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| 1732 |
| | | Frederick Prince of Wales takes a lease of a house at the west end of Kew Green opposite Kew Palace and instructs William Kent to remodel it. It becomes known as the White House. | |
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| 1759 |
| | | The first (wooden) toll bridge at Kew, built by Robert Tunstall, is inaugurated by the Prince of Wales (later George III).. At this time it is the only bridge between Fulham and Kingston | |
|  | The first Kew Bridge
Richmond Local Studies Library
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| 1790 |
| | | A second fleet arrives in Sydney, bringing more convicts and a regiment, the New South Wales Corps, to keep order | |
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| 1800 |
| | | Welsh industrialist Robert Owen takes charge of a mill at New Lanark and develops it as an experiment in paternalistic socialism | |
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| 1804 |
| | | Richard Trevithick runs the first locomotive on rails, pulling heavy weights a distance of 9 miiles (15 km) near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales | |
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| 1817 |
| | | On the death of Princess Charlotte, not one of seven princes has an heir to succeed to the British throne in the next generation | |
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| 1826 |
| | | Scottish engineer Thomas Telford completes two suspension bridges in Wales, at Conwy and over the Menai Strait | |
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| 1850 |
| | | British engineer Robert Stephenson completes a box-girder railway bridge over the Menai Strait, between Anglesey and mainland Wales | |
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| 1861 |
| | | An official National Eisteddfod is held for the first time in Wales, in Aberdare | |
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| 1874 |
| | | Major Walter Wingfield secures a patent for Sphairistike, a game he has developed at his home in Wales, from which lawn tennis evolves | |
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