London has seen some wild times in the past. Here are just a few of the highlights.
- 43AD - Settled by the Romans
- 150AD - The City Wall was built
- 1176 - Work on a stone bridge across the Thames commences
- 1245 - Westminster Abbey begins to be rebuilt
- 1565 - Sir Thomas Gresham founds the Royal Exchange
- 1665 - 66 - The plague year
- 1666 - The Great Fire raged in London
- 1851 - The Victorians held the Great Exhibition
- 1863 - The first underground railway opens
- 1888 - The season of Jack the Ripper
- 1940 - 1941 - The Blitz
- 2001 - The Millennium Bridge , the first new bridge over the Thames in London for 106 years, is opened
- 2012 - The Olympics is coming to London
And one for the future: