Qualla: Timeline of London https://qualla.com/timeline-of-london en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/timeline-of-london-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Timeline of London https://qualla.com/timeline-of-london Timeline of London: Introduction https://qualla.com/timeline-of-london/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 3.0. Around AD 50, Roman engineers drove the first piles of a wooden bridge into the soft mud of the Thames. The settlement that grew on the north bank, walled and named Londinium, would be sacked by Boudica's forces within fifteen years and rebuilt within twenty. Two thousand years later the city is the largest in Western Europe, has been the capital of an empire that briefly covered a quarter of the earth's land surface, and has buried, burned, plagued, bombed, and rebuilt itself often enough that beneath any single street you may stand on layers of seven cities. There is no way to tell the whole story in seven sections. What follows is seven of the moments when London turned into something it had not been the morning before.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/timeline-of-london-wp/gcpv-timeline-of-london-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Timeline of London: AD 60 — Boudica Burns Londinium https://qualla.com/timeline-of-london/ Photo credit Public domain. The first London was barely a generation old when it was destroyed. In AD 60 or 61, while the Roman governor Suetonius Paulinus was campaigning in Wales, the Iceni queen Boudica led an uprising that swept through Camulodunum, Verulamium, and the new town at the river crossing. Th...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/timeline-of-london-wp/gcpv-timeline-of-london-ad-60-boudica-burns-londinium.mp3 0:06 2 full Timeline of London: 1066 — The Conqueror Crowned at Westminster https://qualla.com/timeline-of-london/ Photo credit Katie Chan, CC BY-SA 3.0. On Christmas Day 1066, William of Normandy was crowned King of England in the newly completed Westminster Abbey. Edward the Confessor had consecrated the abbey only the previous January and had been buried in it days afterward. Harold Godwinson had been crowned there on 6 January...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/timeline-of-london-wp/gcpv-timeline-of-london-1066-the-conqueror-crowned-at-westminster.mp3 0:06 3 full Timeline of London: 1348 — The Black Death https://qualla.com/timeline-of-london/ Photo credit Aurelien Guichard from London, United Kingdom, CC BY-SA 2.0. In September 1348 plague reached London by ship from continental Europe. By the following May, when the worst was over, somewhere between a third and a half of the city's population was dead. The exact toll is unknowable. Mass burial pits opened at East Smithfield and West Smithf...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/timeline-of-london-wp/gcpv-timeline-of-london-1348-the-black-death.mp3 0:06 4 full Timeline of London: 1666 — The Fire https://qualla.com/timeline-of-london/ Photo credit Eluveitie, CC BY-SA 3.0. On 2 September 1666, in the bakehouse of Thomas Farriner on Pudding Lane, a fire broke out in the early hours. By the time it was contained four days later, it had consumed roughly four-fifths of the City of London — 13,200 houses, 87 parish churches, the medieval St Paul's Cathe...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/timeline-of-london-wp/gcpv-timeline-of-london-1666-the-fire.mp3 0:06 5 full Timeline of London: 1801 — A Million People https://qualla.com/timeline-of-london/ Photo credit Tiia Monto, CC BY-SA 3.0. The first national census, taken on 10 March 1801, recorded the population of London at just over a million. It was the largest city in Europe. By 1851 it had doubled. By 1901 it had reached 6.5 million, and Greater London had become the largest city in the history of the world t...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/timeline-of-london-wp/gcpv-timeline-of-london-1801-a-million-people.mp3 0:06 6 full Timeline of London: 1940-41 — The Blitz https://qualla.com/timeline-of-london/ Photo credit mattbuck (category), CC BY-SA 3.0. From 7 September 1940 to 11 May 1941, German bombs fell on London on fifty-seven of seventy-six consecutive nights. By the end of the war about 30,000 Londoners had been killed in air raids. Whole streets in the East End — Stepney, Bermondsey, Poplar — went down in single nights....

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/timeline-of-london-wp/gcpv-timeline-of-london-1940-41-the-blitz.mp3 0:06 7 full Timeline of London: The Shard https://qualla.com/timeline-of-london/ Photo credit Africaspotter, CC BY-SA 3.0. On 5 July 2012, the Shard at London Bridge was inaugurated. At 309.6 metres it was — and remains in 2026 — the tallest building in the United Kingdom and one of the tallest in Western Europe. From its observation deck on a clear day you can see, simultaneously, the Tower of Londo...

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