The new Privy Garden at Hampton Court is built (the Mount had previously been levelled) including a new elm bower and a new Great Parterre of complex design and an Orangery

On the death of Elizabeth, Duchess of Lauderdale, Ham House is inherited by her Tollemache descendants who manage the estate for the next 250 years

Grinling Gibbons begins work on carving decorative features and architectural mouldings in the King's Appartments at Hampton Court

The Chestnut Avenue through Bushy Park is laid out for William III to a design by Sir Christopher Wren

The Banqueting House at Hampton Court is built with carving by Grinling Gibbons and a painted interior which is the work, at least in part, of Antonio Verrio

The original medieval Milbourne House is largely rebuilt

Work begins on a house for Richard Hill, brother of Queen Anne's confidante Mrs Masham, which is named for two stone trumpeters either side of the portico

The Mortlake Tapestry workshops are closed

Sir Godfrey Kneller buys and demolishes an earlier house and builds a new house, Whitton Hall, which is later known as Kneller Hall, on the site.

Christopher Wren's new domed St Paul's cathedral is completed in London

James Johnston, Secretary of State for Scotland, commissions John James to design his new house, to become known later as Orleans House.

Handel's success in London with his opera Rinaldo prompts him to settle in Britain

Nave and chancel of St Mary's Church collapse leaving only the fifteenth-century tower, itself the survivor of an earlier building.

Edward Proger dies in Bushy House at the age of 96

The Diana or Arethusa Fountain, decorated with bronze sculptures by Hubert Le Sueur, is placed in the centre of the round pond in Bushy Park

The first St Anne's church is built on Kew Green.

John Campbell, Duke of Argyll, defeats the Old Pretender’s troops at the battle of Sherrifmuir, for which he is rewarded with an estate in Petersham, carved out of Richmond Park

The Octagon, a garden pavilion designed by James Gibbs, is added to Orleans House.

Alexander Pope comes to live in Twickenham and leases some riverside land with several small cottages.

In the Duke of Argyll's Petersham estate James Gibbs builds the Palladian villa of Sudbrook Park, with a famous cube room

The Limes is built, at 123 Mortlake High Street

Pope builds a villa, in the Palladian style.

Whitton Park is bought by Archibald Campbell, Lord Ilay, later third Duke of Argyll.

John Robartes, later fourth Earl of Radnor, leases Radnor House.

Thomas Twining 1 buys a property next to St Mary's Church and redevelops the building which becomes known as Dial House.