Eadweard Muybridge projects slow-motion images of a trotting horse as a demonstration at London's Royal Institution

When Australia win the second Test match, in London, the Sporting Times declares that they will take home with them 'the ashes of English cricket'

Orleans House is bought by the Cunard family who are the last private owners.

Following Lady Waldegrave's death in 1879, the Strawberry Hill estate is sold first to an American hotel company and then on, in 1883 to Baron de Stern.

After the gallery is built in Kew Gardens at her expense, Marianne North continues to travel and paint, eventually filling it with 832 pictures. She dies in 1890.

The theatre, still known affectionately in Richmond as Kean's, falls on hard times and is pulled down

Barn Elms becomes the home of the Ranelagh Club and is soon famous for its polo matches

British general Garnet Wolseley sails from London on a mission to rescue Gordon, trapped by the Mahdi in Khartoum

The American portrait-painter John Singer Sargent makes London his home and begins an immensely successful career

A chancel is added at the east end of St Mary's Church to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queeen Victoria

A gathering of leaders from the British empire holds a colonial conference in London to coincide with Queen Victoria's jubilee

An undetected murderer, slitting the throats of seven London prostitutes, becomes known by the public as Jack the Ripper

The Phillips family sells the Mortlake brewery to Watney’s

Elizabeth Twining dies and leaves Dial House to the parish for use as a vicarage.

The explorer and Arabist Richard Burton dies in the British consulate in Trieste

The world's first electric underground railway passes under the Thames, linking the City of London and Stockwell

Dial House is extensively restored and altered and the present sundial is installed.

Sir Richard Burton is buried in the graveyard of St Mary Magdalen in Mortlake, in a mausoleum resembling an Arab tent, designed by his wife

Oscar Wilde's comedy Lady Windermere's Fan is a great success with audiences in London's St. James Theatre

Keir Hardie wins the London seat of West Ham, becoming the first Labour member of the House of Commons

The vicar, the Reverend Richard Tahourdin, moves into Dial House.

Colonel Gostling-Murray dies and Whitton Park is put up for sale.

After a gap of 30 years, work resumes on the Temperate House. Eventually, after the bankruptcy of one contractor, it opens in May 1899 as the world's largest plant house.

Joseph Stapley, aged 80, is the oldest of the five paupers admitted to the Richmond Workhouse on December 1

Harold Macmillan is born in London, son of the publisher Maurice Macmillan and his American wife, Nellie Tarleton