Mendelssohn's concert overture The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) has its premiere in London's Covent Garden

Britain suffers first cholera epidemic

Edward Collins buys the Richmond Friary Site, stretching to the river Thames and St Helena Wharf

27-year-old Isambard Kingdom Brunel wins his first major appointment, as chief engineer to the Great Western railway

30-year-old Robert Stephenson is appointed chief engineer to the London and Birmingham railway

St John's, originally a daughter-chapel of St Mary's Hampton, is declared an independent parish and the chapel is given the status of a Church

In London a great fire destroys most of the Palace of Westminster, including the two houses of parliament

Edward Collins builds ten brick-arch boathouses on St Helena Wharf in Richmond, replacing the previous wooden boatsheds

The St Helena Boathouses are mostly let to the three major Richmond lightermen families of Downs, Jackson and Wheeler, for storage of freight and coal

St Helena Terrace is built beside the Thames, on land sold by the Crown in 1833

Henry Bevan buys Cambridge Park with 30 acres of land and enlarges the mansion which becomes known as Cambridge House.

The London to Greenwich railway opens

William IV returns a small section of the Green to the inhabitants of Kew.

Euston Station opens for business on the London and Birmingham railway

Work begins on Charles Barry's spectacular design for London's new Houses of Parliament

The King's Free School in Kew, changing its name by now according to the sex of the sovereign, becomes the Queen's Free School

The Taylor estate of East Sheen and West Hall passes to the Leyborne-Pophams of Littlecote in Wiltshire

The first trains run between London and Birmingham on the railway designed by Robert Stephenson

A terminus is built at Paddington for the Great Western railway

Queen Victoria opens Hampton Court Palace to the public

The London Prize Ring rules disallow kicking, gouging, head-butting and biting in the sport of boxing

The Public Records Act creates the Public Record Office with headquarters in existing buildings on the Rolls Estate in Chancery Lane, in the City of London

The Royal Exchange, rebuilt after the Great Fire, burns down again

Charles Dickens rents Elm Cottage (later Elm Lodge) in Petersham, while working on Nicholas Nickleby

The London and Croydon railway links with the Greenwich railway