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New Royal Mint building opens on Little Tower Hill East India Dock Road and West India Dock Road open Theatre Royal Plymouth built Ratcliff Highway murders Theatre Royal Drury Lane rebuilt Theatre Royal Drury Lane Opens, the fourth on the site, and still standing today Charles Dickens born The Egyptian Hall opens at 170-1 Picadilly Archway Road opens Gas lights introduced in the Haymarket Theatre and on Westminster Bridge Infirmary for Asthma, Consumption and other Diseases (later Brompton Chest Hospital) opens on Brushfield Street, Spitalfields Dulwich Picture Gallery, the first public art gallery in Britain, opens End of the French Wars and defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo Royal Bethlehem Hospital ('Bedlam') relocates to Lambeth Road (now the Imperial War Museum) Regent's Canal, from Paddington to Camden Lock, opens Millbank Penitentiary opens (site now occupied by Tate Britain) Westminster Opthalmic Hospital opens near the Strand Royal Infirmary for Diseases of the Ear opens Universal Dispensary for Sick and Indigent Children (later Royal Waterloo Hospital for Women and Children) opens Vauxhall Bridge opens Waterloo Bridge opens T.C. King, father of Katty King, born Royal Opera Arcade, behind His Majesty's Theatre, between Charles II Street and Pall Mall - First Shopping Arcade in London, opens St James's market (between Haymarket and St James's Square) demolished Royal Coburg Theatre (later the Old Vic) opens at junction of Waterloo Road and New Cut Piccadilly Circus constructed as part of Regent Street developments Charles Morton 'Father of the Halls' born Burlington Arcade opens 1800 1810 1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910
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