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Death of George III, accession of George IV Regent's Canal to Limehouse completed Surrey House of Correction opened at Brixton Hill, first English prison to use the treadmill William Marwood, Hangman, Born St Pancras New Church on Euston Road opens, designed in Greek Revival style The Diorama opens in Park Square East, Regent's Park Royal Assent given for Act to Rebuild London Bridge The Lancet first published Repeal of the Combination Act allows limited unions First pile driven for foundations of London
Bridge Athenaeum Club founded Work begins on Thames Tunnel The Theatre, Hastings, opens Grosvenor Canal (running approx from current Chelsea Bridge to current Victoria Station) opens Zoological Society of London founded Construction of Caledonian Road begins (called Chalk Road originally) Farringdon Market opens Rotunda, later Britannia Music Hall, Southwark, opens Hammersmith Bridge opens Maria Marten murdered - See the Arts Theatre Marble Arch erected outside Buckingham Palace Crockford's Club opens for gamblers University College opens in Gower Street Pavilion Theatre, Whitechapel Road Built St Katherine's Dock opens Queen's Bazaar, Oxford Street, destroyed by fire but rebuilt Metropolitan Police founded by Sir Robert Peel Shillibeer's Omnibus service, from Paddington to Bank, begins Colosseum, displaying E.T.Parris' panorama of London, opens at Cambridge Gate, Regent's Park 1800 1810 1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910
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