A horse-drawn railroad opens between Wandsworth and Croydon

Cornish engineer Richard Trevithick drives a steam carriage in London, from Holborn to Paddington and back

James Brewer doubles the site and establishes the Star and Garter as a major hotel

J M W Turner, the artist, buys a plot of land in Twickenham. The site is bounded by what are now Sandycombe Road and St Margaret's Road. Turner also buys a separate plot nearby.

Baroness Howe acquires Pope's Villa.

Baroness Howe demolishes Pope's Villa, earning herself the sobriquet Queen of the Goths, and builds a new house next door. The demolition is recorded by J M W Turner in his painting 'Pope's Villa at Twickenham'.

The destruction of Drury Lane Theatre lights up the night sky

Mrs Daymer finds Strawberry Hill too expensive to keep up and relinquishes the estate to the eventual heir, Laura Countess of Waldegrave, the grand-daughter of Horace Walpole's brother Edward.

Johann Zoffany (1733-1810) is buried in St Anne's churchyard in Kew.

Mortlake’s two small breweries merge as a single business

Dora Jordan is forced to leave Bushy House after being abandoned by her royal lover, the Duke of Clarence

Augustus Welby Pugin is born in London, the son of the architectural illustrator Augustus Charles Pugin

Today's Drury Lane Theatre opens

Turner completes the building of his villa. Initially called Solus Lodge, the name is changed to Sandycombe Lodge a year later.

A copper beech is planted in the garden of Asgill House, which survives into the twenty-first century in good health and at a magnificent size

Quaker philanthopist Elizabeth Fry, appalled by the condition of female prisoners in London's Newgate gaol, begins campaigning on their behalf

A cold February freezes the Thames and makes possible the last of London's famous frost fairs

The Custom House burns, just upstream of the Tower of London

Louis Philippe, Duc D'Orléans rents during his exile the house in Twickenham that becomes known as Orleans House.

Henrietta Hotham dies and the Marble Hill estate is sold to Timothy Brent then living at Little Marble Hill. The house subsequently has a number of owners.

London's first iron bridge is completed at Vauxhall

John Rennie's new bridge commemorates a recent victory, over Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815

Queen Charlotte, wife of George III, dies and the 'Dutch house' in Kew Gardens is closed.

Kew bridge is sold to George Robinson for £22,000

John Rennie completes a cast-iron bridge with the world's longest span, crossing the Thames at Vauxhall