the eastern 'That Part Beyond the Tower'. [1] As London expanded, it absorbed many hundreds of existing towns and villages which continued to assert their local identities.
1800s crimes in London (1 C, 1 P) This page was last edited on 23 March 2020, at 21:52 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...